Delphi: AG's Response to Allen Appeal Raises Coverup Questions

About this episode

This episode analyzes the Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal, highlighting potential coverup issues in the case.

The Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal was supposed to shut down the defense's arguments. It didn't. If anything, the State's brief — filed in March 2026 — raises more questions about what Indiana is willing to do to protect this conviction than it answers about whether the conviction was fairly obtained. Allen's appellate attorneys laid out a detailed, sourced case: a search warrant affidavit where a detective changed witness descriptions and omitted information that undercut probable cause, confessions made during a psychotic break after over 13 months in solitary confinement at a facility where no pretrial safekeeper had ever been placed before, and a trial where the defense was blocked from presenting a composite sketch, a firearms expert, solitary confinement audio, exculpatory phone calls, evidence of ritualistic crime scene features, and documented alternative suspects whose investigations were abandoned, whose interviews were recorded over, whose weapons were never collected, and whose phones were never searched. The AG's response to this record: harmless error, waived, speculative. The same words, applied to every issue, as though repetition…

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Host: True Crime Today

Topics covered

• legal appeal
• conviction integrity
• witness testimony
• solitary confinement
• evidence suppression
• criminal investigation

Keywords

• Delphi murders
• Richard Allen
• Attorney General
• appeal
• witness descriptions
• solitary confinement
• exculpatory evidence
• criminal justice
• coverup
• trial issues

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Organizations: Indiana Attorney General, Indiana, law enforcement, psychologist

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