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in all states and situations. I'll see you later and I just tears me up .

because .

then tell her good, I I didn't tell her lover.

This is a sinter scene.

IT is we see footprint in blood on the floor. We see handprint. IT was pretty evident that there was some type of struggle.

She's a beloved teacher.

and now she's been murdered.

We'd had no idea what was happening.

Three people in this family were within the household while this murder was going on. Somebody would hurt something nobody do.

How could you not hear screaming if he is .

being attacked? So they think printed as, did you have anything to do to mom? Did you kill your mom? They asked my siblings that obviously, as my dad.

that and I was waiting for the .

cuff to come out.

somebody came me and they knew what they were after .

somebody out of control and rage never seen anything like IT or never heard of anything like IT.

A mother in teacher murdered in a crime no one heard, no one saw with a twist no one could predict. I'm lester hoped, and this is deadline.

Here's andrey accounting with the footprint .

at the lake.

Like most small towns in north texas, the people of honey spend their fridays during on the high school football all team. And the only cubs need all the help they can get.

At one point, we were round to number three in the state for the longest, losing straight.

But winter loose, there was one cheerleader who never gave up on teacher manella Allen. Do you remember miss Allen and stands cow?

Well, I was here that over the band sometimes.

Gan wilk was on the team.

Everyone loved this island.

That's why what happened to mrs. Allen was so devastating. So be wild. Dering IT was sunday, july seventh, nineteen. Manella's husband Peter, also a teacher, says he was awake, surfing the web in the living room with A T, V. On a little before nine A M, his teenage daughter kira popped into the room.

Ra comes to me and he says, dad, where is what .

I think she's .

in the bedroom probably. Well, he is dead. The doors locked, like we'll go through the garage and check .

on our their house has an unusual layout. There's a second door to the bedroom that's attached to the garage by way of a small laundry room here. Went around .

to check place blood.

a lot of IT, but no manella. What are you thinking? nothing. My mind was .

blank because I had no idea what could possibly occurred.

Not only was manua gone, so was her car. Peter says. The only thing that made sense in that confusing moment was that maybe his wife had driven herself to the emergency room.

Did he cut herself really badly? And what in this room could SHE cut herself on?

So you're thinking she's been injured?

yes. Somehow.

judge and she's driving herself the hospital. Peter and his daughter race to the local hospital. Manua wasn't there. Once back home, he called the police.

I do not decried IT. My wife is missing in a blood all over a bedroom.

Minutes later, an officer from the only police department arrived. Body camp rolling.

What gone on this morning? I have no idea. A wife, a government I did.

And where is mom? I just in the world sleep on and you know the door lot I said on a cat, look, okay. And I have no have .

with around the officer .

followed Peter inside.

Okay, here.

Shows to be .

a White ark of passing and change after.

Are you in full panic mode?

No, that's not my personality.

There's blood in the bedroom. Your wife's is missing. Her cars gone. I aren't you thinking something really terrible has happened .

because I don't freeze up, I don't lock up, I stop and try to reason through the situation.

Peter Allen served in the military, dealt with explosives. He's not one to panic. Rol sergeant dan burden of the Young county sharif .

office was next .

to arrive dagher and .

may contact with mister Allen, who's in the living room with his daughter hera. I asked them to step outside to get them outside of the house, and then I find out that the sounds arian and is still upstairs in his bedroom.

And good step out here on the port.

and I proceed upstairs to go get darian.

What's darian doing when you get upstairs?

His on his video game, head phone on playing video.

has no idea. No idea happening in the floor beneath them.

right?

Darian was almost twenty at the time. The surgeon told him to head downstairs.

I was like, why? And he was like, what we can answer any questions right now and I was like, what can I at least get dressed, put on some clothes like.

now you got the house, okay?

They were like, yeah, we can get hold her either like phones just off. Don't know where he is.

and we've tried looking .

around last night. Hi.

can you pink .

a phone? Where are testing to locate her? So I check both hospitals here and then find anything.

Peter, the military guy who said he had nerves of steel and had been a Green barrie, was now on the verge of cracking work day .

to work for one of the few times in my life, have never been actually scarred by the only few times. But I can't let that fear with me because i've got, define my wife.

What on earth that happened to manual .

Allen through the us, which the grow out the back door?

Lu tenant David wilk happened to be driving through the tiny town of oli that sunday morning. You're probably thinking to yourself, this is just going to be a slow day.

typical. Yes, that's what i'd like to on a sunday.

He worked for a neighboring county, so he hadn't heard about the police activity .

at the Allen residence. I came through only and saw saw crime tape up around mr. mr.

Allen house. So I pulled over and talk to one. The city offers that I know asked him what was going on on.

Is everything okay with the kids? What are you told? I'm told at the time that mrs. Allen was missing and IT doesn't look good.

The news was upsetting and personal. He knew mr. Allen knew the entire Allen family.

mr. mr. Allen were both teachers in the school district and the kids we knew. I knew them through fine children.

The tenant, wk. Sun, is Morgan, the student in football player from only high school. Morgan thought the world of mrs. Allen.

he was always laughing of another singer has like a bad day.

Mono, as he was called, grew up in a bavarian village in southern germany. In college, he came to the united states to study english, and that's when he met Peter.

My wife was strikingly gorgeous, just beautiful. I seen they're rocking up the stairs. And even though there was almost thirteen years ago and tell you he had a red t shirt on with biker shorts that were multi color, beautiful blond hair.

youtube fell in love in this short period of time. And IT was enough for .

her to up router life and move to america.

Mono encouraged him to become a teacher. He taught math. SHE taught german in english. They rounded each other out at home and at school.

if you wanted the truth, the hard, cold truth you came to mister ada, if you wanted the hard, cold truth told me a very gentle and loving way you went to.

Missing there is this one kid everyday. Give a hug everyday.

She's one of those teacher.

Yes, everyday you always have a smile on her face.

Your mom sounds very playful. Sense of humor. Oh, yes.

You could usually hear her on the other side of the hallway in between classes, just cracking up with other kids choose loud, but the was also very caring.

In addition to caring for the kids at school, mono and Peter had four children of their own, ka darian and also melani, a recent high school graduate, and William, the eldest money like looking up for the teenagers who seemed to need, at the most.

he was accepting, of all people viral.

will overtime is a family friend.

