Delphi Murders /// Probable Cause Affidavit Release /// 633 | Forensic Files

[Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] but the arrest of Richard M Allen of
Delphi on two counts of murder is sure a major step in leading to the conclusion
of this long-term and complex investigation first I'd like to speak directly to Anna
Mike Becky Kelsey your extended families along with the entire Delphi Community that certainly has grown
and now includes our nation and even many countries around the world I am proud to report to you
that today actually last Friday was a day and an arrest has been made [Music] five weeks ago today we sat down and
delivered an on-the-fly update on the Delphi murder case and that was when Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug
Carter Carroll County Sheriff Joe blessenby who is now the outgoing sheriff and Carroll County prosecutor
Nicholas mcleland had a scheduled press conference this was on Monday October 31st better known as Halloween
and we did I wouldn't say an emergency podcast here Captain because we knew that we likely would be doing it but it
was rather different than our normal setup as normally we are coming to you from our garage Studio but on that day
on that Halloween we were coming to you from two very different locations I was in a hotel room in Cleveland Ohio and
you were out of the country so we were watching and waiting for that press conference as it was announced earlier
the previous week they went for it with the press conference and then we delivered on what it was that they had
released at that time and the information that was stated during that press conference and then our questions
and feelings on that information and of course that press conference was all built around what happened the Friday
before which that was the arrest of Richard M Allen a Delphi resident charged with murder order in this case
and he was arrested officially arrested on Friday October 28 2022 and one of the major things that
was presented in that press conference was that they sealed the probable cause affidavit yes and then we were told that
there would be a court hearing in November which was scheduled for November 22nd that would be an
opportunity for anybody that had an opinion be it the people that will be eventually in court here on these
charges to State their case for why this affidavit should either be released to the public or be withheld or portions of
it redacted and then released and of course they had that court hearing and what we learned that day was that the
judge was going to take some time to decide on how to proceed and then of course they did release
this probable cause affidavit but released a redacted version of that just last week and we were able to get some
more information about the case and about the investigation from that PCA yeah kudos to the judge for not making
any rash decision you know what's the big deal take a couple days and make the correct decision for what you think is
the correct decision for this case and this case has been completely crazy because from Jump Street this this case
became its own you know we have a monster that's responsible for the the murder of two
innocent little girls but this case became a monster in its own online with all the speculation and
people piling on throughout the years and it's it's not stopped it's not stopped with the arrest that took place
in late October and it's not stopped with the information that is coming out so one thing that was interesting to me
Captain was there was a lot of speculation about the ceiling of this document in the first place and I saw a
lot of people coming out of the woodwork on Twitter on the internet on Reddit and such and criticizing the
investigators and and using this sealed document to back up their criticism of those investigators and I want to be
clear here I don't do a lot of pushing back on social media but I had to jump in when I saw this because I felt like
that it was taken out of turn a little bit because really truly what we have here is the prosecutor is the one that
sealed this document that requested that it be sealed and remain sealed right and
the police or law enforcement the Indiana State Police in fact Doug Carter stating on the record before they
release this document that he was fine and comfortable with the document being released saying that he believed that
the probable cause affidavit spoke for itself now the criticism being that well law
enforcement has really botched this investigation and they wanted it sealed because once it's released it will be
clear to everybody how they kind of bungled the whole investigation well again it was the prosecutor that was
asking that this document remained to be sealed not law enforcement it was the defense and the media that was
requesting that it be released to the public the prosecutor was simply saying in this hearing
two reasons for keeping this document sealed would be one and this is this is what kind of shook
me when the prosecutor stated that there is reason to believe that there are other
actors involved I think that was probably the most shocking thing to come out of this
hearing the other reason being that there are witnesses that are named in this PCA
I agree with the prosecutor their safety should be a concern and keeping these Witnesses safe is a really good thing
not just in this case it's a good thing for everyone for all of society in all cases past present and future agreed and
if prosecution truly believes that there wasn't another act or or actors involved
in this case then obviously you would want to protect these eyewitnesses because now this would be evidence to
them to murderers that these people saw something and these are people that maybe you would want to go after so
obviously we should be protecting the rights and the identity of these eyewitnesses I feel a little weird about
the wording that was used the chosen words that were delivered that says there is reason to believe that there
are other actors involved I think we should explore that just a little bit before we move on to the affidavit
itself of what could that mean obviously it could mean that there could be some type of person that assisted in some
form or fashion the murders or assisted to try to cover them up I think that this is a very blanketed statement and
at least I'm hoping that that's the situation because while reviewing everything that's come out and again
this is so weird that we we don't know we still there's a lot of things we still do not know in this case
but reviewing what has been released it sounds more to me that I would put the probability high on on the fact that
maybe he Richard Allen if he is in fact guilty and again he's innocent until proven guilty in the court of law
but if he is in fact guilty of this double homicide maybe he told someone or somebody covered for him in some way in
previous statements to police I I feel like this could be people shouldn't run too wild with this statement because I
think it could be a very blanketed statement and it could be that somebody has some type of involvement on a much
smaller scale yeah or is there's some reason that maybe Richard would have known that the girls were out there on
the trail that day right because while we have this arrest going on everything that was focused on in this case with
the clines their names have not been mentioned since Richard Allen came into the fold
but simply put the probable cause affidavit is basically a statement that they're going to be giving to a judge to
make so they can make an arrest in the case right and that's the thing when when this document is released to the
public we need to keep in mind that this is not a document that is saying here are all the reasons why Richard Allen is
guilty that's not what they're saying they're giving just enough information here is some information that we find to
be credible and we believe that this credible information is pointing a finger at Richard Allen judge would you
sign off on this and please let us go and arrest him and we will continue to build the case after that but we need to
get him off the streets because if he is the person that committed these murders
then he's a very very dangerous man yeah because I think the first at first sight of this PCA
it seems like the evidence against Richard Allen is pretty weak but then once you learn that they don't
have to put all the evidence in the PCA and they just really need to put enough to make sure that they can make their
arrest then you go well really this PCA doesn't matter all that much because there could
be a mountain of evidence against them and now we have to rewind to because there's been a debate and
there's going to continue to be a debate whether or not there's DNA in this case
I know that Becky the grandmother of one of the victims has come forward and says law
enforcement did make the statement that there was DNA in this case well you arrest Richard Allen on murder charges
those are felonies therefore you can get his DNA so if they do have DNA in this case then they can test Richards Allen's
DNA because now he's charged with a felony yes that is I I want to kind of limp in
on that because I don't know the exact laws uh in Indiana and they do vary by state one thing that I always found
interesting in this case was that at the time of the murders that law had not been passed where we will collect your
DNA I I don't know if it's just if you've been arrested for a felony or if it's been convicted of a felony I
believe that it is arrested of a felony charge in Indiana but again I don't have that information right in
front of me at the moment well the defense attorney that I talked to stated that they would have collected his DNA
because he was charged with a felony so I'm going to go with her expert opinion is that in Indiana attorney yeah
