Pod Insights Crime Weekly S3 Ep252: Crime Weekly News: Verdict Reached in Delphi Murders About this episode On February 13, 2017, 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German were murdered while exploring Monon High Bridge over Deer Creek in Delphi, Indiana. It wouldn't be until 2022 that an arrest would be made in the case, and on November 11, 2024, Richard Matthew Allen was finally convicted of Abby and Libby's murders. Try our coffee!! - www. CriminalCoffeeCo.comBecome a Patreon member -- > ｿ https://www.patreon.com/CrimeWeeklyShop for your Crime Weekly gear here --> ｿ https://crimeweeklypodcast.com/shopYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CrimeWeeklyPodcastWebsite: CrimeWeeklyPodcast.comInstagram: @CrimeWeeklyPodTwitter: @CrimeWeeklyPodFacebook: @CrimeWeeklyPodADS:1. UncommonGoods.com/CrimeWeekly - Get 15% off your next gift!
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1:14 Derrick Levasseur? Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derrick Levasseur.
1:18 Stephanie Harlowe? And I'm Stephanie Harlow.
1:19 Derrick Levasseur? And we're going to be covering a case that we've covered here on Crime Weekly before. It's the Delphi murders. We covered it once, or we did a series on it. We had family members of the victims on the show. I'm going to, Stephanie's going to get into all that detail. And then we did a Crime Weekly News on it when there was arrest, and we said we would do another Crime Weekly News on it when there was some type of resolution in the trial. And some of you have been hitting us up in the comments. They want us to do like a deep dive. It's not going to, there's not going to be enough, because if you want, you can go back and watch, I believe it's a three-part series, maybe four, on the Delphi murders. We went with the Snapchat murders because of what was, you know, the use of communication
2:04 Derrick Levasseur? at the time. Now everyone refers to it as the Delphi murders. That's what we will refer to it as going forward as well. So Delphi murders, we've done a deep dive on the initial stages of it. There were some developments as far as the arrest. We went into the pretty good detail about that, the ballistics and all that stuff. And now we're going to be covering the conclusion and the results of the trial, which I'm sure most of you already know. Quick thing about Gypsy Rose, we've gotten all your feedback from the series. It was a lengthy series, but I just want to say thank you for the comments and feedback. Not everyone agrees with Stephanie, not everyone agrees with me, but it's been very cordial and people have voiced their perspectives in a respectful way. And that's what it's all about.
2:46 Derrick Levasseur? We're not all supposed to agree on everything, but I think overall, what was interesting is that there was a lot of you who came into the series with one opinion and left with another. And that's what it's all about because we didn't present anything that was some secret piece of information that wasn't out there. What it shows us is that the narrative that was presented to most people in most platforms, most mediums was one side. And so all we were trying to do was present that side and also the opposing side to give you the more well-rounded view of what took place and allow you to make your own opinions. Now, some of you heard the information and still feel the way you feel, but like we
3:29 Derrick Levasseur? always say, the point of it is to be well-informed and to make an opinion after that. And at this point, I think anybody who followed that series, how could you not be? You've heard basically everything at this point. I know I feel like a Gypsy Rose expert now, so again, thank you for all the feedback. Thank you for supporting us and the show and joining in on a series where you may have heard about it before, but still took a shot on us to let us tell our side of it and you got something out of it. Most of you did anyways.
3:57 Stephanie Harlowe? I got a lot out of it.
3:58 Derrick Levasseur? Oh, I know you did. E-begging, that was the big takeaway from the series. Seventy-five percent did not know what e-begging was.
4:05 Stephanie Harlowe? Yeah, Derek said he put a poll on, because I thought it was like, and he's like, you should trademark that.
4:10 Derrick Levasseur? Well, you're tagging me on Instagram.
4:12 Stephanie Harlowe? Yeah.
4:13 Derrick Levasseur? So I reposted and put a poll.
4:14 Stephanie Harlowe? Well, I'm gonna say with my chest, I'm not gonna talk shit about you behind your back without tagging you.
