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The Chilling Case of Manuela Allen: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Nighttime Disappearance
What if the person you trust the most could slip away in the dead of night, leaving nothing but a trail of blood and unanswered questions? Join us as we unravel the chilling murder case of Manuela Allen, a beloved teacher and mother from Olney, Texas. Her disappearance in the early hours of a July morning left her family in turmoil, unaware of the horror that had unfolded while they slept. This episode delves into the eerie discovery of bloodstains throughout her home and the chilling realization that Manuela had been brutally attacked.
In our investigation, we spotlight the curious clue of bicycle tracks near Lake Cooper, a vital lead in identifying the suspect connected to Manuela's murder. As we piece together the events of that fateful night, the audacity of the attack suggests a personal vendetta, one that her family and community were left to grapple with. We explore how Manuela's family, absorbed in their own world of headphones and deep slumber, knew nothing of the terror that unfolded mere feet away. The episode peels back layers of intrigue, from defensive wounds to eyewitness accounts, revealing the suspect's possible familiarity with Manuela and her home.
Finally, we explore the unsettling motive behind this heinous crime, focusing on Julius Mullins, whose life intertwined with Manuela's through past relationships. As we dissect his motives and the irrational thought processes that led to his guilty plea, we aim to understand the psychological complexities driving such unthinkable acts. Mullins' sentencing to 55 years serves as a grim reminder of the destructive power of unresolved emotions. Through our narrative, we not only investigate the crime itself but also reflect on its devastating impact on a close-knit community, seeking to comprehend the depths of human behavior amidst unimaginable tragedy.
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Welcome all of you wine and true crime lovers. I'm Brandi.
Speaker 2:And I'm Chris.
Speaker 1:And this is Texas Wine and True Crime. Thank you for being here, friends, for this week's episode out of Olney, texas the Murder of Manuela Allen. We are excited to announce our winery for the month of March. Coming up will be Robert Clay Vineyards. Chris, because of our scheduling this month, we decided to skip February for our featured wineries and we will pick this back up in March. So very exciting.
Speaker 1:Also, march 6th, we go back to Henry's Majestic, so I will be there at Henry's with a guest, so you don't want to miss this. I will have Darlie Routier's sister interviewing with me at Henry's Majestic starting at 7 o'clock on March 6th, so you don't want to miss that. Just, you can make a reservation online. All you need to come is show up. That show is from 7 to 9,. Henry's Majestic in Dallas and then we will be in Mason April 5th at the Wine and Arts Festival happening in Mason, texas, at Robert Clay Vineyards. So lots of things coming up. We will keep everyone posted, so make sure to be following our socials to keep up with that. Chris, you want to add anything before we hop into this case?
Speaker 2:No, just looking forward to traveling down to Mason as well too. That's going to be a fun little trip too.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes I agree.
Speaker 2:I mean, we always like doing live shows and that's a fun little place to do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that delicious wine. Yeah, and looking forward to kind of seeing.
Speaker 2:I'm looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to drinking some of that wine.
Speaker 1:And not only that, also, just seeing everyone in the town, I think this is a big event. People are going to be coming out and so, yeah, we're going to be there to enjoy it. So looking forward to that, all right, so let's go ahead and hop into this case. Chris, we are going back to 2019, and this is the unfortunate murder of Manuela Allen out of Olney, texas. So about 3,000 people living in Olney, texas. This is a mom of four. She's a beloved teacher, friend, wife. She was senselessly murdered in her home in the middle of the night. Now, the hard part of this story is that while all of this is happening, her husband and two teenage children are fast asleep and heard nothing.
Speaker 2:And that's such a small small town too, for something like this to occur.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and honestly, like the heartbreak and I can only imagine, like knowing what has happened under that roof and knowing that there were people there and of course they're going to be suspects and we're going to get into all of this, but once we kind of talk about what happened in that house, it is kind of mind-boggling that nobody heard or saw anything, unfortunately, until the next morning. So this is July 2019. That morning, a morning in July, manuela's daughter wakes up. So she's the mom of four. They're all teenagers or going into their 20s.