okay so the interesting thing here is this law was passed after Libby and Abby were killed and I believe that this the
law being passed is directly related to the crime in the investigation of the Delphi murders case I've always kind of
felt that way and as far as DNA goes it's interesting that you bring that up because DNA is not mentioned in this
probable cause affidavit which there's a couple of things that are that are very interesting to me in this
affidavit obviously let's go through some of the highlights quickly and I'll give like a very quick summary of the
document itself because the document for those that have not seen it it's eight pages long and it's about seven pages of
information as to why a judge should sign off on the arrest of Richard M Allen now those highlights are the first
page is really just a very good detailed description of where the crime took place and the surrounding area so it's
describing the roads and the trails and the bridge and it's really laying out everything as it were on that day and
then it's giving the timing of some different sightings and witness statements throughout that the course of
that February 14 2017. the highlights would be that there was a bullet found at the crime scene a live
round AN unspent round with extraction markings on it and that bullet they later determined
belong to or came from a gun that is owned by Richard Allen and we also learned that the video that
was taken by Libby that day on the bridge very quickly after Bridge guy makes his
way across the bridge and approaches the girls we now know that one of the girls said
gun to the other so they spotted the gun in Bridge guy's possession as he was getting closer to them and that's
something that we had speculated on in the past that there must have been some way we know that bridge guy was
directing the girls to where he wanted to take them right and now we know that a gun was used to
Corral them and control them and control the situation what is not mentioned in the
PCA is the manner of death how the girls were killed so some people have speculated well we now know that a gun
was used in the crime so maybe they were shot and there's again we still don't know
that information based off of what's come out I think you could argue it either way
personally my feelings have always been that they probably weren't shot because of all the rumors that ever came out in
this case and there was a lot of them but at no point do we ever have anybody saying that they were at the trails that
day which we know a bunch of people were and nobody ever saying that they heard a
gunshot or gunshots that day well just to rewind a little bit when law enforcement for the last five to six
years have said look we we can't release we can't talk about certain pieces of evidence and one of those pieces now we
know that the girls State gun well now that you know that there is a gun involved somehow in some way in this
crime that becomes important and then this bullet shell this unspent bullet that's found between
the girls at the murder scene becomes a pretty big piece of evidence and obviously something that they didn't
feel that they could share with the public because it could hinder the investigation yeah and that's always
been one bit of criticism amongst others that law enforcement have had to deal with in this case many people
saying well how much more of a video how much more of audio do they have why won't they release that and people
speculated maybe it was because the the girls were killed during the course of the
video or the audio what we've always been told and what we've always said here in the garage is
the information that we were getting was always that there was nothing on any of the additional audio or video that's
not been released to the public that would help to identify the Killer maybe the word gun may have helped to identify
the killer but again I think that was much better to hold that withhold that information from the public then we have
the the bullet the the unspent bullet that is found at the crime scene where the girls were
killed and where their bodies were discovered it just reminds me of some of the statements that law enforcement has
stated throughout the course of this investigation and all of them are ringing true now you know one statement
that toe blessenby said and this is when his office was coming under criticism for the investigation dragging on for so
long you know you got video you got the guy on video you got his voice on video and on audio and yet there's no arrest
what's the problem and amongst other questions that he was Fielding one of the answers he gave to a question that
was asked of him on in one particular interview was that our investigators will will know it when we find it that
there was we will know we have the right guy when we find him and that statement
sounds kind of vague and dumb but really that statement always meant to me that there would be something that would be
able to tell them yes you got the right guy once you find the guy yes you got the right guy that would it would
confirm that for the investigators and now I believe that all along he may have been talking about
this bullet evidence well it's very possible and so we got the girls on video stating that there's a gun so we
know there's a gun then we see this like we said unspent bullet at the crime scene so what they're able
to do is they're going to search Richard Allen's property he has multiple guns but one of his guns is a 40 caliber gun
and that matches this bullet now how do they match this bullet now early on when
they would do this ballistic test on guns it was the hammer hitting the head of the bullet and that
was the major signature but what they also realize is if you shoot the gun that the barrel has signature marks as
well well when you don't shoot the gun called rifling right if you don't shoot the gun and you
just extract the bullet shoot the bullet yeah then there's a marking as well so now if you have a situation that a
bullet is fired you have the marking on the the head you have the barrel markings and you have the extraction
markings the problem here for law enforcement is going to be that they only have extraction markings and this
science uh and I think the defense attorneys stated it pretty well this is not this is not an exact science that this
these signatures it's really based on who is testing the information so it's not exact fingerprint science where it's
like oh well we have his fingerprint on the bullet no we have markings from the gun onto
the bullet that are very similar once they go to court prosecution is going to have their experts to argue their points
stating why it does match and then the defense will find experts that say it doesn't match so
it's very it's a little bit of a confusing situation especially for those that are
not very familiar with guns but as I understand it this is how I am captain I'm one of these guys that I I own
firearms I do not know much about guns in general I know not very much about the uh I
don't know a whole lot about the guns that I own so I'm not a gun expert just because I own them but it's a lot like
other things that I own inside my home I I have TVs I'm not a TV expert we all know that I went to school for computer
so well you have a great guitar collection and I have a great guitar collection and I can I can probably
fumble my way through about three songs and I've owned these guitars for way too
long to not know more songs than that so but the the very general thought here is
that if you if you rack the gun that it will extract the bullet and then it leaves marks
before to to push the bullet out of the gun what probably happened in this scenario is that he either racked the
gun or in the during the commission of some kind of fight or scuffle the gun got racked and
the the bullet was extracted there's a chance that he may not have known that that
bullet came out of his gun that day it wouldn't be that hard to find the bullet so this is a mistake but in cases like
this you need to have the murderer make mistakes so this was a mistake now I don't want to go down a crazy conspiracy
Rabbit Hole Theory but there's been a lot of talk early on in the investigation that maybe they're not
releasing certain audio clips because maybe this person posed as law enforcement
and I keep seeing that being brought up online one of the reasons that's being brought back up online is because of 40
caliber is probably the most popular caliber that's carried by law enforcement now I ask multiple gun
experts as I am not one of them how common is a 40 caliber gun and they'd say well it's probably
one of the most popular handhelds but if you look at popularity of bullets it's not even in the top five you
normally have a 35 a nine millimeter uh 22 a 12 gauge shotgun so it's not of the
most popular ammos out there types of ammos out there but it is one of the most popular
handhelds but where conspiracy theorists will go wild on this is that the 40 caliber is probably the most popular
when it comes to law enforcement that may be I'm going to have to disagree there I actually think that a 40 caliber
handgun would be an uncommon police used weapon but uh it but again all that stuff varies from
jurisdiction to jurisdiction from agency to agency they all have their own protocols they all have their own
standards that they've created throughout the years my general understanding of law enforcement and the
uh the guns that they typically carry the nine millimeter is a very common service revolver sorry service weapon
and you might see a 40 45 with being carried by detectives a 40 caliber gun so 40 caliber handgun
I while I wouldn't say that it's uncommon I would also 100 agree with you about the bullet
because the bullet is a little a 40 caliber bullet is a little more Uncommon just for the fact that they are more