4:21 Stephanie Harlowe? Listen, listen. He's like, you should trademark that. I'm like, I didn't come up with it, man.
4:27 Derrick Levasseur? E-begging, new for me.
4:28 Stephanie Harlowe? That's what they're doing.
4:29 Derrick Levasseur? Now, so that was Gypsy. That's in the past. We're starting a new series this week. You'll be hearing this later this week.
4:35 Stephanie Harlowe? I'm really excited, really excited.
4:36 Derrick Levasseur? Yep, it's gonna be a good one. Stephanie's already been calling me about it, giving me disclaimers and kinda giving me heads up, but nothing about the story. But tonight, we're gonna talk about the Delphi murders. We're gonna talk about Libby and Abby. We covered this again, like I said a while ago. The incident happened in 2017, but we're gonna recap it a little bit for anybody who's not up to speed on some of the highlight facts, and then we'll dive into where we are today.
4:59 Stephanie Harlowe? Yeah, so in October of 2022, 52-year-old Richard Matthew Allen of Delphi, Indiana, was arrested for the 2017 murders of 14-year-old Libby German and 13-year-old Abby Williams. Now, Allen has lived in Delphi with his wife and daughter since at least 2006 in a home that's just about five minutes away from the scene of the murders, which is the Monon High Trail Bridge. He was a trained pharmacy technician, and before his arrest, his name had never been mentioned publicly in the case that went unsolved for over five years. Now, Libby and Abby, if you remember, went missing on February 13th, 2017, after they had left for a hike over the Monon High Bridge,
5:40 Stephanie Harlowe? and sadly, their bodies were discovered the following day in a wooded area about half a mile off the trail. So a criminal affidavit in this case was made public in November, and it showed that Allen was finally tied to the murders through a bullet found at the crime scene very close to Abby and Libby's body. It was an unspent .40 caliber round, which documents allege came from Allen's Sig Sauer Model P226. Now, this weapon was found during a search of Allen's home. Both he and his wife had admitted that he was the only person who had access to it. In an interview with police on October 13th, 2022, though, Allen claimed he had no idea how the bullet had gotten there, although he admitted in a 2017 police interview
6:24 Stephanie Harlowe? that he was on the Monon High Bridge Trail that February 13th day when Abby and Libby were murdered. So Carroll County Prosecutor Nick McClelland claimed in a hearing that Allen had confessed to the murders while behind bars more than once. We did talk about this a little bit. And Allen's own attorneys admitted that he had made, quote, "incriminating statements implicating himself in the crime," end quote, but they insisted that the statements were vague and couldn't be trusted due to their client's mental state. Apparently, he had been in solitary confinement for a while. In court documents filed in September, Allen's attorneys claimed, and this is a crazy thing, by the way, that, I don't know if you're aware of this, Derek, but it kind of, it seemed to come out of nowhere.
7:07 Stephanie Harlowe? These defense attorneys claimed that Richard Allen had nothing to do with it, that Abby and Libby had been killed as part of a ritualistic sacrifice carried out by members of a pagan Norse religion and a white nationalist group called Odinists. Have you heard this whole conspiracy theory thing yet?
7:24 Derrick Levasseur? I have, and unfortunately, and I don't recommend this to anyone, and I'm hoping you're not even familiar about this, but Abby and Libby's photos, crime scene photos, were leaked online. And unfortunately, literally on Twitter, I saw one of them.
7:42 Stephanie Harlowe? Like accidentally?
7:43 Derrick Levasseur? Accidentally, I didn't search it. Yeah, it was removed. It was removed, and there were other people speaking out about it.
7:49 Stephanie Harlowe? It's still out there, though, it's disgusting.
7:51 Derrick Levasseur? It's definitely out there. But I have heard about it, and I will say that, once I saw the photo, there was something in the photo. I'll describe it for you, so you don't have to go look, without saying anything too specific. It's a crime scene, and I will say that there were some sticks and branches in positions on top of them. That was interesting. And I'll tell you, as I sit here right now, I can't completely explain it. I don't know if it was done intentionally, if it was, it seems like it's man-made. It seems like it was done intentionally, and it does appear to be some type of shape, but I can't tell you. If it's correlated to anything more than just maybe an attempt to camouflage
8:36 Derrick Levasseur? the crime scene, and I'm being very vague here, but
8:38 Stephanie Harlowe? Right, right.