And, uh, you get one car that was maybe now on the outside, SHE would bring a man, help him succeed, or if they needed, that included students .

like her daughter melloni, SE boyfriend, a football player who struggled at school and at home. Peter remembers a time the boyfriend showed up at his door in the middle of the night.

My wife is one of said, i'd let him stay. So we had taken a man when he needed IT .

SHE cheered him on the same way SHE rooted for the rest of the only cubs. One story that I absolutely love is mono cheering the on with her cowbell.

I hate that.

I love IT.

You weren't the one city next year, right? I lost to have my hearing because.

Because both of the islands were teachers, they had summers off. And in the summer of twenty nineteen, Peter monie, when their daughter had spent three weeks visiting monos family in germany, they've been home for a few days. And then IT was that saturday night Peter says he had some drinks and laid down on the couch.

game and game, a kiss good night said good night went bit.

Now IT was morning, and mono was gone in her place. Blood and investigators were trying to make sense of what they were hearing from the family.

Just stay here. I'm going to just can't walk around. As we enter into the kitchen, we see footprint in blood on the floor.

And then as we start working our way towards the bedroom, we see hand prints that appear that the person holding onto the door jam was drug back towards the bedroom. IT was pretty evident that there was some type of struggle. Cross the hallway, there was black on the carpet, there was more blood on the door. We get into the bedroom and we see a large pulling a blood at that location.

He noticed that monos bed was bare and the shets were missing. And in the adjacent laundry room there was a clue on the floor. Bloody greg Marks .

the rug where he was drug out the back door.

body being drag.

being drag.

As he surveyed the scene and spoke to the family, the investigator just knew this missing person's case was not likely to end well, and everyone in that house was going to have .

to start answering questions. Somebody is more.

Mario Allen was missing and her home was a crime scene.

Smart and killed in the bedroom on. They have tracks. Go along the side of the house here, like somebody called around, loaded around.

The only police department needed help. And IT came by way of Michael shrub of the texas rangers.

I was actually at church and received a call regarding A A missing person.

Any other details are just, please come on over .

here I was told there was a whole lot of blood to saying they just felt that was a very suspicious circumstance .

while other rangers went to assist the surgeon at the house, ranger rob headed to the share of office to meet the family.

I just wanted to get a baseline story from everybody so that we would know where to go after we investigated the singing itself. Mon's daughter .

kr was just .

one day shy of her sixteen th birthday in a near whisper. SHE told the ranger about the night before he said, SHE come home late from her boyfriend's .

house like fifty. So I live in fifty years. So you were home who was at home when you got. Did you see both them?

Peter actually open the door, let her in, and then he went to her bedroom and then start a face time. And with her boyfriend that he had just left and SHE described, just basically .

fall asleep with face time run, I got ready to go to him. And I went to go permanent cloth in the washington am and go to my house from, because I have to go there to get to IT. And the door is all going to try to go in there. And usually it's not so I asked by that where he was as he, but really confused that he just told me to go check, run.

Then kr explained how he went through the other bedroom .

door and saw the bloody .

mess SHE also saw a knife and course, or any movie anyone's .

watching you, you scream at the TV don't touch the knife.

but information I needed to have.

So what had happened in that bedroom? Kara said he had no idea. SHE hadn't heard a thing .

that was very odd to me, because her bedroom literally shared a wall with a master bedroom.

Does seem like if there was a violent struggle, someone would hear something.

The only thing I could thank you on that is I know how kora was, but and a lot of teenagers can can sleep through anything, figure out the circus. But what.

About the husband whose own story put him right down the hall at the share of office, Peter repeated what he told arriving officers how he had spent the night on the couch. He said that was Normal for them.

One with two. I okay.

three I have 你 没有 问。

And like his daughter, Peter said he didn't hear anything unusual coming from the bedroom all night. The living room couch where he slept is down the hall from the bedroom.

You would think that situation, somebody were heard, something nobody did by this time.

District attorney D. P, V. And assistant da phillip gregory had been out to look at the scene.

There was so much blood, you head of heard something and IT was just concerning to everybody involved where mister Allen was sleeping on a within twenty twenty five feet of a major crime, saying, this is not a large house.

I was just completely taken a back that I really did not know how to take that at the time. But facts were unfolding.

The story sounded far fetched. So naturally the rangers started asking questions about the state of Peter and monos marriage.

SHE involved with anybody else? Did you suspect that you involved .

with anybody else?

Did you suspect in old school, roman, okay, from germany, in the area that will, for the thirty years, go to church every sunday?

No, I think .

he also asked about mon's relationship .

with their four children.

any to a flick.

And ah you.

My wife and what is the same, but he is now built by the tack moa big day. Somebody feel.

SHE couldn't have out.

but before the ranger .

could prove any deeper, there was a knock at the door. They're been a .

discovery this .

to be at looking .

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After learning his friend money was missing the lootenant from the county next door, David wilk join the search. He was asked to check a popular swimming all north of all me called lake Cooper. Why lake Cooper?

Maybe because that's where folks would go to get away from town. Anything I can come up with.

Right, as he pulled up to the lake, he spots something, a White S, U, V, the same type of cars monos.

Soon as I came onto the lake, I could see IT across over here, park, right about here to my left.

So the S. U, V was here. Could you tell if he was in the S. U.

V at person? No, I have to get out and check.

Wilk switched on his body. Cam walked up .

there and there is nobody in around the vehicle. Does anything?

Looks suspicious with the vehicle .

the way it's part, the damage IT had and how a high center. And then there was a smear on the left side of the vehicle that looked like dry blood.

This was a surprise to the luu tenant. He hadn't been told about all the blood back at the house. Now you're thinking this could be a crime scene.

Sea, yes, man, there somebody got hurt or whatever. So I call in the tag number is going to be texas linking sam Victor verify IT with our dispatch .

in our account that if they .

are looking for yes.

do you just start looking around like, is SHE somewhere in the vin?

That's what i'm thinking. Maybe somebody, maybe there was a medical issue or something. So I start looking around.

And over here between these trees, I see what looks like material cloth sheet. And I walked down this little path right here up to the bar. Bar fans made a left, and that's why, why I found this is Allen.

Oh my god. Trees .

monella. Allen was dead, her body wrapped in her own blood stained bed sheet. You know, mrs. Allen, how chilling is this, that you're now seeing a body that you know when your heart is her?

At this point, I am more concerned first, like I got to protect a crime scene.