Speaker 1:All right, so the two kids that were at the house, the two teenage children, were in high school. Her daughter basically goes into the living room where the father is sleeping and she's basically asking where her mom is and her dad says well, you know, she's in the bedroom. And so she goes and she says, well, dad, the bedroom door is locked. So he knew something was not right, chris, because she never locked the bedroom door. So he tells his daughter you know, go to the room through the garage. So there is basically a way to get into that room. If you knew the garage code and you can get into the garage, you can get into this room.
Speaker 2:I mean, was he asleep on the couch?
Speaker 1:He was. Yeah, he was asleep on the couch. He was kind of he was a very heavy sleeper. People will come forward and say that he was asleep on the couch. He was kind of, he was a very heavy sleeper. People will come forward and say that he was in love with this woman and you know, again, I can just only imagine how he's feeling, knowing he's right on the outside of that door in the living room asleep. But he was asleep, he was asleep on the couch and it was very common actually for him to sleep on the couch.
Speaker 2:So it wasn't like yeah.
Speaker 1:All right. So he knew something was not right. Again, he tells the daughter try to get in this way. So she comes back and tells her dad, like there's blood everywhere in the garage area. And he's like what are you talking about? There's blood. So they go in. They end up seeing bloody footprints in the kitchen, blood up and down the hallway. They finally get into the bed.
Speaker 1:He gets into the bedroom right, he's getting into the bedroom. There's blood, there's blood everywhere. There's blood everywhere. And you know he's the. I mean, I can only imagine what. What they're thinking and feeling with this is like where's she at and what happened to her Cause? Remember, she's not there. Her, she is not there. So they see blood. Their mom is missing, His wife is missing. So he will recall later on when he's talking to police that he actually heard a car leaving and he knew it was their car and so he thought maybe she injured herself. But I mean, once you look at the crime photos, you can see that there was a lot of blood. But he thought maybe she drove herself to the hospital.
Speaker 2:And just didn't want to bother anybody.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, because he says you know he's like I didn't control my wife If my wife wanted to get up at five in the morning and go get coffee.
Speaker 2:I didn't say anything about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess just go to the hospital, Didn't want to. You know, I think he's just trying to put something together because right now nothing's making sense, right.
Speaker 2:So he remembers the car leaving she was bleeding and then had to drive herself to, you know.
Speaker 1:Right. And so he calls well, like the only hospital in town, I'm sure, to see if his wife was there and when they told her that, when they told him she was not, that's when he decides to call his, call the police, report his wife missing and tell them that there's blood all over the bedroom, but she's not there. So I'm sure police, you know, were thinking what? What do you mean? There's blood everywhere. What do you mean? She's missing. I mean, this is a town of 3000 people. They knew exactly who this family was, and so police immediately come to the house. So they're looking at the scene, right, so they're looking at the scene and they're trying to figure out. You know what's going on.
Speaker 1:Well, at the same time, there's there's a couple of officers on site. Right, this is a. Actually, this is going in to a Sunday, so it is a Sunday. So I think there was like one police officer actually like on duty that morning and of course they had to. They eventually had to call others in, but they were really trying to figure out. You know, where could she be? The car is missing, what does you know? What does this look like and where could she possibly be? Well, you know how we always say like in smaller towns people go and hang out certain areas, people flock to certain areas. Well, chris, in Olney people went to Lake Cooper. That's just where they went. So the officer asked another officer to please go to Lake Cooper to see maybe if they can find this vehicle. So they're looking for their white SUV.
Speaker 2:I mean, like you say, everybody went there like teenagers, older people. It just was the hangout.
Speaker 1:Yep, it was just the hangout. And it's not long till he drives up into Lake Cooper and he sees that white SUV. I mean, he can't believe it. He immediately pulls up, he sees it. He actually starts approaching the car. There's no one there, no one inside, no one around the vehicle that he can see. They do confirm it is the Allen's missing car. It matches the exact description. And then one thing he does notice is that there's blood smears, excuse me, on the inside and the outside of the vehicle. So he's taking pictures, noting a few of these things. So the officer sees what looks like just like clothes, like a pile of clothing, a pile of blankets, something.