8:39 Derrick Levasseur? That was my interpretation of it, but I see where that theory has been put out there.
8:44 Stephanie Harlowe? By his defense attorneys.
8:46 Derrick Levasseur? Yep, and it leaked somehow, and that's what they're saying, right?
8:50 Stephanie Harlowe? I wonder who leaked them.
8:51 Derrick Levasseur? Well, yeah.
8:52 Stephanie Harlowe? Maybe the same people that were making the claims to begin with. Who would have had access to those photos?
8:58 Derrick Levasseur? Well, it only affirmed, or in the minds of the people who believe that in this theory, it affirmed their theory, saying, "Look at these branches, look how they're placed." And then they actually had photos from this theory that would line up with that, so...
9:10 Stephanie Harlowe? Yeah, yeah.
9:10 Derrick Levasseur? Listen, we're going off the trial, but yes, I did hear the theory before. I have seen the photos. What I've said to you, if you haven't seen them, that's all you need to know.
9:19 Stephanie Harlowe? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I completely 1 million percent agree. Now, I do want to give you a little breakdown, just for the, you know, I'm not one to dismiss a conspiracy theory out of turn, you know that. So I looked into it a little bit, and according to the Indy Star, more than, you know, 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, Odin was believed to be one of the hundreds, or even thousands of gods worshipped by Nordic people before the advent of Christianity. Now, Allen's attorneys say that evidence from the crime scene supports their theory. They say there were symbols fashioned with tree branches and painted using the blood of Libby. There were, you know, sticks placed over the girls' bodies to form Germanic letters associated with Odinism, kind of like Derek just said.
10:03 Stephanie Harlowe? Allegedly, there was a letter painted on a tree in Libby's blood. Fake antlers created with sticks and branches placed over Abby's head, as well as some of these branches reportedly being pre-cut with a power saw, which Allen's attorneys say suggests preparation and premeditation from this group of Odinists that are just running around Delphi. Now, in October, the judge in the case did not permit this evidence into trial. The judge basically was like, "I don't really see where you're going with this, and I think it's just going to confuse and collude things further, so we are not going to go there." But Richard Allen's attorneys do claim that the police did investigate a possible link
10:46 Stephanie Harlowe? to Odinism in the investigation, but then they spoke to an expert in Odinism, and then they abandoned that theory. Once again, I don't know how you can really be an expert in something that happened 3,000 years ago.
10:59 Stephanie Harlowe? You know, before like, I just think it's so like, they don't even know how many gods the Norse people actually worshipped in general. Like, there's so much that's not known. I'm not sure how you can be an expert in something that far back that that doesn't have that much concrete evidence. But like I said, I'm, I'm all about a conspiracy theory as much as the next person. However, this case, because Derek and I do know the, some of the people involved who lost these-
11:28 Derrick Levasseur? Yeah, we had, we had Kelsey on the show.
11:29 Stephanie Harlowe? Great people, great families.
11:31 Derrick Levasseur? Yeah, we had Kelsey on the show, Libby's sister, and she was great. She gave us a lot of, the information she could give us, she gave us.
11:37 Stephanie Harlowe? I can't imagine what they, what they go through on a daily basis. To not only have this happen to you, lose somebody this close to you, this young, but now to have this incredibly public investigation, this incredibly public trial, all of these crazy theories and the crime scene photos being leaked. Like, this is-
11:57 Derrick Levasseur? They've come after, they've come after Kelsey a couple of times.
