Delphi: Richard Allen's Defense Filed 136 Pages. The Jury Never Heard a Word.

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August 19th, 2020 Three and a half years after two girls were found dead in the woods, Indiana State Police sit across a table from a 26-year-old man named Kegan Kline. They are not there to arrest him for murder. They are there because he ran a fake social media account called Anthony Underscore Shots that used stolen photos of a male model to target underage girls. He has been arrested on over 30 charges involving illegal material found on his devices. But the detectives are not asking him about those images. They are asking him about Libby German. Kline admits he used the Anthony Underscore Shots account to communicate with Libby before she was killed. The detectives push harder. They have evidence showing dual device logins to the Anthony Underscore Shots Snapchat at 8 in the morning on February 13, 2017, the day of the murders, from Kline's residence. Two devices, one account. Someone else was using it. Then the detectives drop a piece of information that should have cracked this case wide open three years earlier. Someone using the Anthony Underscore Shots account told one of Libby's friends that Shots was supposed to meet Libby that day, but she didn't show up. A catfish account targeting children arranged a meeting with a 14-year-old girl on the day she was killed, and the person behind it is sitting in a police interview room telling detectives he doesn't remember. This is where the Delphi investigation splits in two.

One road leads to every person the evidence pointed to. The other road leads to the man they charged. The state of Indiana took the second road and paved over the first. To understand what that road looked like, start with the man behind the screen. The police interview with Kline lasted hours. Detectives told him they knew things he hadn't admitted yet. They knew the Anthony underscore shots account had been used to communicate with Libby. They knew about the dual-device logins. They pressed him on whether his father, Tony Kline, had accessed the account. Kegan deflected, minimized, said he couldn't remember. At one point, detectives told him directly. Someone using his account said they were supposed to meet Libby the day she was killed. His response was not outrage or confusion. It was evasion. KeganKline didn't just talk to Libby German. He ran what investigators described as a sophisticated catfishing operation targeting girls ages 12 to 18 At least 11 targets were identified. Thousands of messages recovered from his devices.

The Anthony Underscore Shots account was active on Snapchat and Instagram throughout 2016 and 2017, and it was active on the day two girls walked onto a bridge and never walked off. After detectives told Kline he had failed his polygraph about what he knew regarding the Delphi investigation, he did two things. He deleted his Snapchat and Instagram accounts. Then he searched his phone for a single phrase.

How long does DNA last? He ran the fake account. The account contacted one of the girls who was killed. The account was allegedly used to arrange a meeting with that girl on the day she died. He failed a polygraph about the case. And his first move after failing it was to ask the internet how long DNA survives.

That man was never charged in connection with the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. Kline pled guilty in April 2023 to 25 felony charges involving illegal material, solicitation of minors and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to 43 years. He sits in an Indiana prison. The state says his case is separate from Delphi. His connection to a murdered 14-year-old girl on the day she died is, in the eyes of the state, a coincidence. Here is what the state never explained. Police knew about the Anthony Underscore Shots account by 2017

They publicly asked for information about it in December 2021, nearly five years after the murders. Kline wasn't arrested on his charges until 2020 The account that talked to a dead girl sat in evidence for years before anyone acted on it. And when they finally did, the state treated the man behind it as a separate case, walled off from the murder investigation like a neighbor's dispute that happened to share offense.

But Kline isn't the only person the investigation found and then walked away from. In September 2023, almost a year after Richard Allen was arrested, his defense team filed a 136-page document that would become the most explosive filing in the history of the case. It is known as the Franks Memorandum. In it, Allen's attorneys allege that law enforcement deliberately withheld evidence pointing to a group of men with ties to a white nationalist pagan movement called Odenism. The filing names names, it lays out connections, and it describes a crime scene that looks nothing like the work of a lone CVS pharmacy clerk who allegedly brought a box cutter to a hiking trail.