Mom Accused of Recruiting Kids to Help Move Husband’s Dismembered Body Sentenced

On Friday, LaPorte County Circuit Court docket Choose Thomas J. sentenced Thessalonica Allen, a 36-year-old mom, to 63 years in jail for the 2021 deadly taking pictures and dismemberment of her husband, Randy Allen, in response to Regulation&Crime and native CBS affiliate, WSBT.

In July, Allen was discovered responsible on all counts after the jury deliberated for lower than half-hour. She was convicted of homicide, abuse of a corpse, and altering a criminal offense scene, along with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and two counts of neglect of a dependent.

In line with court docket docs obtained by Regulation&Crime, Choose Alevizos stated the proof confirmed in court docket proved that the “matter was premeditated, each prior and publish occasion,” and revealed Allen’s “lack of regret.”

On July 2021, Allen fatally shot her husband inside a bed room of their house the place they lived with Allen’s 4 youngsters. In line with the testimony, the couple had an argument over a social media publish that made Allen’s husband imagine she was interested by one other man. He in the end stated he was going to go away her, earlier than Allen informed him he wouldn’t be. After pulling out a gun, she then shot him within the arm. Nevertheless, in response to authorities, the bullet ricocheted towards his rib cage and landed in his spinal wire.

Per the testimony introduced in the course of the trial, two of the children — each beneath 16 — heard the gunshot, bumped into the bed room, and watched their stepfather bleed to dying on the ground after Allen informed them to not name 911. Prosecutors stated Allen made her youngsters assist her clear up the crime scene, and drag their stepfather’s physique exterior, and transfer it into the automotive, however they had been unable to move it as a result of the corpse was too heavy.

This prompted Allen to take extra drastic measures, in response to prosecutors, who stated Allen went out the following day and purchased an ax, which she used to cut off her husband’s legs. In line with a report, she made her two youngsters assist her stuff the dismembered corpse right into a tote bag, nevertheless, the physique was nonetheless too heavy for Allen and her two youngsters to place into her automotive. In line with authorities, Allen had deliberate to drive her husband’s dismembered physique to a location in South Bend and set it on hearth.

As reported by Regulation&Crime, one in every of Allen’s exes — who can be a father of one in every of her youngsters — notified the police. Police in the end discovered Allen within the parking zone of an Ace Ironmongery shop in LaPorte, Indiana.

In line with the arrest report, when police encountered Allen, she started to cry and stated, “You do not perceive, he beats me,” earlier than she then confessed to murdering her husband, telling police that she shot him after he choked her.

Within the affidavit, police wrote, “She then admitted she needed to reduce Randy’s legs off as a result of she wasn’t in a position to match him contained in the tote. She said she panicked and didn’t know what to do after she had shot him. She said she used an ax to chop his legs off.”

Investigators found the physique inside the kids’s closets. They discovered a dismembered corpse within the tote bag.

In the course of the trial, Allen’s lawyer argued self-defense, claiming Allen’s husband had lunged at her throughout their argument, earlier than she reached for the gun.

In line with WSBT, following Allen’s sentencing, LaPorte County Deputy Prosecutor Julianne Havens said there was no bodily proof of self-defense, equivalent to bruises or different accidents indicating her husband had hit her.

“From the proof that got here out, there was no self-defense. I do not suppose it held any water,” Haven stated.

However the deputy prosecutor stated notes written by Allen had been present in her house that detailed her plans to homicide her husband and featured names of individuals she believed would assist her perform the crime.

In the course of the trial, Randy Allen’s uncle, Larry, informed Allen, “You might be strictly the satan,” to which she replied, “So was he.”

In the meantime, Randy’s brother, Robert, through a letter learn in court docket, requested Allen how she may commit such a criminal offense, including, “It reveals to me on this world monsters actually exist.”

In line with Choose Alevizos, Allen will not be eligible for parole till she is over 80 years previous.