Speaker 1:And like in the back, yeah, like no, no, like more often the distance in the trees, so like away from the vehicle. But as he gets closer, you know he realizes that this is most likely the missing woman, manuela Allen, that is underneath these blankets Right and this debris that's covering her, but back at the house. Ok, so now we have, we have a body found at Lake Cooper, back at the house. They are going through the home and looking at all this. So, chris, it's covered in blood the walls, the carpet in the bedroom, in the kitchen, in the hallway. You can tell Manuela had tried to escape her attacker. Because of the blood and the location. Because of the blood and the location it looked like maybe she had exited the bedroom, got into the hallway and then was somehow attacked in the hallway and then pulled back into the bedroom. They find tire tracks in the yard, which means that the car was actually pulled around to that side of the house, the keys must have been left in it or something.
Speaker 2:I mean, that is kind of weird how you obtain the keys, but maybe you never know.
Speaker 1:The perpetrator we're going to eventually talk about actually knew where the keys were.
Speaker 2:Gotcha.
Speaker 1:That's how he was really able to kind of move through this house with such I'm going to use the word boldness. I mean it's kind of unbelievable that um, the, the brazenness of going into a home with people sleeping. I mean this is like two 30 in the morning that this attack happened and yeah, especially that's not something typically done by people that don't know the. I mean this is like 2.30 in the morning that this attack happened.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially that's not something typically done by people that don't know the habits. I mean you run the risk of somebody waking up.
Speaker 1:That's right. But this person felt very confident in the way that they knew the house, how they were going to go in and out. I'm not sure if this person actually thought Manuela Allen was going to put up such a fight, but she did. She had we'll talk about her autopsy but she had multiple defensive wounds in her hands. But so they're looking at this crime scene and they're realizing you know, this is a very personal attack and police now believe whoever did this to Manuela Allen knew her and wanted her life to end.
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Speaker 1:So now that they have looked at the crime scene at the home, they are now looking at the Lake Cooper crime scene. So now we've got two crime scenes. We've got where the crime takes place and now we have where the actual body and the car and the vehicle are found. So one thing the officer notices is that there are bicycle tracks. So not just your average, just regular, I would say the skinny looking wheels of a bicycle. These are more like the tread, I would say like mountain bike treading. Yeah, that's what it looked like to me. So a little thicker, right. So they know they're going to put out an all points bulletin looking for this bicycle. And I thought that was kind of interesting, like all points for a bicycle. But what thought that was kind of interesting, like all points for a bicycle.
Speaker 1:But what this actually did was it kind of got some people thinking about who they might have seen on a bike, right, and then you know where would the path of what path would they have taken to leave the park and then get back into town, wherever they live. So they put an all points bulletin for a bicycle and so now they're, they're sort of on the hunt for this tread and so two people actually come forward and say the one was an oil field worker and the other one, I believe, is a woman just driving and seeing someone on a bicycle. But basically they both said that that person was traveling back in towards town and away from Lake Cooper and because of that path and where this person was seen on a bike, they actually ended up pulling cameras from this area and they did see someone, a young man, on a bike. So they think you know, this is this, is it, this is this is the person. Now I said that the family was home when the attack took place. So you, how do three grown people not hear a thing?
Speaker 1:Well, we know now that the both the teenagers had headphones on, one, I think, was playing a video game up until very late in his ears, and the other one was listening to music, and that the dad was on the couch, a very deep sleeper and was asleep. So we know that police asked them. You know what were you doing from this time to this time? And this is basically the scenario they came up with Chris, both kids had their headphones in and the dad just heard nothing. Wow, I know, I know. So they break the news to the Allen family that they have found a body. I mean, this is a small town, news travels fast. It is confirmed to be that of Manuela Allen. So the autopsy she had 47 stab wounds, majority of them were to the skull. She had cuts all over her hands, all over her head. You could tell that she had put her hands up near her head, near her skull, to stop the blows from continuing.
