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June 24th, 1983. 2639 Park Avenue East, Kansas City, Missouri.
At about 5:45 p.m., 16-year-old Terri Allen leaves her house to run an errand. When she doesn’t return home, her worried mother starts calling her friends. The next morning, her lifeless body is found in a brushy area a few blocks from her home. She has been strangled.
Source Citation
“U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012”; School Name: East High School; Year: 1982
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Listeners, this is a cold case:
Circumstances of the crime: Last seen at 5:45 p.m. June 24, 1983, leaving her home in the 2600 block of Park Avenue in Kansas City. Her strangled body was found at 9 a.m. the next morning in a bushy area near 22nd Street and Woodland Avenue.
Suspect information: No identified suspect.
Anyone with information is asked to call: The Kansas City Police Cold Case Squad at 816-234-5136.
Sources:
Tom Jackman Kansas City Star (April 8, 1990) “Serial Patterns Appear in 42 Unsolved Slayings”
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article160154974.html
Rick Montgomery “Despite modern technologies, too many crimes remain unsolved”
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article160039484.html
Joe Robertson “Standout student found strangled a day after she stepped out to run an errand”
https://www.newspapers.com/search/