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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Where Is Richard Allen Now? The Vanishing Defendant & The Corrupt Justice System

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

True Crime Today

News, True Crime, News Commentary

3.3907 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this final segment, we tackle the eerie silence surrounding Richard Allen’s current status in the Oklahoma prison system. Even his wife Kathy—who hasn’t seen him since the conviction—is still waiting weeks into a background check just to visit. Advocacy groups and legal experts can’t even find his inmate listing. So the question becomes: where is Richard Allen? And why is he being kept so hard to reach?

Tony, Stacy, Todd, and Bob explore the systemic fog that has enveloped Allen since his sentencing. With no transparency, no accountability, and no updates—even his appellate attorneys are struggling to get access. This isn’t just legal red tape. It’s a case study in how a person can be swallowed by the prison system, with safeguards eroded under vague “safekeeping” orders and bureaucratic runarounds.

We also discuss the bigger picture: is the state trying to disappear Richard Allen to avoid scrutiny? Are they protecting a conviction at the expense of basic human rights? Or has the machine simply stopped caring what happens to the man at the center of one of the most contested murder trials in recent history?

This is a wake-up call for anyone who believes due process is still alive and well in America.

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1:09.8

We're digging into the heart of another case that we've been covering for many a years.

1:15.3

One of the biggest injustices that I think we've seen Richard Allen in the Delphi case,

1:21.9

one of the most contested criminal conviction, convictions in recent history,

1:27.3

the state of Indiana versus Richard

1:29.2

Allen, the man sentenced to 130 years for the Delphi murders.

1:33.5

But on the headlines, there was a story that raises serious legal and ethical red flags.

1:37.8

Jailhouse calls made after months in solitary, psychiatric, deterioration, ignored,

1:46.1

and a confession, if you can even call it that, ordered in the middle of a mental health collapse. The man who's been here for all of it,

1:52.3

and in the courtroom, the very secretive courtroom that no one could get into while the trial

1:57.6

was actually going on, Bob Mata, defense attorney, host of the podcast, Defense

2:01.4

Diaries joining us. I know there's some activity going on in the world of appeals. I want to start

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