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The AG's ninety-four-page response to Richard Allen's appeal is built on one word used over and over — harmless. Every excluded witness. Every blocked piece of evidence. Every ruling that went against the defense at trial. Harmless error. But there are two factual problems that word cannot fix — and defense attorney Bob Motta starts there.
Problem one: the van timeline. The defense obtained surveillance footage and FBI cell phone data suggesting the van prosecutors placed near the Monon High Bridge arrived after Libby German's phone had already stopped moving. The State's response to this is not that the data is wrong — it is that the defense did not file its paperwork correctly. That is a procedural argument, not a factual one. The data either contradicts the State's timeline or it does not.
Problem two: the wrong cause of death. Richard Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German. They were not shot. They were killed with a blade. In ninety-four pages, the Indiana Attorney General does not explain why a man confessing to the murders he allegedly committed described a method of killing that did not happen. The confessions were the State's case. No DNA linked Allen to the crime scene. No murder weapon was recovered. No direct eyewitness placed him with the victims. If the confessions are unreliable, there is nothing underneath them.
Motta breaks down the full AG response across a three-part panel — the procedural waiver strategy designed to prevent the appeals court from reaching the substance, the State's argument that more than thirteen months in solitary confinement as a pretrial detainee does not constitute coercion, and the religious conversion theory offered to explain why Allen confessed. He examines the evidence the jury never heard — the Bridge Guy sketch, the firearms expert who would have challenged the bullet-matching evidence, the phone calls where Allen questioned his own sanity before and after confessing, and the alternative suspects with documented connections to the case whose interviews were destroyed.
Allen's attorneys have filed their reply brief and a motion requesting oral arguments before the appeals court. Three judges are reading documents. Allen is serving 130 years. The families of Abby and Libby were told a verdict meant closure. This appeal is testing whether that verdict was built on evidence or on what the jury was not allowed to see.
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The Medical Training Institute of America was IBLP's health authority. It issued guidance to families across the country on everything from childbirth to mental health. It operated without a single licensed doctor. Its publications replaced medicine with spiritual obedience — teaching that mental illness did not exist, that psychological suffering was a failure of faith, and that the body's problems were solved through submission to authority, not treatment by professionals.
This was not fringe material circulated on the margins. This was the curriculum used by the Duggar family and thousands of others enrolled in IBLP's Advanced Training Institute. The Wisdom Booklets taught that Cabbage Patch dolls caused difficult childbirth. That rock music was more addictive than crack cocaine. That adopted children carried inherited sin from their biological parents — and that families who adopted needed to identify those sins in advance so they could manage them. All of it printed. All of it taught to children. All of it treated as fact inside a system that positioned itself as God's design for family life.
But the pseudoscience was only the foundation. The real architecture was built on control — specifically, control over women and girls. Wisdom Booklet 15 quizzed children on "eye traps" in women's clothing, teaching girls that their bodies were responsible for the thoughts and actions of the men around them. Booklet 36 taught that a woman who does not cry out during an attack shares guilt with her attacker. That teaching was not hidden. It was printed in curriculum that children as young as five studied at kitchen tables across the country for decades.
Bill Gothard wrote it all. He was accused of sexual harassment by more than thirty women. He built a system that told girls their bodies caused sin, told them their silence was compliance, told them the authority above them could not be challenged — and then operated inside that system for decades before being removed. The modesty doctrine, the victim-blaming framework, and the fabricated medicine were not separate failures. They were one machine, designed to produce silence before it was ever needed.
The Duggar family brought this system to national television. The children raised inside it are still living with what it taught them.
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The initial 911 call described a home invasion. A man sobbing, barely able to speak, telling a dispatcher someone had broken into his house and shot his wife. Signs of forced entry at the scene. Two gunshot wounds. Only Caleb Flynn, Ashley Flynn, and their two elementary-age daughters were inside the home on Cunningham Court in Tipp City, Ohio, when it happened.
Three days later, Caleb was arrested. The eleven-count indictment that followed tells you where prosecutors believe this case actually lives — not in the home invasion story, but in the evidence they say dismantles it. Aggravated murder. Three counts of murder. Two counts of felonious assault. Three counts of tampering with evidence. Two misdemeanor counts of intimidating a witness. The tampering charges point directly at a prosecution theory of a staged crime scene. The intimidation charges suggest someone was pressured in the days after the killing. Prosecutors have also filed motions attempting to compel Apple, Verizon, WhatsApp, and Meta to comply with search warrants served in the days following the arrest.
Before the indictment, Caleb Flynn told a judge he just wanted to take care of his daughters. After the indictment, his bond jumped to $3.5 million and a no-contact order barred him from speaking to them. According to court filings submitted by Ashley's family, he was the primary beneficiary on her life insurance policy. He had left ministry — after years as a worship leader in Ohio and South Carolina — and was working as VP of Sales for his wife's family's commercial flooring company. The man who once auditioned for American Idol by telling a camera his wife was "very, very pretty" is now sitting in the Miami County Jail while her family builds legal protections for the two girls he says he wants to raise.