expensive ammunition and so people tend to buy guns that that have cheaper um ammunition and and the 40 caliber is
more expensive well I should have stated that because I'm not an expert on this I
I did want to reach out to people so I was able to talk to Two Gun experts that also uh train and do training with law
enforcement as well and both of them said that the 40 caliber is one one of the most popular but as far as law
enforcement goes but not as popular in the normal Publix view the other highlight here is that the probable
cause affidavit discusses a vehicle and this again remember we go back in time and we remember Doug Carter telling the
public hey we are looking for the owner of a vehicle that was parked at the old CPS building this vehicle is mentioned
during the affidavit and they're also linking Richard Allen to this vehicle that they are discussing in the
affidavit as being parked his vehicle being parked at the CPS building a couple of things though here that I'm
seeing online and it's kind of regurgitated time and time again that I want to address that they go oh my God
this guy he says he was at the the trails that day and he looks exactly like Bridge guy he's wearing the same
clothing as Bridge guy I get it but I also want to point out that we've said that
not you and I in particular but we the public as a whole have said that seven or eight times about other individuals
leading up to this arrest well one of the things that we stated and it's not like that were some uh Geniuses by any
means but what we've seen by covering hundreds and hundreds of cases that a lot of times when there is an eyewitness
that even comes forward and we know Richard Allen came forward to law enforcement and says look I was there I
was there between these times this is a detailed um description of what I was wearing
now to me if I'm law enforcement and I see okay here's a guy that matches somewhat the build
he's telling us he was there he describes Bridge guy's clothing to a T I'm going to be interviewing that guy
early and often but the problem here and what we stated a long time ago and we've covered this
case multiple episodes so it couldn't tell you what number of episode it was that we stated this
but we've stated time and time again in murder cases you have to look at the eyewitnesses because
we've seen it over and over where the eyewitness gets involved lets law enforcement know that they were there
just in case somebody saw them and now they become an eyewitness and not a person of interest
the problem and I will state it again like we stated before the problem I think with this case was early on we had
a large number of agencies involved multiple agencies with multiple agents doing these interviews and I think that
hindered the case maybe not so much for the search of the girls but it hindered the case and interviewing Witnesses well
and that in itself I mean we know of at least four agencies that were directly involved since day one and we know that
officers and agents throughout the state of Indiana were involved since early on
in this case and you're absolutely right Captain you you do have to employ all of
the resources that you have and in some cases your resources are that you have an army of people and so you yes you do
need to use them especially with the case of this magnitude and a case that has this many
tips coming in and possible Witnesses people Possible having been to the trails that day the day before the day
after people 300 people involved in the search for these girls so you have a lot
of people to question an interview you have a lot going on but yes you can you're exactly right and spot on in your
thoughts it can cause a a bit of Chaos in your investigation and it can cause easily cause disorganization
in your investigation one instead of throwing Doug Carter and the ISP and everybody under the bus what we have to
remember and what they've said multiple times which was so confusing at the time
to me but it's so clear now as he said that once we have this individual and once we're able to look at this
individual in the face we're going to have to start the investigation all over again and I think he was making those
statements because they knew probably after the first year we had too many cooks in the kitchen and we need to
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our help and we are anxious for the public to read this we're anxious for this thing
to get going and um we'll see and when you guys read the PCA presuming that the judge grants our
motion you know you will have to question is this what happens after five years of an investigation is this what
it is we don't have any other evidence we don't have any Discovery that's all we have and we are not impressed the two
people being involved the the conjecture from the prosecutor today was new information for us I've been on this
case folks for five what six days so I don't know a whole lot we have not seen the evidence and I
you know another person involved I mean that's that's new news so that's not reflected
in the PCM not the PCA that I read somebody might read something a line about you know you're going to see maybe
about a vehicle or about a person or about a time frame and it might ring a bell something that they hadn't thought
of before and when they read that then you know they can contact us as lawyers we're getting lots of information from
lots of people across the country especially locally we don't know what his hoaxes we don't know what's true we
don't know if it's a podcaster's you know opportunity to get in the Limelight we don't know what's real but we're
gonna we're going to look at every single uh person that contacts us we're going to contact them everybody and
we're going to figure out if what they know is helpful what if anything has your client Richard Allen said this has
impacted him and or his family obviously this has impacted Richard and his family
tremendously I mean his his wife is just a wonderful person and she loves her husband they've been married for over 30
years they were basically High School sweethearts they love each other and she fully supports him but it is devastating
she's scared she doesn't want to leave her house she did leave her house she thankfully is in a little bit better
place than she was a month ago but it's this is all new to them can you say anything about why investigators are
focused on your client you guys will read the probable cause affidavit and you may wonder why they
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cheers to everybody cheers see you Captain cheers to all the good people out there joining us again one more time
on this case and look expert at what I don't know I'm a garage expert I'll give you that and I think to have that yeah
the captain is a garage expert as well I'll vouch for him on that front but the what is not in the affidavit is
interesting just as much as what is in the affidavit so you're exactly right there's not
anything with DNA in here we got to keep in mind too this is simply to get Richard M Allen in handcuffs arrest him
detain him hold him until there can be an actual trial so whatever's not in here does not mean that that's not part
of the investigation it's just what they this is the information that they chose
to include to give to the judge to sign off on that arrest now I was able to speak with a retired detective about
this case and one of the things he said and he kept reminding me over and over there can be a mountain of evidence that
they don't have to put in the PCA now what he stated was well you have a Smoking Gun here because you have a
bullet that came from his gun they did test they believe it came from Richard Allen's Gun at the crime scene between
the two victims and that should be enough because and and not just because it was there but when they asked him
about it there was no reasonable explanation his explanation was simply I don't know how that got there so that
would be enough for them to keep him to trial and like you said that is the point of the PCA and I could be
absolutely wrong on all of this information right here and I want to point out why it would not be in this
document even if it were to be true so DNA they could have it uh maybe they have it today but didn't have it when
they were requesting the arrest as the captain pointed out that's a possibility we also don't know what tests have been
conducted since the arrest of this man now we know that there was a search of his property in his home leading up to
his arrest and we'll get into that that's in the PCA so we don't know if they've come into DNA evidence since
then the other thing with how the victims were killed I've I don't believe that they were shot
we do know that a gun was used in the course of these crimes that were committed that day and the homicides but
the thing is I feel like if you have a bullet that is found near your murder victim
and you're using that to sign off on his arrest what they're not saying in the PCA is
that we recovered a bullet from one of the victims or both victims that matches a bullet that would have come from
Alan's gun right and we've looked at this case for since the beginning and never once have we heard anything of
eyewitness being an ear witness saying that they heard gunshots and then there's been some question too about the
the search of Richard Allen's home how did that come about there's some debate out there did he consent
was a search requested and he consented to the search or did they actually get a
search warrant I'm of the belief that they got a search warrant and we'll get into that here in
a minute but if if that is the case then that means there's another document out
there that likely has a good deal of information in it that nobody has seen yet well and that's the reason why I'm
