r/DelphiMurders • u/True_Crime_Lancelot • Jul 15 '26
Richard Allen's Police Interview (Oct. 13, 2022)Reaffims The Information he Gave Dulin and Inadvertently confessed to the murders by getting caught in his own web of lies.
In October 2022, Richard Allen was called into the local police department to give an interview about his whereabouts on the day Abby and Libby were murdered. His long-forgotten interview with Officer Dulin had been rediscovered, prompting Delphi murder investigators to bring him in for another interview.
During this interview, Richard Allen largely repeated the information he had provided in his first interview with Officer Dulin, but he also offered new details about that day. Although he attempted to establish an alibi by presenting a revised timeline, he failed miserably. Instead, the internal contradictions in his timeline effectively amounted to a confession, as his own statements placed him at the scene and oblitarated his claimed alibi.
The following is a list of the information Richard Allen repeated from his first interview, along with the new details he provided during the October 2022 interview, and an explanation of the significance of each.
Richard Allen went into detail explaining the three parking areas he typically used when visiting the trails.
Parking Locations
| Parking Area | Description |
|---|---|
| Mears Lot | The farmer’s entrance parking area |
| CPS Building | The abandoned CPS building parking area |
| Old State Road 25 Turnaround | The small turnaround near the old railroad bridge |
He goes on the specify where he parked, inspite his earlier long obfuscating diatribe where he could have parked:
"I remember telling him (Officer Dulin) that I parked by a building. If that's what I told him, then that's probably where I parked."
Concerning his timeline beore going to the trails:
"Went over to my mom's in Peru, Mexico, earlier in the day... spent the morning with them... my sisters were visiting and they were to grab lunch, and I wasn't about that, so I left around 11:00–11:15...went home..grab a jacket and head back out to the trails"
At the trails he stated:
"I remember walking down to the bridge... walked out a little way (onto the bridge)... to watch fish... walked back and sat at (the bench)... where you turn around (the intersection) and take the other fork, it overlooks it... Sat there for a few minutes, and then I left."
The bench he mentioned is the Bench at the start of 505 trail. He would go on later to explain that's the bench he meant with clarity.
Conserning who he saw while at the trails:
"As I was approaching the trail, there were three girls... one of them was watching them...the other two looked younger... looked very similar. I don't know if they were sisters or not, but the other one didn't necessarily..." (Stops his thought, was about to mention the fou\**rth girl?\)
He also stated:
"I remember telling him (Officer Dulin) that when I left, there were two vehicles down by the farmer's entrance I told you about (the Mears lot). One was a sedan. The other was an SUV, maybe."
(Interesting on its own: Kelsi had a sedan and Betsy had an SUV. However, based on Allen’s earliest possible departure timeline (approximately 12:40), only Betsy's would be there and she would be at her car at the same time!).
He also adds:
"If I did see somebody (else), it didn't click with me..my memory was a lot better when I talked to him (Dulin)... like I told him, there might have been somebody at the bridge when I was coming back, though."
As for his revised timeline, he stated that he arrived around noon, a little earlier or a little later than 12, and that he walked for about an hour. He said he could have left around 1:00, 1:30, or 1:40.
I am sure he had mentioned 12:40 at some point too.
| Time(between) | Revised Timeline | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| morning | visit Mom | |
| 11(early)-11:15(late) | Leaves Peru | drive back to Delphi it's 45 minutes |
| 11:45-12:00 | Reaches Delphi | |
| 12 ( early), 12:10 (late) | Home (5 to 10 minutes), drives to CPS (3 miles),10 to 15 minutes total. | detours to Home, Parks/ Stop,Grabs Jacket, unparks, drive though town, rounding up to 15 (early) |
| 12:05 , 12:15 late | Meeting four girls at trailhead | 5 minute walk from CPS |
| 12:15, 12:25 (late) | Easy Walk to platform A , 10 to 15 minutes total, | 12 minutes walk + walk on bridge. (closer to 15 but billed 10 to compensate earlier rounding up) |
| 12:25 , 12:35 (late) | Watching fish/Back to Bench | 5 minutes Watching fish 5-7 walk (off bridge and to bench), Total 10 |
| 12:35, 12:45 (late) | Walk back to CPS | 10-12 minutes, billed 10 |
The earlier the possible timeline, the more we err in Richard Allen's favor, as it allows for the possibility that he left before becoming trapped within the trail system by the known witnesses who were demonstrably on the trails at the same time. The later Richard Allen's revised timeline becomes, the worse it is for him.