Hi.

this is going to be .

the one is looking for.

Just heart breaking because you know what's next? You know that what the family doesn't know, they're about to know. Yes, and the kids are.

Within minutes, texas rangers were on the scene, as was sergeant burbeck. What had been a missing person's case that morning was, by afternoon, a homicide. This investigation is rapidly unfolding.

very rapidly. We have two crime .

scenes now. Mono had been stabbed and shot. Her body partially covered.

The killer took the time to take plants, or yuko plants, and uncover her face with them.

Investigators also noticed this, a footprint in the mud next to their victims vehicle, and a few feet away, another clue.

one of the investigators came across a bicycle track in the dirt leading away from where the car was part.

Your killer could have left ed on a bicycle. Find that bicycle. Find your killer correct down at the share of office where monos husband was being interviewed, bring your shop was asked to step out of the room. That's when the ranger learned money's body had been found. How does the interview change then when you now have this information and you have to walk back in to see Peter .

and continue this point, I had to tell him wife had been murdered, but at the same time I didn't know if he was the one. I did that. So it's a delicate situation, because are you dealing with a victim and the situation, or 没什么 事？ They they have fill her vehicle where .

to .

neighboring and there's a body next .

to IT yeah but we have a confirmed .

hundred percent to determined consider the circumstances we believe IT is. We have people. There will be a criminal investigation.

yeah.

Is so your house will be part of the crime saying.

of course, monos children had to be told as well shrub often to do IT. But Peter said he wanted to break the .

news himself OK, I let's .

take .

that maybe.

Great using .

by now the Allen .

son William and daughter melani, who'd been out of town, had joined jian and kara.

They were waiting in a room down the I had, I had called him all my kids over. I gave me ala OK held him, we all help each other. And I said, they just told me, your mother is dead. Mother is dead.

That's the most difficult thing of father. Whatever have to do.

叶问， 你。 你的。 IT were meeting ranger.

Shrub was watching the scene unfold.

I kept the video running because I wanted to be able look at those reactions in, as we do know who was responsible.

For this.

They all started .

crying my own.

my daughter jara kind of collapsed on the floor.

Did you see any of family members acting unusual or anything that struck you from that video?

IT did .

immediately .

noticed that her son was kind of away from everybody else.

Dan, the son police had found playing video games in his room. What would his story be?

In the very begin interview he was visibly shaking, which concerned me.

Jian Allen remembers that like IT was yesterday, the moment his father told him in his siblings, their mother had been murdered.

I was so crushed that I. Didn't know how to emotionally react. I didn't start crying. I just stopped doing anything really like this isn't .

happening.

Yeah, he was just like all the air just got sucked out to me and just, there's nothing. This is not real darian .

SAT alone .

on the floor while his dad and siblings comforted one another.

I definite thought I was od at the time. He was something that I noted to myself personally. I thought strange.

was he considered a suspect at all, a person of interest .

at that point? Everybody in the house is definite a persons interest, one of them long with care and Peter .

ranger shob pulled daring aside to talk in another room. His body camera still rolling.

In the very beginning the interview, he was visibly shaking, which concern he might have something to do with. Why just that? That reaction, I have to then decide as he visibly shaking, because his mother was modeled that day, and the emotional stress, everything, or is IT because he get something to do with IT.

He asked darren where he'd been the night before. Darran told us the same story. He told the ranger he got home from a friends around eleven thirty. He couldn't sleep and spent the entire night awake in his room. What are you doing in your room?

I was just playing video games just happen from one to the other. Take a break is snack. Try to falsely just kept going back in a bill cycle of play. Eat attempt was going .

on that night that you.

I can tell you, I .

just can .

sleep. I just felt off.

He says he heard a rustling coming from the kitchen sometime between three and five A M.

I thought I was my dad, like rifling through the silver war, which is kind of like the clinking a metal. And I was like, well, he's awake. Get himself snacks. So didn't think .

anything of IT.

T, T, T.

if there was a violent struggle in that small house, you would think that you would hear something.

Yeah, you would think in that situation, somebody would heard something, never say anything like you, and never heard anything .

like daring until the investigator. He and his mom were close, but they didn't exactly see I to ee on his future.

he. Can I will disagree me because I I don't want to go to college, but you want.

The ranger noticed a mark on the ian hand.

Yes, he described the blister .

was .

more in the yard and so worth which yes, could be understandable, worn a blister could also be left from stab in somebody, potentially the f rub on inside .

your hand.

The ranger also spoke to the other Allen kids. Twenty one year old William was on his own, no longer living in the house.

Any idea who may be responsible .

for this? I he .

also spoke to melani.

SHE was eighteen years old and had just graduated from high school.

and melani .

was away .

for the weekend with friends the night of the murder.

You think that sponsible for IT abouts .

ly have no need, because everyone, everyone only. IT was late in the day when .

the whole family was allowed to leave the share of office. Their house was still a crime scene. They had nowhere to go. Their whole world in pieces.

Everything got just not even flip upside down was like just shoved in a box, box shaking and then just thrown IT everywhere. And you just left to cana pick up the pieces and try to put that back out was but some pieces are missing, some are destroyed. And you just do not given a guy on how to do IT.

The family spent the united a friend's airbnb by the next morning, monos murder was rocking the town of only. And all the kids who've loved her .

as a teacher was this like, almost like a tornado went through only everyone is all confused. S we don't .

always going on. Was everyone instantly scared.

scared in shock? Like, why would we go? Furness Allen.

students, parents, football fans, everyone in the enforcement knew their town would never be the same.

IT hits you more in a small community when something happens, because if you don't know that person, you know someone that does know that person. IT just has the ripple effect .

only is small town america. You know.

you've got the potential of a killer still running around in the streets. So you're filling the external pressure from the community to get that done. And then you have the the internal pressure um is an investigator or a prosecutor to make sure done right.

And the more they look to the evidence, the more convinced they were that monos killer was someone close to her.

There was no sign of first tree.

Someone was either inside or they knew how to get into that house.

correct? Yeah, somebody knew what they were doing, where they were going.

They even know, wear, manufacture car keys.

Investigator saw a trail of .

bloody footprints that LED right from the bedroom to those keys in the kitchen.

The keys were always kept by the refrigerator, and that was would have been something that would have been known to the family.

The day after the murder, the medical examiner performed the autopsy.