going to say that he possibly consented to this because that information I believe prosecution
would have to ask for that information be sealed as well and since there is no report on that on the news I'm just
guessing that he consented I mean it states also that his wife is saying hey those those clothes that he wore the day
of the murders we have them we own them we we never threw them away so they have
those to test as well and so not only there's no DNA evidence reported in the PCA but hair samples clothe fibers
there's so many other things fingerprints that they could have but they don't have to stay in the PC yeah
so let's get into the PCA rather than just citing some of the highlights I want to give some direct information
from that document so I'm going to jump ahead to page two and on page two the this information is interesting it says
the video recovered from victim two's phone so they're referring to our victims as victim one and two throughout
this document not by name and it says the video recovered from victim two's phone shows victim one walking Southeast
on the monin High Bridge while a male subject wearing a dark jacket and jeans Walks Behind her as the male subject
approaches victim 1 and 2 one of the victims mentions gun we had talked about that earlier near the end of the video a
male is seen and heard telling the girls guys down the hill the girls then begin
to proceed down the hill and the video ends a still photograph taken from the video and the guys down the hill audio
was released to the public to assist investigators in identifying the mail what's interesting here to me Captain is
we keep having people online saying he looks exactly like Bridge guy looks exactly like the sketch and again ice
with the reminder that we've said that about seven or eight other individuals one thing that's really interesting to
me is that I don't when do we hear this guy's voice because the the audio guys down the hill was such a big part of the
public plea for information from law enforcement in this case and I'm I'm not seeing anybody
or reviewing anything where people were are doing voice comparisons between Richard Allen and the recorded audio the
lawyer that I was able to talk to was stating that as well as this could be something that they could bring in an
expert to say look it matches again this is not an exact science but to have expert come in and say we believe that
Richard Allen's voice is the voice that you hear on the recording I also think too we have video evidence which you can
then turn into still frames I would assume with pretty low level technology you can do some measurements of the
bridge measurements of the planks and get a better idea of how tall this individual is because Richard Allen is
very short and I think if they did that those tests and they were able to determine that bridge guy was over six
foot tall which I don't think he was but let's just say that they could determine
that then obviously that would rule out Richard Allen so that's something also that they could be doing this is what
the lawyer told me this is another a little bit of technology that they could be doing to strengthen their case
but again they don't have to put that in the PCA yes and at one time they did give us a
vague opinion on the height of bridge guy and while Richard Allen is on the shorter side he does fit in the range
that they were suggesting to the public as what they believe the height could be
of of the individual seen on the bridge that day the document on page two goes on to say the victim one and victim
two's deaths were ruled a homicide clothes were found in Deer Creek belonging to the victims south of where
their bodies were located there was also a 40 caliber unspent round less than two
feet away from victim two's body found between victim 1 and victim two's bodies the round was unspent and had
extraction marks on it I'll jump ahead here to page three captain and it says blank advised when
she was leaving she noted a vehicle was parked in an odd manner at the old child
protective services building she said it was not odd for vehicles to be parked there but she noticed it was odd because
of the manner it was parked backed in near the building so a lot of people were stating that this would be a one
way for an individual to get close to the trails to the bridge that day not conceal their vehicle so that no one
would see it but back it in so that you could at least conceal your license plate from any passerbys yeah and what's
also not in the PCA is there could be other eyewitnesses that saw an individual get into a vehicle they might
have the vehicle of the suspect down to one make and model and so even though you have Richard Allen that says I was
there that day we don't know if he lied to law enforcement about which vehicle of his
he drove because they owned several vehicles so that would be pretty damning evidence
but again not in the PCA yeah and so in regards to the vehicle what we have here
is we have three different eyewitnesses that give varying descriptions of what vehicle they believed that they saw
there that day now none of them are saying this is the make and model and year and color of the vehicle that I saw
there they're they're giving a quick description right can you tell me a vehicle that you thought that it looked
like and some people could just get the name wrong on on these here but as the captain points out Richard Allen did own
him and his wife owned more than one vehicle and that reminds me to Circle back to something we discussed just a
minute ago the search warrant or the consent to search his home the other thing it does not have to be Richard
Allen that gave consent to search his home it could have been his wife right it could have been his wife that gave
consent but we'll Circle back to that here in a minute again so the vehicles were described as a PT
Cruiser another witness described it as a smart car and I think that the third I'm looking
for here I don't I can't find it right in front of me but I think that the third witness may have described a small
SUV does that sound correct regardless let's skip the third one but a PT Cruiser and a smart car are the
descriptions that I have right in front of me in my notes Here It states here in
the document that investigators discovered Richard Allen owned two vehicles in 2017. at that time he owned
a 2016 black Ford Focus and a 2006 gray Ford 500. investigators observed a vehicle that resembled Allen's 2016 Ford
Focus on the Hoosier harv store I can't be pronouncing that right but uh they have surveillance video from a store and
they have a vehicle that they believe resembles Richard Allen's 2016 Ford Focus scene traveling westbound on CR
300 North or County Road 300 North at 1 27 p.m on the day that the girls were killed
so what's interesting to me here is I would not in all of my life describe a Ford Focus
or a Ford 500 as a PT Cruiser to me a PT Cruiser is a rather distinct looking vehicle but you know we all have our
opinions on these things I would I could see someone describing a Ford Focus as a smart car you know when smart
cars first came out a lot of them were were on the smaller side and a Ford Focus is certainly a smaller more
compact vehicle then the document goes on to State a bunch of the different eyewitnesses of having seen people going
coming and going from the area around the time of the murders we have as the captain points out Richard Allen who's
saying yes I was there that day in fact he says that he believes that he was there on the trails from about 1 30 to 3
30 that day I don't know that we need to get into the rumors of how he got picked
up what do you think Captain because there were about three or four different rumors coming out on how they went from
this guy is a potential eyewitness he was just somebody that happened to be there on the trail that day to okay this
is now our murder suspect well it could be as simply as them going back and reorganizing the information that they
had from 2017. there's been all these statements made that the FBI made a clerical error and
that's why they never reinvestigated Richard but I think it like we said I I think it
goes back to a lot of too many cooks in the kitchen well and the thing here you know the the first rumor was that his
arrest was directly related to the dive search that keg and Klein may have provided
information to law enforcement and then they had the dive search and whatever was found or
information learned during the course of that search is what put them hot on the
trail of Richard Allen that was a rumor the other rumor was that he had some kind of conflict altercation with a
neighbor that led to an arrest in him being forced to submit DNA and that DNA came back with a hit in the murders
I'm I lean to what you just said Captain it looks to me like there's a very good
chance that this is just putting fresh eyes new eyes maybe even better eyes if you will on the information that was
collected back in 2017 and reviewing that information and then somebody putting a red flag on this and going
wait a second there could be something here and let's not forget it's spelled out in this PCA a little bit right we
have this guy who says I was there yes I was there and what's completely bizarre to me is in
his statements he's saying Not only was I there but I also dressed like Bridge guy and we've we've made the argument a
hundred times on this show that in Indiana even here in Ohio there's a lot of men in in their 30s and 40s that wear
clothing very similar to this this is not uncommon very distinctive clothing this is very common clothing but we have
Richard Allen saying yes I was there for 1 30 to 3 30 and two let's double down on the idea that I was wearing clothing
that day that looked like Bridge guy I might have even some of your witness statements of having seen potential
