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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:06Speaker 2: The Delphi murders suspects called eight words to his wife.
- 0:12Speaker 1: I did it.
- 0:13Speaker 2: I killed Abby and Libby. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
- 0:17Speaker 2: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
- 0:20Speaker 3: We also know by three o'clock nobody's hearing them. They're
- 0:24Speaker 3: nobody's screaming, nobody's running, nobody's calling on their phones. Again,
- 0:29Speaker 3: this was a very fast deal, and y'all, here's the reality.
- 0:34Speaker 3: Most children that are going to be murdered or murdered
- 0:37Speaker 3: in the first three hours.
- 0:43Speaker 4: As the defense continues to make their case, Judge Francis
- 0:46Speaker 4: Gaull makes a decision, infuriating the families of Libby German
- 0:49Speaker 4: and Abby Williams. The defense admitting into evidence nearly two
- 0:53Speaker 4: hours of videos of Richard Allen filmed during his thirteen
- 0:56Speaker 4: months of suicide watch and solitary confinement, but the rules
- 1:00Speaker 4: that due to the explicit scenes contained in some of
- 1:03Speaker 4: the videos, only the jury will be able to see
- 1:06Speaker 4: the videos. Defense attorney Brad Rossi thanks Judge gulf for
- 1:09Speaker 4: her decision, saying, quote, out of respect for various parties,
- 1:13Speaker 4: including my client and his dignity, this is the most
- 1:17Speaker 4: professional way of dealing with.
- 1:18Speaker 2: This his dignity. What about Abby and Libby's dignity? Portrayed
- 1:26Speaker 2: on a big screen in the courtroom, one of them
- 1:30Speaker 2: button naked, mortal wounds, slashes to their throat, slash upon
- 1:35Speaker 2: slash to the girl's throat, them and death. Now I'm
- 1:44Speaker 2: supposed to be worried about Richard Allen's so called dignity,
- 1:50Speaker 2: a man that confessed sixty one plus times.
- 1:54Speaker 1: He even said, why won't anybody believe me? I did it?
- 1:58Speaker 2: Now the defense is okay, ignore all the sixty one
- 2:02Speaker 2: confessions because he was clearly in the midst of a
- 2:04Speaker 2: psychotic break. Well, today I will bring on a panel
- 2:08Speaker 2: of experts that will show you he was not in
- 2:10Speaker 2: the middle of a psychotic break from everything ranging from
- 2:14Speaker 2: psychoanalysis to the cold hard facts. Even one of the
- 2:20Speaker 2: shrinks that was seeing him nearly every.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Day says he faked it. What's happening in the courtroom
- 2:29Speaker 1: a lot.
- 2:30Speaker 2: But also tonight we delve into attacks on the victims' families.
- 2:38Speaker 2: I first found out about this a while back. Susan
- 2:40Speaker 2: and Hendricks and I discussed it at the courthouse. I
- 2:44Speaker 2: then went on a fact finding mission and found the
- 2:47Speaker 2: attacks on the victims' families, even claiming, believe it or not,
- 2:53Speaker 2: that the victim sister Kelsey, is the quote real killer's evil.
- 3:01Speaker 1: It's hateful, it's vile.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Many people ben iver backwards to defend this declaim.
- 3:10Speaker 1: It's not happening.
- 3:11Speaker 2: It is happening, and I'm going to play it for you.
- 3:16Speaker 2: But first to what is most important, not what a
- 3:18Speaker 2: bunch of YouTubers are saying online. Let's talk about what's
- 3:22Speaker 2: happening in the court of law.
- 3:24Speaker 5: Listen as videos of Richard Allen are played for the jury,
- 3:27Speaker 5: Several jurors take special note of video number seven and
- 3:31Speaker 5: frown at what they are watching. One juror takes notes,
- 3:34Speaker 5: writes something on his notepad, and shows it to the
- 3:36Speaker 5: juror next to him. During video number nine, multiple jurors
- 3:39Speaker 5: look toward Richard Allen. At one point during video number ten,
- 3:43Speaker 5: defense attorney Jennifer Auger appears deeply concerned, ultimately holding her
- 3:48Speaker 5: head in her hand and covering her mouth. Only the
- 3:51Speaker 5: jury can see the videos, and members of the gallery
- 3:54Speaker 5: can only watch the reactions of the jury and imagine
- 3:57Speaker 5: what they are watching.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Straight out to Susan Henry, who has not missed a
- 4:00Speaker 2: day of testimony, Susan, thank you for being with us,
- 4:03Speaker 2: Susan investigative reporter and the author of Down the Hill,
- 4:08Speaker 2: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi, which is
- 4:11Speaker 2: an amazing work. Susan, I've really learned a lot from that, Susan.
- 4:16Speaker 2: I want to talk about what happened in the courtroom.
- 4:18Speaker 2: The video is shown only to the jury and the defense.
- 4:22Speaker 1: I noticed the.
- 4:23Speaker 2: State never looked away or acted disgusted, but the defense
- 4:27Speaker 2: did throughout very exaggerated pantomiming. They can say anything out loud,
- 4:35Speaker 2: looking away, rolling their eyes, acting as if they were very,
- 4:38Speaker 2: very upset. Two of the jurors, one wrote something and
- 4:42Speaker 2: showed it to the other jurors. Some of them looked away.
- 4:45Speaker 2: I know you can see the video, but let me
- 4:48Speaker 2: ask you a very narrow and specific question, Susan Hendrix.
- 4:54Speaker 1: The question is what is on the video.
- 5:00Speaker 6: Allen in his cell at Westville Prison.
- 5:05Speaker 2: And what do you believe is the reason that a
- 5:09Speaker 2: couple of jurors looked away.
- 5:12Speaker 1: One juror took a note and showed it to another jurar.
- 5:14Speaker 7: Because of his treatment by the guard, being dragged at
- 5:17Speaker 7: one point. He is constantly on camera twenty four to
- 5:21Speaker 7: seven camcorder footage as well being dragged in the hallways
- 5:26Speaker 7: just against his will.
