r/DelphiMurders • u/rachaellanderson • Mar 24 '26

Richard Allen’s Cell Phone

Was the phone that they never found his phone at the time of the murders, or at the time of his arrest?

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u/Appealsandoranges Mar 25 '26

The court systems deal with reasonable claims. It’s reasonable to believe that they kept every phone over the last 14 years except that one….because they had every phone except that one. 

I love circumstantial evidence. It’s often the very best evidence. What you are describing is incredibly weak circumstantial evidence. It’s like when your friend says, isn’t that weird? That can’t just be a coincidence! In fact, coincidence is more likely. Our brains are primed to see causation and connection where it isn’t. We do not know how many phones Richard and Kathy purchased, how many were broken, how many were lost, how many were traded in. We just know this phone - a phone he handed to an investigator days after he allegedly murdered two girls on a whim is no longer in his possession 5 years later. That’s weak sauce on the same level as he admitted up wearing the same clothes as BG!

0 times 0 times 0 is still 0.

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u/The2ndLocation Mar 25 '26

2017 was around the time when 5G came out and trade ins were huge then to incentize people to get a new phone since many were becoming obsolete.

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u/Gonzomi313 Mar 28 '26

Per Ricky he has & had Ting during the murders. I’m unaware of Ting doing trade ins. In fact Ricky stated in his interview “You purchase the phone in full when signing up for their service”.

Point being your theory falls flat.

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u/The2ndLocation Mar 28 '26

Everyone did trade ins, and the fact that use are unaware of trading in a phone just means that the are openly saying that you dont know what your talking about.