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1980 Allen,Elizabeth Ann January 20,1980; El Paso,El Paso County 50 yrs old
Topic Started: Apr 23 2010, 12:19 PM (484 Views)
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Elizabeth Ann Allen
Missing since January 20, 1980 from El Paso, El Paso County, Texas
Classification: Missing



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Vital Statistics

Age at Time of Disappearance: 50 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3-5'4"; 105-125 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Red/Auburn hair; green eyes. Glasses.
Marks, Scars: Small pox vaccination on upper left arm. Ears pierced.
Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Available
AKA: Beth


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Circumstances of Disappearance
Elizabeth Ann Allen disappeared from her home on 20 January 1980. She has never been found.
Her car was recovered near San Bernardino, California.



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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

El Paso Police Department
915-564-7010

Agency Case Number: 00-161011

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Without answers: 3 decades later, family of missing woman continue the search
By Adriana M. Chávez \ El Paso Times
Posted: 05/24/2010 12:00:00 AM MDT


Click photo to enlargeElizabeth Allen«1234»EL PASO -- Elizabeth Allen, mother, businesswoman, victim of foul play, vanished 30 years ago.

Now her friends and relatives, including her aging sister, hope to discover what happened to her before their own lives end.

Allen's family reported her missing on Jan. 21, 1980, one day after they last saw or heard from her. She did not leave a note or tell anyone she was leaving town.

There was no trace of a struggle in her second-floor West Side apartment. Police in San Bernardino, Calif., found her white 1971 Ford Thunderbird Classic on Jan. 24, and called Allen's family after the car was towed the next day.

Police believe someone abducted Allen, 55, but no witnesses have come forward to confirm detectives' suspicions.

Allen's disappearance attracted publicity weeks later and again in 1983, when convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to murdering Allen.

However, El Paso police said, no proof exists to tie Lucas to Allen's disappearance.

Before he was done talking, Lucas confessed to killing 600 people. He later recanted. Lucas ultimately was convicted in Texas of 11 murders and sentenced to death, but in 1998 then-Gov. George W. Bush commuted Lucas' sentence to life in prison. He died in prison of heart failure in 2001.

Allen's case has attracted attention again after Allen's sister and a close family friend called police Cold Case Unit Detective Michael Aman, asking for help.

Aman said he has been able to sketch out Allen's activities in the


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hours before she was reported missing:

On the evening of Jan. 18, Allen attended an awards banquet at the Holiday Inn hotel in Downtown El Paso. Her date was a male acquaintance whom witnesses weren't able to identify.

At 6 p.m. Jan. 19, Allen went to the El Paso International Airport to pick up two male friends who flew in from Orlando. She had dinner with the men afterward and accompanied them to their hotel.

At 1:30 a.m. Jan. 20, Allen left the hotel.

Between 10:30 and 11 a.m. Jan. 20, Allen spoke to her sister, Dorothy Hooker, on the phone. That was the last time anyone in Allen's family heard from her.

Police believe Allen had breakfast on Jan. 20 with the man who accompanied her to the awards banquet on Jan. 18.

At 10:30 a.m. Jan. 21, Hooker reported Allen missing. Allen's car was also missing.
Aman said he believed that, by the time Allen was reported missing, her car was already being driven out of state.

When police recovered Allen's car, a number of gas station receipts were found inside. The charges were made to Allen's credit card, which was still issued in the name of Allen's late husband, Max, who had died two years earlier.

The signature on each receipt was forged with Max Allen's name.

Family friend Sharon Few said although El Paso and San Bernardino are connected by Interstate 10, the receipts document stops in Tucumcari, Albuquerque and Grants, N.M., and in northern Arizona.

Aman said other evidence was found in the car, but he hasn't been able to track it down.

"We want to find out who was in that car besides her," Aman said.

Allen lived in the Fountain Plaza apartment complex on Westcity Court. She was the assistant apartment manager there, but she also managed three other apartment complexes in the city, Few said.

Few only knows Allen from descriptions given to her by Allen's sister and other family members. She said she and Hooker contacted Aman after they discovered that the U.S. Department of Justice had an online network that seeks to identify remains found throughout the country.

"We were trying to get Elizabeth's case onto that network," Few said.

Few described Allen as meticulous about her appearance and "quite stunning." She was also an "effervescent" woman who put family and business first, Few said.

"The sisters (Allen and Hooker) and their mother all lived in El Paso and they all talked on a daily basis," Few said. "It was totally out of character for Elizabeth to do something that would cause extreme distress to the members of the family, to hurt her mother in particular."

Few said Allen was born in Cleburne, Texas, and moved several times after marrying an Air Force man. The couple eventually had four sons.

Three of Allen's sons died after her disappearance. Her surviving son lives in California, Few said.

Few said Allen's family hopes to one day find out what happened to her.

"The family hopes to answer if not who committed this, at least bring closure to where her final resting place may be," Few said.

Adriana M. Chávez may be reached at achavez@elpasotimes.com; 546-6117.


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At the time of Elizabeth Allen's disappearance in January 1980, she was described as 5 feet 3 inches tall and a little more than 100 pounds. She had red hair.

Police said Allen was described as an attractive woman who appeared younger than her age.

Allen had been driving a 1971 white four-door Ford Thunderbird, which was found four days after her disappearance in San Bernadino, Calif.

Police believe Allen might not have been abducted from her apartment, but rather while she was on an errand.

Anyone with information should call the police department's Crimes Against Persons Unit at 564-7010.
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