Murder of Terry L. Allen

On June 24, 1983, 16-year-old Terry L. Allen left her home in Kansas City Missouri on the 26000 block of Park. She had left around 5:45 p.m. to pick up a load of clothes from the cleaners. It was supposed to have been a quick trip. When she didn't return later that night her mother worried and she called family and friends. She didn't return home that night and was never again.

The next morning her family and friends initiated a search for the girl. Unfortunately around 9 a.m. the next morning they found her body. It was a morbid scene only a mile from her home in a bushy field near a radio tower on 22nd Street and Woodland Ave. She was partially nude and had been strangled to death.

Terry was described as a bright girl and was always wanting to learn. She was hardworking as she was a cheerleader, a 100-meter sprinter, was in the church choir, manager for the football team, a statistician for the basketball team and even with all that she was working at a hamburger joint. Teachers, Friends, and Family's always recall her bright smile and kind personality.

Her case is still unsolved.

SOURCES:
http://kcmo.gov/police/homicide-3/cold-case-unsolved-homicides/#.WnwgP-jwbIU
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article160039484.html