Speaker 2:The defensive wounds there.
Speaker 1:Yep, she had suffered strangulation, post-mortem gunshot to the face, but they said she put up a fight and you know she got out of that room. In fact we will talk about the perpetrator and you know it's interesting because he says that she got up like he attacked her when she was sleeping. It's 2 30 in the morning and she actually got up, um, and that's when she got into the hallway and that's when he brought her back in and that's when he says he actually locked the door. So they, they were asking um, these questions once they find him.
Speaker 1:But at this point they don't know this right, they know the husband's home, they know kids are sleeping, they know this is a very personal attack and so the first person they're going to look at is the husband. Okay, I mean cause, I mean even like me going through this case and like looking at at some of this information, it is kind of I mean you have not only is he just going to be a suspect in general, because he's the husband, but knowing he's there and the brutality of this that's kind of what I think too and just the racket that a lot of this would have made, Because most of it occurred the gunshot occurred in the house or at the scene.
Speaker 1:I think at the scene it was post-mortem. It's a post-mortem, so I mean other than that.
Speaker 2:But even so, somebody kicking and screaming and fighting. You know, I mean you would just think, gosh, how I could see headphones, especially, you know, if they're ones that close over your ear. If you're listening music, that does kind of isolate you. But for somebody just to be sleeping on the couch, I mean even if the tv's on, I don't know, I know kind of wild yeah, so they, they bring him in, I mean, they bring peter allen into the station and start questioning him.
Speaker 1:Now remember, she had four kids. Two of the older children were gone. One of them, I think, was visiting a friend somewhere and the other one was out for the night, but the other two kids were there and this again happens at 2.30 in the morning. Now he will say he heard two things, chris. He heard a noise at some point like a thump, didn't really think much of it, and then he heard the car starting. So those were the two things. And then, when he heard the car start, by the time he got up he did look out that window and by the time he did, the car was gone. And that's when he realized, you know, maybe she went somewhere, but he went right back to sleep.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's what's so wild, right, like he goes back to sleep, but by this time she's in that vehicle being driven late, you know, to the lake yeah and um yeah, I mean, that's too just like whatever, would you say he doesn't, um how not hound his wife but I mean like she's her own lady or I don't know. I mean that's just still a. This isn't leaving at 630 in the afternoon and just kind of not. I mean, I don't know. Typically courtesy people say when they're leaving. It has nothing to do with control, but that seems especially when something out of the norm and that unusual, leaving that late and not even investigate it.
Speaker 1:Well, I can only imagine what he has to live with on that. Unless too, though, Right on his conscience, these are kids in high school, right?
Speaker 2:I mean if they think that maybe a friend or something like that was over late and left.
Speaker 1:Well, they just had headphones in Like they were sleeping right. Maybe him thinking like hearing a car, hearing some commotion.
Speaker 2:Thinking it was the kids. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Well no, he knew his car was gone. He saw that the vehicle was gone. He knew that the vehicle he heard what he said was his car and when he got up and looked, yeah.
Speaker 2:But when you think about that, though, like, unless you have some sort of special exhaust, a car sounds like a freaking car.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:That's true, yeah, I don't know, or some loud muffler or something like that. So who knows?
Speaker 1:Well, he had no scratches on him, no cuts. He basically told police in his interrogation video that if I was going to get in a fight with my wife, an attacker, I would have some bruising, like she's gonna, she's gonna put up a fight. And he had on him. So police end up pulling that cctv video. They talked to the witnesses. Um, that saw that bicycle and because he had no scratches on him, you know, again, it's kind of hard to wrap your head around the fact he is on the couch but there was nothing really to hold him and he seemed, seemed genuinely upset. You know that his wife had been killed. Now there is one young man that police do suspect is responsible for several robberies around some of those homes. He did have a bicycle. So they actually send the officer right. This is a small town. There's only a few police officers. So the same officer that went to Lake Cooper and found all of this stuff, including those bicycle tracks, he is the one who is sent to talk to this young man at an apartment complex.