- 5:28Speaker 2: Okay, I've got a question, and let me throw this
- 5:31Speaker 2: to Bill Daily very quickly.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Bill Daily, no media, no one in the well could
- 5:40Speaker 1: see the video.
- 5:42Speaker 2: When a defendant tries to bite you or spit on you,
- 5:49Speaker 2: could you explain what is a spit mask?
- 5:53Speaker 1: Well, shouldn't ask.
- 5:53Speaker 8: Is probably something people may have seen in the movies
- 5:55Speaker 8: where it goes over someone's face to prevents them from
- 5:58Speaker 8: either biting someone sitting them, so it covers their face
- 6:02Speaker 8: in a very dramatic fashion, kind of like a Halloween.
- 6:04Speaker 9: Mess type of affair.
- 6:07Speaker 8: You know, I does who say, Nancy.
- 6:08Speaker 2: Talking about gitting typically black a hood put over a
- 6:14Speaker 2: suspect's face when he or she bites or spits on
- 6:19Speaker 2: the officer. Is that correct?
- 6:21Speaker 8: That is correct, Nancy, And I think you know, some
- 6:23Speaker 8: of the things we're talking about here. Reaction by the
- 6:26Speaker 8: jury is also probably from people who, because of their backgrounds,
- 6:29Speaker 8: have never been or seen inside of a prison, and
- 6:32Speaker 8: particularly a maximum security prison. So I probably think just
- 6:35Speaker 8: some of the kind of the ambiance of what that
- 6:38Speaker 8: what that is is quite takes him back quite a bit. Nonetheless,
- 6:43Speaker 8: how he was being agree by the by the prison guards,
- 6:46Speaker 8: and and again, you know, we have to go into
- 6:48Speaker 8: kind of the frame of mind both protect the person,
- 6:51Speaker 8: guards protecting themselves, protecting him from himself. Things they have
- 6:55Speaker 8: to do to kind of clean him and feed him
- 6:57Speaker 8: are all things that may be quite compelling.
- 6:59Speaker 2: To Bill Daily, it's always shocking for a civilian.
- 7:03Speaker 1: It's shocking for me. I don't like when a spit
- 7:06Speaker 1: mask is used.
- 7:07Speaker 2: But to you, Cheryl McCollum is joining me, forensics expert,
- 7:12Speaker 2: star of Zone seven, founder and director of the Cold
- 7:16Speaker 2: Case Research Institute. Cheryl, I don't like a spit mask
- 7:21Speaker 2: at all. I've never none of it to be used
- 7:24Speaker 2: on any of the defendants that I prosecuted. However, I
- 7:28Speaker 2: have seen a cop who was bitten and bleeding then
- 7:34Speaker 2: had to go to the hospital to get tested for
- 7:37Speaker 2: HIV from everything because he was bitten by a defendant,
- 7:43Speaker 2: a suspect, a murder suspect. I've seen cops with globs
- 7:48Speaker 2: of spit on their uniform. I've seen them spit in
- 7:51Speaker 2: the face, you know what. I don't like a spit mask,
- 7:55Speaker 2: but I understand why some.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Police use them.
- 7:58Speaker 10: I'm gonna tell you straight up, I love him in
- 8:00Speaker 10: years why it is the least aggressive thing they can
- 8:03Speaker 10: do to stop that attack.
- 8:05Speaker 1: When you talk about being you know, bit.
- 8:09Speaker 10: And you talk about somebody spitting on you, you don't
- 8:12Speaker 10: know what disease they may have. You don't know you
- 8:15Speaker 10: know what level they're going to go as far as
- 8:17Speaker 10: upping this advancement towards you law enforcement, using a spit
- 8:22Speaker 10: mask does not hurt the person and stop the threat
- 8:27Speaker 10: of further attack on that officer joining me.
- 8:29Speaker 2: Right now is the star of a YouTube channel, Gray Hughes.
- 8:34Speaker 1: Great?
- 8:34Speaker 2: What is the name of your YouTube channel? Is it
- 8:36Speaker 2: Gray Hughes Investigates?
- 8:38Speaker 1: Its great?
- 8:40Speaker 2: Let me ask you a few cross examination questions very quickly.
- 8:44Speaker 2: You refer to an incident back in twenty fifteen when
- 8:48Speaker 2: police were called to his home for a domestic dispute
- 8:50Speaker 2: as it is euphemistically called Grey Hughes since the time,
- 8:54Speaker 2: and Susan Hendricks please jump in if you know differently,
- 8:57Speaker 2: or anyone on the panel, please. Since Richard Allen has
- 9:01Speaker 2: been behind bars for the murders of Abby and Libby,
- 9:06Speaker 2: have there been formal complaints of brutality on Richard Allen
- 9:13Speaker 2: baitings anything like that, strangulations, punches to the stomach, anything anything.
- 9:20Speaker 11: Well, I this is what I'm going to say is
- 9:22Speaker 11: that when Richard Allen was in prison just before the confessions,
- 9:27Speaker 11: everything was great. He was reading, he was exercising, and
- 9:33Speaker 11: he was studying Bible, and he became religious and he
- 9:37Speaker 11: wanted to get off his chest that he wanted to
- 9:42Speaker 11: confess that he killed having Libby, and so he confessed
- 9:45Speaker 11: to his wife. And then right after that his attorney
- 9:49Speaker 11: sat up from his wife Kathy, and amazingly, he became
- 9:54Speaker 11: absolutely crazy, drooling all over his shirt, eating paper, et ce.
- 10:00Speaker 11: And there were probably incidents after that in prison. I
- 10:03Speaker 11: guess through testimony has showed that he's treaded or in
- 10:07Speaker 11: those videos that he tread to ship on the officers.
- 10:10Speaker 11: That's why he puts bags on it. But I don't
- 10:12Speaker 11: really know of any physical moments in while he's in prison.
- 10:19Speaker 11: But I think this is all absolutely contrived and created
- 10:24Speaker 11: by the SENSE team along with Richard Allen. His wife.
