Re: Re: Delphi IN murders thread

Original thread is locked now, but I want to bump it -- The appeal was finally filed, available online.

Remember the seemingly outlandish nonsense about Odinist pagan rituals? Page 52 to about 57 has some very chilling information that makes it very clear that "nonsense" wasn't outlandish at all.

Original thread: Delphi IN murders

Search Results for Appeal
go to the entry from 12/18/2025 and click the 'Brief - Appellant' link. It won't allow a direct URL for the file.
Appeal brief (113 pages PDF. warning - pretty graphic descriptions of psychosis):

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During his interview, Holder reported being involved in a pagan “tribe”, Ex. V, 154, and spending “every weekend” in Delphi, engaging in pagan rituals with Westfall and five or six others, including women. Ex. V, 154; Ex. II, 86. These rituals involved animal sacrifice and human bloodletting. Ex. III, 36; Tr. VI, 146. Holder admitted knowing about A.W. and L.H. relationship, but he denied ever meeting her. Ex. V, 154. Law enforcement recorded Holder’s interview, but the Delphi Police recorded over their only copy before August 2017, permanently deleting it. Ex. II, 92. Only a one-page narrative remains. Ex. V, 154. According to that narrative, Holder told police he owned a .40 caliber Smith and Wesson, Id., but law enforcement never collected it. Ex. V, 170-71. Nor did they collect his cellphone. Tr. IV, 159, 168, 178.

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When the State moved to exclude any reference to the State’s investigation into third parties, App. VIII, 49-50, the trial court held a hearing on the motion in July 2024. Tr. IV, 78. At the hearing, Holder’s wife testified that in 2018, Holder told her he “had a fight” with Westfall “because [Westfall] wanted to up from animal slaughter to a different type of sacrifice. Id. 139-140. She also testified that Holder claimed that “[Westfall] killed A.W.” “with others,” and that she needed to keep her mouth shut about it. Tr. VI, 141

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