A beloved mother of four
and high school teacher.
All of her students loved her, every single one of them.
She was a very special person.
I always wanted to be more like her.
Is found murdered.
Her body dumped miles from home.
As I got closer, you could see the outline of the body.
I've seen quite a few homicides,
and this one was very brutal.
It felt very personal.
Investigators try to piece together
a mysterious crime.
Law enforcement believed there was a violent struggle
within the bedroom.
He said that he did not hear this vicious attack
that was taking place within feet of where he was sleeping.
How could you not hear what was going on?
Until the case takes a jaw-dropping turn.
He was crying, he was emotional,
and said that he had a gun to his head.
And leads to a killer no one suspected.
I can't even fathom what goes through someone's mind
when they do something like this.
It was disturbing, very disturbing.
Olney, Texas, a tiny rural town
with a proud history in aviation.
Olney, Texas was the home
of Arrow Tractor, crop dusting aircraft.
They built 'em there.
It's a very small town, very close knit.
Pretty much everybody knows everyone.
It's an open-door community.
Doors are unlocked, people are very welcoming.
On a warm summer morning in 2019,
a terrible discovery shakes residents to their core.
The Young County Sheriff's office received a call
of a missing person and the Olney Police Department
was dispatched to the call.
Just before 10:00 am,
officers arrived to find homeowner Peter Allen
and his two children, Kiara and Darian.
Peter tells police he's worried
something terrible has happened to his wife,
49-year-old high school teacher, Manu Allen.
Peter told me that his wife was missing
and that he had found a large amount of blood
in their bedroom,
and Peter told me that his wife's vehicle was gone.
Investigators head to the bedroom
and are shocked at what they find.
As I got to the hallway,
we started seeing signs of blood on the walls,
most notably what looked like hand print,
and as we started going into the bedroom,
we noticed there was a large pool of blood
at the end of the bed and the knife on the floor.
One of the things that we also noted in the bedroom is
that there were no sheets on the bed, which seemed odd.
There was blood splatter across the furniture,
the mattress, the closet doors.
And as we proceeded into the garage,
we could clearly see drag marks.
As we were in the kitchen,
we did see what appeared to be a footprint.
A picture started to develop
that something very bad had happened.
As forensics begin processing the scene,
police notify the DA's office.
My Assistant District Attorney Phillip Gregory
and I went out to the crime scene.
The carpets were pretty much soaked in blood.
There was a lot of cast off
blood on the walls and on the doors,
and it was a horrific scene to see.
With that amount of blood,
we're concerned that you're probably dealing
with somebody who is deceased
if they had not already made it to a hospital.
With no sign of the missing woman,
investigators asked the family
for more information about Manu Allen.
My mom was from a little village in Southern Germany.
She had eight siblings.
In the middle of my mom's college career,
she came over to America to learn the language better,
and my dad had seen her walk by and my dad was like,
"Ooh, who's that?"
And while she was in America that summer,
they spent like every day together.
Manu married US Army veteran,
Peter Allen, in 1996,
and soon after the couple moved to Crowell, Texas.
I came to know Peter and Manu
when I was appointed police chief in Crowell, Texas,
and Peter and I became good friends,
and there was never no doubt
that Peter and Manu loved each other very much.
Manu and Peter eventually settled
in the small town of Olney, with their four children.
My mom was a very supportive woman.
She was always pushing us to do our best.
Manu was one of the most respected teachers
at Olney High School, teaching English and German.
All of her students loved her, every single one of 'em.
And my mom, she'd always be one to joke with the kids,
even my friends, she would help them
if they needed help with their homework after school.
Now the loving wife and mother
has gone missing.
Police asked Peter Allen the last time he saw Manu.
The night before, he and his wife sat down on the couch,
watched TV, and then he went to sleep on the couch
and she retired to the bedroom to go to sleep.
Peter claims that no one noticed any sign of trouble
until the morning.
According to Mr. Allen, his daughter Kiara had woke up.
I believe that she needed to get some laundry done.
When the laundry room is through the parent's room,
she noticed that there was some blood in the hallway area
and, concerned about her mother,
she went and woke up Mr. Allen on the couch.
At that point, according to Mr. Allen,
Mr. Allen went with her to investigate.
He said that when he saw the knife,
he drew the conclusion
that she may have just been injured and cut.
