Allen began murdering teenage girls and young women at the age of 16.
He would first video himself having sex with the girls - sometimes by force, sometimes by manipulation, and sometimes consensual - before killing them. He would either kill with his bare hands (i.e. by beating somebody to death, strangling or suffocating them) or he would use an object in his surroundings (i.e. a piece of wood, a bed sheet, even his own camera) to attack his victims with. He never carried a weapon. None of the girls bodies have ever been found aside from that of his first victim, Loren Davies (a 20 year old aspiring adult film star). By the time the FBI identified some of the locations where murders had taken place, it was usually weeks, months, or even years after the crime had occurred. No physical evidence of Allen (fingerprints, hair, etc.) was ever uncovered at any of the murder sites aside from the location where Loren was murdered. |
Allen has murdered at least 22 girls. After videotaping
his victims and disposing of their bodies he would rent movies on VHS tapes and record the videos of his murders over the rented tapes before returning the tapes to stores. Allen would usually rent older films, which caused it to take several weeks before his first video was ever discovered by a customer. After Allen left his group home (located in Colorado) he traveled through several more of the Mountain States murdering young women and teenagers (ages 13-23) before ending up in California, where he spent the majority of his time. He then traveled through Oregon and snatched his last victim in Kelso, Washington. |