Speaker 2:He sees a bike basically propped up on a wall outside of one of the doors, excuse me.
Speaker 1:So once he gets into that apartment with that young man, he basically asks him who does this bike belong to? And that guy gives the name of Julius Mullins. Julius Mullins is a 19-year-old. I think he was either 18, about to turn 19, or was 19. He was a good kid from all accounts, a football player. Funny People liked him. His friends on the football team said that he was liked by everybody.
Speaker 1:Now, the only thing about Julius that really they could talk about in a maybe not so positive light was that he had an unstable home life. It was said that some of the you know, because he was a football player and this is a small town and people take care of people, you know, sometimes they would actually allow him to sleep and shower in the high school, like in the locker room basically. But you know he it's I don't want to say like he had a terrible home life and that's why he did this. We don't actually know why he did this. What I do know is that Julius Mullins had dated the Allen's oldest daughter and she eventually breaks up with him, which is the catalyst of this attack. But what drove him to that nobody really knows. So if this had something, to do with his past?
Speaker 2:Would the mother have to do with it, or did she have some sort of bad blood with him or something for dating his daughter? Who knows?
Speaker 1:Well, you know, here's Mr Allen had said in multiple interviews that he noticed bruises on his daughter's arms one day and he asked her about him and she basically said you know, he was like playing and hitting me in the arm. But the dad did not like that and he felt like a little tap on the arm isn't going to do what he saw. So he went up to Julius Mullins and said you know, don't ever put your hands on my daughter again. And he never did.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, but why? Why go for the mother? I mean he was dating the daughter, Well, she was a. But why go after the mother? I mean, he was dating the daughter, Well she was a teacher at the high school.
Speaker 1:I think that you just have parents who don't.
Speaker 2:How violent the crime was. That's what exactly was it that he was taking out on the mother. You know, something else maybe occurred that.
Speaker 1:Well, I think that the parents probably did not like him too much.
Speaker 2:Based on what they saw in her, they didn't approve of the relationship between him and their daughter.
Speaker 1:I mean probably not. I think that, you know, maybe his unstable home life kind of left them thinking that she could do better. I think that he, um, you know, first of all, when the daughter breaks up with him, he starts to become very isolated, he starts acting different. I mean he's this definitely is triggered. This breakup definitely triggers him to just all of a sudden be to himself, dad, isolated himself from other activities with friends. So he took it hard and, yeah, I think she probably did not approve and I think that she wanted to support her daughter. But Chris, who knows, I mean he could have been under the assumption right, the assumptions of the parents being the catalyst for the breakup.
Speaker 1:Right, this is a kid and so who knows what he's telling himself. But whatever he was telling himself was bad enough to where he felt the need to walk into someone's home at 2.30 in the morning and stab her 47 times knowing there are people at the house. I mean the brazenness. I mean I still can't get over that.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:Like it's wild and okay. So a tip comes into police and this tip comes from a family that took Julius Mullins to the lake the day. That investigator basically the next day after this happens, police are already at the lake looking around. Well, other people in this family are like I wonder what's going on. Well, this tip comes in from the man who says that he brought Julius with his family to swim that day, and he says that Julius Mullins responds with oh, they found Manuela Allen's body. But this was way before this was ever announced. But this was way before this was ever announced.
Speaker 1:So he basically tells the family what they're doing, and then, once they see that that's actually the case, they make a call into police and give them this information. This is what really?
Speaker 1:puts Julius Mullins on the top of the list. First you've got the bike and now you've got these tips that come in the day before this happens, excuse me, the next day, like the lake day. He actually or, I'm sorry, maybe not that very next day, but maybe the day after, when, when it's announced to the public, right when they announce that they have found Manuela Allen, he texts his ex, who was their daughter, and he says to her you know, I'm sorry about what happened, I hope you're okay. And she asked him was this you, like? You knew the code of the garage, you knew where the keys were going to be found, you knew how to get in, you knew how to pull the vehicle. I mean, you knew all these things. Was this you? And they actually end up getting that information from her phone. Now, of course, he denied it, said it was not him, but she thought that this could possibly be him. They end up finding a bunch of DNA, chris, and it all points to Julius Mullen. So again, it all points to Julius Mullins. So again, you have an amateur doing this. Dna is everywhere.