But clearly seeing the scene,
a cut would not have produced the amount of blood,
and it was very apparent
that somebody was either severely injured or deceased.
Peter tells officers
that he and Kiara went to the local hospital
to look for Manu.
It did seem that it was out of place,
the way that Peter went to the hospital first,
before calling law enforcement.
There seemed to be a lack of emotion.
He was very calm, so I pulled officer Clark aside
and I advised him, I said,
"We need to be very careful
how we talk and handle Mr. Allen
because he's potentially involved."
Law enforcement believes there was a violent struggle
within the bedroom.
Mr. Allen was arguably within feet
of the actual act occurring.
There were two children that were inside the house, too,
and investigators were concerned that,
"Hey, how could you not hear what was going on?"
Peter and his two children are brought
to the police station for further questioning.
Meanwhile, officers are dispatched to nearby parks
and wooded areas to look for Manu's car, a white SUV.
In the morning, a neighboring county deputy Wilk
from Archer County arrived, and he knows the Allens.
My oldest son, Wyatt, she was his teacher
and he thought the world of her.
When I came through town on Main Street,
I saw crime scene tape up around the Allen's house,
and in Olney, you don't see crime scene tape up
around houses that often.
As a typical law enforcement officer, he says,
"Hey, what can I do to help?"
I was asked to go out to Lake Cooper,
look for a white SUV.
I was given the license plate number,
and when I pull into the Lake Cooper
and I go around to where the boat ramp is,
I could see a white SUV on the other side of the lake
where the dam is.
So I got out, started looking at the vehicle
and activate my body worn camera, take photos of the car,
and then I noticed some brown smears on the car,
and I thought this looks like dried blood.
So after I had photographed the car
and the area around the car, I started looking around.
So I took off walking towards the fence line.
I looked to my left
and I could see a pile of clothes or blankets,
and as I got closer,
you could see the kind of the outline of the body
wrapped up in these sheets and blankets.
I felt the body, it was cold to the touch.
Rigor had set in.
I had my body camera going, and I think on my video camera,
you can hear me take a deep sigh
because I know that the Allens are gonna get notified
that their mother has been killed.
We received a phone call from Mr. Wilk,
that he had located the vehicle and a body.
When we first arrived at the lake,
you could see an outline of a white sheet
over by the fence line.
Police confirm the deceased woman
is Manu Allen.
Mrs. Allen had been stabbed multiple times
and a lot of stab wounds were to the head.
I've seen quite a few homicides,
and this one was very brutal due to the amount of violence
that was involved and the care taken
in the way that she was moved and placed at the lake.
It felt very personal.
That started leading us to believe
that it was somebody that knew her.
Coming up, suspicion falls close to home.
She had picked up the knife that was in the bedroom.
He said he heard something in the middle of the night.
Causing rumors to swirl through a small town.
Everybody knows everybody.
A lot of accusations started going around.
I said, I need you to look me in the face and tell me
did you have anything to do with this?
And investigators uncover new clues.
It was a communist bloc pistol, and it was semiautomatic.
Until a stunning admission
leaves a family devastated.
It was just a shock that he confessed.
It was a nightmare.
The body of missing teacher
and mother of four, Manu Allen, has just been located
at Lake Cooper, a recreational area,
a few miles from her home in Olney, Texas.
I'd been to homicide scenes before,
but when you find somebody that you knew and your kids knew,
when I did go home and told my kids that,
"Hey, that was your teacher that was killed,
that was hard.
Olney, Texas is that small community
where you don't expect this sort of violence at all.
There had not been a murder there in the last 10 years.
As they continue their investigation,
detectives examine several items of evidence trying
to piece together what happened.
The vehicle had turned down a little offshoot
that was approximately 20 feet from the road,
and whoever was driving the vehicle had tried
to turn the vehicle around and got high centered.
Police believe that after the SUV got stuck,
Manu's body was removed from the car.
The body was found within sight of the vehicle,
and there had been yucca leaves placed
around the facial area.
If you have a body where the eyes of the face are covered,
it typically means that the person who has been involved
in the death somehow knew this individual.
When a killer does this type of behavior,
it's because they're trying to show some sense of respect
to the deceased.
Forensics process the body
and collect fingerprint evidence from Manu's vehicle.
