Abby & Libby - The Delphi Murders - Richard Allen Arrested - #183

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If they got throw off the case today it would be a blessing for RA. As maybe a new bunch of lawyers will actually try and put forward a credible defense.

Moo
Any sympathy for RA's legal counsel representation ended for me when he chose to continue to proceed with R&B.

He had the opportunity to start basically 'fresh' and chose not to. Now the consequences good or bad of that decision is on RA.

MOO
 
Thanks for taking the time to answer all of our questions.

I understood the below excerpt for the SC opinion meant that the reinstatement was a done deal. Am I wrong?

Page 14 in the link below
"Because the record does not reflect disqualification was a last resort that was necessary after balancing the trial court’s concerns against the prejudice to Allen, Baldwin and Rozzi must be reinstated."

I am really disappointed that we won't hear her decision until after the trial but it makes sense for it to be held back.

You are not wrong.
 
One of Libby's Nike shoes was found in the creek. The 'infamous' FM said Abby was fully dressed including her shoes. This leads me to believe that it would have been Libby's other Nike shoe.
Abby had those hi tops and skinny jeans on. So her shoes had to be off for undressing/redressing. And those shoes don't just slip on and off. Is it possible her clothing was ripped/torn/cut off? I just can't make any sense out of the whole crime scene. And it's really depressing.
 
Hi @vinayd I wanted to reply to your reply to me on the last thread, I’m still behind!

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In the State’s Response to the Defendant’s Motion to Compel and Request for Sanctions (3/17/2024):

8. The law enforcement geofence reports have been provided to the Defense to the best of our knowledge.

In the State’s Response to the Defendant’s Amended Motion to Compel and Request for Sanctions (3/23/2024):

7. In response to request 11, all geo-fence data in the State's possession has been provided to the Defense and is listed in the Discovery Releases. The agency responsible for the interpretation of the geo-fence data is the FBI CAST team; specifically, Special Agent Kevin Horan (retired) and Special Agent Sabric.

On 4/3/2024 in the State’s Response to the 3rd Frank’s:

The Defense was advised on March 4th, 2023, that State witnesses specializing in geofencing data would be ISP First Sergeant Christopher Cecil, FBI Agent Kevin Horan, and/or ISP Sergent Pete Glogoza. However, the Defense filed their 3rd Motion for Franks Hearing based on "newly discovered evidence" that was available during the first discovery disclosure in October 2023 and in the second discovery disclosure after counsel was reinstated. The State witnesses for geofencing data interpretations would testify that:”
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A couple of weeks later in the Motion in Limine filed 4/29/2024

9. Any reference to geofencing and/or any testimony from Kevin Horan about geofencing or the findings from any geofence search that is not relevant or is for the purpose of confusing the issues or has the potential to mislead the jury in violation of Rule 401. IRE 401. Burden is on the opponent to show why it is relevant. Relevant evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by its prejudicial effect. Evidence may be excluded if it confuses the issues.
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What happened between 4/3 and 4/29 when the P filed the Motion in Limine seemingly trying to silence 2 LEOs, including one of the FBI agents mentioned in the state’s previously filing who they said would testify the D’s concerns about geofencing were misconstrued/not applicable?


This is all AFTER this was cited by the D in the 3rd Frank’s Motion on 3/13/2024

8. Specifically, the defense received certain geofencing evidence that at least 3 persons were in or around the crime scene at a time while the murders were taking place (according to law enforcement timelines) and none of the owners of the phones have any connection to Richard Allen.

9. This geofencing evidence would provide evidence of any of the following scenarios:
a. Those persons walking with the phones are witnesses that would have observed the murders as they were taking place and none of them have identified Richard Allen; or

b. Those persons walking with the phones were witnesses who observed nothing, as the murders did not take place the afternoon of February 13, 2023, but the victims were taken to the crime scene after the search was called off.

c. Those persons walking with the phones were participants in the murders.

10. Said geofencing evidence was so important to somebody involved in the investigation that they created a map and plotted the movements of these persons, including movements that show that at least one of these persons was within 60-100 yards of the crime scene at a time while the murders would have been committed according to law enforcement's timelines. The phones, once again, had no connection to Richard Allen.

11. Furthermore, the map shows that the other two phones, and the persons carrying those phones, were in and around the crime scene between 12:39:54 pm and 5:49 pm on February 13, 2017.

