According to the defense's appellate filings, one suspect sat across from Delphi investigators four days after the murders and admitted to practicing pagan rituals involving bloodletting. He owned a .40 caliber firearm — the same caliber as the round found at the scene. They recorded his interview. The tape was erased. They never collected the gun. His employer offered surveillance footage to check his alibi. Officers declined and marked him cleared.

In 2018, this suspect allegedly created a painting of Odin hanging upside down — right leg tucked behind the left. That is how one of the victims was positioned at the crime scene. Tipsters repeatedly flagged him posting images on social media of dead girls with sticks over their bodies. An ISP Trooper found "concerning similarity" to the murders and pushed for further investigation. His superiors shut it down.

His associate — a self-described pagan religious leader who reportedly knew the murder woods "very well" — had his interview go unrecorded entirely. His alibi wasn't checked for six years. Neither man has ever been charged. The jury that convicted Richard Allen heard none of it. The trial court excluded it as third-party suspect evidence.

Then there's the warrant. Detective Liggett's probable cause affidavit allegedly described witnesses saying things they didn't say and left out the details that would have broken the connection to Allen. Betsy Blair described a young man in his twenties with poofy brown hair. Allen was 44 with a crew cut. The defense says Liggett kept her jacket description and cut the rest. Blair reportedly told investigators these were two different men. Allen reportedly said he didn't know what he was wearing. The affidavit allegedly said he admitted to a blue Carhartt. Without this warrant — no search, no gun, no bullet match, no arrest, no confessions.

The defense argues the entire case was built on a document the witnesses wouldn't recognize and a jury that was denied the full picture. An appellate court will decide.

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The defense at Richard Allen's trial tried to introduce Blair's composite sketch of Bridge Guy — a man in his twenties with poofy hair, rated 10 out of 10 for accuracy, who looks nothing like Allen. Excluded. An expert to challenge the State's bullet methodology — excluded. Audio of Allen's psychotic episodes during solitary — excluded. Expert testimony that the confessions were false — excluded. A ritualistic crime expert to explain the crime scene — excluded. Evidence about alternative suspects connected to pagan rituals, the victim, and the crime scene symbolism — excluded. Evidence about the investigation's failures over five and a half years — excluded. The State countered phone data breaking its timeline with a witness who Googled the answer during trial. The defense objected to the hearsay. Overruled. The jury convicted on November 11, 2024, after hearing what the defense calls a fundamentally one-sided presentation. Allen was sentenced to 130 years. Every exclusion, every blocked expert, every piece of evidence the jury never saw — the State calls it all harmless error. The defense argues it was constitutional error that crippled Allen's ability to defend himself. This is the final chapter in a five-part examination of how Abby and Libby's case went from a complex crime scene to a conviction built, in my opinion, on a foundation the full truth would not support. The appeal is pending.

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Before solitary confinement, Richard Allen told investigators he didn't do it. Said it repeatedly under pressure. Said it to his wife. Said it emphatically: "I am not going to say something I did not do." Five months later, his words to his wife had changed: "I think I did it." According to the defense filings, Allen had been held in the most restrictive solitary cell in Westville for thirteen months despite IDOC's thirty-day policy for inmates with his mental health diagnosis. He weighed 135 pounds. He was gravely disabled, psychotic, forcibly injected with antipsychotics. He confessed to shooting the girls — they were killed with a blade. Confessed to acts for which no forensic evidence exists. Made over sixty confessions while prison doctors documented psychosis, paranoia, delusional thinking, and memory loss. His psychologist controlled his privileges. The prosecutor monitored his calls and collected confessions while delaying the defense's emergency transfer motion. A 127-page forensic evaluation found no malingering and attributed the psychosis to the well-documented effects of solitary. By August 2023, Allen couldn't remember weeks of his own life. The jury heard the confessions but never the audio of his psychotic state, never the expert who would have explained them as false. This episode documents how thirteen months in the hole turned a defiant denial into sixty broken confessions.

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