Ashley Flynn was thirty-seven. Eight days from her birthday. A Tipp City native who came home after college and stayed. Teacher. Volleyball coach. Bible instructor. The community response after her death passed $175,000 in donations from more than 1,400 people. Benefit dinners. T-shirt fundraisers. Businesses redirecting profits. The church cancelled the public memorial and replaced it with a private service. Ashley's family went to court and secured protections for her daughters without waiting for a verdict.
Trial is approaching. Flynn has pled not guilty. His attorney has publicly criticized the pace of the investigation and raised concerns about a rush to judgment.
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Cadaver dogs alerted at four locations across Don Studey's property in Green Hollow, Iowa. The FBI drilled. After three days, they packed up and said they found nothing. Lucy Studey-McKiddy — the daughter who has been alleging since 2007 that her father killed dozens of women and buried them in wells on that land — says they searched the wrong well. The property spans over four hundred and twenty acres. The investigation that was supposed to answer decades of allegations barely scratched the surface.
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta — host of Defense Diaries — spent sixteen months on the ground investigating this case before anyone with a camera showed up. He drove six hours after reading a Newsweek article about Lucy's allegations. He spent over a hundred hours probing her story. When the FBI moved in, he got waved past a checkpoint in a rental Caprice that looked like a cop car and watched the dig from the fence line. A deputy told him the first victim of John Wayne Gacy was from Green Hollow and related to the Studey family — a connection nobody had publicly reported. In Tabor and Thurman, locals lined up to tell Bob their stories. Don Studey was the man everyone in those towns was warned about.
The allegations are staggering in scope. Lucy says her father targeted vulnerable women near bus stops and truck stops in the Omaha area — women who disappeared without anyone looking for them. She says she carried bags of lye to the well as a child. She says she thought every trip might be her last. Don's sister Marilyn Kepler reportedly wrote a hundred-and-sixty-eight-page journal describing alleged killings and told investigators the count could reach a hundred. Bob uncovered alleged ties to the Kansas City mob and an unsolved robbery connected to Studey.
The documented deaths of Don's own wives form their own pattern. His wife Lucy reportedly died by hanging in 1970 — Lucy McKiddy says her father told her for decades he choked her too hard. His wife Charlotte reportedly died from a rifle shot to the head in 1984. She was five-two. Nothing was documented at the scene that she could have used to trigger the weapon. That death was classified as self-inflicted until a 2023 re-autopsy found a possible defensive wound and reclassified the manner of death as undetermined. The original crime scene and autopsy photos are missing from Omaha police records.
Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Drake examines the behavioral evidence — what the pattern of deaths around Studey tells an investigator, what the FBI's abbreviated dig reveals about how the case was prioritized, and whether the evidence Lucy and Marilyn have provided meets the threshold that should have triggered a far more aggressive investigation.
Lucy's sister Susan says it is all a lie. The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders is now streaming with new witnesses and alleged accomplice testimony. No bodies have been recovered. The wells have not been fully searched. Bob says this case is not finished.
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On January 20, 2021, Sandra Birchmore's friend called the Stoughton Police Department and reported Matthew Farwell's relationship with Sandra. The department employee who took the call told Farwell. Eleven days later, Sandra was dead.
That is the institutional failure at the center of this case — and everything that follows flows from it. Sandra was making plans. She believed Farwell was coming around. She had contacted lawyers. Prosecutors say she was building a child-support strategy and was prepared to disclose that Farwell had been involved with her since she was underage — since she was a fifteen-year-old enrolled in the department's Police Explorers youth program and he was a twenty-seven-year-old instructor. For a married detective whose wife was also pregnant, Sandra represented an existential threat to his career, his marriage, and his freedom.
According to prosecutors, Farwell told three separate people what he was thinking. He said if Sandra did not end the pregnancy, he would "take care of the problem himself." He told another he needed to "put crazy back in the bag." He told a third that "the problem was going to take care of itself." Those are not the words of a man managing a personal situation. Those are, according to prosecutors, the words of someone building toward a decision.
At 9:27 PM on February 1, Farwell entered Sandra's Canton apartment building. At 9:56 PM, he left. Sandra's phone recorded its final movements while he was still inside. She was found three days later wearing the same clothes. Her death was ruled something other than homicide for years — despite the forensic record prosecutors have now assembled.
Farwell's DNA was found on the duffel bag strap prosecutors say was used to strangle her. His sperm cells were in her underwear, contradicting his stated timeline. Sandra's right clavicle showed an injury sustained while she was alive, matching the buckle behind her head — evidence prosecutors say proves the position in which she was found was staged. A broken pink flamingo necklace she regularly wore was found tangled in her hair on the bedroom floor. And at a private gathering after Sandra's death, an inebriated Farwell reportedly demonstrated how she supposedly died — describing details that had not been publicly released.
DNA testing confirmed Farwell was not the biological father of Sandra's unborn son. Both he and Sandra believed he was. Prosecutors say that belief is what drove him to act — and that the institution Sandra trusted to protect her is the one that ensured she never had the chance to protect herself.
Farwell has pled not guilty. His defense asserts Sandra took her own life.
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