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Disappeared for 13 days. On October 26, 2022, Richard Allen is interrogated and arrested. On October 28, 2022, he is formally charged. He is now an accused criminal defendant. His due process and 6th Amendment rights attach. For the next 13 days, Rick is moved more than 250 miles through four separate facilities. He is held without counsel and is allowed no contact with his family or the outside world. On October 31, 2022, precisely the day that Doug Carter and a dozen ISP, Carroll County and U.S. Marshall representatives stand on a national stage and announce the arrest of Richard Allen as the Delphi killer, Rick does the one thing available to him: he sends a handwritten letter directly to the court and begs for a lawyer. That letter is rerouted and delayed; a mail stop is imposed sometime between the White County jail and the Indianapolis mail processing center. Rick remains totally isolated and unrepresented. On November 8, 2022, Rick is finally able to call his wife, Kathy. She asks him if they have “given him a lawyer yet”, and tells her they have not. Before their call is cut off, Rick tells Kathy where he is being held: Westville Correctional Facility. He gives Kathy his IDOC inmate number. He tells her he does not know when he will be able to contact her again. He tells her he loves her. The call ends. On November 9, 2022, sometime before 9AM, investigators Holeman, Mullin and Liggett arrive at Westville for another “interview” with Rick. He is still being held without counsel. On November 9, 2022, after Rick refuses to speak with Holeman without an attorney, Rick’s written request for counsel finally reaches the Carroll County court. It appears on the public case docket that afternoon. Indiana jail standards treat correspondence with courts and attorneys as privileged mail requiring prompt transmission, without interference. Indiana also guarantees inmates confidential access to counsel and the courts. Four years post-arrest and two years post-trial, critical questions remain unanswered: Who controlled Rick’s letter during those 12 days? Why was it rerouted? Who ordered the mail stop, and did they knowingly intercept or delay an unrepresented defendant’s request to the courts for counsel? Did investigators Holeman, Mullin and Liggett use the resulting 13-day-window, knowing full-well that Rick was still isolated and legally unrepresented, to apply more pressure and pursue another interrogation? While Rick was desperately trying to communicate with the outside world and obtain legal representation, throwing himself “at the mercy of the court”, the State was actively isolating and relocating him. While they interfered with Rick’s access to counsel and the courts, investigators continued working their case against him. This interference was not an isolated event or oversight — it would become a pattern of tactics and behaviors that the State, including Prosecutor Mcleland and Judge Frances Gull herself, would employ against Rick and his lawyers. Again, and again, and again. #FreeRickAllen #FreeRicky

spent a while writing/revising and going back and forth with @TrueCrimeAudit and like 4 different AI models trying to articulate this very specific phenomenon in the State's case against Richard Allen where: something untrue/half-true gets repeated ad nauseam relentlessly for months and years until it is eventually just wholly accepted as truth/fact, even when it flies directly in conflict with and contradictory to facts and observable evidence... still haven't landed on an explanation or description that feels quite right, but here are some of the new terms i've learned in the process. 🫠🙃 #FreeRicky #FreeRickAllen

The man who woke up. When Rick’s psychosis finally lifted, the incriminating statements stopped: "I lost that three or four months where I don't remember any of it," he said in October. A week earlier, Rick had asked Kathy: "How can you tell the truth when you don't even know the truth?" Rick's case rests on everything happening in his world at once: lifelong depression, months of isolation, days without sleep, constant accusation through the door, and a mind that had stopped trusting itself and was coming apart. 5/

Honor bound. On February 16, 2017, forty-eight hours after the bodies of Abby and Libby were found on a local man’s property, then-prosecutor Robert Ives issued a public statement regarding the FBI-led search of another local resident’s home: “No one at the home searched is suspected of committing any crime.” Ives issued that statement clearing the residents of Bicycle Bridge Road before the search had even concluded. The problem with the Delphi investigation from the beginning may not have been as simple as “FBI vs. ISP/CCSD” or a jurisdictional tug-of-war; but Bicycle Bridge Road may have been the beginning of the rupture -- and what would eventually become total local insulation. So, can an investigation conducted entirely within the same local network it is meant to scrutinize actually follow the evidence wherever it leads -- without local relationships, reputations, and loyalties trumping the truth? #FreeRickAllen #FreeRicky #RichardAllen #Delphi