Delphi Murders: Indiana Responds to Richard Allen's Appeal

Richard Allen was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German near the Monon High Bridge trail in Delphi, Indiana. He's serving 130 years. His defense has appealed that conviction — and the Indiana Attorney General just filed their formal response.

Their position: everything was done right, the trial was fair, and Richard Allen should serve every day of that sentence.

Here's the detail that frames this entire conversation. According to the defense's appeal brief, Allen told his prison psychiatrist that he shot the girls. Abby and Libby were not shot. That detail is documented in the record. The State's 94-page response never addresses it. Not once.

In this session, defense attorney Bob Motta goes through what the State is actually arguing — and what they're carefully avoiding. Their strategy leads with procedural waiver, arguing that most of the appeal was forfeited at trial. When they do engage the substance, they describe Allen's cell conditions as something less than coercion and point to his religious conversion as an explanation for why he started confessing after 13 months in solitary confinement. And they attach "harmless error" to every ruling that went against Allen's defense.

Whether you've been following this case for years or you're hearing about it for the first time, this conversation gives you the clearest picture yet of where the Delphi appeal stands — and what the State's own brief reveals about how confident Indiana actually is.

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