12. That defense has sought out, but has not been provided, any documents or reports that contradict or refutes said geofencing evidence, but have not found such evidence, nor has the prosecutor provided any when defense requested reports on said geofencing.
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In my opinion, the chronological order of these mentions of the FBI’s geofencing then the Motion in Limine, almost sounds like at least (Ret) Agent Horan’s geofencing analysis does not support RA as a suspect in the area at the time of the murders. Otherwise the P would be citing the FBI reports and definitely wouldn’t be mentioning any of it in the Motion in Limine. IANAL but if I was a juror this sequence of filings on the geofencing data specifically wouldn’t convince me beyond a reasonable doubt, exactly the opposite.

Who is the state’s geofencing witness now? Is there support re: geofencing data that RA is a suspect or not? Why are 2 LEOs listed in the P’s Motion in Limine?

AJMO


Sources:
3rd Franks Motion
filed by Baldwin 3/13/2024 p. 2 & 3
Third Franks Notice & Request For Franks Hearing
State's response to defendant's motion to compel and request for sanctions
filed by Mcleland 3/17/2024
Adobe Acrobat
STATE'S RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT'S AMENDED MOTION TO COMPEL AND REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS p. 3 &4
filed by Mcleland 3/23/2024 10:29PM
Adobe Acrobat
States response to the 3rd Franks
filed by Mcleland 4/3/2024 p. 3
State’s Response to 3rd Franks Motion
Motion in Limine
filed by Mcleland 4/29/2024
Adobe Acrobat
Geesh! Can I get my coffee on first :)! Great job pulling all this and chronological order surely helps! Nice noticing Horan was mentioned by the State as one of the experts the D could work with.. then the request to not let him testify. Is that what you are showing me?
 
Geesh! Can I get my coffee on first :)! Great job pulling all this and chronological order surely helps! Nice noticing Horan was mentioned by the State as one of the experts the D could work with.. then the request to not let him testify. Is that what you are showing me?
Yes rbbm ^ is what I was trying to show you and what I wasn’t sure about. I was thinking I’d seen the name Horan before, then accidentally got lost in the docs rabbit hole for a while searching. Lol. I’ve been confused about the chronological order of geofencing mentions in motions, this helped. I see the phones are mentioned in the newer motions too, but I need coffee myself before that!
 
Geesh! Can I get my coffee on first :)! Great job pulling all this and chronological order surely helps! Nice noticing Horan was mentioned by the State as one of the experts the D could work with.. then the request to not let him testify. Is that what you are showing me?
Don't mess with zh0r4! What an informative post.
Who is the state’s geofencing witness now? Is there support re: geofencing data that RA is a suspect or not? Why are 2 LEOs listed in the P’s Motion in Limine?
Indeed!
 
Very informative post. I've read it a few times now and will be going back for more. I will be honest the phone stuff is beyond me. It is going to take an expert to make it real simple so I can understand. Someone else had a really good post about the pings and why they wouldn't be related to texts/incoming calls or app updates.

From what I see GPS is best, then the wifi triangulations then the geofencing data. GPS will measure up to 15 feet, wifi up to 50 feet and geofence can cover the entire city of Delphi. My very limited interpretation is that the D wants to focus on Horan's report as maybe he did the geofence section and ignore the GPS/Wifi reports. So the State is saying don't use his testimony at all unless it's supporting the facts of the case that I assume they have with RAs phone/burner.
Up for hearing what others see.

ETA: Who is the 2nd LEO they are trying to silence? Is this in reference to Click? We don't talk about Bruno...no no no!
If so there's not enough there and his testimony will be objected for relevance and hearsay.
 
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The defense is not going to be removed from the case. No way.
I think they will be found guilty of contempt and probably fined and sanctioned in some way.
They deserve a lot more in my opinion. They’ve made a mockery of our judiciary.
RA deserves a hardnosed defense working in his best interest and he hasn’t gotten it. This case could have been professionally defended but B and R chose to bring the circus.
 
The defense is not going to be removed from the case. No way.
I think they will be found guilty of contempt and probably fined and sanctioned in some way.
They deserve a lot more in my opinion. They’ve made a mockery of our judiciary.
RA deserves a hardnosed defense working in his best interest and he hasn’t gotten it. This case could have been professionally defended but B and R chose to bring the circus.