There were fingerprints that were located on the car
that were in blood.
When you find these, it's the, you can say,
the golden ticket for law enforcement
because whoever was involved in this
left their signature behind.
Another detail in the field
grabs detectives' attention.
There was a bicycle track that was leaving
from the area of the vehicle onto the main road.
Is it possible the killer had perhaps left on a bicycle?
It being a recreational area,
there is the potential that it could have been
just a person riding through the area,
but you're gonna collect as much information as you can.
Investigators catch a break
when they find a witness who supports their discovery.
There was an oil field worker that worked on the road
that comes right out from the lake, heading into Olney,
and he happened to see, very early in the morning,
someone on a bicycle wearing dark clothes
with a backpack heading towards Olney from the lake area.
While officers are dispatched
to track down the cyclist, detectives inform Peter
that his wife's body has been found
and closely watch his response.
Mr. Allen, his emotional reaction was a little different
than what you would expect.
Mr. Allen was extremely detached, emotionless.
He said that he wanted to get justice for Manuela
and even that he had multiple firearms
and a lot of ammunition that he could bring to bear
if he did figure out who had done this,
and that he was going to do
what the military had taught him to do.
As a law enforcement officer,
I get mixed messages from that.
When you start saying that you're going to go after
whoever did it, you have to wonder
if he's trying to point the investigation
in a different direction than on him.
Based on the crime scene,
detectives believe that Manu was killed in her bedroom
and removed from the home in the early morning hours.
They wanna know how this could have happened
with Peter in the next room.
Mr. Allen said that he had been drinking vodka.
And then typically, if Mr. Allen had been drinking,
he would not sleep in the same bed as Mrs. Allen.
Mr. Allen said that it was common for him
to sleep on the couch because he snored a lot.
Peter claims the only time he woke up
was around dawn,
when he thought he heard his wife's car starting.
He heard it and he didn't think anything of it.
Mr. Allen indicated that it's not his job
to check on where she's going.
And he apparently went back to sleep.
Police wanna know how he heard a car start,
but not his wife being attacked just feet away.
Obviously, there was a violent struggle
within the bedroom, and Mr. Allen was
within shouting distance, hearing distance of the struggle.
Mr. Allen had talked about how the incident
may have occurred and that struggles can be silent,
and that might be a reason
why he didn't hear what had happened.
That's another cause for concern for law enforcement,
when you've got a suspect with a potential explanation
for every possible fact.
Wondering how the killer escaped in Manu's car,
investigators ask where she kept her car keys.
Mr. Allen, he indicated that those keys were not kept
in the bedroom.
They were kept in kind of a common area in the kitchen.
When asked why anyone
would wanna kill his wife, Peter has a theory.
During the interview with Mr. Allen,
he had indicated that it was well known
that he had a large gun collection
and he had spoken to a lot of people about it.
Mr. Allen was concerned that someone was breaking
into the home to steal his gun collection.
Police are skeptical as they found
no signs of forced entry
and were not aware of any stolen items.
Well, as a law enforcement officer,
I felt that Mr. Allen might be trying
to steer the investigation.
He had been drinking vodka that day,
he was feet away from where the murder had occurred.
He was very concerned about things that, in my mind,
would not be of importance from somebody
that had just lost their wife,
so that made him rise to the top as a potential suspect.
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before Manu Allen's body was dumped at a nearby lake,
she was stabbed to death in her bedroom
while three family members were in the house,
but her husband Peter insists
he detected no sign of trouble.
Peter Allen, Manu's husband, said that he did not hear
this vicious attack that was taking place
within feet of where he was sleeping on the couch.
Skeptical of Peter's version of events,
police wanna speak with his children, Darian and Kiara,
to see if they witnessed or heard anything.
They start with his 15-year-old daughter, Kiara.
She said she was out with her boyfriend
and that her father let her in the door
around 11:30 that evening.
Her bedroom is where she went,
which was right next door to her mother's room.
She had put earbuds in her ears and had a phone call
with a friend of hers
and fell asleep with those in her ears.
Kiara said that she never heard any screams
or anything that alerted her
that something bad was going on in the home.
Kiara said she woke up that morning
and she was trying to get to some clothing
that she had washed, and the layout of the house
would've required her to go through the master bedroom,
into the utility room, but the door was locked,
and she said, "Dad, the door's locked
and I'm seeing blood over here,"
and that woke come up rather quickly.
