*Thessalonica Allen, a 36-year-old Indiana mother who shot dead her husband, Randy Allen, and made her children help move his dismembered body parts away from the house, will serve over 60 years in prison. The shooting took place in July 2021.
In court, Thessalonica had defended her actions, claiming that she panicked and did not know what to do after she had shot him. After murdering her husband, she used an axe to cut his legs off to easily and secretly move his body away from the house.
La Porte County Circuit Court Judge Thomas J. on Friday (29 Sept.) sentenced the mother to 63 years, according to Law&Crime. In July, the court found her guilty on all counts after the jury deliberated for less than 30 minutes. Her convictions included murder, abuse of a corpse, and altering a crime scene, plus two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and two counts of neglect of a dependent.
Thessalonica and her husband Allen lived together with her four children. The couple had an argument in July 2021 after she took to social media to post what implied she was having her eyes on another man. Her husband Allen told her he would leave her if that’s what she was up to. But Thessalonica told him that would not be possible. She then withdrew a gun and shot him in the arm. Unfortunately, the bullet ricocheted toward his rib cage and landed in his spinal cord, and he bled to death.
But it was not like she didn’t mean to kill him. Court papers seen by Law&Crime quoted Judge Alevizos saying the evidence proved that the “matter was premeditated, both prior and post event,” and that Thessalonica showed “lack of remorse.”
On hearing the shooting, two of Thessalonica’s kids aged under 16 ran into the bedroom and watched their stepfather bleed to death on the floor. Thessalonica ordered them not to call 911. She then made her children assist her in cleaning up the crime scene and dragging the corpse outside into the car. However, they could not move the corpse out because it was too heavy.
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