I’m just going off what I have heard so far about his confessions and his mental state during said confessions.
Have you heard what the warden had to say or just what the Defens teams accusations are?
I have seen first hand how solitary confinement can take the most hardened lifelong criminals (nearly the opposite of Richard Allen) and completely break them in less than a month.
He was not really in solitary. He had his own tablet to make calls and was offered his own tv.
I have also personally suffered a psychotic break with reality, twice. One time I was fully convinced I had been shot in the head even thought I hadn’t had contact with anyone, in my mind I truly believed a biker gang had came and shot me. I ended up laying on the sidewalk without a shadow of a doubt that I had been shot in my head and I was currently dying, going so far as to wish that I could have a chance to say goodbye to my daughter until police and paramedics showed up, they put me in a 8 point restraint and even in the ambulance when the paramedic was trying to give me a shot of whatever calms you down I thought he was part of said biker gang and was there to finish the job.
Needless to say, none of this really happened and if nothing that I said while suffering that psychotic episode should in any way whatsoever be interpreted as reality.
I'm sorry you went through that. It's good to see you safe and sound now.
This is why it is so interesting to me that Richard Allen confessed to killing his family,
I think we will find that he never actually confessed to killing his family. I think the context of the conversation with Dr Wala will show that he was using the word as a figure of speech, not as a literal confession.
Dr Wala did not call to check on the family's well being. She did not see it as a confession either.
that’s the type of thing I can imagine someone suffering a psychotic episode to say and I am sure at the time that the accusations made against him were weighing extremely heavy on his mind.
Or possibly, his prior actions were weighing heavily upon his mind?
Add on to this we know that he was literally eating his own feces
Again, we don't know that for sure yet.
and paperwork and smashing his head against the wall it paints the picture of a completely mentally broken man,
And yet his own psychiatrist testified that she sometimes thought he was malingering.
and nothing said by him during the time he was locked down in solitary confinement having a psychotic break should be taken as truth.
And from the only 2 confessions we heard, which are he shot the girls in the back and buried them in a shallow grave
From what I understand, that one was not recorded but was a 2nd hand description, by an inmate, who overheard him saying something like this. So that is possibly unreliable.
and that he murdered his family, we know that those are NOT true.
YES, we know that is not true, and from what was reported, he was not confessing to actually killing his family.
I'm pretty sure we will be hearing audio tapes of him confessing, to his wife and mother, while in sound mind, and with correct facts.
Whether he is guilty or not is another story completely. In my opinion, taking the ramblings of a man who’s having a mental breakdown in solitary confinement in a maximum security state prison as evidence is harrowing.
Reportedly, in 2019 he sought help for mental health issues and checked in for treatment. So his mental breakdown was not necessarily from incarceration.
And he was not really in solitary confinement. He had his own tablet which allowed him to call out and so he could call his wife or parents or friends anytime he wanted to. He could also watch films or read books or listen to music. And his psychiatrist visited him every day. And he had 24/7 trustees right outside his cell, as suicide watch.
So he was not in a dark hole, locked away in solitary with no human contact. That is a misnomer. I'm sure it was depressing but he did have ways to reach out whenever he wanted to.