- 10:27Speaker 2: Richard Allen wanted to hey, you know what, Gray Hughes,
- 10:31Speaker 2: I've been reading a lot and one guy online He's
- 10:36Speaker 2: named Cajun dvl dog Dawg, and he says, to your point,
- 10:45Speaker 2: no human interaction, and most of Allen's detainment he had
- 10:48Speaker 2: a guard and or inmate companion assigned him. Twenty four
- 10:51Speaker 2: to seven, he was given an iPad, broke it, received
- 10:55Speaker 2: another one. How many inmates get that?
- 10:57Speaker 1: Does? Did he have an iPad? Rex Huwerman. He goes
- 11:01Speaker 1: on to.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Say, what about the fact Alan would only act out
- 11:05Speaker 2: when people were watching, but then on camera he would
- 11:09Speaker 2: refuse three meals because he knew if he refused four
- 11:13Speaker 2: it had to be reported. I think what happens is
- 11:16Speaker 2: Susan Hendrix, doesn't he refuse four, because once you refuse
- 11:21Speaker 2: four meals in a row, it gets reported as inmate
- 11:24Speaker 2: refusing to eat.
- 11:25Speaker 6: Exactly he was playing the system.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Okay, now back to my and I'm going to follow
- 11:29Speaker 2: up with you Gray Hughes, about whether this is all
- 11:32Speaker 2: uh Se Cannery a fake or not. But I want
- 11:36Speaker 2: to get back to the question because I'm very concerned
- 11:41Speaker 2: about claims that the video that was shown to the
- 11:44Speaker 2: jury showed barbaric treatment was a spitmask used. Maybe you've
- 11:51Speaker 2: got to ask yourself why and why at that moment
- 11:55Speaker 2: was he picked up and carried Was it because he
- 11:59Speaker 2: wouldn't walk. Was it because he didn't want to go
- 12:02Speaker 2: to court? Was it because he didn't want to go
- 12:05Speaker 2: to some sort of evaluation and he had to go
- 12:08Speaker 2: but refused to get up and walk. So again I'd
- 12:12Speaker 2: like a yes no answer, Susan Hendrix or Gray Hughes.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Do you know of any complaint filed by the defense
- 12:22Speaker 2: about brutality behind bars? That is a very simple yes.
- 12:27Speaker 2: No Susan Hendricks No, okay?
- 12:31Speaker 11: Also what Gray, I didn't say no. Also, I haven't
- 12:34Speaker 11: heard that at all.
- 12:36Speaker 2: Let me go to veteran trial lawyer Philip Debay. He
- 12:41Speaker 2: is an LA County public defender. My sworn enemies that said.
- 12:47Speaker 2: He is in court every day of his life when
- 12:50Speaker 2: he's not here with us trying cases.
- 12:52Speaker 1: He knows his way around the courtroom.
- 12:55Speaker 2: Philip Debay, take off your defense hat just one moment, Okay.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Can you tell me with a straight face, if Richard
- 13:06Speaker 2: Allen had ever been beaten, had a bruise, was slapped
- 13:11Speaker 2: in the face, punched in the stomach, suffocated, strangled, electrocuted, waterboarded,
- 13:20Speaker 2: if you want to tell me, the defense would not
- 13:23Speaker 2: have filed a complaint and we would not be hearing
- 13:26Speaker 2: about it.
- 13:26Speaker 1: In opening statements and more. Without a question.
- 13:30Speaker 12: The first thing that we do is Defense Council is
- 13:33Speaker 12: we have an obligation to protect our clients, not only
- 13:36Speaker 12: legally but holistically. If we get word that anything is
- 13:40Speaker 12: happening to our clients behind bars, we are duty bound
- 13:43Speaker 12: to bring it to the court's attention, to the warden
- 13:47Speaker 12: of the jail facility, and to get the court to
- 13:50Speaker 12: make an order to protect the inmate. And absent any
- 13:55Speaker 12: type of allegation, we have to assume that jail officials
- 13:58Speaker 12: are doing their job. I can tell you, in addition
- 14:01Speaker 12: to being in court everyday, Nancy, I am also in
- 14:03Speaker 12: the lockups. Those lockups are lit up with cameras everywhere
- 14:09Speaker 12: they are in the jail cells, they are in the halls.
- 14:12Speaker 11: There is a.
- 14:12Speaker 12: Special unit that looks like mission control where they have
- 14:16Speaker 12: several sheriff deputies manning all the cameras. They can see
- 14:19Speaker 12: in real time everything that is happening in the halls
- 14:22Speaker 12: and in each individual jail cell. And I can assure you,
- 14:27Speaker 12: without even meeting the people who worked at this facility
- 14:30Speaker 12: that if they saw anything untoward being perpetrated against any
- 14:34Speaker 12: inmate by their own staff, it would have gone to
- 14:37Speaker 12: internal affairs and people would be out on disciplinary leave
- 14:40Speaker 12: pending a thorough investigation.
- 14:48Speaker 1: Crime Stores with Nancy Grace.
- 14:54Speaker 13: During the second round of video showings for the jury, again,
- 14:57Speaker 13: only the jury can see the videos of Richard Allen
- 14:59Speaker 13: while he being held at Westfield Correctional Facility. During the
- 15:02Speaker 13: plane of video thirteen, Attorney Baldwin turns away shaking his head.
- 15:07Speaker 13: During video fourteen, three jurors sit uncomfortably while defense attorney
- 15:12Speaker 13: Auger is seen looking away. Video number fifteen is thirty
- 15:16Speaker 13: four minutes long, and multiple jurors are seen taking notes.
- 15:20Speaker 13: Of the fifteen videos, the defense shows the jury for
- 15:23Speaker 13: containing nudity, while others show Richard Allen being transported to
- 15:28Speaker 13: receive medical care. None of the videos shown in court
- 15:31Speaker 13: have audio joining us.
- 15:33Speaker 2: In all star panels straight out to Susan Hendricks joining us.
- 15:36Speaker 2: She's been in the courtroom throughout the trial, Susan, thank
- 15:39Speaker 2: you for being with us. I noticed that the people
- 15:42Speaker 2: in the courtroom that can see the video the ones
- 15:46Speaker 2: that are reacting the most of the defense lawyers.
- 15:48Speaker 7: Exactly exactly with Jennifer Auger looking horrified and mind you.