She said he asked her to go around to the other door
in the garage and try to get in,
but then when she did, she was met
with just the scene of the blood
in the bedroom and everything else.
Kiara did walk through the bedroom
and she did touch some items of evidence.
She had picked up the knife that was in the bedroom
to examine it.
She said that she did not see any blood or anything on it.
Of course, picking up any kind of evidence is concerning.
It leaves her information on the knife.
Investigators next interview Peter
and Manu's 20-year-old son Darian.
He said that he arrived back at the house at about 11:45
and then just went up to his bedroom.
He said, "I was playing a video game
pretty much the whole night through,
so I had my headphones on."
Darian said he had not heard anything other
than he heard something in the middle of the night,
but he just thought it was his father
in the kitchen getting something.
According to Darian, he didn't find that unusual,
so turned his attention back to his game.
There were three family members that were in the house.
It was difficult for me, personally,
to believe that they could not know
that something serious is going on in a bedroom
that's within 20 feet from you.
I can't explain that.
When you have all these people in the home
when this occurred, you have to rule them out individually.
Fingerprints and footprints can either rule people out
or you can rule somebody in, and unfortunately,
it's not like watching a crime TV show
where the case is figured out in 15 minutes.
It might take months to get returns on some of these items.
Peter and Manu's other children,
21-year-old William and 18-year-old Melanie arrive
at the police station, anxious for news about their mother.
They wouldn't let us see my dad.
Probably after like five hours of waiting,
they finally let my dad in,
and then my dad told us that they found her body.
It was a nightmare.
At the time of the murder, Melanie Allen,
the older daughter, was actually at Six Flags that evening
and they never returned home that night.
William Allen, the oldest son,
was a student at Tarleton State University,
and he was in Stephenville the whole time.
Both William and Melanie insist
they have no idea who would want their mother dead.
I didn't think anyone would have a single thought
about hurting my mom.
You have to talk to the children, naturally,
to see if they can give you any idea
of other red flags or things
that might have been going on in the home.
Investigators were concerned
about simmering unresolved conflict
that may have led to a murder,
but when the children were interviewed,
none of them ever described
seeing Mr. and Mrs. Allen having
any kind of a noteworthy fight.
Police tell the Allen family
that they're free to go, but they can't return home
until forensics finish processing the house.
The next day, there was a lot of evidence
that was collected.
The investigators took fingerprints,
footprints, in addition to the hand prints
that were on the wall, leading back towards the bedroom.
Detectives zero in on an interesting detail.
It appeared that the perpetrator had left the bedroom
and had gone into the kitchen
to specifically retrieve something
because there were not that many footprints in that kitchen,
and the footprints went straight to where the keys
to the vehicle were kept.
So whoever had done this knew where they kept the keys.
48 hours into the investigation,
the autopsy report provides chilling new insights
into Manu's last moments.
The autopsy revealed
that Manu Allen had sustained
roughly 47 stab wounds,
the majority of which were to her head.
She did have some defensive wounds on her hands.
However, it wasn't the stab wounds
that proved fatal.
She also had suffered strangulation
and a great deal of force had been used,
so much so that portions of the neck had been broken.
The autopsy report contains one final insight
into the killer's brutality.
They did find a postmortem gunshot wound
in her facial area.
If you look at the totality
of what happened with Mrs. Allen,
the stabbings, the choking, and then finally the bullet,
we knew we needed to get this suspect caught
as soon as possible.
Two days after Manu Allen's murder,
detectives have learned that in addition
to being viciously stabbed and strangled,
she was also shot once in the face.
There was a post mortem gunshot fired at the lake
after the body was moved
to where her final resting spot was.
There was a bullet casing that was recovered
from that particular area, and the actual bullet.
Police bring this new evidence
to the crime lab, hoping to identify the gun used
to shoot Manu.
As people in the town of Olney await news of an arrest,
rumors start to fly in the close-knit community.
There's a group on Facebook called Rants and Raves,
and you will hear
whatever is on somebody's mind
about anything that's going on in town,
and a lot of people were very hard on the Allen family.
It was really tough waiting for answers
'cause other people in the town all wanted
to point fingers at my dad.
People looked at him differently.