Speaker 1:Once they, once they confirmed that the DNA is found, they arrest Julius Mullins and question him and he starts to give the details about this attack. He basically says he ambushed her, started stabbing her while she was asleep whenever he was too tired, I guess and ended up getting off of her, thinking that maybe she was dead. She gets up and tries to run for her life. He drags her back in, locks the door, finishes the job, wraps her up in blankets and whatever he can find. And here's another thing too the father had always said my wife was like 200 pounds. I don't think this kid, at 160, would have been able to pull her body out of this house and get it into the car.
Speaker 1:And then, not only that, they get it out of the car and drag it to where she's eventually found. So you're removing her, putting her in, taking her back out and then dragging her somewhere else. But you know people fail to remember that this kid, like lifted weights, he played football. People said he hit hard. And you have a lot of adrenaline going in rush when you're doing this. I mean, imagine, imagine the kind of like energy this guy had to have to, even in the adrenaline that was pumping through his body, just to enter that home. You know, and I mean it's kind of a valid point.
Speaker 2:Um, I don't know Absolutely. I mean dead weight. Um, when somebody is dead, they are certainly clearly dead weight yes, but it's just it's a different, different, uh, that's a whole nother uh sense of heaviness, Cause I mean even people that weigh 200 pounds and and can maybe help you scoot. I mean, I think about, um, you know, moving those people around in hospital on a stretcher. I mean, good Lord, it's, it's a lot, but, like you said, he was uh, he was athletic and he did work out.
Speaker 1:Perhaps yeah, Adrenaline.
Speaker 2:Because I guess that would be the suggestion that somebody helped him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the father did think there were two people involved in this, but police really didn't find anybody else's DNA and nobody came forward and Julius Mullins wasn't giving anyone else up and it's a 19-year-old kid.
Speaker 2:The likelihood of him keeping quiet this long if somebody else was involved is pretty low. Like he could, yeah.
Speaker 1:And again you have to remember like this kid was kind of turning into a loner at this point, right, so he's keeping all of this bottled inside. People knew he was kind of upset about the relationship and he clearly was taking it hard, but not to the point where they thought he would do anything like this.
Speaker 2:To me even motive still seems very soft, like what is the.
Speaker 1:What beef?
Speaker 2:did he have with the mother, Even if they was disapproving. There just seems like there would have to be something.
Speaker 1:No, not necessarily. He could literally be telling himself that they were the catalyst to end this relationship right Like it's whatever he's telling his own self is what I think.
Speaker 2:I guess yeah, but I mean it's, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean, she could have even said something like you know. I mean off comments of like, yeah, my parents aren't happy about this, right, or I'm not happy about this, or my talk to my mom.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know, but I feel like that would be that would be um more to more about this story, like the daughter would be indicating that, like the parents weren't happy with it and the relationship, and blah, blah, blah. And so you know, I mean who knows?
Speaker 1:I mean maybe it was, but also too, he could have just kind of flipped and, you know, decided to lash out somebody, and she was the likely one Well he never actually says why he did this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, first he tells police like he was at a party and on drugs, and they find out like that was a lie. And they find out like that was a lie and then I mean his story changed multiple times. But they, I mean the reason is because the relationship ended and whether he was just upset and wanted revenge, right, like if I kill the mom then that makes her sad forever, right.
Speaker 1:Like we don't know. I mean, people think some wild, wild things so he never actually comes out and says why he actually did this. But, chris, he pleaded guilty to murder. He was sentenced to 55 years for murder, 20 years for burglary and 20 for abuse of a corpse. Thank you,