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Richard Allen's appeal of his Delphi murders conviction was argued on September 21, 2026, and one stretch of it was about a hand. Not Allen's. The hand belongs to Brad Holder, a man Indiana State Police investigated in 2017 who has never been charged, and what he drew on it is something the jury that convicted Allen never saw.
Mark Leeman, arguing for Allen, laid it out for Judges Vaidik, Brown, and Altice. Holder was flagged by two tips in March 2017. Police cleared him on a time card from the landfill where he worked.
After that, Leeman said, state police received a rune Holder had drawn on his hand and shared, and Leeman argued its shape lines up with the sticks placed on Abby Williams. He described social media posts of girls lying as if dead with sticks on them, and an officer who asked to reopen Holder's file and was told the department had already cleared him.
Judge Frances Gull ruled all of it inadmissible before trial. Indiana requires a direct connection between a third party and the crime, and the state told the appeals panel that the evidence showed the opposite. Holder, by the state's account, was 25 miles away at work in Buffalo, Indiana, at every moment that mattered, and a landfill clerk said his absence would have been noticed. The state's expert saw no runes in the sticks, and the defense's own ritual expert could name no symbol.
Defense attorney Bob Motta and I walk through what Leeman said the crime scene took, moved bodies, changed clothes, balanced sticks, and why he told the judges that doesn't describe a pharmacy tech on a walk. Then we take the state's answer seriously and ask whether a time card can carry that much weight.
Allen is serving 130 years for killing Abby Williams and Libby German. The appeal is under advisement.
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Richard Allen's Delphi murders conviction is under review at the Indiana Court of Appeals, and the appeal hearing on September 21, 2026, opened with a psychiatrist, a cell floor, and a date: April 14, 2023.
Allen, convicted in November 2024 of killing Abby Williams and Libby German on the Monon High Bridge trail, was held before trial in a segregation unit at Westville Correctional Facility for thirteen months. His appeal lawyer, Mark Leeman, told the panel that on April 14 the prison's own psychiatrist found Allen incommunicado on the floor, covered in feces, and declared him gravely disabled. That order started a course of Haldol injections he did not consent to, and it recorded that his symptoms had started on April 4.
Leeman's point was about what the state did with that information. Allen's trial lawyers had filed an emergency motion nine days earlier asking to move him. Leeman says the state answered by calling the filing colorful and dramatic, and the trial judge denied it without the hearing he says the law required. That, he argued, is coercion without an interrogation: the state saw a man breaking and worked to keep him in the room where it was happening.
Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender argued there was no coercive state action at all. Allen was in restrictive housing because he could not be safely housed with other inmates, she said, and the conditions were ordinary. He had out-of-cell recreation, showers, commissary, medical checks, medication, and a tablet the prison replaced for free when he broke it.
Defense attorney Bob Motta and I work through the three clips that frame this fight, including the state's position that only five of Allen's confessions fall inside his psychosis and the rest stand on their own.
The panel has the case under advisement. The decision, whenever it comes, can be appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court.
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Caleb Flynn allegedly told Alleigha Botner he was up until 4 a.m. trying to figure out how to do it and not go to jail. That was August 2025. His wife Ashley was shot in her sleep six months later. Botner never called anyone.
Flynn is charged with aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, and tampering with evidence in the February 16, 2026, death of his wife Ashley Flynn in Tipp City, Ohio. Ashley was a middle school volleyball coach and mother of two daughters. Flynn has pleaded not guilty.
Botner testified for seven hours in Miami County court, bringing thirty-four binders of evidence and the record of more than a hundred and seven thousand text messages between her and Flynn. The relationship started in 2022 at Christian Life Center in Butler Township, where he led the music ministry and she was an intern. It turned physical by May 2024, when she was twenty-two.
Prosecutors allege the messages show Flynn discussing wanting his wife gone as early as mid-2025. Botner matched his language about Ashley. They got matching tattoos. She gave him an ultimatum in January 2026. She searched for information about unsolved cases. Two devices with their message history vanished during a Florida trip.
The night before Ashley was found, Botner allegedly sent Flynn screenshots from ChatGPT with instructions on how to erase the conversation. His alleged final message promised action the next day.
After Ashley was found, Botner testified Flynn said something to her that made her heart race. She went home. She erased messages. She lied to the FBI four days later.
No charges against Botner. No immunity. No search of her apartment or DNA. Seven hours of testimony and one question prosecutors didn't have to ask out loud.

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The full interrogation breakdown of Caleb Flynn's two police interviews on February 16, 2026, with retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke. Nine clips. Three segments. Every dimension of how Caleb Flynn presented himself in that room — and where the presentation fell apart.
Segment one covers what Caleb brought: a clean phone, a spotless marriage, two strangers as suspects, and a church reference that prosecutors allege hid an affair with a twenty-year-old worship singer. Segment two covers what Detective Morgan did with the evidence: the door forced from inside, the shooter placed at the exact spot Caleb described standing, the neighbor Morgan already had on record before Caleb dared him to check. Segment three covers the breaks: an accusation that nobody made, a timeline that collapsed from two to five minutes down to five seconds, and a missing handgun known only to two children and a dead woman.
Robin Dreeke reads the behavioral tells across every clip. Three days after these interviews, Caleb Flynn was arrested.
He has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and all related charges. He is presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
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Caleb Flynn has been convicted on all nine counts submitted to the jury in the killing of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Jurors deliberated for 2 hours, 25 minutes and 12 seconds before finding him guilty of aggravated murder, three murder counts, two felonious-assault counts and three counts of tampering with evidence.
The verdict closes the central factual fight that defined the trial. Flynn said Ashley was killed by an intruder during a home invasion at their Tipp City home. Prosecutors said Flynn was the person who killed her on February 16, 2026, and staged the house to support the burglary story. His attorneys argued investigators focused on him too quickly and emphasized the absence of a recovered murder weapon and other direct forensic evidence. The jury still returned guilty verdicts across the board on the charges it received.
Flynn originally faced 11 counts, but Judge Jeannine Pratt dismissed two misdemeanor intimidation counts before the case went to the jury. That left nine counts for deliberation, and the verdict was guilty on all nine. Sentencing is set for October 5, 2026, at 3:00 PM EDT.
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