SHE had been stabbed forty seven times. There had been strangulation involved. SHE had also received stabbings to the back of the head, which just seemed very, very violent.

So she's been stabbed dozens of times, strangled, shot in the face. Forgive my choice of words. Why the overkill?

It's personal. Whoever did this was very angry.

The clues at the lake where her body was dumped to reinforce that idea, mono knew her killer.

the effort that was taken at the scene where he was covered, and then plans were put on her. That all took time. And typically, somebody that has no vested interest in the victim is not gonna that time to do those types of things.

So who would do that? Investigators thought they had a pretty good idea, because back at the house, the evidence seemed to be pointing toward one person.

Okay, why would somebody put on your socks and kill your? I have no.

From the moment they set foot on the island's property, investigators had a hunch about who was responsible for what happened there. The husband.

I actually pulled officer card to the side and told him, and I said, I think that we might be dealing with our suspect, Peter.

Why did you feel that way?

From experience and dealing with different crime scenes in the past, IT felt like the information that he was giving us was trying to throw us in a different direction than what had actually occurred.

The corner let investigators know that mono had defensive wounds on her hands. This had not been a quick struggle. How could you not hear your wife screaming if she's being attacked? Sounds crazy.

Five .

days in, investigators asked Peter to come back down to the share of office.

I have interview with a people going into .

the second interview. Did you think Peter was probably guilty?

That was a good possibility. absolutely.

What is the strategy this time?

I tried to just put little more pressure on in. Another ranger actually did that interview at my request. The goal there was to see what type reaction he gave.

The conversation .

was friendly. At first, Peter opened up about how hard things had been since the murder.

You need some planet, you the .

of five dates.

And he made IT clear he wanted .

whoever was responsible to pay.

The ranger walked him through his whole story again.

when was the last time you saw you? what?

They talked .

for hours during .

during the day.

never done for probably four.

five hours .

right now. Talk and that think there's more to IT than what you're telling me. And to there were so many details .

the rangers are thought were suspicious, starting with Peter's assumption that his wife had cut herself and drove off to the hospital.

We hold us .

to the the emerging, the olding.

Normally a person I thought would have called then one one and reported the same that they found. But no, I did not make sense.

Like you must be thinking, I mean, wasn't SHE wake up her husband and say, i've hurt myself. I need help. Can you drive me to the hospital or can you call nine one one? Yeah.

know whoever was that? What was not what? Because that too much IT .

was even more far fetched because Peter said he was a Green berry who'd seen .

fatal injuries to because of your train. I didn't know that too. I thought my wife was hurt, and I was hoping a praying he was hurt. Nobody want to think that their wife has been murdered in their house while they sit in the liver. What kind of a man music can make me feel like knowing that I was sitting in there while some was in a killing in my wife?

As Peter went over the details of that night, there was something else that didn't make sense.

anything he said that .

morning, around five A M, he heard his wife's car cafe.

Your .

self, I know SHE mild, but that that .

makes sense. But we just been shot in the day .

before work.

None of this makes sense to me.

None of IT. Why would .

Peter hear that? Not a violent murder and progress in this second interview? Peter did recall hearing something in the house that night, after all, a thomp.

I heard a little thought.

but I thought when my son coming down from web stairs, and that was IT going to be there.

they also press them about some other details, like the footprints leading straight from the bedroom to the kitchen. Peter would know where his wife kept car keys.

People don't go spring the house. No exactly your keys to still the data keys either.

And then there, in the interview room, the ranger had a surprise for Peter. They had found a sock in the bedroom covered in blood and thought that soft matched some of the killers footprints. Turns out IT was a specific kind of compression sock.

Peter war, the person who did is did not breaking into your house and put on your socks into your wife. IT IT didn't happen. Hi Peter.

I did not hurt my wife. I don't, I can not explain this. I don't know what happened. Okay, why would somebody put on your socks and kill your life? Where in your .

socks socks sense, he didn't make .

any sense listening in the your room, put on your socks, kill your wife, go in to kids where nobody know except for you and your kids, and leave without let anybody, without anybody can IT makes no sense at all idea. I did not harm my wife.

What do you make of Peter and his answers and his demeanor with the pressure that's being put on him?

Peter often brought up in a past military training, so wasn't sure if he was just covering up what he done. One is able to stay calm and collected as he'd been trying to do in stressful situations, or if he was an insect party.

When this thing comes to ahead, and a jury believes, used there to have forty six hours, they put you in the light chair, I did, you feel like his.

his denials, his answers seem genuine.

I did not know at that point.

I'm innocent, and I know IT and .

my kids know IT.

And if I lose.

I lose.

If you put in elected chair, I lose my kids, my kids and your father, but at least I go .

down knowing that I didn't do this and had nothing to do with this.

After more than five hours, Peter was free to leave.

You let him go. Official system is if you don't have enough, then you have to let them go. That's what we did and get going forward with the investigation.

Turns out someone else close to Peter was going to do some investigating too.

I said on the couch and I had daring one of the back. IT was not his bedroom as a scream at me. Scream is like you can.

Mono Allen had been dead for five days when her husband Peter walked out of his second marathon interview with police. Are you feeling like I suspect number one here? Yeah.

I was waiting for the .

cuff to come out. They're just .

turning up the heat on you. Oh yeah, they tried. I didn't care if they thought I was a suspect, because I expected them to think I was a suspect.

IT only made sense. The one who uses is, is the spouse. So I fully expected word spreads .

that your dad might have done this. How are you all dealing with out IT was very.

very irritating ating. Because there's just all over the facebook and social media, people say husband to daughter, and there is people I know and had worked part time job with through saying he was me.

Why were people saying you do IT?

I don't know. I really know the one. I I remember hearing a friend tell me one of his coal workers said that there was me just know. I guess I always gave him a weird vibe or something.

But IT wasn't just town gossips making wild gases. Peters close friend, viral wAlbert is a former police chief who knows a thing or two about homicide investigations. And like Peter, he's retired military. He knows what kind of training Peters had.

He has certain capability.

You're thinking he might have done that .

and thinking maybe that might happen in my line of work are seeing people they very voted each other, suddenly have problems.

Burl drove down from mark, saw to help the family. He found Peter on the front porch.

He was just talking about how they took her from me. You know, how I failed, and I was into his shame.

feeling the way you're feeling. Did you ask him, did you have anything to do with this?

