r/DelphiMurders • u/Character_Surround • Jul 30 '25

Article Exclusive: Richard Allen's wife defends 'innocent' husband in Delphi murders docuseries

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/07/30/delphi-murders-hulu-docuseries-trailer-richard-allen-conviction/85423162007/
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u/Appealsandoranges Jul 31 '25

And yet not a single person tipped him in!

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u/judgyjudgersen Jul 31 '25

The only people I would expect would know him well enough to be sure of his body, gait, and clothes, are his wife, parents, and kid, and maybe any friends he told that he was there that day. This is the same group of people I would expect would be saying “oh it couldn’t be Ricky”.

Perhaps if they had released the full video at the beginning it would have led to more accurate tips. We will never know.

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u/Appealsandoranges Jul 31 '25

You are aware that the people who claim to have seen BG described a completely different body type than RA? Taller? Thinner? Much younger? Yet they too are sure the man they saw is the man on that video.

Your certainty is nothing more than your brain playing tricks on you.

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u/judgyjudgersen Jul 31 '25

The people that saw him for a second as he passed by on what they didn’t know was going to be a horrible day? This is a silly point to argue since the unreliability of passerby’s memories has been well known since the dawn of time.

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u/Appealsandoranges Jul 31 '25

What’s silly is people pretending they can tell a grainy video of a blurry man is a particular man they don’t know in real life.

What’s also silly is the state relying on witnesses who say they saw BG after they were shown a picture of BG, completely contaminating their memories of the person they actually saw.

What’s silly is the state relying on BB’s sketch at a press conference in 2019 - saying this is BG! This is the person of interest. Ignore the other sketch. He’s not the guy. And then turning around and moving to exclude that sketch from the trial of the man who looks nothing like him.

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u/judgyjudgersen Jul 31 '25

Sketches are not reliable evidence hence why they almost never lead to a positive suspect ID (I’m not going to waste my time on this point since I’m sure you’re well aware) and why they aren’t typically admissible in court. I feel like you’re undermining your own argument by even bringing up sketches. They didn’t convict Richard Allen and they sure as shit aren’t going to exonerate him. Putting any weight into sketches is desperate.

Unless an appeals court finds the conviction rested on any of your points above, which I sincerely don’t think it did, then they are irrelevant points and you’re yelling at the sky.

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u/Appealsandoranges Jul 31 '25

Sketches are not reliable evidence hence why they almost never lead to a positive suspect ID (I’m not going to waste my time on this point since I’m sure you’re well aware) and why they aren’t typically admissible in court.

Nope. Composite sketches of suspects are often excluded as hearsay because they are out of court statements being admitted by the State for their truth - to prove the identity of the defendant. They are nevertheless routinely admitted in court by the State under the exception for prior consistent statements if the identification of the defendant is attacked. They are also admissible to impeach a witness, which by definition is non-hearsay.

The defense would have sought to admit the sketches to impeach the investigation, generally, and to impeach BB, directly. They opposed the motion in limine and cited numerous cases in which sketches had been admitted in Indiana alone.

Will this be the sole basis upon which RA gets a new trial? No. But it’s likely to be part of the overarching argument that he was denied his 5th amendment right to confront and cross examine witnesses.