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Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, an ...
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In our latest interview, defense attorney Bob Motta joins me to dissect the one thing the public never truly got to see in the Delphi murders case: the investigators themselves, speaking under oath. And what those depositions reveal isn’t a unified, focused, evidence-driven investigative team — it’s a fractured, inconsistent, internally conflicted system struggling under the weight of its own decisions.
For years, the Delphi narrative has been kept clean and simple on the surface. But beneath that exterior is a record full of contradictions: investigators who cannot agree on whether the FBI was removed from the case… conflicting recollections about the Behavioral Analysis Unit’s early assessment… witness statements reshaped in the search-warrant affidavit… third-party suspects dismissed despite disturbing statements and behavior… symbolic evidence at the crime scene left unexplored… and forensic gaps that defy basic homicide protocol.
Bob walks us through all of it — the timeline manipulation, the altered witness descriptions, the failure to pursue leads, the missing documentation around the bullet, the sticks left in the woods for days, and the Odinism material that sat in the prosecutor’s office for months before being disclosed. These are not minor mistakes. These are systemic failures with massive implications for Richard Allen’s appeal.
If you're looking for the polished, sanitized version of this case, this isn’t it. This is the raw underside — the part the public didn’t see, the part juries never heard, and the part that may very well determine whether this conviction withstands appellate scrutiny.
When investigators contradict each other, forget key events, minimize crucial evidence, and reshape witness statements to fit a narrative, it’s not just bad optics — it’s a crisis of investigative integrity. And today, Bob and I break that crisis wide open.
#Delphi #DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #TrueCrime #Depositions #LegalAnalysis #JusticeSystem #Investigations #CourtFilings #HiddenKillers
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For years, the Delphi narrative has been kept clean and simple on the surface. But beneath that exterior is a record full of contradictions: investigators who cannot agree on whether the FBI was removed from the case… conflicting recollections about the Behavioral Analysis Unit’s early assessment… witness statements reshaped in the search-warrant affidavit… third-party suspects dismissed despite disturbing statements and behavior… symbolic evidence at the crime scene left unexplored… and forensic gaps that defy basic homicide protocol.
Bob walks us through all of it — the timeline manipulation, the altered witness descriptions, the failure to pursue leads, the missing documentation around the bullet, the sticks left in the woods for days, and the Odinism material that sat in the prosecutor’s office for months before being disclosed. These are not minor mistakes. These are systemic failures with massive implications for Richard Allen’s appeal.
If you're looking for the polished, sanitized version of this case, this isn’t it. This is the raw underside — the part the public didn’t see, the part juries never heard, and the part that may very well determine whether this conviction withstands appellate scrutiny.
When investigators contradict each other, forget key events, minimize crucial evidence, and reshape witness statements to fit a narrative, it’s not just bad optics — it’s a crisis of investigative integrity. And today, Bob and I break that crisis wide open.
#Delphi #DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #TrueCrime #Depositions #LegalAnalysis #JusticeSystem #Investigations #CourtFilings #HiddenKillers
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