Or got my friend support you? And I love your wife. I love your kids. And I said, i've GTA know.

And what did he he was face to face .

with me and he says, I did not do this like .

the rangers investigating the case. viral. L had a hard time believing that mono was killed in the house, and no one in the family heard of thing. The houses, two stories, five bedrooms and two bathrooms packed into just two thousand square feet. He decided to run a test and asked dairy to help.

I said on the couch, and I had daring into the back. Does not his bedroom as this scream at me?

I yelled as loud as I could. They were in the living room, didn't here anything at best. They just harder, like little bit.

And then we switched around. And I mean, up. I'm dirty, years Younger than them. And I A little Better hearing. And IT wasn't loud.

I wanted to hear IT for myself. First version showed me the bedroom.

you are actually standing where where on new h fail.

So this is where the blood was like here. Then I went down the hall about twenty steps later I was in the living room. This is Peter and monuments living room.

And back then, the couch was situated right here. We've also set the TV to the exact volume that IT was in those early morning hours when this happened. Then roll still in the bedroom, yelled my name over and over again.

Not hearing anything. Nothing, not even a peak. I was a little skeptical because this is not such a big house and I figured you would definitely be able to hear if somebody was screaming.

It's very quiet back here. You d got to understand that struction the house, there's this is a board on board construction, and the layout of the house makes IT is nearly impossible to communicate through those rooms.

So thinking like a former police chief rule now wondered if not Peter than who vera agreed with the investigators that the attack was personal. You're thinking .

this is targeted.

yeah. I king did this, knows this family.

Somebody came in and somebody knew the family. They knew what they were after, and they complete their mission. That's what I was very disturbing about IT.

And something in the blood trail caught verbs eye to him IT seemed the killer had paused for a moment outside of one of the kid's bedrooms melani .

i'm going OK melly to these people when you're at past cars door. Many of these people, because they went .

to her door viral, urged Peter to be patient with the investigation.

His question, who was one and they looking for this person and I said, look, they have to go through a process, a process that must be maintain for the integrity. The case I, if you're going to get IT right, you have to be looked at.

you know, your dad Better than anyone. Was there any part of you that was thinking, could my dad have done this?

I'd never once, not for a second, thought I was him.

In fact, jian and his father, we're leaning on each other for support and protection.

locked the doors, sleep with the gun. You kind of always a little paranoid.

Was there that feeling that, like, what if this person comes back or they want our whole family there?

I was always that feeling from the very first day. As soon as we ve got back to the house, my dad and I went and make sure every window is secure. We put three inch creese through the wooden window .

trim into the cells.

made IT into a yea.

things for the Allen family were either about to get much worse or much Better, because investigators had found a new witness, someone who'd been on his way to lay ke Cooper, the morning monie was killed.

He just asked a worker, if you see anything unusual, this? And the worker actually said, you know, matter of fact, I did.

Jian Allen plays IT over and over again in his mind. The last time he spoke to his mother mono.

the last thing I said to her was.

i'm gond. I'm gonna.

I'm going to go to my friend's house. I'll see you later and IT just tears .

me .

up cause then tell her good night I didn't .

tell her lover yeah well, you don't need to say IT SHE knew IT right?

And i'm sure .

you've you've set IT a million .

times OK now IT was .

up to texas ranger Michael shop to figure out who killed her.

I often tell people, you know, it's like a thousand peace puzzle. You never present all the way completed, which you have to put enough of IT together where.

you know, with some picture evidence from the house was still being tested, fingerprints, footprints and possible DNA.

But I felt like at that point was that if Peter had something to do with IT, then something would come up as far as a physical evidence go, confirming he had something to do with IT.

And don't forget, there was evidence from the other crime seen as well. Remember that bike track at the lake next to monos car investigators talk to a witness who had been by late Cooper that very morning.

He just asked the worker, if you see anything unusual this morning. And the worker actually said, you know, matter fact, I did well, as out here this morning, I saw bicycle go back on the road. He said, I never see bicycles out here at that time on sunday morning.

This is potentially a really lucky break. Here .

potentially is.

did your witness get a good look at who was on the bicycle? No.

they just had a bicycle going on the road at a distance.

The ranger's next move was to check the bikes in the Allen family's.

Now the tires look like they even matched what was found at them saying. So we didn't believe that, you know, those mycal anything to do with IT as suspicious .

as they have found the stories from the people in the house that night. Investigators had to consider a different scenario. IT had to do with something everyone in town knew about the islands. Peter is a gun collector. Did you think to yourself, maybe, given Peters extensive gun collection that people know about, maybe this was some type of burglary gone bad?

absolutely. When you looked all the guns he had and everything that's often a target of of this and burglary ies, is people still guns? And I don't think he was shy about talking about his gun collection either.

IT could be worth a lot of money to someone if they broke in and store bunch guns. IT could be the ranger knew the family was just back from summer vacation in germany. Maybe a burglars thought they were still away.

Then they discovered, oh my, no, she's here. And meanwhile now started them and know the the violence started at that point they killer.

This could in fact be a stranger, despite the level of rage.

absolutely. And actually everything keep open.

In fact, they'd been a gun burglary in town just that summer. My friend's dead.

His house got broken into in a couple of his firearms, and some money had got stock.

So this, this could be a target.

yeah. I mean, everybody knows that he's kind of a collector of firearms.

The share of soft has started shifting through leads related to that broken and a name popped up. Cory Taylor, who is he?

He's trouble. Young man. He he's got some runnings with the law. Just small town struggle in kid.

This is a video investigators pulled from court Snapchat account. Cory was seventeen and went to only high school. What can you tell .

us about foretasting lor? So we had like kind of like athletes band and then other kids. He was in football, he wasn't in band, so he's kind of off on his own.

and he was kind of quiet. Was he known to be a trouble maker.

maybe a little trouble maker? He was on those kids home work. I don't be in school. Stuff was .

contacted by the investigators and asked to go to all my and pick up mr. Taylor and bring him to the share of the office for an interview.

Surgeon burbeck drove to an apartment building where cory was staying as he approached the stairwell, something caught as ee underneath .

the stairs as a little storage area. And I see A A bicycle that is stored in that little cube hole. The trend on the bicycle look like I could have created the impressions that were at the leg.