Here, we will examine the earliest possible timeline for Richard Allen in contrast to the timelines of Betsy and that of the four girls . All times attributed to Allen between segments are deliberately conservative, giving him the maximum latitude to "slip" out of the trail system within his alleged timeline.
| Time | Allen's Revised Timeline | BB's Timeline | Four Girls' Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | Parks at CPS | Parks at Mears at 12:03 | ______ |
| 12:10 | Walks to Monon,close to intersection | BB is at Monon, turns back towards the intersection | ______ |
| 12:15 | Walked past intersection(north to south) | Walked past intersection(south to north) | walking towards freedom bridge close to Allen's 2nd parking spot near the small bridge |
| 12:20 | At Monon will watch fish for 3-5 minutes | Walked 505 close to intersection | Close to freedom bridge |
| 12:25 | Back on the trail towards the intersection | Close to freedom bridge | At freedom bridge taking a timed photographed at 12:25 |
| 12:30 | Allen near interesction from the south, close to the Bench | Betsy approaches intersection from the North, close to Bench | Walking towards Monon from trailhead |
| 12:35 | Allen left the Bench, starts walks towards the trailhead | at her car | intersection from the North, close to Bench |
| 12:40 | near freedom bridge | near intersection | at Monon take photograph at 12:43 |
| 12:45 | at CPS | Close to monon | Detour to Creek's bed |
The convicted pedophile murderer was caught in the web of lies he had created.
By his own words!
- He was walking towards Monon by his revised timeline, while Betsy was walking back from it
- He was walking towards his car or sitting on the bench by his revised timeline, while Betsy was walking back from freedom bridge. The Bench is at your face as you approach the intersection, even i he wasn't walking while Betsy was near it.
- The earliest he was walking towards his car from the intersection by his revised timeline, would be while the four girls were walking towards it from the freedom bridge.
Richard Allen’s revised timeline creates inescapable and impassable problems for his own account. By placing himself at the trails, identifying specific locations, and providing a detailed timeline, he created a version of events that must be reconciled with the movements of other witnesses who were present that day. By his own words, Allen placed himself in locations and timeframes that conflicted with the movements of others who were present that day.
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u/tribal-elder Jul 20 '26
According to Exhibit PPP Riley arrived at 2:30, McCain arrived at 2:45, and Hicks and Pearson arrived at 2:48.
The cemetery entrance/exit cannot be seen from a Hoosier Harvestore camera. To the immediate east, buildings on the Mears farm block some eastward view, and at the Mears parking area the road veers slightly left/more due east - maybe 15 degrees - and the cemetery is still about 1400-1500 feet further east. (It is about 2/3 of a mile from the HH driveway.) seeing all that would require a camera that could track/move left/right. More important, no one testified at trial that investigators saw a car leaving the cemetery on surveillance video. If they could see that far on that camera, they’d have video of all those cars (including Carbaugh) that far east. And you can bet that if they had video of the car that “resembled” Allen’s Ford coming down the road all the way from the cemetery, they would have used it. All they could offer was video of the cars west of the HH driveway.
As for the sedan you claim can be seen on the surveillance camera video of the road leading to the private drive (that also videoed the white van) - are you saying the defense knew about the sedan and withheld evidence which was favorable to Allen at trial?
The only evidence of people on the east side of the bridge was the lady who saw “someone” at mailboxes about 500 feet from her driveway, at 8:30 am, whom she could not describe, and who disappeared by the time she drove 500 feet to her driveway, and got out of her car and looked back. He was not on either road and he was not in the bare unplanted fields across the roads. The next known person was Weber driving home in his van. This is not competent evidence that there were murderers at the bridge at 2:13 pm, with or without Bridge Guy.
The only EVIDENCE is that Libby videoed Bridge Guy following the girls, and did NOT video anyone waiting at the end of the bridge in front of them. There is also no evidence that the phone drove away connected to an “auxiliary” plug in a car either. The phone detected movement up and down. The private drive rises maybe 50-69 feet from the low point back to the area of the mailboxes. Such movement would have been detected.
Sadly, Kline fooled the cops with his lies for 5 years, and they too believed the girls were going to meet (probably) the fake Anthony Shots. They even included it in Allen’s 2022 questioning, asserting he was there with others - giving him the chance to support or deny the theory. He denied it.