11:59 Stephanie Harlowe? After, they've come after them, tragedy after tragedy after tragedy. The internet for, for somebody like the families of victims can be a blessing or a curse, and sometimes both at once. I just can't imagine, and I don't think that this, like, listen, I 100 million percent believe that Richard Allen is the person responsible for this. Now, the police did say, and even the prosecutor said, they can't say for sure he did this alone, although he has, you know, when he confessed a million times in prison, in jail, he said he did it alone. But they cannot say for sure that he did. But for his attorneys to say he wasn't there at all, and there was just some random group of odinists running
12:41 Stephanie Harlowe? around fashioning antlers with, with, you know, with like, table saws, it's, it's hard for me to swallow. And it's like, this family has been through, this family's been through enough. So- Oh, it's just awful.
12:55 Derrick Levasseur? Yeah, and I want to go more into not only the verdict, but why I also agree with it as well, but we'll get there. We'll probably cover that after the break.
13:03 Stephanie Harlowe? All right. So last week, after 17 days of testimony and 19 hours of deliberation, a jury found Richard Allen guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of felony murder. So during the trial, we found out how the girls died. We did not know before. It was very, um, very much, you know, kept private, which honestly it should have been. Um, we didn't know how they died. We didn't know if they had been sexually assaulted or not. But now we found out, oof, it's awful. Now we found out with the trial that both of their throats had been cut. Abby had a one inch deep, three inch long incision on her neck, and Libby had several incision wounds on the right side of her neck, the longest being
13:43 Stephanie Harlowe? 3.5 inches long. Um, initially, they were maybe throwing around a theory that a serrated blade had been used, but now they believe that a box cutter was used. Now, although Libby was naked, rape kits concluded there was no DNA evidence showing that either girl had been sexually assaulted. We also found out that in the spring of 2023, after Allen had been in jail for a little bit, his behavior became very strange. He started hitting his head on the wall. He would wash his face in the toilet. He refused to eat, and sometimes he would eat paper. He smeared his own feces on the wall. He smeared his own feces on his face. He began confessing to the murders, not only to his wife, which we have reported
14:25 Stephanie Harlowe? on previously, but also to a psychologist and several different corrections officers. So psychologist Monica Walla testified that during one of Allen's confessions, he told her he saw the girls on the trail. He followed them to the bridge. He ordered them to go down the hill. He intended to rape them, but then he saw something that spooked him. It was either a person or a van. And so he was startled. Allen claimed he then ordered Abby and Libby to cross the creek, which is when he slit their throats and covered them in branches to hide them, right? Allen's defense attorneys and a neuropsychologist who testified for the defense, a neuropsychologist who testified for the defense claimed that Allen had not
15:08 Stephanie Harlowe? meant these confessions. He just lost touch with reality after spending 13 months in solitary confinement, and this can change the brain chemistry of a human. But Michael Clemens, a corrections officer, testified that Allen had told him, quote, "I, Richard Matthew Allen, killed Abby and Libby by myself. No one helped me," end quote. He was also known to shout at other inmates, telling them he wasn't crazy. He was only acting crazy. Another CO testified that Allen told him in April of 2023, quote, "I killed Abby and Libby. My wife wasn't involved. I want to confess," end quote. This CO, Michael Roberts, also said that a few days later, Allen told him, quote, "Can I talk? Can you listen? I killed Abby and Libby. How do I prove I'm insane?" end quote. Okay, so either Richard,
15:51 Stephanie Harlowe? Allen, I mean, I believe he killed these two girls. 100 million percent, I believe it. So to say that somebody went crazy after being in solitary confinement after what he did to these two girls, he was already not well. Okay, this person already didn't have a firm grip on, on reality. He wasn't, you know, all, all there or right in his head to begin with. So are we really seeing somebody that went crazy after being in solitary confinement? Or are we seeing somebody that was already not right, who committed a crime that he knew he got caught for, confessed to, to his wife and a psychologist and corrections officers more than once, and then was like, hey, maybe I should start acting crazy so I can pretend I'm crazy when I go to trial for this crime that I don't want to take
16:35 Stephanie Harlowe? any accountability for? Because he did plead not guilty. I want to talk more about this, but let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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17:49 Stephanie Harlowe? All right, Derek, we're back.
17:50 Derrick Levasseur? Yes, we are.
