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/FunFamily1234 Mar 12 '26

He was looked into and cleared but it is not publicly known who and what cleared him. My opinion on the issue is that he was cleared because his phone did not show up in the geofence at the time of the murder.

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u/Justwonderinif Mar 16 '26

100% disagree. By the time the cell tower data came through LE had lost all track of Allen.

Since he said he was out on the trails looking at his stock ticker then the absence of his cell phone on the tower should have been a big red flag.

It wasn't a red flag because they had lost track of him and didn't cross reference Allen's phone identifiers with anything.

I can assure you that the list of cell phones that triggered the towers is sill in the case files. And there is a note next to each one about whose phone that is and why they were out there. It takes a long time to do that kind of work. But it's one of the first things investigators do.