Bridge guy might have been people just seeing me but what is what stands out and why I think that it's simply
somebody going back with new fresh better eyes and an inquisitive mind leading them to Richard Allen
is that if all these eyewitness statements are true and it was Richard Allen that they
spotted there that day at 1 30ish up to two o'clock and then again around 3 30ish when he says that he's he
believes that he left the day for the day somebody's going okay well he says he was there great maybe he's an honest
dude he was there and he has nothing to hide and he's just trying to help us great okay we got eyewitnesses that if
if the person they saw was Richard Allen then they're backing up his statements he likely arrived around 1 30 and likely
left around 3 30 but it's the inquisitive mine that goes okay well why are there no eyewitnesses of Richard
Allen during the middle of that time after 2 13 pm and that's when somebody says oh well
that's because he may have been in the woods with the girls killing them at the time that nobody's
seen him I'm normally not the smartest guy in the room heck I'm not even the second smartest guy in this room
but if I'm law enforcement every eyewitness is a person of interest until I can prove otherwise and maybe that
would be the reason that they went back and was looking into eyewitnesses and looking at them through the lens of
being a person of interest that led to him but but I but I also think that something had to happen
because this moved very quickly and I also don't think hold hold that thought I do think
there's more evidence I don't know if they have a mountain of evidence against him yet but that doesn't mean that they
won't by the time the trial is set and the document goes on to state a narrative that was created by Richard
M Allen in 2017. this is from when he was interviewed in 2017 and some of the highlights of that narrative we've
already covered but I'm going to hit on a few things before we move past this he's saying that he he parked his
vehicle near some he says the Farm Bureau building and now police are saying well
we think that either he doesn't know the names of the buildings or he purposely gave us an incorrect
title uh for the building to throw us off the trail now they're saying you know he he very likely was the person
that parked at the old at the old uh CPS building and that he you know is describing the building as a
Farm Bureau building well think about this let's say we have a list we're law enforcement we have a list of
eyewitnesses now we start getting surveillance from different businesses in the area and maybe that
maybe it's as simple as he says I was driving this vehicle when we know he was driving this other vehicle maybe it's he
says that I parked at this building and now we know for a fact that he parked at
this other building once law enforcement sees that eyewitness lied you have to make them a person of
interest and that could be as simple as it is go back through his statements and now with
this evidence we can prove that this one statement is a lie and that could be enough to go okay
my sniffer test is going off here we need to re-examine Richard Allen yes and I believe I may have said February
14th earlier I probably should have said February 13th instead but going on here
some more information blank advised that the male subject was wearing a blue-colored jacket and blue jeans and
was muddy and bloody she further stated that it appeared that he had gotten into
a fight okay so this is one of the witnesses that likely saw Bridge guy leaving the area that day and we have a
couple of different eyewitnesses that may have seen Bridge guy leaving the area that day they all give a little bit
of a varying description of who or what they saw but this one's really interesting because this one States a
blue-colored jacket blue jeans the person I saw was muddy and bloody yeah and had appeared to have gotten into a
fight so then we fast forward in the document to October 13 2022 Richard Allen was interviewed viewed Again by
investigators and it also states that Richard Allen's wife Kathy Allen also spoke to investigators and she confirmed
during that discussion that Richard did have guns and knives at the residence and she also stated that Richard still
owns a blue Carhartt jacket so now when you file and this is why I believe that there was probably a search warrant and
I would be interested to review that document if it ever comes out to the public because the very next line in the
PCA States on October 13 2022 investigators executed a search warrant of Richard Allen's residence and then it
gives his address among other items officers located jackets boots knives and Firearms including the Sig Sawyer
model P226 40 caliber pistol that is believed to have extracted the live round that was found between the
two victims bodies so what we have here Captain is if there was in fact a search warrant as this PCA
indicates that there was now we have a situation where you have law enforcement going before a judge and they're not
asking for an arrest of Richard Allen at that time that arrest would follow but what they're asking for is we need to
search this guy's property and here's what we're looking for and you you know that that document probably States we're
looking for this blue jacket who his wife says still exist and we're looking for the gun that
extracted that bullet that we found between the victims here we are they likely found both of those items at his
home we know that they found the gun because the gun with the ballistics test the tool markings test
is what I believe 100 percent sealed the arrest of Richard Allen I agree I don't
think we'll have enough time today to dive into this but Richard Allen's attorneys did make statements on the PCA
and one of the things that they were trying to say to point to his innocence is well he he hasn't changed his job he
hasn't changed his where he lives he he didn't even get rid of these weapons he didn't he didn't throw away these
clothes that that's not an argument on whether somebody's innocent or guilty that's just a fact that he just didn't
do those things and there's plenty of killers that don't throw away the clothes they were wearing when they
committed a murder or throw away the weapon that he used when they committed a murder so to me that was such a
nothing Burger where it's like okay well congratulations that's not an argument right exactly the the statement that he
didn't get rid of any of these things does not does not exclude him from being the
killer right criminals as you pointed out make mistakes criminals do dumb things and thank I'm
thankful that they do dumb things and this may just be a big example of Richard Allen being a
dumbass and he didn't get rid of very incriminating evidence for whatever reason could be that that guns guns are
expensive maybe he's like they're not they're never going to catch me they I've spoke to police five years ago they
don't know their you know they're asked from a hole in the ground uh they don't know what's going on I have no reason to
worry about losing these items or wanting to get rid of these items because they're expensive and I don't
want to have to replace them or you know we talk about killers keeping souvenirs it's not very hard to
believe that maybe his murder weapon or a weapon that was used during the commission of these crimes is some type
of souvenir prided souvenir of his well on top of that why would you get rid of a gun if you didn't know
a bullock came out of that gun at the crime scene and because law enforcement Never
released that just think if law enforcement would have released that early on well we found a bullet that
wasn't shot at the crime scene then if Richard Allen is the killer then he would obviously obviously want to go
well I need to get rid of that gun now yeah so that's that's interesting and I'm glad that you explored it in that
manner because there's a couple things here one the portion of the video where the one of
the girls says gun is never released to the public he very likely did not know when the recording started he was not it
doesn't the way that it's described as makes it sound like he's not directly in front of the girls when one of them says
gun maybe he never heard one of them say that he doesn't know when the recording
started he may not know if if the gun was racked and that bullet comes out during some
kind of fight with the with the two girls and he's losing control of his two victims that he's corralled with this
gun one he may not know that that bullet was was there so he does not know that he made that
mistake the other thing though too is let's say he racked the gun because if he's losing control of these girls one
thing that will that will quickly straighten out people and get people's attention very quickly
is cocking that gun and making that sound right that gets everyone's attention we we discussed this when we
talked about the audio and why there were difficulties with the audio there were a lot of leaves on the ground
that day it's February in Indiana there's a decent chance that even if he knows that he left the bullet there he
may have spent some time looking for it and could not find it but regardless you're you're spot on I
think that if police would have come out right away and said that there was a gun
used in some form or fashion you know maybe maybe he's looking at this and going okay yeah I brought a gun to the
scene with me but that's not what I used to kill the girls and maybe he has no idea that police had evidence that there
was a gun at the scene that day correct so he doesn't know any better to get rid of it what is interesting too
when we talk about the gun and the bullet is that this is a this is going to be a problem