They would look at all of us differently.
Everybody knows everybody.
A lot of accusations started going around,
A lot of discussion about Mr. Allen's past,
his prior military.
A lot of people felt that Mr. Allen was potentially involved
in the homicide of his wife.
His children stand by him,
but some of Peter's friends doubt his innocence.
When I'd heard that Manu had been killed,
I'm instantly thinking car wreck or something.
So I called Peter's phone and we hadn't spoken
in quite a few years.
Melanie answered and I said,
"Melanie, what's going on over there?"
She said, "Well, Mom's been murdered."
So I told her, I said, "I'm on the way."
I had some concerns about Peter and his military background.
Peter, from time to time, drank hard liquor.
I'd never seen him violent,
but my thought was maybe something had snapped.
Maybe there had been infidelity in the family or something.
When I got there, I said,
"Peter, I need to know now.
I need you to look me in the face and tell me
did you have anything to do with this?"
He looked me square in the face, nose to nose, and said,
"I had nothing to do with this Vearl.
You know I couldn't do it."
And it led me to think who could have done this?
It was disturbing.
Detectives get a fresh lead
when they receive new information
on the cyclist seen leaving the area
where Manu's body was dumped.
The day that the body was found,
an oil field worker, around six o'clock in the morning,
he saw a person headed from Lake Cooper,
riding back towards Olney on a bicycle.
The local bank had security cameras on the outside of it,
and the surveillance video showed somebody riding in town
on a bicycle, dressed up in shorts with a backpack.
The video footage that was received from the bank,
it was from a distance,
so you were not able to see a face
for identification purposes.
You could see it was a younger person.
It was definitely the person
that everybody was wanting to talk to,
but we did not know who that person was.
The quest to identify the suspicious cyclist
hits a dead end
and pressure continues to mount on the police.
The community's in a lot of pain.
We were kind of in a situation where we can say,
"Hey, we're investigating this.
We have leads, we're working on them.
Please be patient with us.
As police await analysis of the bullet
and casing found at Lake Cooper, they call Peter back
to the PD and ask him about his gun collection.
Peter Allen had told us that he had weapons
and ammunition in the house and that they were stored
in his bedroom in a closet.
Peter tells investigators
not all of his guns are locked in the safe.
He also keeps a loaded pistol in a dresser drawer.
It was a communist bloc pistol that would've been
from like the Soviet Union, and it was semiautomatic.
Police never found this gun
when they searched the house.
Had the killer stolen it or had Peter staged it
to look this way?
It felt as if Mr. Allen was trying
to lead the investigation,
but investigators are naturally gonna start looking
at other firearm thefts or burglary cases
that have occurred in the area.
Investigators look into
recent gun thefts around town.
Corey Taylor was a local kid there
that had been in trouble, and it was learned
that just before the murders had occurred,
he had been involved in a burglary
that involved firearm theft.
Had Corey entered the house
to steal Peter's guns and killed Manu in the process?
Mr. Allen had a, maybe over 100 firearms in the house,
so that became a potential motive for the killing.
So we go to Corey Taylor's house.
When I got to his apartment, Corey came to the door
and told him that I was there
so that he could be interviewed
about the murder of Mrs. Allen.
Corey indicated that he did know Mrs. Allen from school.
Officers ask Corey
for his whereabouts the night of the murder.
His alibi was totally void of having any contact
with the Allen family residents whatsoever.
As Corey speaks,
officers see something suspicious.
I noticed a bicycle,
and the tire mark from the bicycle,
it looked very, very similar to the tracks at the lake.
It had the exact tread that was seen out at the lake
close to Manu's body and the vehicle.
So a red flag went up there.
Detectives working the homicide
of Manu Allen have noticed a suspicious bike
in the apartment of 17-year-old Corey Taylor.
Could Corey be the cyclist from the surveillance video?
One of our investigators was able to see a bicycle
and he's actually able to take a photograph
of the treads on it.
And everybody was kind of like,
"Oh, that's probably the bicycle we're looking for."
Mr. Taylor denied that it was his,
but he indicated that the bicycle was actually owned
by a guy named Julius Mullins.
Corey Taylor said that his friend Julius Mullins
had dated Manu's daughter, Melanie.
Detectives are curious if Corey is trying
to deflect blame.