Both sides might be sanctioned when this is all over. Nick definitely deserves it in my opinion. She may have mercy on him because he's A. the State and B. green.

IMO MOO
 
Could it be an artifact / limitation of the phone-tower technology?

Troubled.
RSBM
RBBM

From my understanding no, if the phone was in a certain radius, it is within the radius. Whether or not Libby had the phone or whether someone else possibly had Libby’s phone is another issue. Either way this is alarming considering where the phone was found, very suspicious.

JMO.
 
Abby had those hi tops and skinny jeans on. So her shoes had to be off for undressing/redressing. And those shoes don't just slip on and off. Is it possible her clothing was ripped/torn/cut off? I just can't make any sense out of the whole crime scene. And it's really depressing.
Yes, that's an abyss that I just don't want to stare into too hard. :(
 
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F6NxWdajU-LkXH4b9bCb6qfdFIVxgBke/view

So many questions!!
- the phone was pinged successfully at 5:44pm on the 13th of Feb on the day the kids were missing per point #10.

But it seems like the State had evidence of many other pings - 44 to be precise, but they didn't bother to tell the Defence until November 9, 2023?? What the heck? Why would they not?

Further, it would seem that there were 2 pings from Feb 13, 2017 - at 5:48pm & 7:16pm. (point #13).

How does the State explain their failure to tell the Defence this information?? Then point #22 states that the phone pinged AGAIN on Feb 14, 2017 at 4:33am. Clearly it wasn't turned off or out of the area at that point if it pinged the tower again, right??? So what happened? Did the kids (and the phone) leave the area and come back? Did the phone travel with someone in a turned off state and then get returned to the spot where it was found under the body? Did it get put in airplane mode and then taken out of airplane mode for it to ping again? Would airplane mode have prevented it pinging?

This is very weird so I hope the State has a darn good explanation for the entire situation!
Wow re: this new ping info-I assume this was in the 4th Franks I haven’t read.

To answer a few of your great questions:

-pings would continue when the phone is ON or on Airplane mode; you still get pings on airplane mode; airplane mode wouldn’t prevent pinging
-the only thing that would stop the pinging is the phone being off/battery being dead

Theoretically, you could deduce the phone was off or the battery dead during times the phone wasn’t transferring any data. But that doesn’t tell you anything except the phone was off or dead.

RcopypastadBM
Clearly it wasn't turned off or out of the area at that point if it pinged the tower again, right???
Correct. The phone was in the area if it pinged in the area.
 
Yes, that's an abyss that I just don't want to look into too hard. :(
Even when I set aside the horror and curiosity (I hate using that word but admit I want to solve the mystery) what I'm left with is just an overpowering sense of loss. Even if they had simply tripped and fell off the bridge by accident, what a soul crushing loss. Had this not happened the girls would be college-age kids today. Next month Abby would have turned 21. We will never know all the great things they were meant to bring to this world. One thing I take comfort in, they always had each other. Friends to the end.
 
Perhaps we're being punked about pings.

Perhaps these were events internally generated that awakened the phone. Incoming calls/texts. Scheduled updates.

A stretch to describe that as the phone being somehow in transit. Phone may have had its reasons for trying to ping off one tower or another.

The D is trying to delay the time of death to a point in time where RA has a locked alibi

But I suspect the actual data will show that, at a point that afternoon, Libby's phone didn't move but did continue communicating with towers, none of which was generated by Libby herself. And the cessation of human driven contact on her phone indicates TOD, close to 2:13 and nowhere near 5 pm on 2/13 or 4 am on 2/14.

Think about what happens to one's phone when left on a charger overnight. It doesn't move but apps are updated. Emails and messages are received. Busy phone, no one in possession of it.

It's only the Defense trying to manipulate the timeline.

JMO
The FBI or ISP wouldn’t punk about phone data. It doesn’t matter if apps were updated, messages or phone calls, etc., the phone pings if it is in the radius.

Phones are computers, part of their programming includes pinging towers when they are on.

If the phone pinged it was on, that is certain. Whether Libby was still alive or not is another issue. We only know the phone was on and in the area when it pinged. This is a huge deal re: Justice for Libby & Abby. The right perpetrator(s) need to be held accountable. There is zero reason to (allegedly) withhold such crucial information.
 
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