for Richard Allen once this thing finally gets to trial a big problem he's going to have is that he is on record
telling law enforcement and this is what's stated in the PCA Richard Allen stated he had not been on
that property where the unspent round was found that he did not know the property owner and he had no explanation
as to why a round cycled through his firearm would be at that location furthermore he stated that he never
allowed anyone to use or borrow his gun so that's going to be a big problem for him because if they can if their
experts can convince a jury that that unspent live round came from Richard Allen's Gun
that They confiscated from his home he's now telling you I've never lent this gun to anyone ever at any time and
then he's also saying yeah I went to the trails often he said he was would regularly go to the trails oh but I've
never been on that piece of land so he he can't later say Well it his defense cannot say based off of this
information and off of Richard Allen's own words that let us paint a picture of Richard Allen
having having been at the trails many times before we told you when we talked about Richard
Allen's arrest on Halloween that we were aware of a weapons permit that he obtained in June of 2009 that was very
likely a concealed carry permit and so if he's out at these Trails often it's not highly unlikely to believe that
he might have been packing while he's going to the trails regularly but now he can't use the defense of oh I was there
previously and that I must have dropped that bullet or that bullet came out of my gun at a date prior to when the girls
were murdered now what we have is a guy that's admitted to being at the crime scene that day during the time that it's
believed that they were killed having gone there often but a bullet that came from his gun is
found directly between the two murder victims on a piece of land he says he's never been on two feet away
two feet away from one of the victims well let's take a little bit of time to go through Richard Allen's defense teams
rebuttal of the PCA yeah the first thing that in their rebuttal is their interviews that they're giving
after the hearing and he's got two very good attorneys from my understanding that's what I've
been told the the people that know of their work and their career are saying that these are two very good very
capable attorneys both of them were for my recollection on record giving on camera interviews stating that they saw
nothing in this PCA that conclusively points to their client as being guilty there on record as
saying that they believe their client is innocent and he believes he is innocent
and he's told them that much they've also said that there is nothing in this PCA that indicated to them that somebody
else could be involved in this crime I thought that was a little uh a couple things here I thought the whole other
person being involved was odd from both sides of the argument one from the prosecution
to me it seems to like lessen your case a little bit against Richard Allen to publicly state that and maybe they're
just saying it like using that as additional ammunition for not having the PCA released
which but at the same time the the prosecutor showed up to the hearing telling the judge
yeah I brought a redacted version of the PCA with me today that if you were to release it we would ask that you release
this redacted version instead of the full document which again there's eyewitnesses names stated clearly in and
throughout that document and those people need to be protected for many many reasons not not that that
we're just going to have a court case coming up but I also thought it odd on the defense to say yeah we don't know
what the prosecution's talking about somebody else being involved I think regardless of who you're
representing I think you want to keep that door open now if you want to go hard and fast
about it and and say look we don't know what they're talking about it doesn't really matter because our
client is innocent so we don't we don't know if this was committed by one or two
or more people had some kind of involvement it really doesn't matter because our client is innocent that's
one thing but just to say that to not leave the door open a little bit seemed a little weird to me but what we do have
here go ahead well you have to follow that up with his final statement at that Courthouse that day was he basically was
also stating hey look I've just been on this case for seven days I don't know much about this case
so other people involved I don't know exactly what they're talking about because
he's basically telling you I haven't had time to dive into this and he I think even made the statement uh of something
that people in the media and and podcasters and armchair detectives probably know more about the case than
he did at that time last week they released they being his Richard Allen's attorneys released a a statement a press
release statement stating that they do not want to try this case in the media and they intend to adhere to the Indiana
rules of professional conduct that provide guidance to on pre-trial publicity and they do point out look the the
police and prosecutor's office have conducted many press conferences over the five plus years of this
investigation and even additional press conferences following the arrest of their client so I think
it's fair for them to have their give their two cents on everything and they pretty much release a three-page
document to the media that states in bullet point form here's some reasons why and here's some reasons that point
toward Richard or Rick as they refer to him throughout this document as being innocent
and one we we should point out he's never been arrested or accused of any crime in his entire life let alone a
crime of this magnitude up until this point obviously he does state that he spoke with police
on several occasions after the murders that he volunteered information that he came forward again that's not
terribly uncommon in fact we said on True Crime garage that this whole hey we want to know the owner or the driver of
the vehicle parked at the CPS building we said years ago that might just be a ploy that just might be some kind of con
job to get someone to come forward to explain away why their vehicle would have been seen there that day we've seen
and reviewed many cases in the past where there's a fictitious vehicle that's made up by police to try to get
the perp to come forward and now we got a whole nother name on our list of people that admit to being in that
general area that day on the murders Well turns out that might have been Rick Allen's vehicle and then him coming
forward to police and saying that he was there that day again does not make him it doesn't Point towards innocence in my
opinion it it points to Simply exactly what he's saying he was there that day that's not a disputable fact it's it's
something that is fact he was there that day puts him on the suspect list in my opinion and a lot of times these guys
will come forward and they'll say yes I was there that day because they know that they were likely seen by somebody
else and they're trying to get ahead of it they're trying to get ahead of it so you don't have to ask me well why were
you there that day and you said you weren't there that day to me anytime that you put yourself at the crime scene
which that whole crime scene is the park and so by him coming forward that doesn't point to any innocence at all
that points to the probability that points to the possibility that he could be the killer again I agree with
you you then take that person and they're not an eyewitness you put them on a person of interest list well and
then they're trying to call this bullet they're they're calling it a single Magic Bullet so they're trying to
discredit the bullet information and again yes is it exact science it sounds like there's
an argument that it's not exact science but to call it a Magic Bullet is really an attempt to publicly discredit the
information that led to your client's arrest and I don't have a problem with them making a statement because the PCA
was then was the PCA was released to the public but then a judge issued a gag order on the attorneys and so
I think the sad thing for me in this case is when they made an arrest I started thinking well
this is uh the beginning of the end but the more I've talked to experts law lawyers
um defense attorneys other individuals detectives and law enforcement this is the beginning of the
beginning yeah and I think you and everybody are correct in that and we can see that in the information that that we
know about this case we know there's going to be a bond hearing I believe that's scheduled for February of next
year so that is in the foreseeable future but there also will would be a probable
cause hearing at some point there's going to be a preliminary hearing at some point all of those three things
could take place all at the same time the other thing though is we know that the defense has requested a change of
venue and in fact they are stating that they would like for the venue to be 150 miles away from Delphi Carroll
County area but we know that the trial needs to stay in the state of Indiana and so that makes it a little difficult
there's not a whole lot of places that they could end up having this trial if they were to get their requests granted
that it's at least 150 miles away from Delphi because he can't get a fair trial in Carroll County
that doesn't have to be granted that's something that a judge will take under consideration into consideration and
make a determination on at a later date there's there's a chance that we don't see
Richard Allen actually in an actual trial until August I would say maybe August of
next year would be the earliest that I would anticipate a trial this thing could also be
