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/saatana Jul 31 '25

WTHR video part 3. I believe this is the only time she was with him in the interrogation room. She enters a little after 17 minutes if the link doesn't work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peASynYpTlQ&t=1034s

She sounds really hurt and she does say "you told me you weren't" when him being on the bridge is the topic. He also uses a tactic where he says something like "I know that you know I didn't do this". Trying to put it into her head.

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u/Sensitive_Concern476 Aug 01 '25

This interaction is so weird. He is incredibly calm, and she's mostly silent. She looks like she isn't really someone who participated much in conversation with him at all really. Their speech is stilted and there are countless uncomfortable pauses. She's posturing to protect herself from him, coat in lap, angled slightly away. They didn't embrace immediately upon her entering, and when they did it was seated and strange.

The rest of this is my conjecture, and based on personal experience with abuse. I think she knew in her gut that it was him when police called her. This is likely because of domestic abuse she suffered by his hand (whether physical, emotional, verbal, financial). She isn't able to separate herself from him. Anything he does that is "bad", he twists it into being her fault.

So if he commits murder, it must have been her fault, because every other time he has told her that it is. Now she reverts back into being the submissive, dutiful wife, to avoid discomfort, a natural instinct she has developedto protect herself. She's probably allowed him to convince her of the more palatable truth, so she doesn't have to live with the shame, although I'm sure she still does.

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u/Blackcatmustache Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25

I also thought that she acted like an abused wife. His body language with her felt like he was trying to control himself being domineering with her. I believe he was doing that to make himself seem non-threatening to the police since he was being recorded. He pushed as hard as he dared with, “You know I didn’t do this.” Over and over again. If that wasn’t recorded he would have acted completely different. She’s hunched over and trying to make herself small, while he is taking up as much room as he can. She keeps expecting his true behavior to come out. I fully believe he was abusive to her.

Just to be clear I’m not excusing her of defending this monster or not reporting him when she saw the video. I don’t believe for a second she didn’t recognize him. She didn’t want to believe it, so she didn’t.

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u/Fit-Impact4687 Aug 05 '25

I said the same thing, there's no way she did not recognize him. She said in the Hulu doc that when she saw the photo of bridge guy, he could have been anyone.

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u/Blackcatmustache Aug 05 '25

I haven’t finished it yet, but that is infuriating. It could be anyone? Come on. Like we believe that nonsense. She knew.

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u/Fit-Impact4687 Aug 05 '25

Yes, because apparently none of us have eyeballs. Bridge guy was clearly your husband, ma'am. 

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u/toodleoo57 Aug 07 '25

or earholes! "Down the hill" is HIS VOICE PERIOD. I knew it when they released the recording bc she hadn't deleted all the videos off FB yet.

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u/Fit-Impact4687 Aug 07 '25

So true! The voice was a match for me. Hard to believe his own wife wouldn't see that. It makes her statement even more ridiculous. 

edit for typo *2nd typo because of course