17:51 Stephanie Harlowe? What do you, what do you think about this?
17:54 Derrick Levasseur? No, I'm pretty much on board with you. To recap, there's not video evidence of the murder, but I think overall, the prosecution put together a pretty good case. You had the ballistics. We talked about it in the older Crime Weekly News.
18:08 Stephanie Harlowe? Yes, which is, I think, the main evidence that sort of...
18:11 Derrick Levasseur? It was a big thing. It was the first thing that was kind of put out there, which was this uncycled, I should say, 40 caliber round. And we talked about the ballistics of it, where if a bullet is inside a gun, even if it's not shot, when that bullet goes through the gun and is manually extracted, you've seen it in the movies. It'll kind of like, you'll see the round fly out into the air. There's an extractor claw that's on the side of the barrel, and it kind of, it grabs the back of the bullet, it pulls it out, and then throws it behind you. And what happens is, every gun is different, but there'll be what's called striations on the side of the gun. And I've seen it done a million times. It's fascinating. They can take that shell casing, usually brass, and they can put it under a microscope,
18:55 Derrick Levasseur? and all those striations can be recreated, if you have the gun that created them, to show a distinct pattern that's only created by that specific firearm. So what they did, as you said, they were able to find the gun, because I could tell you right now... Without the gun.
19:11 Stephanie Harlowe? Yeah.
19:11 Derrick Levasseur? You can't do this. So that is the smoking gun. And so when they got that, they brought it into a lab, and they put an unspent round in there. They racked it through, and they created the same situation. And then they took the shell casing that they had extracted through the gun and compared it to the unspent round found at the crime scene. And what they found was a similar pattern. That's how they're able to connect that gun to that unspent round. It was right near the area where the where the girls were found. That's a problem. That's a problem, especially when it's not a hunting area.
19:44 Stephanie Harlowe? What did you, what did you, when, because when we first talked about this unspent round, you had a theory for why that bullet was ejected.
19:53 Derrick Levasseur? Oh, 1,000%. And it was the same reason that they went down the hill so in such a level of compliance without running. We said it right out. More than likely, he had a gun.
20:02 Stephanie Harlowe? Yes, he did. Yeah, they believe he did. And
20:04 Derrick Levasseur? And when he said, get down the hill, we can't, we can't see it, but we can hear it. And more than likely, at that point, he's pointing the gun at them. And to create a higher level of fear, maybe they start not complying. Maybe they start pushing back a little bit or asking questions or speaking loud. So to show them that he's not kidding around, he racks around. Hey, this is a real gun. There goes a bullet. And in the moment of everything going on, he forgets that that rounds on the ground somewhere, or maybe he just couldn't find it. And so that would explain that. And that's not the only thing you have here, though. So that's the round.
20:39 Stephanie Harlowe? Or he thought, because he didn't shoot it, they wouldn't be able to compare striations.
20:45 Derrick Levasseur? I mean, that'd be moronic. But yeah, I guess it's possible.
20:48 Stephanie Harlowe? So a defense witness, Dr. Aaron Warren, actually had had called this an apples to oranges comparison, right? So the bullet was eventually or initially compared by Melissa Oberk, who was the former Indiana State Police Crime Lab Technician. She examined the unspent round found at the scene. She compared it to Alan's gun. So this expert, Warren, called it an apples to oranges comparison, saying Oberk compared the initial round, which had been cycled, not fired, to a bullet fired from Alan's gun. And Oberg said on the stand earlier that an ejector mark was an ejector mark regardless of whether a round was cycled or fired, but Warren disputed that testimony, saying the lab needed to identify tool marks under the same conditions in which the bullet was
21:33 Stephanie Harlowe? found.
21:34 Derrick Levasseur? Let me just stop you right there. Let me just stop you right there. Bullshit.
21:36 Stephanie Harlowe? That's why, that's why I wanted you to hear that.