Now lots of people have bikes.

but IT was a long shot. I mean, I looked at IT, and I just kind of the light bulb linin off. Yeah.

there something you're feeling something here possible?

yes.

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Sergeant dan burbeck arrived to pick up hurry Taylor, the teenager investigators thought might be involved in that .

gun burglary in town. So I I go here and knock on the door.

and curry comes to the door. Does he look surprised? He, or he acting funny.

nervous, but not surprised.

Of course, the first thing the sergeant wanted to know about was that bike scene under the stairwell.

I asked him who IT .

belonged and IT was.

IT is no. He gave me the name of julius .

mullins and who's julius molins to me.

At that time, I had no idea. I didn't know .

the sergeant may not have known that name, but if you went to the only football games, you would know, number three, julius molins was a running back on the cubs. Was he the kind of guy that you wanted on your team? Yes, you knew he was going to give IT is all and back you up.

And yes, always have your back. And he would run every play you action to.

he would get IT done.

Did you go all the games? No, ay bar sty football on that same field. And to go there and watch him was definitely a proud moment.

A proud moment, says Julia. Is is doubt, Adrian, for a kid who'd had plenty of struggles.

super hyper. I mean, and a lot of people say their children have A D, H, D. And just his focus on stuff IT was almost known, you know, is kind of just fine everywhere.

Adrian says he and his wife made every effort to get Juliana's help. He says they got a mental health treatment. But in middle school, Julie has got in trouble and spent time in juvenile detention by soft more year.

He was struggling with his grades, but was exciting on the football field. He also had a girlfriend. Remember mono in Peter's daughter date, a football player. That was Julia's moment. That same kid, mono Allen, had taken under her wing at school.

SHE definitely was in his corner. I wanted to help him anyway, he could. He was definitely a good influence for me.

His dad recall the relationship with melani was an intense first to love.

Think you might have been too .

caught up in the relationship as yg Young life will happen after about a year of dating, they broke up kids at school recall that was intense to did he take IT hard?

I think so because beginning the year super nice you know set up um will always talk towards end of the year he can at set back in his chair how to hook up kind of work quiet. And I was like.

that's different. After that, he is kind of hang out with some people. He started drinking.

He started drinking.

I knew he he was smoking marijuana. He was skipping school .

while and .

IT got worse. He gotten charged with marijuana possession. And I told him that I couldn't have that around other kids.

His dad gave him an ultimatum, straighten your life out and go to school more, or find a new place to live. You're laying down the law now, right?

H. R. Did focus him on how he could, you know, keep on track with he wanted. He didn't hear my eyes, you know.

So julius crashed where he could sometimes sleeping in the high school gem, sometimes staying with cory. Now, surgeon burbeck was looking at his bicycle under the stairs and reporting back to the rangers.

I call investigators and ask him if they want me to bring moments in with cory and tell him more about the bike. And they said, yes, absolutely. Go getting. And so I went back. I asked him to accompany needed .

the share of office the rangers were .

about to talk to both julius and first.

Horry told police that he knew nothing about the murder, said he never even been inside the Allen house.

By this time, the rangers new.

是 julius with melanie x， knew he had a connection to the Allen family. So the conversation quickly turned to julius.

So what has he told you about miss alan gone missing the mean way? It's really how, like he didn't require nothing. He supposed he was real close with melange one.

So I mean, outcry. I mean, any closer because all, I mean usual nice in all. So then cory .

said something that really got their attention.

bring them to telling me he brought guns to to his .

house and so that that picked our interest as the potential, you know could be have been a suspect and they are trying to steal Peter guns. You anything .

do IT in my something that is IT because, I mean, he's he's been in how he knows what he looks like. He probably knows where everything's.

That that was the story from one teenager. Maybe his friend did IT. What would the other one have to say?

Well, they know me how they. I still love you. I never do something like that to you.

Julius molins had been close with the Allen family, close with his teacher, mrs. Allen, and had over heels for her daughter melanie.

He come over, he eat. He was loved to go into her room as long as the door was open. Yes, i'm old. I have rules in my house.

Truth be told, Peter wasn't crazy about Julia as a boyfriend we .

both thought was very nice, seemed like a decent enough night of Young man. But I may be IT. But if you try to break up your children's relationships with somebody that you know is not right with them, I just pushes them together. And this is so we just pull back .

and stayed out of .

IT let her figure out this on our darian remembers that after .

the breakup Julia had been trying to get back together with .

melloni SHE said sh'd received some weird messages from julius. They were just basically along the lies of him begging her to take him back and wanted to talk to her, still be with her, but not, but he just didn't answer her.

Then after man who is murder, julius reached out again.

He was, china, be the one to comfort her. But I mean, he wasn't going for at all. He founded odd, odd.

because melani had a bad feeling about her. X SHE initially told police he had no idea who could have killed her mother.

Both my here, I don't.

But the next day he went back to police to tell them they did have an idea. Maybe IT was julius SHE wanted investigators to know her x boyfriend claimed he'd been in a gang and that he had an obsession with knives.

He suggested that he may have had something to do with that as well. You know, again, we're talking about x boyfriend situation. You know how much way to put in to that?

Peter had also mentioned Julia st. To investigators with.

But in .

those .

early days of the investigation, they were looking hard at Peter. Despite those two tips, they hadn't gotten a around a tracking julius down for an interview. But now, after investigators found his bike, julius was in an interrogation room and the rangers had plenty of questions.

Tell me about this time she's called one of the people that actually held me the most. SHE was like, basically coming rather wrong because he, like, told me out erself SHE coming in me together. SHE was a really nice living.

But when I came to mEllen's e's father, Julia's knew Peter didn't .

like a much IT was zero eight top of beef between you and her parents at all. Now the only like time of if I think was just between minor dead because I was there. So how long did you have another day?

Here a couple not. I take IT SHE said he was a break, and then I was like, okay. And I found that julius conceded .

the break up had been hard and he admitted he wasn't completely over IT. By the time he and melanie texted about her mother's murder.

SHE was like, my mother, what you mean and SHE said, my mother's really going to and I was, I was like, I was shot like he didn't like harm.

He told the rangers. He was aware that melani was suspicious of him. She'd already lashed out by tax.

SHE was like, a murger's. Baster killed a mother. And then SHE was like, you said all these other things, like towards me.

SHE was like, was the year? Was your friend home like this, your family? But I like, I wanted to like, look at her and like our new series.

