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Podcast: Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers
Episode: Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott Breaks Down The Initial Delphi Police Interrogation of Richard Allen
Description: Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott Breaks Down The Initial Delphi Police Interrogation of Richard Allen
How do you get a man to confess to something he didn’t do? Easy—just throw every shady interrogation tactic in the book at him and hope something sticks.
When Richard Allen was brought in for questioning about the alleged Delphi murders of Abby and Libby, the detectives didn’t exactly hold back. They leaned hard into psychological warfare: outdated Law & Order tricks, misleading “evidence,” and emotional manipulation that made it feel more like a 1950s TV drama than a modern investigation. With no confess...