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In the Richard Allen murder trial, prosecutors told the jury that a detail in Allen's confession proved it was real — he mentioned seeing a van, and a real neighbor really did drive that road at the right time. They called it the detail only the killer would know. It was their most powerful argument.
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 is serving 130 years. His defense has appealed, and the Indiana Attorney General just filed their formal response.
Here's what that response doesn't address. According to the defense's brief, surveillance footage and FBI cell phone analysis suggest the van arrived significantly later than the State's witness testified — after Libby's phone had already stopped registering movement. And according to the same brief, Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot the girls. They were not shot. The State's 94-page response is silent on that detail entirely.
Defense attorney Bob Motta joins us to break down what both of those problems mean — the van timeline, the wrong cause of death, and what they tell us about the reliability of confessions made by a man who was found gravely disabled during 13 months of solitary confinement. He also takes us through Dr. Wala — the prison psychiatrist the State built their case around — who admitted she may have been wrong and who destroyed some of her own session notes.
If you've been following this case or are just catching up — this is the conversation the State doesn't want had.
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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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Ashley Flynn was a volleyball coach, a substitute teacher, and a mother of two. She was found shot in her bed in the early morning hours at her Tipp City, Ohio home after her husband called 911 claiming a burglar had broken in. Three days later, he was in handcuffs. Now he's facing aggravated murder and ten additional charges — and the evidence that put him there paints a picture the defense hasn't publicly addressed.
Investigators say the crime scene was staged. The garage entry point had a refrigerator blocking it. The weapon was allegedly a 9mm from Caleb Flynn's own truck. Ashley was in bed with shell casings on the floor nearby, and Caleb was conveniently in another part of the house. Their daughters were asleep down the hall — the same children who are now at the center of a no-contact order and, potentially, the witness intimidation charges prosecutors filed against Flynn for the days between the killing and his arrest.
This episode covers the full scope of the case as it stands heading into trial: the 911 call, the bodycam footage, the physical evidence, the grand jury indictment, the unexplained resignation at the Flynns' church, the cancelled memorial, the family's shifting stance, the defense push for a gag order, and a strategic reversal on trial timing that raises its own questions.
Caleb Flynn told American Idol cameras he loved his wife more than anything. Prosecutors say he killed her with prior calculation and design. A jury will decide which version of this man was real.
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Three cases. Three distinct legal landscapes. And one conversation that gets to the procedural questions that matter most.
Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to plead guilty on April 8 in the Gilgo Beach killings — a plea that has not yet been entered and could still fall apart. If it holds, it would resolve charges connected to seven victims while closing the courtroom before a trial — no testimony under oath, no cross-examination, no public evidentiary record of the kind full proceedings create. Four families tied to uncharged deaths would not be reached by that expected plea.
The Nancy Guthrie abduction is being investigated by a department with a documented institutional crisis. Dr. Richard Carmona — a former U.S. Surgeon General and former Pima County sheriff — went on record stating the crime scene was corrupted, calling it an irreversible error. The deputies' union passed a unanimous no-confidence vote. The Board of Supervisors invoked a rare law requiring the sheriff to submit reports under oath. More than 18,000 tips have been received with no named suspect. Ransom notes demanding cryptocurrency payment arrived and went past their deadlines. The legal integrity of any eventual case will have to be established within this context.
Joseph Duggar faces felony charges in Florida — accused of molesting a then-9-year-old girl during a 2020 family vacation, incidents he allegedly admitted to when confronted by the victim's father and again to law enforcement detectives. He and Kendra face separate Arkansas misdemeanor counts for child endangerment and false imprisonment. Jim Bob Duggar's documented decision to handle Josh's conduct without law enforcement contact raises accountability questions that the existing charges do not address.
Today on True Crime Today, retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins me to go through listener questions on all three cases — examining the legal record, the procedural stakes, and what the documented evidence means for the people still waiting on answers.
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By 2014, Nineteen Kids and Counting was TLC's highest-rated program. The Duggar family had become the most famous face of conservative Christian family life in America — wholesome, modest, joyful, and profitable.
Their own children tell a different story.
In Part 2 of this five-part series from Hidden Killers and True Crime Today, Tony Brueski examines the Duggar brand — the financial control structure Derick Dillard has publicly alleged gave Jim Bob unilateral control over his adult children's contracts and payments, the compound Jill Duggar describes needing permission to enter as a married adult, and the network timeline that saw publicly available concerns about this family documented in 2007 while TLC continued broadcasting until 2015.
When the story broke, TLC canceled — and immediately created a spinoff. That spinoff ran eleven more seasons and ended only with Josh Duggar's federal arrest.
Two cancellations. Two network statements. One unbroken revenue stream.
The money generated by a decade of broadcasting this family has never been publicly accounted for. Nobody made these children sign anything. The cameras just made it profitable for someone else.
This is Part 2 of 5.
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