Content warning, this episode contains discussion of murder, including the murder of two children.

As the elected prosecutor of Carroll County, Indiana, Nicholas McLean is one of the central figures in the Delphi murders case.

Back in 2022, he brought charges against Richard Allen for the murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams.

He shepherded the case through years of pretrial hearings and filings, and a trial that lasted weeks.

Finally, he and his deputy prosecutor, Stacey Deiner, and James Luttrell, secured a conviction.

McLeeland first became the county's prosecutor at the end of 2017, well after the murders.

On December 2nd, 2017, the Carroll County Republican Party voted to select McLean to replace

prosecutor Robert Ives, who resigned in the middle of a term.

After the conclusion of Ives' term, McLeod was elected to the office.

Before that, he was a local defense attorney who earned his undergraduate degree from Indiana

University in Bloomington and secured a law degree from the University of Toledo.

As prosecutor, McLeodin kept in close contact with the investigative team on the Delphi case.

We will be the first to say that we are guilty of having underestimated prosecutor

McLean earlier in our coverage of this case.

Around the time of the probable cause affidavit being sealed, we had concerns.

The Delphi murders trial was shaping up to be a monster.

And we wondered, why is this prosecutor sealing the PCA?

We pretty much posited on this show about whether or not he was up for the challenge or if the case

itself was weak. Our opinions of Prosecutor McLean started to sharply shift after the safekeeping

hearing in June of 2023. In that pretrial hearing, Prosecutor McLean pretty deftly

knocked down all of the claims the defense team had been making. We were impressed.

Since then, Prosecutor McLeeland has done most of his talking in the courtroom and in legal filings,

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