21:38 Derrick Levasseur? It's the same thing. It's the same thing. That is, that's actually absurd for that defense to even be made. She is 100% right. An extractor mark is without a doubt, an extractor mark. Now, should they have done it in the same way where they, it's an, I don't know why they wouldn't have. I don't know why they would fire a round. That doesn't make sense to me because it just gives them an opportunity to say, oh, it's not the same. But I'm here to tell you, and I always qualify by saying I'm not an expert in ballistics, but I have specialized training in ballistics. And I can tell you with 100% certainty, the extractor striations would not change whether the round was fired or not. And the fact that it was the same, not even under the same conditions, in my opinion, makes it even more
22:23 Derrick Levasseur? of a, of a fact that it's, that it belongs to his gun. So, they could have just redone the examination under the same circumstances to dispute what she was saying, but this is someone grasping at straws. There's always this subjectivity with these experts. You talk about it all the time. I talk about it all the time. That's absurd. And I don't come out and, I'm not that strong about opinions often, but...
22:43 Stephanie Harlowe? This is a defense witness. I like to specify this.
22:46 Derrick Levasseur? Bullshit. It's bullshit. I promise you, it's bullshit. I own a lot of guns. You know this. I consider myself someone who is pretty well-versed in firearms. That is not true. That is emphatically a lie.
22:59 Stephanie Harlowe? They said, McClelland, the prosecutor, said the state proved that the unspent round found between the girls' bodies, found between the girls' bodies, not just near them, between them, cycled through Ellen's gun. Testing was confirmed three times by the technician's boss. And keep in mind, remember, they pulled all the license plates of the cars that were around that area on that day. And that Black Ford Focus, the 2016 Black Ford Focus spotted near the trail that day, was the only one registered in the county. And it belonged to who? Richard Allen.
23:34 Derrick Levasseur? Yeah, so there's, what's my favorite phrase? Totality of circumstances. If it was just a bullet and nothing else, there could be an argument to say, yeah, I was out there, I was playing with my gun, I was racking it in the woods, and I left the round there. That round could have been there for years, right? Okay, let's just put that aside for a second. You just mentioned the registration, okay? Let's talk about some other things. He confessed nearly a dozen times.
24:00 Stephanie Harlowe? Multiple times.
24:00 Derrick Levasseur? But let's put that aside for a second too, because his mental condition, right? He may have just been saying that. And by the way, I don't believe that.
24:07 Stephanie Harlowe? Quote-unquote "mental condition."
24:09 Derrick Levasseur? Yeah, let's talk about one of the specific confessions, which you already mentioned, Monica Walla. In that confession, you said it was a white van or a person. So I have it right here. During the whole confession, he says, "Yeah, listen, I was gonna rape them, and then I got spooked by this white van that was driving into a private driveway, so I went across Deer Creek and then I killed them there." Well, investigators went back, they found the white van, it was owned by a Bob Weber, and Bob Weber testified that right around the time, right after the girls would have been kidnapped, he pulled into that driveway.
24:45 Stephanie Harlowe? He was driving his van home from work around the time of the murders.
24:47 Derrick Levasseur? So, the question is this, how would Richard Allen know that information?
24:52 Stephanie Harlowe? How the hell did he know that?
24:53 Derrick Levasseur? Right. That, my friends, is called guilt knowledge. Only would be known to the killer. And then on top of that, if that's not enough for you, okay? And this is a little, this is a little bit more of a gray area, but there's been multiple people, law enforcement officials, one of them being a state trooper, who said he's listened to over 700 calls from Richard Allen from the prison over to family and friends or whatever, and comparing what he has learned about the the voice of Richard Allen and compared it to the voice of the guy saying, "Go down the hill", it's him. It is him. They can identify it, they hear the similarities. They hear the intonation, they hear the accent, it's him.
25:33 Derrick Levasseur? That's a little bit more of a gray area for me. If we only had that, I think you could find a defense expert that would say it's not him. But to me, the strongest piece in this case is the guilt knowledge. And then a close second is the the unspent round, which would only create those markings to one specific gun, which happened to be owned and in the possession of Richard Allen.
25:57 Stephanie Harlowe? Richard Allen. It's like, come on, we're gonna say that this guy was just in the wrong place, wrong time, come on.
