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Howard Allen
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Criminal Status	Deceased
Living Status	Deceased
Personal Information
Full Name	Howard Arthur Allen
Born	February 10, 1949 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Died	June 5, 2020 (aged 71) Indiana, United States
Characteristics	Was possibly mentally slow.
Gender	Male
Race/Ethnicity	Black
Parent	Single Mother
Sibling	8 Siblings
Criminal Information
Offender Type	Serial Killer
Method of Killing	Beating Stabbing
Convictions	Multiple accounts of 1st degree murder and robbery
Criminal penalty	Death (commuted to 60 years)
Victims	3+
Span of crimes	1974 - 1987
Country	United States
State	Indiana
Date apprehended	August 4, 1987
Imprisonment	Wabash Valley Correctional Facility — Haddon Township, Sullivan County, Indiana

Biography

Howard Allen grew up as a brother to 8 siblings. He lived in a poor household with a single mom. He often had to steal food to be able to feed his family. He was found as mentally slow (he struggled to process verbal language and had low problem solving skills). It was undecided if Allen had any mental disorders due to many friends and family members had said that he was an average student even though he was at a 2nd grade reading level by the time he graduated elementary school and he also had an average IQ of 107.

Victims

Confirmed victims

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death
Opal Cooper	85	Same Day	Same Day	Beaten
Laverne Hale	87	Same Day	Same Day	Beaten
Ernestine Griffin	73	Same Day	Same Day	Beaten with a toaster and stabbed with her kitchen knives

Timeline

Feb. 10, 1949- Howard Arthur Allen was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.

Aug. 1974- He beat 85-year-old Opal Cooper to death while he was robbing her home.

1985- He was released on parole.

May 18, 1987- He beat 87-year-old Laverne Hale while robbing her home. She died 9 days later in the hospital.

May 18. 1987- Assaulted a 73-year-old women.

June 2, 1987- He burglarized the house of an elderly man and burnt his house down.

June 11, 1988- He was sentence to death for death for the murder of Ernestine Griffin. He had a 50 year sentence for robbery with serious bodily injury and 38 years for theft.

Aug. 30, 1988- He was placed on death row, but 25 years later was taken off due to a U.S. district court on a petition for writ of habeas corpus.

June 5, 2020- He died at 71 in Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, Haddon Township, Indiana.

Bibliography

Literature

• Keller, Robert 50 American Serial Killers You’ve Probably Never Heard of Volume 1

Links

• Howard Allen at Wikipedia
• "Indiana Offender Database Search". in.gov. Archived from the original on March 3, 2021.
• Death Row: Indiana State Prison (Sir Trevor McDonald Documentary) on YouTube
• Howard Arthur Allen. Keller On The Loose.