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Date of murder:
June 19,
1937 |
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Date of arrest:
3 days after (surrenders) |
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Date of birth: 1911 |
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Victim profile: Kathleen
Diana Lucy (female, 17-month-old) |
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Method of murder: Strangulation
with a clothes line |
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Location: Fullbrook, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
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Status:
Found guilty but insane
on 6th November 1937.
Released on 18th September 1951 |
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In 1937, Allen was a 25-year-old
assistant chef working at the Lamb Hotel in Burford, Oxfordshire. He had
been befriended by the Woodward family and often used to take their 17-month-old
daughter, Kathleen Diana Lucy, for a walk.
He took her for such a walk on
21st October but he strangled the child with a clothes line and dumped
the body at the side of a road. He was arrested a couple of days later
when he surrendered to police.
On 6th November
1937 he was found guilty but insane and was sent to Broadmoor. Ten years
later he escaped from Broadmoor dressed as a cleric. He stayed at large
for two years and was dubbed by the press as 'The Mad Parson.' After his
recpture he was returned to Braodmoor. He was released on 18th September
1951. |
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