- 15:53Speaker 1: Discovery was given.
- 15:54Speaker 7: To Richard Allen on April third, and I believe after
- 15:58Speaker 7: that is when he started to really laid on and pretend,
- 16:01Speaker 7: in my opinion, to be crazy.
- 16:02Speaker 2: So this video, I understand why the victims family is
- 16:06Speaker 2: so upset. Joining me in addition to doctor Bethany Marshall
- 16:11Speaker 2: is Professor of Forensics Forensics at Jacksonville State University, author
- 16:15Speaker 2: of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon and Star Body
- 16:19Speaker 2: Bags with Joe Scott Morgan, a hit podcast.
- 16:23Speaker 1: For my purposes, I.
- 16:25Speaker 2: Want you to know that he is a death investigator
- 16:27Speaker 2: and he has investigated thousands, probably ever ten thousand death scenes,
- 16:34Speaker 2: be the suicide, accident, homicide, voluntary, you name it. Joe Scott,
- 16:42Speaker 2: I'm coming to you on this question because of all
- 16:45Speaker 2: the indignities that you've seen on victims. And I remember
- 16:50Speaker 2: one of the last cases I tried, not the last,
- 16:53Speaker 2: but one of the last.
- 16:54Speaker 1: It was a serial killer.
- 16:56Speaker 2: We can only get him on one case, and she
- 16:59Speaker 2: was a Jane Doe, which, as you know, greatly handicapped
- 17:02Speaker 2: my case because I didn't know anything about her, where
- 17:04Speaker 2: she had been, she fraternized with nothing. I had one shot,
- 17:09Speaker 2: one shot, and I remember at the end of the trial,
- 17:13Speaker 2: darkened courtroom, doing a slideshow and I had to put
- 17:17Speaker 2: the victim up on a screen. I also had to
- 17:22Speaker 2: put an autopsy photo up on the screen where her
- 17:24Speaker 2: skin was pulled back from her head so you could
- 17:27Speaker 2: see subdural hemorrhaging.
- 17:31Speaker 1: I felt sick because I had to show these photos
- 17:36Speaker 1: of my dead victim.
- 17:38Speaker 2: Now Here everybody seen photos of Abby and Libby. One
- 17:47Speaker 2: of them Libby naked with their throats slashed open. One
- 17:51Speaker 2: of them crying, her tears diluted with blood, laying out
- 17:56Speaker 2: in the middle of a cold, cold creek, sigh area.
- 18:02Speaker 1: No wonder. The victim's family is angry.
- 18:07Speaker 2: Because we are protecting the dignity of Richard Allen while
- 18:11Speaker 2: he's naked and masturbating.
- 18:13Speaker 1: We don't want anybody to see that. But it's okay
- 18:16Speaker 1: to show these girls.
- 18:19Speaker 2: I mean, explain these photos, show Scott what was published
- 18:24Speaker 2: about these girls.
- 18:25Speaker 1: And it had to be. It had to be.
- 18:27Speaker 2: I'm not seeing the States wrong because that is the
- 18:30Speaker 2: truth of the crimes on Abby and Libby.
- 18:32Speaker 9: Yeah, here lay the evidence before you, literally and figuratively.
- 18:37Speaker 9: I can't take them out there to that moment in time,
- 18:40Speaker 9: but you can recreate it in this environment and let
- 18:43Speaker 9: them see what was wrought upon these, you know, these
- 18:47Speaker 9: two little angels in this particular circumstance. But you know,
- 18:52Speaker 9: I've been given some thought to this, Nancy, And I
- 18:54Speaker 9: was really thinking just a few moments ago, why in
- 18:58Speaker 9: the world people begin to turn away, you know, when
- 19:02Speaker 9: they're bearing witness to what had happened or what was
- 19:07Speaker 9: going on in that videography, and what is it that
- 19:11Speaker 9: would be so shocking to them? Remember what ROSSI said,
- 19:14Speaker 9: who I believe is one of the defense attorneys at
- 19:16Speaker 9: one point in time with Alan. He made mention that,
- 19:22Speaker 9: you know, Allan was involved in some pretty repugnant stuff
- 19:27Speaker 9: in jail, and I don't know if you want to
- 19:29Speaker 9: get on this road, but you know he was engaging
- 19:32Speaker 9: in the eating of his own waste, which you know,
- 19:36Speaker 9: to me, you know, they want to talk about things like,
- 19:39Speaker 9: you know, these red herrings, you know, like odinism and
- 19:41Speaker 9: all these sorts of things. When you begin to examine
- 19:44Speaker 9: what's going on with this guy to what links he'll
- 19:47Speaker 9: engage in these behaviors to demonstrate that he's I don't know,
- 19:51Speaker 9: matt as a hatter perhaps, But you know, this is
- 19:54Speaker 9: a condition called corpor phasia or corporophelia, and we've seen
- 19:58Speaker 9: this with people that perpetrate these kind of sadistic sex crimes.
- 20:03Speaker 9: He's also stated in one of his comments that he
- 20:06Speaker 9: was a sex addict. You know, immediately when I heard
- 20:10Speaker 9: all of this, Nancy, I was thinking, this takes me
- 20:13Speaker 9: back in time to a case that's one of the
- 20:16Speaker 9: most notorious, which involves Albert Fish who loved killing children
- 20:21Speaker 9: and he mutilated children. He was also into corporate filia
- 20:24Speaker 9: and corporate phasia as well. And I really wonder if
- 20:27Speaker 9: this is a reflection of what you're seeing, and he'll
- 20:29Speaker 9: remember he no longer has access to individuals that he
- 20:34Speaker 9: can abuse, but within this environment part of sexual fantasy,
- 20:38Speaker 9: with corporate failure or corpora phasia, he has access to this.
- 20:42Speaker 9: He's acting out in this environment, Nancy, joining me.
- 20:45Speaker 2: As I mentioned earlier, renowned psychoanalyst out of the LA jurisdiction,
- 20:49Speaker 2: doctor Bethany Marshall. Many people are claiming he became imbalanced
- 20:54Speaker 2: from being in solitary, which by the way, was for
- 20:58Speaker 2: his own That's right. You want to tell me those
- 21:02Speaker 2: inmates wouldn't have trying to tear him apart if they
- 21:05Speaker 2: found out. Ha's the guy chars with killing Abby and
- 21:08Speaker 2: Libby that's why he's in solitary.
