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Why Did Delphi Investigators Record Over a Suspect Interview and Skip His Phone?
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- May 17, 2026
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Summary
The Delphi defense identified an alternative suspect. According to the appeal, that suspect's interview was recorded over by investigators. His weapon was never collected. His phone was never searched. Those aren't things that happen by accident in a case where two girls were found dead and a community spent years waiting for answers. And now three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are looking at the full record — including what investigators did and didn't do with the leads that didn't point toward Richard Allen. Defense attorney Bob Motta walks through the significance of the recorded-over interview with Tony Brueski. He explains why it lands harder in an appeal than it did at trial — because the appellate standard asks whether the outcome was reliable, and investigative gaps that were hand-waved in front of a jury look different when judges are reading transcripts and measuring the record against constitutional standards. Motta also gets into the confession problem. Allen told a prison psychiatrist he shot the victims. The medical examiner said they were killed with a blade. The State is relying on confessions that don't match the forensic evidence, from a man whose own jailhouse call to his father — asking how much longer he could stay lucid — was excluded from the jury. Indiana's response brief answered most of the defense's factual challenges with procedural objections, not substantive ones. Filed wrong. Argued too late. The defense has now requested oral arguments. Indiana hasn't. If the search warrant fails under the de novo review, the .40-caliber pistol is gone from the case permanently. Three judges are sitting on the full record. A decision is coming. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want…