MD MD- Samuel Allen, 59, WW II veteran, fatally shot in home invasion, Aug., '81, DNA- Alan Bass, 75, 2025, * incarcerated in Delaware on rape charges*

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Sep 26, 2025 rbbm

Baltimore County breakthrough gives daughter answers in father's 1981 murder

Samuel Allen was a World War II veteran whom his daughter admired for his helpfulness and life lessons. For over 40 years, Anne lived without answers as the case went cold.

www.wmar2news.com

''BALTIMORE COUNTY — On a Sunday evening in August 1981, Anne Allen and her parents were in their kitchen of their Liberty Road home when a man broke in carrying a revolver, surgical gloves and a cloth bag, demanding money.

When Allen's father, Samuel Allen, 59, walked into the room, the intruder shot him twice, according to police.''

''Samuel Allen was a World War II veteran''
In 2023, Allen reached back out to investigators in Baltimore County. After re-examining her father's case, cold case detectives sent evidence from the scene for DNA testing and found a breakthrough.

DNA testing matched that of 75-year-old Alan Bass, a man currently incarcerated in Delaware serving five life sentences on rape charges.

Baltimore County police
''Allen is donating $30,000 to police so they can have DNA analyzed in other cold cases.
"For heavenly day's sake, if this can give somebody else the closure that I got, it's going to be worth every penny of it," Allen said.''

 

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Baltimore County Police solve 44-year-old Lochearn murder

Baltimore County Police have identified 75-year-old Alan Bass as the man who killed 59-year-old Samuel Allen in his Lochlearn home more than four decades ago.

www.thebanner.com

''Imprisoned Delaware man named suspect in 1981 cold case​

Samuel Allen was known in his Lochearn neighborhood as “Mr. Fix-It”
A devoted husband, father, colleague and neighbor, the 59-year-old Baltimore County resident was abruptly shot and killed by an unknown intruder 44 years ago — a murder that remained unsolved until now.''

''Bass is serving five consecutive life sentences in a Delaware prison after being convicted of multiple rape, robbery and kidnapping charges in 1983, police said.''

Ann Allen, 74, recalled watching in horror as her father’s attempt to defend his family from a gunman resulted in his death.''

Ann Allen, daughter of victim Samuel Allen, speaks with Baltimore County Police Chief Robert O. McCullough, right, Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier, center, and Baltimore County Councilman Izzy Patoka, left, after Friday's press conference in Towson. (Céilí Doyle/The Banner)

''The World War II veteran bled out on the kitchen floor in the Allens’ home on Liberty Road while the killer demanded money from Ann and her mother, Elizabeth “Betty” Allen, who died in 2020.''

 

[Richard]

Let's hope Maryland charges and convicts him.