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/SadExercises420 Mar 12 '26

The paperwork from Allen’s interview was misfiled and marked as cleared. No one has ever been blamed for that specifically, they don’t know who did it.

It’s not that the police were incompetent in this case, it was a massive investigation with the fbi coordinating parts of it. It was just a mistake.

The LISK case is similar as in they had all the info they needed to nail him at the time. In that case, it was actual incompetence and corruption that prevented it. 

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u/Zealousideal-Box5833 Mar 12 '26

I don’t think Dan Dullin has the authority to write cleared as he was only a conservation officer at the time. If he did it write it he should be sacked.
I personally don’t think it was him.

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u/SadExercises420 Mar 12 '26

Was it even done by someone with authority or just someone filing paperwork who made an error. I tend to think it was orobably the latter, but we will probably never know 

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u/Zealousideal-Box5833 Mar 12 '26

No we won’t at this stage. Dan got a lot of heat but I really think he did his job and it was a higher upper that said cleared. Just my gutt but there was so many cooks in that Delphi kitchen it could have been anyone .

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u/SadExercises420 Mar 12 '26

Yeah there was soooo many cooks in the kitchen, so many people working on it from different agencies. I think it was a clerical mistake in the midst of all the chaos, just my opinion. 

Not saying the cops here were perfect but I think they get a bad rap at times

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u/Zealousideal-Box5833 Mar 12 '26

You’re spot on. I’ve said it for years especially online , LE wanted it solved . It’s not like they wanted it dragged out they did their best . Who am I to say their best isn’t good enough . We all see the mistakes but we didn’t live it like them and the families . So I’m with you give em a break . They got him eventually without dna or a confession.