They press Corey for more information
about his friend, Julius Mullins.
Julius was a running back for the Olney football team,
and so as far as the community, he was known.
Julius Mullins was well liked by the other team members.
He seemed to have some success on the field,
but Julius Mullins did not always have the best home life.
Julius didn't have a stable home.
I know his relationship with his parents was strained.
He had stayed with Corey Taylor some,
as well as the high school gym
because the coaches had allowed him to stay there
because he did not always have a place to stay.
Police learned that Julius knew Manu
from school and had dated her daughter Melanie for a year.
He was a good person.
My mom was extremely kind and accepting of Julius.
She would help him with this homework.
One time he got kicked out of his house
and she let him even stay the night.
Despite Manu's love and support,
Julius' behavior had changed in recent months.
Things just started going downhill.
He just started doing worse and worse in school,
he started getting in more fights with his parents,
him and I started getting in more fights,
and I finally left him,
probably six, seven months before what happened.
Police bring Julius in for an interview
and notice some alarming details.
Julius Mullins had some cuts and scrapes
on his arms and legs, which would be consistent
with someone who had been out by Lake Cooper.
There were a great deal of yucca and cactus plants,
and you couldn't have gone through that field
without getting scratched up by the shrubbery.
Mullins had indicated that the night of the murder,
that he had went to a party with several other people.
After the party, he said he went to Corey's apartment
and crashed for the evening,
but he had not seen Corey that night,
so alibi was pretty weak.
Julius Mullins admitted that he owned the bike
that was at Corey Taylor's home.
The bike places Julius Mullins
out at Lake Cooper
where the body had been left
because those tire tracks matched that bike perfectly.
So with any murder investigation,
the interviewers in these cases
are going to press pretty hard to get to the information.
Detectives ask Julius for more details
about his alibi and the injuries on his arms and legs.
As they're finding inconsistencies in the stories,
they're gonna start breaking these stories down
and get him to eventually just tell the truth.
He was crying, he was emotional,
and Mullins finally admitted
that he had killed Mrs. Allen.
At that point, Mullins started giving the information
that was pertinent and matched
what we had found at the scene.
Julius tells police he had gained entry
to the Allen home through a faulty garage window.
Mullins accessed the garage
and went into the bedroom of Mrs. Allen.
I believe Mrs. Allen was surprised
when Mullins started the assault.
He continued to assault her and she fought for her life.
Mullins stabbed her multiple times
and then eventually choked her to death.
He then took the sheets off the bed,
wrapped her up so that he could move her.
Police believed Julius
then found Peter's Soviet-made pistol in the dresser drawer
and headed to the kitchen to grab Manu's car keys.
He then drug her through the laundry room,
through the garage, through the backyard,
out to the alley, and loaded Mrs. Allen into the car.
He loaded his bicycle into the car with him,
and he drove her to the lake.
Julius planned to hide the body
far from the road, but the vehicle got stuck
on the rough terrain.
So he put together a hasty plan and pulled her out
and drug her to a fence.
He then took the gun and fired one shot,
hitting her in the face to ensure that she was dead,
and then he took his bike and he fled the scene.
It was a sigh of relief in some respects that he confessed.
Mullins did indicate that he was still in love with Melanie
and was upset about that.
We asked him why he would want to kill
the woman he loves mother, and Mullins said
that he had a gun to his head.
According to Mullins,
on the evening before the murder had occurred,
he said that he had gone to ALLSUP'S
and had run into Peter Allen in the store,
and Peter had him come outside into Peter's car,
and Peter had pulled a gun on him
and pressed it to his chest
and told him to kill Mrs. Allen,
and that if he did not do it,
that his whole family would be killed.
He said that was the reason for committing murder.
Julius Mullins has confessed
to the murder of Manu Allen,
but claims that he was forced into it by her husband Peter.
Mr. Mullins gave very specific information
about them meeting at an ALLSUP'S convenience store
where Mullins said Mr. Allen pretty much
just pulled him into his car and said,
"Hey, you're gonna do this,
otherwise I'm gonna go kill all your family."
When Mullins made these accusations toward Mr. Allen,
Mr. Allen was still a person of interest.
Police tried to verify the alleged meeting
between Julius and Peter.