- 21:12Speaker 1: But have you ever seen.
- 21:14Speaker 2: People become overwrought with guilt at what they've done?
- 21:18Speaker 6: Nancy, he's doing something called malingering. He's making up psychosis.
- 21:24Speaker 6: And the reason I can tell is that he was
- 21:27Speaker 6: admitted with THEE or he was incarcerated with the diagnosis
- 21:31Speaker 6: of depression and anxiety. He was probably depressed and anxious
- 21:34Speaker 6: because he'd been caught. Then they diagnosed him with a
- 21:37Speaker 6: brief psychotic episode, which is less than a month, but
- 21:40Speaker 6: the confessions lasted way longer than a month. Also, the
- 21:44Speaker 6: psychologist says that his confessions are very concise, and what
- 21:49Speaker 6: that means is that he had a clear storyline that
- 21:52Speaker 6: he repeated to his wife again and again. Now, if
- 21:56Speaker 6: he was psychotic when he was making those confessions, Lage
- 22:00Speaker 6: would be rambling, bizarre, incoherent, and with something that we
- 22:05Speaker 6: call loose associations. And loose association is I saw buttercups
- 22:09Speaker 6: and because of.
- 22:10Speaker 1: That the sun is shining.
- 22:11Speaker 6: Well, the two could be kind of linked, kind of,
- 22:15Speaker 6: but the sun shining has very little to do with
- 22:18Speaker 6: the fact that the person saw buttercups, so he would
- 22:20Speaker 6: have that same kind of a weird presentation in terms
- 22:23Speaker 6: of talking about the crime. I've read his confessions, Nancy.
- 22:27Speaker 6: He's very clear he's trying to convince his wife that
- 22:30Speaker 6: he did do this, and all of this like rolling
- 22:32Speaker 6: on the ground and eating his specs and you know,
- 22:35Speaker 6: flushing his Bible down the toilet. I call that dramatics, hysteria,
- 22:40Speaker 6: being a drama queen just so.
- 22:41Speaker 1: That he can look like he's crazy.
- 22:43Speaker 2: There is a problem with one of the state's witnesses,
- 22:46Speaker 2: the shrink that was interacting with him almost every day.
- 22:53Speaker 2: We now find out it was a true crime sleuth. Okay,
- 22:57Speaker 2: does that matter? No, But it does if she sowed
- 23:01Speaker 2: an interest in the Delphi case, because it's going to
- 23:05Speaker 2: be argued in closing arguments by the defense that she
- 23:09Speaker 2: had already formed an opinion that her opinion was somehow
- 23:12Speaker 2: slanted because of her own investigation. We'll see what happens
- 23:17Speaker 2: with that. Let's talk about Brad Weber.
- 23:19Speaker 1: Listen.
- 23:20Speaker 5: Officer Christopher Gutti of the Hammond Police Department tells the
- 23:24Speaker 5: jury about the importance of interviewing witnesses and suspects, and
- 23:27Speaker 5: when he is asked about interviewing Brad Weber, Guti doesn't
- 23:31Speaker 5: remember much Brad Weber says he arrives home around two
- 23:34Speaker 5: thirty PM the afternoon, Abby and Libby vanish. He lives
- 23:38Speaker 5: in the area and is driving a white van. In
- 23:40Speaker 5: one of his confessions, Richard Allen talks of being spooked
- 23:43Speaker 5: by a white van.
- 23:44Speaker 1: Says in Henricks, what's the significance of the white van?
- 23:47Speaker 1: It is huge.
- 23:49Speaker 7: Brad Weber gets off of work at two o four,
- 23:51Speaker 7: get getting him home around that time, around two thirty
- 23:54Speaker 7: That is when, in his own words, Richard Allen said
- 23:57Speaker 7: he was interrupted by a van. To me, that puts
- 24:01Speaker 7: the timeline that puts him there something only the murderer
- 24:04Speaker 7: would know.
- 24:04Speaker 14: I think it's huge.
- 24:05Speaker 2: Speaking of Brad Weber, a lot of sleuths online are
- 24:11Speaker 2: pointing to him as a potential suspect.
- 24:13Speaker 14: Listen, trying to create doubt about the unspent round found
- 24:17Speaker 14: between Liby and Abbey, the defense asked about Brad Weber
- 24:21Speaker 14: owning a six hour gun, the same type gun Richard
- 24:24Speaker 14: Allen owns, which prosecutors use to link him to the
- 24:28Speaker 14: murders with the unspent round. Mullen tells the jury that
- 24:31Speaker 14: Weber's gun was collected and tested and it isn't a
- 24:35Speaker 14: match for the unspent round just got Morgan.
- 24:38Speaker 1: Let me go to you on this.
- 24:40Speaker 2: A bullet, even if it is not fire from the gun,
- 24:44Speaker 2: if it's cycled through, like somebody racks the gun but
- 24:47Speaker 2: doesn't shoot it, that gun leaves a specific indentation on
- 24:52Speaker 2: the cartridge and on the bullet.
- 24:54Speaker 1: The bullet found near Abby and Libby's.
- 24:56Speaker 2: Body is absolutely matched back to Richard Allen brad Weber right.
- 25:02Speaker 9: And the way that works. I have a dummy gun
- 25:05Speaker 9: here that we use at Jack State, but right here
- 25:07Speaker 9: is the ejection port Nancy. So if you imagine the
- 25:11Speaker 9: slide going back and ejecting the round out, it'll go
- 25:14Speaker 9: up into the right and rear. They're a little what
- 25:18Speaker 9: other referred to astrations on the caseinge itself. The casing
- 25:22Speaker 9: is kind of a soft brass. So you have ejector
- 25:26Speaker 9: marks and you have an extractor marks. And because it's
- 25:30Speaker 9: metal and metal, it is unique to that weapon. Now
- 25:33Speaker 9: it's not as unique as rifling marks, but for ejector marks,
- 25:37Speaker 9: it is very specific.
