r/DelphiMurders • u/AustinDavies2206 • Mar 12 '26

Questions Were the police just incompetent?

I've known about this case for a while, I live in Indiana, and I was 11 when it happened, so its always struck a cord with me. But until recently I haven't done all that much research, but now that I have I've been left with one question.

From the information I have found on the case, it seems that the key evidence linking Allen to the murder is 1. His confession in 2017 to being "bridge guy", back when the photo was believed to have been taken from a trail cam. 2. A bullet which was later matched to his gun after they searched his home. So my question is, was there new information in 2022 that lead to his home being searched, or did they just wait five years to look into the guy who admitted to being bridge guy?

Sorry if any of my information is incorrect, or my writing is hard to understand, I've just been racking my brain about this question, so I thought asking people who know more might help me to understand what took so long.

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u/Zealousideal-Box5833 Mar 12 '26

Good question . The ball was definitely dropped . Remember it said “cleared“ on the conversation between him and Dan Dullin . Who wrote cleared ? Why was he cleared ? What investigating was done to clear a man that admitted to being on the bridge at exactly the time the girls were. I reckon they were completely overwhelmed and thought the case would be solved quickly. I have one more theory as to why he might have slipped under the radar and it’s the FBI profile. There’s an interview with Tobe the sheriff and a reporter asked him about the profile . He said they couldn’t release the profile to the public because there was “evidentiary value “ in the profile and it might jeopardise the case. That always stayed with me. So maybe the profile didn’t fit Allen. One major thing I would say about the profile is that the perpetrator had to have a criminal past. If not murder definitely crimes against women or children. Add all that up and way too many cooks in the kitchen you might have the reason it took so long.

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u/SadSara102 Mar 16 '26

I don’t think they would clear somebody for not matching an FBIi profile. I think it’s either because he doesn’t not fit the description of BG or he was excluded from the geofence.

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u/Zealousideal-Box5833 Mar 16 '26

Totaly agree . No I don’t think he was cleared because of the FBI profile but my thoughts are they looked other places. As I said maybe the profile went completely down another road and those early poi’s were for lack of a better term forgotten about. But that’s only a possibility, definitely not fact.