2024 before he's in an actual trial it might be up to 18 months is some of the thoughts that I've had on this ever
since his arrest that we could we could be waiting 18 months to get this and I'm
glad that you brought up the gag order for several reasons it's just an that's what this case is going to be
that's what it was from day one and that's appears that it's going to be that going forward and you know Doug
Carter said you want to know addressing Bridge guy addressing the killer you want to know what we know well one day
you will but that also pertains to the public and to some members of the media as well
and that one day you will might not be until day four five six ten of an actual trial that could be anywhere from eight
months to 18 months away the gag order this is this is one thing it's a side note here Captain but it's one thing
that's always kind of cracked me up that you know we have this this Justice System One the listeners know how much
you like to laugh well and they call it a gag order it's like you could have come up with any
other term think gag order sounds to me like we got some heaving someone heaving in the
corner over there right like an order of Silence would be probably more appropriate than gag owners
so one thing that I do want to thank all of our listeners we I've received a mountain of emails
Thanking us for our continued coverage on the Delphi case we first covered this case in May of 2017.
in episodes 110 and 111 we were one of the first podcasts to cover it that's back when there was very little
information and we had two episodes full of speculation full of rumors and we went on to cover it many times
since and you know that we have now done previous two today Captain we have done
17. we've dedicated 17 episodes about 17 hours of coverage plus today devoted to
this case and in back in May of 2017 when we first covered it we said that we were going to see this thing through to
the end and now here we sit two thousand over two thousand and roughly 20 days later
and now we have a very big and very bright light at the end of the tunnel now we don't know we still don't know
where the end of the tunnel is how long it's going to take us to get there but we for for the very first time in five
and a half years starting in mid-october it looks like there's a very big and bright light at the end of the tunnel
and I'm excited to see what comes of this going forward and I said we covered it 17 times on True Crime garage we've
also discussed this case countless times on our other show off the Record which is available on Stitcher premium if
anybody wants to go and listen to to those shows and then if you will allow me to do this
Captain I'm going to break one of my own rules one of the garage rules that we have we have a very short list of rules
here in the garage and this one was implemented by me but I'm going to go ahead and break one of my own rules one
of our agreed upon garage rules and when we first started this flying ship we said that one thing that we that we were
going to steer away from steer clear of was to get in a habit of Defending ourselves we have put ourselves into a
position where we throw out speculation where we examine a case we bring it into
the garage we take it apart we put it back together see if if everything works and then we give our opinions on these
cases sometimes we're right sometimes we're wrong sometimes the case remains unsolved and we just don't know what is
right and what is wrong until the cases are solved but I'm gonna break my own rule here and
defend ourselves here for a moment because with all the gratitude that came from
the listeners of we thank you for your continued coverage there also came a little bit of pushback and some of that
pushback was well guys don't you think you owe somebody an apology now and here's the thing
I want to be clear in this in this statement first of all I will be giving zero apologies in this
case for a mountain of reasons but one of them will be when all these suspects and I I'm using
air quotes here all these people that were pushed forward by the media and by locals of this person was arrested for
this serious infraction or this crime or this murder or attempted murder or molestation he looks just like Bridge
guy sounds just like bridge bridge guy if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck then it then it definitely
is a duck Us in the garage we're telling everyone hold on let's pump the brakes a little
bit here on this let's not string this guy up just yet let's pump the brakes a little bit here in one of our coverages
we discussed an individual that we called we labeled this individual as DP DP was a person that has told police
that he was at the trails that day on the day that the girls were killed and then later his story changed
we at no time and I know I can say 100 percent as fact Yours Truly at no time said that
DP is a suspect in this case what we pointed out was that an individual that puts
themselves at a crime scene be it Delphi be it JonBenet Ramsey be it Lane Bryant
shootings any case that you can think of out there unsolved cases you can think of any person that puts themselves at a
crime scene on the day of the crime should be considered a suspect and should be looked at as a person of
interest until you can clear them of such now what we thought was a misstep in the investigation or appear to be a
possible misstep was that when this individual changed their story we from everything we could see it
looked like they were still being considered a witness a potential witness instead of a potential Person of
Interest and it was of our opinion to move that individual back to the person of interest list rather than just a an
eyewitness no apology will be made because every part of our opinion was is true and it holds true to this day and
it holds true to every case going forward that we we review we will still hold that opinion on other cases but
keep in mind what happened here in Delphi Rick Allen told police that he was there
that day he was at the trails on the day that the girls were killed and then later they they
swallowed that pill early on but later at some point something changed in the investigation that led
them back to Richard Allen and he switched from being a potential eyewitness to a potential Person of Interest
so strong that it led to his arrest and just to double down on that like we said
if we were law enforcement we would take every eyewitness and instead of looking
at them as eyewitness would look at them as a person of interest until we could prove otherwise and if they would have
done that in 2017 they would have made an arrest in 2017 in the Delphi case we want to thank all of our listeners for
sticking with us and listening to all of these episodes that we have devoted to this case if you want to go back and
listen to those prior episodes I'll include those in today's show notes so you can review
them there and decide if you want to go back and listen to them again or listen to them for the first time we also want
to give a big Kudos a big attaboy to Doug Carter and his team at the Indiana State Police the sheriff's
department in Carroll County the Delphi police everybody that had their hands involved in getting an arrest finally in
this case this as the captain pointed out is either the beginning of the end or maybe just the beginning of the
beginning but regardless it's a step in the right direction we've been hoping and praying and at times even crying for
justice for these two poor little girls that were victimized by some kind of monster there that day on the trails and
it looks like finally we might be getting to a good place here in Seeking Justice and getting Justice for Libby
and Abby and we just want to commend everyone for any involvement at all whether it
just being a listener whether just being somebody that told somebody else about the case kept the case alive in the
media and all the way up to the law enforcement officers the the good women and men of Indiana state law enforcement
that kept at it with this case cheers there everyone [Music] foreign they say police didn't contact Allen
after Abby and Libby disappeared instead Alan voluntarily talked with investigators about being on the trail
that day then Allen didn't hear from police again for more than five years until about a month ago they say Allen
did not get rid of his car his guns or his clothing he didn't move and just continued to live his normal life they
attacked the so-called unspent bullet evidence outlined in court documents released this week they criticized
ballistics and its use in court cases calling it anything but a science and they point out prosecutors have
mentioned there may be another person involved in this case but there's no mention of other suspects in the court
documents now before the probable cause affidavit was released the Carroll County prosecutor released a statement
reassuring the public he has a very solid case it went on to say we strongly believe the evidence shows Richard Allen
was involved in the murder of Libby and Abby [Music] wanted to thank everybody for joining us
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On October 28th, 2022 Richard M. Allen of Delphi, Indiana was formally arrested and charged for the murders of Liberty “Libby” German and Abigail “Abby” Williams. Following the arrest, an announcement was made that the Probable Cause Affidavit requesting that Judge Diener sign off on Allen’s arrest would be sealed. Late last month a redacted version of this 8 page document was released to the media and public. Here in the Garage we have kept a close eye on this case and have been asked to give our thoughts on what we are seeing and what we are not seeing in this document. Join us in the Garage as we review all that has come out and been discussed in this case since November 1st.

