Richard Allen's Confession Got the Cause of Death Wrong. Indiana Doesn't Care

About this episode

The episode discusses the inconsistencies in Richard Allen's confession regarding the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German, focusing on the discrepancies in the cause of death and the implications for the case against him.

He confessed to killing them. He told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German. They were not shot. They were killed with a blade. And in ninety-four pages, the Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal does not explain why a man supposedly confessing to the murders he committed described a method of killing that did not happen. That is not a minor inconsistency. That is the foundation of a 130-year sentence — because without the confessions, there is no case. No DNA links Allen to the crime scene. No murder weapon was recovered. No direct eyewitness placed him with the victims. The confessions were everything. And the confessions contain a cause of death that is factually wrong. The AG's response follows the same pattern on every issue the defense raised. The search warrant built on alleged omissions — the State says it still establishes probable cause. The confessions extracted after more than thirteen months of pretrial solitary confinement — the State says the conditions were not coercive and offers a religious conversion as the explanation. The evidence excluded at trial — the eyewitness sketch the jury never saw, the firearms expert…

Topics covered

• confession inconsistencies
• murder investigation
• legal analysis
• true crime
• Richard Allen case

Keywords

• Richard Allen
• confession
• murder
• Abby Williams
• Libby German
• Indiana Attorney General
• true crime
• legal issues
• evidence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Indiana Attorney General

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