26:03 Derrick Levasseur? I will, just for the people out there. You know where we stand on it. Okay. And I'm very happy for Abby and Libby's family that they've gotten justice because as we know, especially here on Crime Weekly, this doesn't always happen. We don't always get our guy. And this is one of those cases where it took longer than it should, but they got him, in our opinions. Now, I know. When I posted an Instagram post about the verdict, everyone was very respectful, but I did get a lot of DMs. And a lot of you were saying that you've watched other YouTube channels or other documentaries, whatever it was, I didn't look too deep into it. Where you're not convinced he's the guy. And some of you were even more forward than that. But here's what I'll say.
26:48 Derrick Levasseur? You're entitled to your opinion. We're entitled to ours. I think they got the right guy. Stephanie thinks they got the right guy.
26:55 Stephanie Harlowe? He's a freaking guy.
26:57 Derrick Levasseur? He's gonna have the opportunity to appeal.
26:59 Stephanie Harlowe? Once again, maybe there's somebody else involved. That even the police, even the prosecution said, there could be, right? There could be. But he definitely, but he definitely was there. I don't care if there was somebody else involved. That's gonna be up for him to talk about or them to figure out. He was there.
27:19 Derrick Levasseur? Think about this. Unless this other person came in from the other side, we have video and photos. There's nobody around him. It's him on the bridge. There's one way in, one way out, and there is a back way. We talked about it where it's like a graveyard.
27:33 Stephanie Harlowe? The odiness moved through the woods, man. I don't know what to tell you.
27:36 Derrick Levasseur? So.
27:36 Stephanie Harlowe? They they they move through the leaves. They fly on the wind. Like, come on, man.
27:40 Derrick Levasseur? I think I think it's the guy. We've had stronger cases against people. We've also had much weaker cases where the person was also convicted. So. I feel like this is probably on a scale of one to 10. Maybe a seven, maybe a weak eight as far as.
27:58 Derrick Levasseur? The evidence against him, I think it's pretty, it's pretty overwhelming and I think some of the evidence against him is pretty specific. It's not just, you know, witnesses or whatever, it's, it's, you have actual forensic evidence that can tie him to the scene. And I don't want to say for certain, but I thought I saw somewhere in one of the articles where he even went as far as during one of his confessions saying, "I covered them with branches."
28:21 Stephanie Harlowe? He did, yes, he said it to Monica Walla, the psychologist.
28:24 Derrick Levasseur? Something that would only be known to the killer. That would only be known to the killer.
28:28 Stephanie Harlowe? Are we gonna say that he maybe made some designs with, like, you're not, you murdered two people. You can't be like, "Why would he make, well, why would he kill them when his plan was to rape them and then he got spooked, but he killed them anyways?"
28:40 Derrick Levasseur? Yeah.
28:41 Stephanie Harlowe? Okay, like, this person doesn't use logic. We don't know what's going on with him, okay? But, but he's not a normal-minded person because this is what you decided to do to begin with. So like, I can't tell you what the hell he did with branches or why he made designs, if that's the case, but I don't, I don't need to, okay? I don't think that a, that a secret society of white nationalist odinists were traipsing through the woods with antlers that they precut on their table saw to, to ritually sacrifice two little girls.
29:10 Derrick Levasseur? And if Stephanie doesn't think that, you're really, you're in trouble.
29:12 Stephanie Harlowe? I know, right? Exactly, man, exactly.
29:14 Derrick Levasseur? She's the head of the conspiracy theorists.
29:15 Stephanie Harlowe? I am the, I'm the president of the conspiracy theory gang.
29:19 Derrick Levasseur? Yeah, so if she's not buying it, it's not good. But no, I think overall, and this also shows us that not every case is gonna have DNA. You didn't really have it here, there was a strand of hair that was in question, it didn't come back, I believe it came back to Libby or Abby, it didn't turn out to be anyone that was...
29:34 Stephanie Harlowe? It was, I believe it was, um, Kelsey's, actually.
