Richard Allen's Case Has No DNA, No Witness Who Picked Him, and Exactly This

Defense attorney Bob Motta and I take on the part of Richard Allen's Delphi murders appeal that asks the simplest question: without the confessions, what is there?

On September 21, 2026, Richard Allen's appeal lawyer told the Indiana Court of Appeals that no witness ever identified his client as the man in Libby German's video and that no DNA connects him to Abby Williams or Libby. The state did not argue otherwise. What it argued is that Allen's own words to police in 2017, placing himself on the trail and the bridge's first platform, are the most powerful evidence it has. A single unfired cartridge found between the girls, it added, ties him to the scene through his own pistol.

Leeman attacked the cartridge match as junk science. William Tobin, the former FBI metallurgist Judge Frances Gull excluded, would have explained why a round found in a field can't be matched the way the state's examiner claimed, he told the panel. The state says the defense's other expert covered that ground and Tobin isn't qualified on firearms.

Leeman's rebuttal was about a face. He held up the sketch Betsy Blair helped police draw of the man she saw on the bridge, a sketch the jury was never shown, and argued that Blair saw the killer and did not see Richard Allen. The state told the judges Blair identified the Bridge Guy image at trial, mostly by his clothing, and that a composite sketch is an investigative tool that can't identify or rule out a suspect.

Bob explains what the judges meant every time they asked about harmless error, and why the search warrant fight came down to Allen's own 2017 statement. He also takes on what a defense attorney does with a case where the strongest witness against his client is the client.

Allen is serving 130 years while the panel decides.

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