- 25:38Speaker 2: And Gray Hughes joining me from Gray Hughes Investigates on YouTube. Gray,
- 25:44Speaker 2: let me be clear, brad Weber's gun did not match
- 25:50Speaker 2: the bullet found near the victims' bodies.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Is that correct?
- 25:53Speaker 11: Yes, I believe they were. It couldn't be excluded, but
- 25:57Speaker 11: it didn't match. You know where Richard Allen actually matched personally.
- 26:02Speaker 11: I believe he is the bridge guy. I can work
- 26:08Speaker 11: through the timeline and he's trapped in. On the thirteenth,
- 26:11Speaker 11: girls were killed on the fourteenth, they found the bodies.
- 26:14Speaker 11: On the fifteenth they put the picture of the bridge
- 26:18Speaker 11: guy in the paper. The very next day, to sixteenth,
- 26:20Speaker 11: he calls the tip line. He probably saw himself in
- 26:24Speaker 11: the in the papers, called the tip line. They asked
- 26:27Speaker 11: to talk to that person to see what they may
- 26:28Speaker 11: have seen, and then Van Doolin talked to him two
- 26:31Speaker 11: days later on the eighteenth. Then he tells them that
- 26:35Speaker 11: he was there from one thirty to three thirty, and
- 26:39Speaker 11: there's evidence that his card at one twenty seven drives
- 26:42Speaker 11: by the Hoosier Harvestore black vehicle matching his description with
- 26:46Speaker 11: the same rims and everything, drives by the Hoosier Harvestore
- 26:48Speaker 11: coming from the east to the west. And just after
- 26:52Speaker 11: that he says he went through the Freedom Bridge a
- 26:55Speaker 11: passed three girls. Then when they interviewed the three, there
- 26:59Speaker 11: was three girls came for it and they saw him.
- 27:02Speaker 11: So those three girls saw him and he saw them.
- 27:04Speaker 11: That makes that truth that that's him coming in right there.
- 27:08Speaker 11: Then it takes eleven minutes to walk to the bridge,
- 27:11Speaker 11: and about one thirty five is when he passed those girls,
- 27:14Speaker 11: so eleven minutes would be one forty six. Bessy Blair
- 27:17Speaker 11: gets out of her car at the parking area at
- 27:19Speaker 11: one forty seven, walks down the trail. Richard Allen could
- 27:23Speaker 11: not have passed her because there wouldn't be time. It
- 27:25Speaker 11: takes six minutes to get back there. She goes to
- 27:27Speaker 11: the bridge and he's standing on platform one, exactly where
- 27:31Speaker 11: Richard Allen said he was standing when he went to
- 27:33Speaker 11: the bridge.
- 27:33Speaker 2: You know what, the way you lay that out, Gray
- 27:36Speaker 2: is amazing. Cheryl McCollum, there's more to exclude Weber.
- 27:42Speaker 4: Listen the defense trying to add more questions about Brad
- 27:45Speaker 4: Weber into Steve Mullen's time on the stand, and Mullen
- 27:48Speaker 4: admits there are some inconsistencies in what he has said
- 27:52Speaker 4: about what he was doing after work the day in question. However,
- 27:55Speaker 4: on cross examination, Steve Mullen points out phone records back
- 27:59Speaker 4: up Weber's again of driving straight home after work and
- 28:02Speaker 4: arriving in his white van around two thirty pm the
- 28:04Speaker 4: afternoon Libby and Abbey were killed.
- 28:06Speaker 2: I learned in the courtroom at Delphi that attacks have
- 28:09Speaker 2: been made, brutal, vicious attacks on Abby and Libby's family.
- 28:16Speaker 1: I hated to give the.
- 28:18Speaker 2: Names of the YouTubers attacking them because I felt it
- 28:23Speaker 2: would only give them more attention, But under much attack,
- 28:27Speaker 2: I will now do so.
- 28:29Speaker 1: Listen.
- 28:30Speaker 15: Revelations from the State of Indiana's case against Rick Allen
- 28:34Speaker 15: have thus far exposed the collusion, incompetence and utter fraud
- 28:39Speaker 15: that has taken place regarding the murders of fourteen year
- 28:42Speaker 15: old Liberty Roseland German and thirteen year old Abigail Joyce
- 28:46Speaker 15: Williams in February twenty seventeen.
- 28:48Speaker 2: That is from YouTube, from a program purporting to be
- 28:53Speaker 2: True Crime Design and more.
- 28:56Speaker 15: The implications of such revelations are nothing new to me
- 29:00Speaker 15: or my subscribers, but merely confirm our beliefs and suspicions
- 29:04Speaker 15: as to what happened to Abby and Libby.
- 29:07Speaker 2: Again from True Crime Design. They claim to know what
- 29:10Speaker 2: really happened here.
- 29:13Speaker 1: They clang that the shot.
- 29:16Speaker 2: All the girls on the bridge has been faked and
- 29:21Speaker 2: they implicate sister Kelsey.
- 29:24Speaker 15: Listen, this image is not real, nor is it the
- 29:27Speaker 15: last photograph of Abigail, just moments before the killer approached.
- 29:32Speaker 15: It first appeared on Facebook, not through law enforcement. It
- 29:35Speaker 15: is an edited combination of this authentic photograph of Abby
- 29:39Speaker 15: playing softball in a hotel parking lot and the bridge
- 29:43Speaker 15: guy image itself, which is a template of sorts.
- 29:46Speaker 2: Susan Hendricks is joining me, investigative reporter and author of
- 29:50Speaker 2: Down the Hill, My descent into the double murder in Delphi.
- 29:54Speaker 2: You have heard this and so many more attacks on
- 29:58Speaker 2: the victims' families. I know what it feels like to
- 30:02Speaker 2: be the tangential victim of murder.
- 30:05Speaker 1: When the one you love the most most is murdered.
- 30:09Speaker 2: How is this affecting the family that they are being
- 30:13Speaker 2: accused Kelsey specifically, it's being mentioned critically involved in the
- 30:19Speaker 2: murder of her sister.
