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Marianne O’Donnell

Television producer

Oct 1, 2026

19:36
Tell us about them and how they factored into everything.
19:39
So what's unusual here is when a suspect is arrested for a violent crime, they're usually detained at a county jail.
19:47
Not so in this case.
19:49
From day one, he is housed at a prison in solitary confinement.
19:54
Well, While Richard Allen is incarcerated, he makes a series of phone calls, confessions that he, in fact, did kill these girls.
20:03
And he even confesses to his prison psychologist and says, yeah, I did this.
20:09
So those become critical evidence in the prosecution's case against him.
23:04
So, Marianne, who else did the defense say that this man could be? Did they bring up a name?

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