We were able to secure the phone records of Julius Mullins
and back to the day that Mr. Allen
supposedly threatened Julius into murdering his wife
and were able to determine
that Mr Mullins' phone was nowhere near
that ALLSUPS'S location at any time that day.
Police interviewed Julius again
to clarify his allegations against Peter.
He insists he's telling the truth
and provides more shocking details about the murder.
He said that after Mrs. Allen was dead,
that Peter assisted him in wrapping the body
and pulling her out to the alleyway
and then loaded her into the car.
Detectives receive forensic results
and check if Julius' account matches the evidence.
There were some bloody hand prints and some fingerprints,
and they had footprints that they had sent to the crime lab
and they were eventually identified.
Forensic testing determined
two people had left footprints in the kitchen.
One set was left by Julius.
Julius had been in the home frequently
when he was dating Melanie
and the footprints went straight to where the keys
to the vehicle were kept in the kitchen,
and Julius would know that.
Investigators wonder if the other prints belong
to Peter, but the results show otherwise.
Kiara left footprints,
but she said that she had stepped in the blood,
and so that lined up with what she had said had occurred.
The crime lab also determines fingerprints
left in Manu's blood in the house
and on her car belonged to one person.
Sure enough, they belonged to Julius Mullins.
We were able to rule Peter Allen out.
The things that Mullins attempted to implicate Peter in,
the physical evidence did not support that,
the cell phone data did not support that.
The results were confirmation
that Mr. Allen had nothing to do with this.
A/B Mark.
Manu was my life, she was my soulmate,
and I don't think any human being alive could expect
for the heart, the soul, the core of the family
to be murdered without reason whatsoever.
I knew they were gonna look at me
'cause I was the husband and I was in the house.
When the police made the arrest, there was disbelief.
I just didn't think he had it in him
to do something like that.
On July 15th, 2019,
18-year-old Julius Mullins is charged
with the murder of Manu Allen.
My daughter, Melanie, dated him
and Julius would come over.
My wife was very kind to Julius.
We were both nice to him.
I was not worried about Julius at all
while they were dating.
He seemed more like a pleasant young man.
With Julius in custody,
police find Peter's stolen pistol
at the home of Corey Taylor.
They did investigate Corey Taylor,
but he was ruled out, no fingerprints, no footprints,
no DNA, nothing.
The sole perpetrator of the crime was Julius Mullins.
Police believe the knife found at the scene
may have been dropped by Julius,
but forensic analysis found it was not used in the murder.
Staff at the school had found Mullins' backpack
with a knife that was eventually determined
to have been involved in the murder of Mrs. Allen.
Tragically, no one in the house
heard Julius' vicious attack on Manu.
Kiara put earbuds in her ears
and fell asleep with those in her ears.
Darian was upstairs playing video games with a headset on,
and then Mr. Allen, he'd had consumed alcohol
and that might have contributed
to him sleeping heavier than normal.
Julius Mullins was charged, ultimately,
and pled to murder in the first degree.
And he also pled to the abuse of a corpse.
Julius receives a 55 year prison sentence.
I can't even fathom what goes through someone's mind
when they do something like this,
especially to someone who has been so kind to them.
I was totally shocked that it was a person
who had been trusted in their home.
It was a person that Manu had assisted with tutoring
and personal family issues that were going on with him.
Was robbery he motive?
Was revenge the motive?
I don't think we'll ever know unless Mullins decides
to tell us why he did what he did.
The only thing I can think of is he felt
that if he killed Melanie's mother,
that it would break her heart.
A twisted revenge is the only thing I can think of.
It tore me apart, and my dad was, of course,
completely torn apart.
They were supposed to spend
the rest of their lives together.
I love to smile, I love to laugh,
I love to make jokes,
but I haven't laughed or smiled like I did with her
since it happened.
There are generally two types of love.
The one type is where you've been with somebody
for a very long time, so you got that deep love.
And then you got the other kind of love,
which is the infatuation-type love,
and I had both of those for my wife.
There is no such thing as moving on for me.
I'm making progress and my kids are making progress,
but I'll never move on.
That day will be stuck in my head till the day I die.
I wanted to grow up to be just like my mom
'cause I saw that she was a strong, kind woman
that helped everyone she could,
and she was nice to everyone,
no matter who they were.
I miss how she was always pushing me to do my best.
I really miss her support.