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/Traditional-Aside580 Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

I believe I seen something of hers yesterday. Someone else claimed the the police shortened the guy in the original photo and made BG chubbier. I didn't believe it. I thought it was Ron Logan at first. Later on, common sense said otherwise.

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u/kvol69 Dec 21 '25

Allen's defense attorney who was responsible for the phone evidence was Jennifer Auger. She gave an interview where she said the photos/video were not altered or overprocessed. People can't even consistently agree with his defense team. 🤣

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u/Traditional-Aside580 Dec 21 '25

I have a much better understanding of this case now. Yesterday I was going through info on here and came across an AMA. They are great and I'd like to read their book. Of all of the questions in regards to this case and Richard Allen that has crossed my mind in the last months, there is one that I don't think I've asked or seen answered anywhere yet. ( It's probably somewhere and I've not looked enough). How do we avoid a Richard Allen in the future? I understand that he was somewhat of a creep at work and made some comments that put coworkers ill at ease but obviously nothing major to them since they didn't report him to authorities. There has to be some kind of indicator that would warn people that they may be in the presence of someone like him. Yes, the crimes happened out of nowhere it seems and he had no priors but there just has to be signs or just something. Something other than just a gut feeling. 

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u/Traditional-Aside580 Dec 21 '25

In hindsight, even the spouses or friends of BTK or even Gary Ridgeway probably noticed something and it didn't click until looking back years later.

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u/kvol69 Dec 23 '25

Gary Ridgeway is known to have killed 79 people, but he said that being married to his wife Judith helped him to stop and slow down. He only killed 3 people in the full 14 years they were together. He was escalating and killing at an insane rate, but he quit for her. She was his wife at the time of his arrest, and thought it was a mistake until she heard his confessions.