Previous Delphi case coverage can be found in our catalog with the following episodes:

The Delphi Murders - Episodes #110 & #111 - May, 2017

Delphi Murders Revisited - Episodes #320 & #321

Delphi Murders Off The Record - Episodes #322 & #323 - July, 2019

Delphi Murders Discussion - Episode #395 - May, 2020

Delphi Murders / 4 Years Later - Episodes #468 & #469 - March, 2021

Delphi Murders / A New Suspect - Episodes #486 & #487 - May, 2021

Delphi Murders / Under the Bridge - Episodes #509, #510, & #511 - August, 2021

Delphi Murders / Off the Record - Episodes #542 & #543 - December, 2021

Delphi Murders Update - Episode #625 - October 31, 2022

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses Richard M. Allen's arrest in the Delphi murder case and evidence presented in the probable cause affidavit.

Key points

Sealed Probable Cause Affidavit. The probable cause affidavit was sealed, raising questions about the investigation's transparency.
Speculation About Other Actors. The prosecutor's statement about other actors involved adds a new layer of complexity to the case.
The Role of the 40 Caliber Handgun. Discussion on the prevalence of the 40 caliber handgun in law enforcement.
Impact on Richard Allen's Family. Richard Allen's family is deeply affected by the ongoing investigation.
The Importance of the PCA. The probable cause affidavit raises questions about the evidence presented.
Video Evidence from Victims' Phone. A video from one victim's phone captures critical moments before the crime.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

There is reason to believe that there are other actors involved.

7:01WatchDec 7, 2022

Tension

75/ 100High tension

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