- 30:20Speaker 1: It's hard to.
- 30:21Speaker 7: Even fathom that it happens, but it doesn't. Becky Patty
- 30:24Speaker 7: sees this.
- 30:25Speaker 1: She knows it.
- 30:26Speaker 7: You're hurtful, and this person, by the way, showed up
- 30:29Speaker 7: at the July hearing at the end of July. It's disgusting.
- 30:33Speaker 7: They have no moral compass. It's pathetic and the family
- 30:37Speaker 7: sees it and it hurts them even more.
- 30:39Speaker 1: If that's possible, and more from true crime design.
- 30:42Speaker 15: I believe she led the girls to their assailants, who attacked, subdued,
- 30:46Speaker 15: and abducted them before eventually killing them at the scene
- 30:50Speaker 15: by the creek. I also believe, based on physical evidence
- 30:54Speaker 15: at the crime scene, that this was in fact a
- 30:57Speaker 15: ritualistic killing, a blood offering to the gods or demonic
- 31:01Speaker 15: entities that the people of Delphi worship.
- 31:04Speaker 2: I've got to bring in you're hearing true crime design
- 31:06Speaker 2: and they're a lot more, by the way, other than
- 31:08Speaker 2: true crime design.
- 31:16Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 31:22Speaker 2: Joining me is a renowned defense attorney out of La
- 31:26Speaker 2: Philip Dubay Dubai.
- 31:30Speaker 1: You get one.
- 31:31Speaker 2: Person on the jury to hear some of these crackpot
- 31:34Speaker 2: conspiracy theories.
- 31:36Speaker 1: I mean, did you hear the last one?
- 31:37Speaker 2: Debay a blood offering to the gods or demonic entities
- 31:41Speaker 2: that the people of Delphi worship.
- 31:44Speaker 12: We have to trust that jurors do the right thing
- 31:46Speaker 12: and they follow the court's orders, and they're not going
- 31:48Speaker 12: to follow social media. They're not going to read the news.
- 31:50Speaker 12: They're not going to talk about the case to outsiders.
- 31:53Speaker 11: Now.
- 31:54Speaker 12: Having said that, it does not in any way diminish
- 31:57Speaker 12: the effect that this YouTube channel is having on the
- 31:59Speaker 12: big AND's families. I know plenty of lawyers out here
- 32:03Speaker 12: and across this country who'd be chomping at the bit
- 32:06Speaker 12: to urge her to get her check book out. Because
- 32:08Speaker 12: you start blaming the sister for this horrific criminal act,
- 32:12Speaker 12: She's going to find herself behind the v in a
- 32:15Speaker 12: civil court road.
- 32:16Speaker 2: Oh and there's more, Philip Dubey, you know what you
- 32:19Speaker 2: don't want on the jury is one conspiracy nut. I
- 32:22Speaker 2: looked at them, I watched their behavior. It's really hard
- 32:26Speaker 2: to judge a book by its cover. I tried to
- 32:30Speaker 2: discern what I could like I would during a regular
- 32:33Speaker 2: my own trial. Listen to this, Philip, I hope you're
- 32:36Speaker 2: sitting down.
- 32:37Speaker 15: Abigail and Liberty were ceremoniously killed in front of an
- 32:41Speaker 15: audience in the early morning hours of February fourteenth. The
- 32:45Speaker 15: dubious search for the victims on the night of the
- 32:47Speaker 15: thirteenth is a cover for the ritual.
- 32:50Speaker 2: That clip from True Crime design Let me go to
- 32:52Speaker 2: Bill Daley, joining US former FBI investigator and forensic photography
- 32:57Speaker 2: and security expert, repeat be I investigator, Bill, why is it?
- 33:04Speaker 1: And I say this all the time.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Do people choose to leap to zany conspiracy theories as
- 33:12Speaker 2: opposed to looking at the facts, the.
- 33:16Speaker 8: Facts, And as Joe Friday says, it's just a facts, man,
- 33:20Speaker 8: just the facts, and these are not the facts. I mean,
- 33:22Speaker 8: there is no indication that there were any other stirred
- 33:26Speaker 8: up ground around the victim's bodies. There was no indication
- 33:29Speaker 8: that there was anything like this that went on according
- 33:32Speaker 8: to police reports. I mean, are people doing this for
- 33:35Speaker 8: some self serving publicity to get more likes on the
- 33:38Speaker 8: channel or whatever the indication is. But this is far
- 33:42Speaker 8: from the facts that we've heard, both in the case
- 33:44Speaker 8: the facts that we've discussed here on the program and
- 33:47Speaker 8: you laid out earlier along with some other guests. This
- 33:50Speaker 8: is far afield from any of that. So what their
- 33:53Speaker 8: true intention is except notoriety publicity, it's hard to say.
- 33:58Speaker 2: I hate to see thetim's family suffering even more than
- 34:02Speaker 2: they already have. Susan Hendrix, take a listen to this.
- 34:05Speaker 15: You see, this was a sacrificial double murder committed in
- 34:09Speaker 15: part by the families of the decease and the prominent
- 34:12Speaker 15: members of their community.
- 34:13Speaker 2: That clip from True Crime Design, and there the narrator
- 34:18Speaker 2: is roping in not just Kelsey, but the whole family.
- 34:22Speaker 2: Now listen to this, Susan, this is the part that
- 34:25Speaker 2: got you and I so upset.
- 34:27Speaker 1: Listen.
- 34:28Speaker 15: In addition to monetary rewards, fame and sympathy were garnered
- 34:32Speaker 15: and exploited by the family of Liberty German, especially her
- 34:36Speaker 15: big sister Kelsey, to no end. The family's relentless fundraising
- 34:41Speaker 15: and shameless media tour post murders.
- 34:44Speaker 1: That's not true. That's not true.
- 34:46Speaker 2: You are hearing sound from True Crime Design on YouTube.
- 34:52Speaker 2: The family is devastated, they're not doing press tours that.
- 34:58Speaker 1: That's not true.
- 35:00Speaker 6: None of it is.
