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The blood washed away, but the guilt never does.

Welcome to Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske, featuring psychotherapist and author

Chauvonne Scott.

From the very beginning, the Richard Allen case has felt like a master class and how

not to handle a criminal

investigation. Missteps, questionable ethics, and a seemingly blind rush to judgment have left

this trial. Riddle with doubt. Regardless of Allen's guilt or innocence, what stands out most is the

sheer level of investigative mismanagement that has turned this case into a circus, one where prosecutors seem more focused on theatrics than presenting a rock-solid case.

Consider this. You have confessions made under highly questionable circumstances. Forensic evidence,

that's been called into doubt by experts on both sides in a timeline of events that, quite frankly,

feels like it was put together with duct tape and wishful thinking. Take, for example, the new

bombshell from the defense about Libby German's phone, a headphone jack, mysteriously plugged in hours after her disappearance when she was supposedly already dead.

And the phone's there with her.

It's a detail that throws the prosecution's timeline into complete chaos, raising the haunting possibility that the girls may have been alive longer than we've been told,

or that someone else entirely was involved after their deaths.

And yet, the prosecution has offered no explanation.

None.

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