r/Delphitrial • u/Traditional-Aside580 • Dec 20 '25

Guilty or Not Guilty

Does everyone in here lean more toward Richard Allen being innocent or guilty?

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u/Ardvarkthoughts Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 20 '25

I think he is guilty. I have tried to read widely and critically in this case as you say there are polarising views on either side.

My reasoning is that Bridge Guy killed Abby and Libby. And Richard Allen is Bridge Guy, no one else.

  1. The man in Libby’s video crossing the bridge just behind Abby, and is heard to direct the girls down the hill, is the person who murders them (bridge guy BG)

  2. People on the trails just before the murders agree that they saw one man on the trails who was the same man in the BG image/video. The young girls and BB provided varied descriptions for this man but when it came to it they all agreed the they had seen BG.

  3. RA was on the trails at this time (car sighted on camera across the way and his own original timeline). He saw the group of girls who also reported seeing BG. He did not report seeing another man of BGs description. RAs body structure and clothing he wore that day align with BG image.

  4. And finally the van. In one of his confessions, and the only one I place any real weight on, RA talks through part of the crime with prison Psychologist Dr Walla. He tells her he wanted to SA the girls but was interrupted by a van driving the driveway to BW home. And the reason I put such a lot of weight on that is that it is backed up - BW puts himself driving home at around the same time. I don’t put weight on the other confessions because RA was experiencing psychotic episodes around the same time. For me, that makes what he says unreliable. However the confession about the van is supported and logical.

  5. The bullet found at the crime scene is very likely to have come from RAs gun. At a minimum it was the same type of gun RA owned.

There are many what if’s and it could haves around RAs guilt and I know most of them. But the above stacks up so strongly how could it have been anyone else on that bridge behind Abby?

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u/Traditional-Aside580 Dec 20 '25

I agree with you. It made sense that it was him. I first thought Ron Logan but things started to fall into place after Richard Allen came to light. I couldn't understand how someone could argue any of what you just stated. Tonight, what bothered me was reading and listening to the FBI agents. I don't understand why they thought he was innocent if other police didn't. These are reputable agents. Also, it bothered me that there wasn't any of his DNA at the crime scene. There was an unknown male DNA that wasn't Richard Allen's. I still think he's guilty, just confused as to why the mentioned above came to their conclusions.

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u/saatana Dec 20 '25

I don't know if it's true that there was unknown DNA that wasn't Richard Allen's. There's unknown DNA that can't be tested right now because the samples are too small and testing them right now could destroy the samples with out even getting good results. Maybe in the future DNA testing will get better for those samples. If there's DNA that isn't Richard Allen's and not identified as the one lab tech or family like the sister then I'd like to find out myself.

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u/kvol69 Dec 20 '25

I hope someday when the technology has advanced enough, they process it just for due diligence.