Who do you think of this? 可以。 Is your daughter porn pretty bad? Well, maybe honest to july, they can.

You did IT yeah. SHE takes me and SHE rather edited in her told her I was like, million. I like, I still love you never do something like that to you.

But like the investigators, melani knew the killer had to be someone familiar with their home and family. Stood out to the D. A. When he saw their texture exchanges.

Melani is sharp, little girl, because he Carried of him. Hey, did you do this? Because you know where my mom's car keys were and the footprints that went into the kitchen, the bloody footprints, which straight to the karki and out the door to the car.

So what will here a minute is out.

Your DNA julius willingly gave up his DNA and the rangers released him. But IT turns out they wouldn't have to wait for the forensic test to come back from the lab. That very afternoon, ranger shob went to collect the bicycle and ran into julius.

I asked him to let me see the bottom of a shoe. And then I like that looks like that shoe matches. The footprint was out of the lake as well.

They quickly determine the footprint at the lake matched julius s. Shoe, and the tire track IT matched his bike.

With all that, I felt like I had enough, and I wanted to present this information to a judge and see if they agree with me.

The judge did. Julius was placed under arrest and brought back to the interview room this time in hand. Ffs, do you just go into this hoping for a confession?

Always want a confession as long as it's true. Ah yeah absolutely in in and hoping the julius would confess to me on what he did and and tell me the truth about all the circumstances .

surrounding IT but we are your shoes, brother and not only that out there things already start the point to julius .

was quiet at first.

What can diving for talking? Just tell me out. And after .

thirty minutes, julius wanted to break.

I think if you watched the interview where he pulled joys outside, so joys could smoke a cigarette outside, and you could tell that that point time, joice was at a breaking point.

Sure enough, after a cigarette, they SAT down with julius in the police breakroom, and he began to confess.

Q how does he .

go from denying to? I did IT.

I think he realized that he was caught that point, and he just didn't have anywhere else to go. What is. Two two years, so when you went in there, wish you sleep.

Julia's described how we use a knife to stab mono over and over again.

好， 我 睡觉 了。 Then what have you .

flame on the ground or IT .

SHE went for the door. I watch in vacation when there.

Then he said, he dragged out of the house into her car and drove her to the lake.

How do you get .

her family spine? How did you do that in the plate being shot or .

right there?

I even know either. I just bow to children.

Would you .

cover up with to the government smoking players?

Julius was formally charged with monos murder and booked into the county jail.

I had my mind right there.

but the biggest question was why IT turns out Julia had an answer for that. And what he had to say brought investigators right back to where they started.

Adrian molins had just come home from work when his sun, Julie is called with a arming news. He was being questioned by investigators. What's going through your mind.

just like my do you, is hard to read.

What are you thinking it's about?

I assumed they had the with mental, but I don't know to what extent .

the extent would soon become clear.

I don't know that he invest until he lawyer and then he told .

you eighteen year .

old julius mulleins is charged in connection with the murder of the mother of four when Peter .

Allen learned that julius had confessed monos murder, he says all he could think about was revenge. You were going to go into that jail. E, and killed julius, oh yeah. As intense is the truth.

And my Young gest daughter said to me, dad, don't do anything that will get you taken away from us. We've already lost mom. We can't lose you too. And I realized that SHE was right.

Even though melani had raised the alarm about julius early on, her brother still had a hard time absorbing the news.

Very shocked, very surprised. I only really remember being around him once at the house.

How did melani make this? That this was her x boyfriend that he had broken up with?

SHE took IT very, very hard. IT was really hard on her. The last person I was thought really was julius.

I was as like, why? Why miss Allen? Why julius? why? Just a bunch of wise.

He's the guy that you know back you up on the foot. All field.

Yes, that makes sense.

But investigators had a theory that might make sense of IT. All along, theyd suspected that more than one person had been involved. That night.

I thought IT was improbable or not likely that, uh, a single person could move miss Allen away from that house with her family, sleep in the house and and nobody know.

So from the moment they brought Julia into the room and handcuffed, repeatedly .

suggested he .

hadn't acted alone.

they asked him again .

and again.

eventually.

Julius told them someone else was involved, a name that didn't surprise the ranger at all.

claiming that Peter Allen putting .

up to IT Peter manus husband, the initial suspect.

Now.

how the Peter find you to get you involved, all PS, all sups the .

town convenient store right down the street from the Allen house, Julie said he ran into Peter there hours before the murder.

Like we can be going to put out now about the door. But here, if I get to, he talk me, he was like, i'm only going tell you this once. He said, if you tell you really awesome to kill your entire day away.

they claim, ed, that when he SAT down in the car, that Peter pulling close to him and stuck again, uptime and told you can kill .

my wife is all that that would please tell me. Here's gonna happen. You can go there.

You do not right, but he returned in the day of three years.

so he want to put IT for my life. On the cowder. Now that's when I would have to use to kill her.

He told me exactly do we told me to go for her head and he was a wake was just in my country. He watched. And you do IT.

hey, could see you from there right in the bedroom you, I was there and the town.

He help me take your employ in the door.

Did he say why Peter wanted him to kill his wife? Given that everyone said that they had a good relationship.

Peter didn't tell you .

to ad you. Could my Better one wake you that just the good matches who killed anyone?

Wish you recalled us.

he said, you could barely, I did there, believe, easy.

Green y. Toward the end of the interview, the ranger took julius outside for another cigarette and went over parts of the story.

Again, me, make sure I just right. So after all, he might act with at all if you left all. So want .

to call stand there like. Honestly said there, now they can always, but I could not do IT because I wanted to believe that he was wrong and he wouldn't do what knowing had investigators .

have the story. And IT seems the husband may have been involved. After all, just one problem.

I did not believe julius s story at all.

We got a chance to ask julius ourselves. I feel like there's something you're not saying. I feel like there's more of the story.

Melanie x boyfriend had admit IT with him. He was the person who sneaked ed into the Allen house, stabbed mono to death and dubbed her body by the lake. He'd also implicated monos husband Peter in the plot. Investigators didn't make that part of the confession public right away. Instead.

they worked to nail IT down. julius. I said.

if you're telling .

me the truth, then I will be able to prove that. I will find the evidence .

to prove that there was plenty of evidence to prove julius was the killer. Julia's fingerprints and DNA were in the house sended monos car. They also found surveilLance civil o from a bank.

