THE DARK SIDE OF FLORIDA
Lloyd Allen
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Full Name: Lloyd Chase Allen
Aliases: "Alabama," "Floyd," "Jerry Don," "Lee Brock," "Donnie Chase," "Joe Fitzgerald," "Ted Hale," "Jackie Brown," "Howard French"
Date of birth: October 25, 1945
Conviction: 1st-degree murder
County: Monroe
City: Summerland Key
Current Location: Deceased
Date of Crime: November 13, 1991
Date of death: July 29, 2015
Victim(s): Dortha Cribbs
Aliases: "Alabama," "Floyd," "Jerry Don," "Lee Brock," "Donnie Chase," "Joe Fitzgerald," "Ted Hale," "Jackie Brown," "Howard French"
Date of birth: October 25, 1945
Conviction: 1st-degree murder
County: Monroe
City: Summerland Key
Current Location: Deceased
Date of Crime: November 13, 1991
Date of death: July 29, 2015
Victim(s): Dortha Cribbs
Dortha Cribbs and Lloyd Chase Allen met at a truck stop while driving from her home in Ohio to Florida. Lloyd accompanied Dortha to visit her friend in Jacksonville Beach and to sell her trailer in Bunnell. She announced to her friends that after she sold her trailer and her vacation home in Summerland Key, she planned to enter the trucking business with Lloyd.
On November 13, 1991, A witness outside of Dortha’s Summerland Key home saw her exit and re-enter in the early morning of her murder. The witness also saw Lloyd exit and re-enter that day around 11 a.m.
A real estate agent entered the house around 12:30 p.m. after his knocks went unanswered and discovered Dortha’s body lying face down in the master bedroom surrounded by a pool of blood. She suffered from a stab wound in her neck, severing her carotid artery and subsequently causing her to bleed to death. There were also two pre-morbid stab wounds to Dortha’s face and ligature marks found on her wrists and ankles. Some of the items at the scene were Lloyd’s pair of bloodstained jeans and a semen-stained towel. Dortha’s $8000 diamond ring was missing, as well as $4100.
A taxi driver testified that he drove Lloyd from the Buccaneer Lodge Tiki Lounge to Key Largo around 12:30 p.m. on the day of the murder. Dortha’s car was later found abandoned at the Buccaneer Lodge Tiki Lounge. Police recovered a trucker’s logbook belonging to Lloyd in Dortha’s car, which subsequently led to his arrest in California on February 18, 1992.
After a jury trial, Lloyd was sentenced to death and but died of mysterious circumstances before he was executed. He was pronounced dead at 69 years of age on July 29, 2015. There are articles that report the circumstances of his death were being investigated as a possible crime, but I couldn’t find an outcome of the investigation.
On November 13, 1991, A witness outside of Dortha’s Summerland Key home saw her exit and re-enter in the early morning of her murder. The witness also saw Lloyd exit and re-enter that day around 11 a.m.
A real estate agent entered the house around 12:30 p.m. after his knocks went unanswered and discovered Dortha’s body lying face down in the master bedroom surrounded by a pool of blood. She suffered from a stab wound in her neck, severing her carotid artery and subsequently causing her to bleed to death. There were also two pre-morbid stab wounds to Dortha’s face and ligature marks found on her wrists and ankles. Some of the items at the scene were Lloyd’s pair of bloodstained jeans and a semen-stained towel. Dortha’s $8000 diamond ring was missing, as well as $4100.
A taxi driver testified that he drove Lloyd from the Buccaneer Lodge Tiki Lounge to Key Largo around 12:30 p.m. on the day of the murder. Dortha’s car was later found abandoned at the Buccaneer Lodge Tiki Lounge. Police recovered a trucker’s logbook belonging to Lloyd in Dortha’s car, which subsequently led to his arrest in California on February 18, 1992.
After a jury trial, Lloyd was sentenced to death and but died of mysterious circumstances before he was executed. He was pronounced dead at 69 years of age on July 29, 2015. There are articles that report the circumstances of his death were being investigated as a possible crime, but I couldn’t find an outcome of the investigation.
Source: WLRN Miami
Source: Murderpedia
Source: Murderpedia