- 35:00Speaker 7: If Kelsey could go back in time and not drop
- 35:03Speaker 7: her sister off on the thirteenth, she would have infuriates
- 35:07Speaker 7: me and answer, I'm sorry it is. It's pathetic and disgusting,
- 35:10Speaker 7: and I feel for the families like they're not going
- 35:12Speaker 7: through enough. They have the Abbey and Libby Memorial Park
- 35:16Speaker 7: in the girl's name. None of this is true, not
- 35:19Speaker 7: an I vote. That's not the biggest oxymoron True Prime.
- 35:23Speaker 7: None of what they.
- 35:23Speaker 11: Say is true.
- 35:24Speaker 2: Now I want to talk about another another podcast.
- 35:30Speaker 1: This is called The Murder Shape. Listen.
- 35:32Speaker 16: We were surprised at how much they went after Libby's family.
- 35:36Speaker 16: These are, after all, family members who have been grieving
- 35:38Speaker 16: the loss of their fourteen year old sister, granddaughter, and
- 35:42Speaker 16: daughter since twenty seventeen. For Sadlowski, the anger towards Libby's
- 35:46Speaker 16: family goes deep. In a chat with Parsons and Miller
- 35:49Speaker 16: on January fifth, twenty twenty four, at one thirty three pm,
- 35:53Speaker 16: she wrote quote, I'm honestly so grossed out with the
- 35:57Speaker 16: virtue signaling in del fine and borderline resenting the victim families.
- 36:03Speaker 2: I don't understand this. Who could resent the victim's family, Susan.
- 36:10Speaker 7: I'll say, you can't make them back down, Becky Patty
- 36:13Speaker 7: if you listen further, they say it bothers me to
- 36:16Speaker 7: see their pictures over and over again, and Becky Patty
- 36:18Speaker 7: posted on Facebook, I hope I'm bothering you because they
- 36:21Speaker 7: will not stop there there every single day in court,
- 36:24Speaker 7: they are not letting these evil people win.
- 36:27Speaker 1: Well, you know what, You're absolutely right, Susan Hendrix. Listen
- 36:30Speaker 1: to more.
- 36:30Speaker 2: This is the host of the Murder Sheet discussing this
- 36:33Speaker 2: very issue.
- 36:34Speaker 16: She labeled anyone posting quote smiling, happy photos of the
- 36:38Speaker 16: victims before they died as quote so irritating end quote
- 36:44Speaker 16: in a pine that it was simply leverage.
- 36:46Speaker 2: Gray Ughes joining me from the Gray Hughes investigates on YouTube.
- 36:51Speaker 2: You were hearing this sort of discussion on the murder Sheet.
- 36:55Speaker 1: Why are people.
- 36:58Speaker 2: Angry about photos of the girls in life, smiling and happy?
- 37:03Speaker 2: Did you hear what she says? She says she finds
- 37:05Speaker 2: it quote effing irritating.
- 37:07Speaker 12: Yeah.
- 37:07Speaker 11: I just think there's been this industry to go after
- 37:10Speaker 11: the family for years, so right now there's a crescendo
- 37:14Speaker 11: in it because of this trial. But that same YouTuber
- 37:16Speaker 11: that for years has been doing this, and then when
- 37:19Speaker 11: that hair was found in Abby's hand, because it's Kelsey's hair,
- 37:24Speaker 11: but they forgot to mention that the shirt that Abby
- 37:27Speaker 11: had on was actually Kelsey's shirt that she gave to Libby.
- 37:32Speaker 11: And of course there might be a hair. You know,
- 37:34Speaker 11: if you have long hair, it is pulled up. When
- 37:36Speaker 11: that hair was found, it went ah, there it is
- 37:39Speaker 11: the proof too.
- 37:40Speaker 2: Doctor Bethany Marshall joining us, I don't understand all the
- 37:45Speaker 2: hatred towards the victims' families.
- 37:48Speaker 6: Nancy, in some sick, twisted, perverted way, these YouTubers, I
- 37:54Speaker 6: believe are envious of Livy and Abby and the families
- 37:57Speaker 6: because they're getting so much notoriety, so much empathy, such
- 38:01Speaker 6: an outpouring of love and state resources, really trying to
- 38:07Speaker 6: convict Richard Allen, and these YouTubers cannot stand that somebody
- 38:12Speaker 6: else is getting protected, somebody else is getting attention and care,
- 38:17Speaker 6: so they are just this is like pouring battery acid
- 38:21Speaker 6: on the trial, victimizing the families, victimizing Libby and Abby,
- 38:26Speaker 6: treating the victims as if they are bad little girls
- 38:29Speaker 6: and deserve what's coming to them. And one more thing, Nancy,
- 38:33Speaker 6: these YouTubers are grandiose, contemptious. They're full of certitude. They
- 38:40Speaker 6: feel that they know better than everybody else, and they
- 38:43Speaker 6: are just revictimizing the family, say sant Hendricks.
- 38:46Speaker 2: You and I were in court last week and I
- 38:50Speaker 2: observed Richard Allen's wife, I believe Richard Allen's stepfather, sitting
- 38:56Speaker 2: on the right in front of us, at the far right,
- 38:59Speaker 2: and then there were several seats being taken up by
- 39:03Speaker 2: I guess YouTube reporters.
- 39:05Speaker 7: I saw the family's Isla, Nancy, when they saw you,
- 39:08Speaker 7: and I'm so grateful you were there.
- 39:10Speaker 2: Susan, I got to tell you, it was a day
- 39:11Speaker 2: full of heartache. It was a day full of heartache.
- 39:14Speaker 2: You and I have been covering this case, along with
- 39:16Speaker 2: Cheryl and everybody else on this panel, since it first happened.
- 39:20Speaker 2: That's been years in the making, pouring through documents, visiting
- 39:24Speaker 2: the scene, speaking to locals, speaking to experts. It's been
- 39:28Speaker 2: a very, very long and arduous process and a painful
- 39:33Speaker 2: process covering this. But imagine, just imagine what these victims'
- 39:40Speaker 2: families are going through every single day. Thank you to
- 39:46Speaker 2: our guests for wading through the evidence with us.
- 39:49Speaker 1: Nancy Gray signing off, goodbye friend,