And there was julius on that bike coming home from the lake early that morning. But prosecutor D. P V saw problems right away with the teenager's explanation for why he did IT.

IT seemed just like he had been caught and he was grabbing at straws.

Did you have any involvement in your wife's murder? Did you threaten julius and tell him to kill your wife?

And nothing to do whatsoever with my wife. Ever be untouched, ever be unharmed? anything? My wife was my soul mate. She's one who gave me a heart. He is the one who took IT away.

Sure enough, a little investigating proved julius. A story about Peter was riddled with holes. There was no evidence to support IT, no surveilLance video of a meeting outside the convenient storm, no telephone calls or social media communication between the two of them.

Remember that bloody compression sock that investigators hammered Peter about? Turns out IT had julius s. DNA on IT. But didn't Julia's need help moving the body? Maybe not.

I did know that um he had ben football player and and I know that a gentle link can play a role in these sorts of things.

When all the lab reports came in, the results seemed clear to the investigators .

with regard to Peter arms involvement. There was no physical evidence whatsoever that link him to this murder. The only person that really tried to link him to this murder was Julia mallin.

Why would Julia say you involved if you weren't involved if he's already admitted to doing the killing?

One thing about the human condition, we always try to make excuses for what we've done. Very few people will actually take responsibility.

Investigators spent months trying to figure out if anyone else help. Julius man came up empty. They found no evidence that cory Taylor was involved, but he and julius did admit to committing that gun burglar had another house money.

His murder case never went to trial. Julius pleaded guilty to murder and was given a fifty five year sentence. As part of the deal.

He promised to tell the truth about what happened. He agreed to tell us the story as well. Why did you want to .

do this interview to try to give the family and people .

who are who have questions .

about why IT happened some closure?

I've interviewed the Allen family. I've interviewed your father. He loves you unconditionally. They're all in so much pain. And the biggest question that they have, julius, is why? Why did you do this to mono?

I I got scared when I had went in into their house. I wasn't with the intent to hurt anybody. He had guns, and that's what I was going there to get.

What you're saying is the, why is a burglary gone bad this .

now other people believe .

that this was a revenge, that you, for the break up with melanie, that you were trying to get back at her.

I will, I won't do something like that to your gate. Revenge because I I already made my piece with that. You will never be in that's kind of wear. I left .

take us through that that night, what exactly happened?

I rode on my bike and I went through the the garage window. Then I start, I cannot start looking for guns. And there was a found one and the uh in the bedroom in the cabinet, by the time that I had got IT out, I joined the death little bit.

He woke me salan and SHE sees you. Yeah, he sees me. And I was kind of frozen for a minute. And I saw a butterfly knife on on the dresser and I got scared, and I jumped on out of her, and I just started a stabling. Her.

why grab a knife? Just because he saw you? SHE knows you.

And this is .

not a really bad scenario. If SHE finds you in her room, it's not great. But if you haven't done anything, I mean, it's why pick up a knife.

I I didn't know. I don't know why I did that. I just I got scared and thinking .

about .

being my other placements. I just didn't want to go back.

He's referring to the time he spent in juvenile detention. You're thinking in that moment, in that split second, i'm going to pay for this. I'm we're gna send me away somewhere .

yeah the gentle took over and I just.

I know this .

is a woman who cared about you, who welcomed you into her family. Where's that rage coming from?

Not sure. Yeah, I just made the wrong choice.

I mean, it's thing that made the wrong choice. But this is stabbing a woman forty seven times. I mean, this is evil.

Agree with you.

Julie admitted the whole story about Peters involvement was a lie.

I was, I was just me.

Even after the fact, no one helped you dispose .

of the body.

Why did you blame Peter in the beginning and tell that story that Peter threatened your family and that you did this because you are afraid for your family is lives.

I have no comment.

Are you sure you want to leave that this interview on that note that you are say no comment to anything involving Peter?

I guess I will say this then. I was trying to get a lester case last for time.

I implicating Peter, you are trying to get a deal.

Are you sure that's that? Yeah, Peter, i'm sorry for making you same like the bad guy through out the situation.

What do you want to say to the Allen family? You have destroyed their lives.

Yes, I did. Um there's no amount of pology that can change or bring her back. SHE did not deserve what I did to ha. I'm sorry that rib els family part and you can .

look me in the say that you've told me the truth today and there's nothing more to this.

Yes, now I can. I would give my life to bring her back.

Julia's dad said that not a day goes by, that he doesn't wonder if he could have done more. And as painful as it's been for him, he's well aware that there is another family whose grief is far worse.

and there was no way for me to say i'm sorry.

Did you try? Did you say sorry?

I did had the forest get some flowers that were through our german man flowers in the morning. When I was on way to work, I would stop out from t and I would just bring them up and put on your porch.

How do they feel about that?

They not like him.

And I stopped immediately. But just wanted to know that I was thinking about her and thinking about them and their loss monos .

family lives without loss every day.

You still have your days when you hurt really bad inside, and you can .

tell your kids .

because. You're dead and you have to keep that. You, you, you can't put that stress on your kid.

For the most part, I think all of us are healing. Melani is just struggling.

Do you all try to tell her this is not your fool?

I've told her many, many times i've hugged her while she's crying, just told her that none is not your fall. None of this, none of this is on you like he doesn't deserve any of the blame. SHE doesn't deserve all of the guilt that she's feeling.

For Peter, the guilt can be overwhelming too.

I'll never move on. I can move forward. And the best thing I can do is learned to forgive myself for fAiling as a husband.

Why do you think you failed your wife though, if you didn't even know what was happening?

Because it's my house and that's my A I did. I know what was happening. no. Well, the other part of me inside is you failed as a husband, as as a man. I have to learn to forgive myself for that, or I won't be able to help my children. And right now, my children are my best is priority.

Children were always monos priority too, whether as a mom, a teacher or their biggest cheerleader. And these days, he would be especially proud of her all. I cus. After her death, the helpless football team started to do something unprecedented when I was .

still hear a cobell. So maybe he was a rural cowbell, or maybe it's just imagination of hearing a cowbell, but I was still hear a cobell.

I love IT because that means she's still there. My wife is still there. SHE still there.

That's all for this edition of date line. We'll see you again thursday at ten, nine central. And of course, i'll see you each weeknight for nbc nightline news. I'm lester hot for all of us in nbc news. Good night.

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