29:37 Derrick Levasseur? Kelsey, that's right, it was Kelsey's, I apologize, so...
29:40 Stephanie Harlowe? Which makes sense.
29:41 Derrick Levasseur? It makes perfect sense.
29:42 Stephanie Harlowe? They lived in the same house, yeah.
29:43 Derrick Levasseur? And we had known some facts about the case, uh, that Kelsey had disclosed to us off-record that they weren't important to the story. Um, and, and, and it lined up with what we were thinking and overall, my takeaway is that, um, and I say the word happy, I'm relieved for Kelsey and her family. We've had the chance to meet the rest of, uh, Libby's family, uh, at Crime Con a few different occasions and... You know, I think I even interviewed them at one point.
30:10 Stephanie Harlowe? Yeah, these are great people.
30:11 Derrick Levasseur? They're great people.
30:12 Stephanie Harlowe? They didn't deserve this. Nobody, nobody involved with this deserved this. I hope he rots in prison for the rest of his life. I hope he never sees the light of day. Well, he hasn't been sentenced yet, but.
30:21 Derrick Levasseur? Nope, well.
30:22 Stephanie Harlowe? I think he's facing over a hundred years.
30:23 Derrick Levasseur? Yeah, he's gonna, he's gonna appeal. He's gonna appeal, but I, you know, I'm thinking about them.
30:27 Stephanie Harlowe? Well, I hope they have something better than the odinists when he appeals.
30:29 Derrick Levasseur? Yeah.
30:29 Stephanie Harlowe? Okay.
30:30 Derrick Levasseur? No, they're gonna have to go after the evidence. That's all you can do.
30:32 Stephanie Harlowe? They better, they better like, um, produce these odinists for their appeal. They're gonna have to start naming names, okay?
30:39 Derrick Levasseur? Thinking of them, thinking of the family and the silver lining that we as a community can take from this is that although it can take time, there is justice out there. You just have to be determined, disciplined and, and focused on the task at hand. Uh, it seems like Richard Allen was initially identified as a witness he was spoken to and, you know, it, it, I've heard a lot of criticisms about this case, probably justifiably so. But I'm glad to see that despite those mistakes in the beginning, they were able to find the guy and, and they got justice. Cause this was one of those cases with the photo and the video. It was just so difficult to believe that in today's society, nobody knew who this guy was. And every time I think about this case and, and how it's concluded,
31:23 Derrick Levasseur? I think back to the photo of Richard Allen, his smug look with the, with the, the, the description of the image.
31:29 Stephanie Harlowe? Oh, the, the actual picture hanging on the wall at the restaurant they were at. He was like having dinner with his wife. And there's a picture of him. They took like a selfie and there's the picture of Bridge Guy behind him and it looks just like him. But you know, it was the odinists. The, the, the odinists used the old Norse magic to, to change their, their appearance. And, and dressed like, you know, they were about to go to a construction site. I, I thought they wore robes and.
31:57 Derrick Levasseur? There's nothing to support it. The only thing I saw was the tree branches. Everything else points to Richard Allen. You're going to have some doubt in every case. The question is, is it proof beyond a reasonable doubt? And I think here it was. I think here it was. So if there's any updates, if there's any major impact in the case or something changes, we'll obviously let you know here. But overall, I think at this point, now that the families have gotten some answers and have gotten some justice, it's important to just let them start the healing process, if that's even possible, and move on with their lives. Because now they're not only living for themselves, they're also living for Abby and Libby. And I hope that they find some solace in the fact that the person responsible for all
32:41 Derrick Levasseur? this pain, he's going to die in prison. And that's the best you can hope for in this situation. Any final words from you?
32:47 Stephanie Harlowe? No, that's it.
32:48 Derrick Levasseur? Okay, we're out of here. As always, we appreciate you guys being here. Like, comment, subscribe. Let us know what you think about this case. I know there's going to be some dissenters in the comments. Give your reasons why. We want to hear them. So we will be back later this week with the Karen Reed series, part one. Everyone stay safe out there. We'll see you soon.
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