Allen Leroy Anderson

Spree killer

8known / alleged victims (8 +)

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Case Facts

Gender: male
Country: USA
Location: Several States, USA
Date of birth: September 12, 1943
Age at first offence: 33
Characteristics: robbery, fugitive
Victim profile: Men
Method of murder: ???
Date(s) of murder: 1976
Years active: 1976
Date of arrest: —
Status: Life imprisonment
Sentenced to death in Florida; commuted to life in prison

Case Summary

Case record: Allen Leroy Anderson

Background

Allen Leroy Anderson was a 34-year-old vagrant with a long record of felony arrests. In 1976, he was living at a Seattle half-way house.

The offence

Anderson stole the director's car and credit cards and embarked on a spree of robbery and murder spanning twenty states. Scores of victims were robbed, and at least eight victims were murdered before Anderson was located in Minnesota.

In Broward County, Florida, Anderson pled guilty to the murder of a fruit vendor.

Investigation

Anderson was run to earth in Minnesota.

Trial

Anderson pleaded guilty to homicide in Minnesota and received the state's maximum sentence of forty years imprisonment.

In Florida, Anderson faced a subsequent trial. He also pled guilty to the murder of a fruit vendor in Broward County, receiving a sentence of death.

Sentencing

In Minnesota, Anderson received forty years imprisonment.

In Broward County, Florida, Anderson received a sentence of death.

Appeals

On September 2, 1982, the state supreme court voided the sentence, ordering a new trial on constitutional grounds that no attorney was present when Anderson made his self-incriminating statement.

Outcome

Anderson’s Florida death sentence was commuted to life in prison.

Other details

Michael Newton—An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers—Hunting Humans included the following case characterization:

SEX: M
RACE: W
TYPE: N
MOTIVE: CE
MO: Robbery-murders in transit cross-country.
DISPOSITION: 40 years in Minn.; Fla. death sentence commuted to life.

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