Richard Allen's Confession Got the Cause of Death Wrong. Indiana Doesn't Care

He confessed to killing them. He told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German. They were not shot. They were killed with a blade. And in ninety-four pages, the Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal does not explain why a man supposedly confessing to the murders he committed described a method of killing that did not happen.

That is not a minor inconsistency. That is the foundation of a 130-year sentence — because without the confessions, there is no case. No DNA links Allen to the crime scene. No murder weapon was recovered. No direct eyewitness placed him with the victims. The confessions were everything. And the confessions contain a cause of death that is factually wrong.

The AG's response follows the same pattern on every issue the defense raised. The search warrant built on alleged omissions — the State says it still establishes probable cause. The confessions extracted after more than thirteen months of pretrial solitary confinement — the State says the conditions were not coercive and offers a religious conversion as the explanation. The evidence excluded at trial — the eyewitness sketch the jury never saw, the firearms expert who would have challenged the bullet evidence, the phone calls where Allen questioned his own sanity before and after confessing, the alternative suspects with documented ties to the case — the State calls all of it speculative, hearsay, or improperly preserved.

Harmless error. Over and over. On everything.

Defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down the full response across a three-part panel — the procedural strategy designed to prevent the appeals court from reaching the substance, the two factual problems the State cannot answer, and what comes next. The defense has filed its reply brief and requested oral arguments. Three judges will decide whether the conviction stands.

The families of Abby and Libby were told a verdict meant it was over. If the State's evidence is as overwhelming as the AG claims, the question that will not go away is the one Bob keeps asking — why did they need to keep so much of it from the jury to get there?

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