# Delphi murders appeal

True crime · Heat 1.0 / 10 · 5 shows · 1h 41m airtime

An Indiana appellate court heard Richard Allen's appeal of his 130-year sentence on September 21, 2026, after his November 2024 conviction for the 2017 Delphi murders of Libby German and Abby Williams. The defense argues solitary confinement induced psychosis and a false confession, and says the prosecution admitted Allen was psychotic when he confessed and described shootings that did not match the victims' wounds. It also challenges the exclusion of a defense cartridge expert and a police sketch of another suspect, lost recordings of early Odinist suspects, and a bullet comparison that initially failed. The state maintains the confessions were voluntary. Jurors have since said their first vote was three undecided, never not guilty.

Page: https://boilpoints.com/point/delphi_murders_appeal_99650157

## Segments

- [Crime Stories with Nancy Grace](https://boilpoints.com/u/crimestorieswithnancygrace), 2026-09-25, 0:00 to 2:30: **Reports the appeal hearing arguments**. Reports Richard Allen's appeal of his 130-year Delphi murders sentence, including Monday's hearing where defense attorney Mark Lehman argued solitary confinement induced psychosis and false confessions, while the state's Ellen Maylander said the confessions were voluntary. New angle: Defense attorney Mark Lehman argued at Monday's appeal hearing that solitary confinement induced psychosis and coercion; Ellen Maylander of the state attorney general's office argued the confessions were uncoerced and…
- [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski](https://boilpoints.com/u/hiddenkillerswithtonybrueski), 2026-09-30, 1:09 to 20:08: **Surfaces the excluded Brad Holder evidence**. Walks through Leeman's thirty minutes before the appellate panel and surfaces the excluded Brad Holder evidence: two March 2017 tips naming him as Bridge Guy, the matching bind rune tattoo, and Officer Winters being told the case was cleared. Also notes the landfill clerk's deposition alibi and the panel's apparent lean on the confessions. New angle: Two March 2017 tips named Brad Holder as a match for Bridge Guy, and Officer Winters was told the case was cleared.
- [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski](https://boilpoints.com/u/hiddenkillerswithtonybrueski), 2026-09-30, 0:31 to 2:45: **Walks the argument over the excluded cartridge expert**. Walks through the September 21 appellate argument, with the defense's cartridge expert at the center: William Tobin, a former FBI metallurgist, was excluded by Judge Gull as not a firearms examiner, and the panel pressed the state on what proof survives without the confessions. New angle: Judge Frances Gull excluded defense cartridge expert William Tobin, a former FBI metallurgist, as not a firearms examiner.
- [Dateline NBC](https://boilpoints.com/u/datelinenbc), 2026-10-01, 13:37 to 24:06: **Adds the defense's alternate suspect**. Recaps the Delphi case and the appeal hearing, then adds the defense's named alternate suspect: Brad Holder, whose Odinism ties and son's friendship with a victim the defense says the judge wrongly kept from the jury. His employer's punch card puts him at work at the time of the killings.
- [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski](https://boilpoints.com/u/hiddenkillerswithtonybrueski), 2026-10-03, 1:21 to 25:41: **Walks the record behind the confinement claim**. Walks the September 21 to 26 oral arguments and goes to the record behind the confinement: the safekeeping order eight days after arrest, the 2016 IDOC restrictive housing settlement, Gallapo's testimony, the 61 statements, and the four excluded defense exhibits. New angle: A 2016 IDOC settlement barred holding seriously mentally ill inmates in restrictive housing past 30 days.
- [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski](https://boilpoints.com/u/hiddenkillerswithtonybrueski), 2026-10-03, 29:26 to 54:09: **Cross-checks the van video against the 2:32 theory**. Bob Motta, who attended the September 21 oral arguments, walks through the NAPUI motion to correct errors: the state fixed the girls' deaths at 2:32 when the phone stopped moving, but video shows Weber's van on the private drive at 2:40 or 2:41 and federal data puts Weber's phone on his home Wi-Fi at 2:51. New angle: Weber's phone connected to his home Wi-Fi at 2:51, corroborating the van video timestamp the state's 2:32 theory contradicts.
- [Defense Diaries](https://boilpoints.com/u/defensediaries), 2026-10-04, 0:35 to 2:15: **Recaps the procedural history before arguments**. Recaps the procedural history ahead of the September 21 oral arguments: the December 2024 conviction, the 130-year sentence, and the appeal issues, including the warrant application and the involuntary statements. The host states her own belief in Allen's innocence but frames the episode around his right to a fair trial.
- [Defense Diaries](https://boilpoints.com/u/defensediaries), 2026-10-04, 5:28 to 7:32: **Recaps the disappearance and the scene**. Background segment: Baldwin walks through the February 2017 disappearance, the discovery of the bodies the next morning, and the stick configurations some investigators read as a cult or Norse pagan signature. It retells the case's opening facts and stays inside the record already on the card.
- [Defense Diaries](https://boilpoints.com/u/defensediaries), 2026-10-04, 7:32 to 11:12: **Walks through the arrest and the confession**. Baldwin, Allen's own lawyer, walks through the 2022 arrest: the Tony Kline connection, the February 2017 tip that sat unread until October 2022, and 13 months in solitary at Westville. He adds that the prosecution conceded Allen was psychotic when he confessed, and that Allen said he shot the girls, who were not shot. New angle: The prosecution admitted Allen was experiencing psychosis when he confessed; he said he shot the girls, who were not shot.
- [Defense Diaries](https://boilpoints.com/u/defensediaries), 2026-10-04, 13:26 to 17:59: **Walks through the excluded Odinist defense**. Baldwin walks through the Odinist third-party defense: the boy who dated Abby, his father Brad, the Facebook posts, and the judge's exclusion of all of it. Adds that the state lost or taped over the recordings of those early suspects. New angle: Recordings of early Odinist suspects were lost or taped over, the defense says.
- [Defense Diaries](https://boilpoints.com/u/defensediaries), 2026-10-04, 17:52 to 21:11: **Walks through the ballistics evidence**. Baldwin walks through the ballistics: the racked-bullet comparison failed, so the state fired Allen's gun and matched the fired bullet to the scene casing. He adds that the jury did not treat the bullet evidence as important. New angle: The initial racked-bullet comparison did not match; the state then fired Allen's gun and matched that bullet to the scene casing.
- [Murder Sheet](https://boilpoints.com/u/murdersheet), 2026-10-07, 13:42 to 15:46: **Relays two jurors on the appeal**. Two jurors from the Delphi trial give their read on Richard Allen's appeal, saying the decision belongs to three appellate judges and that they see no error that would have changed the outcome. Reaction and retelling, not new case developments.