On December 19, 1986, the body of 28-year-old Caucasian female sex worker Jill Allen was discovered alongside Interstate 70 in Springfield, Illinois. She had been beaten and strangled to death, with her underwear, bra, and shoes missing—details that mirrored the modus operandi of a serial killer known by the CB radio handle "Dr. No." This individual was suspected in the murders of several sex workers across multiple states during the mid-1980s, including 23-year-old Shirley Dean Taylor and
18-year-old April Barnett, both of whom were also beaten, strangled, and found with clothing items missing.
Despite the similarities in these cases, the identity of "Dr. No" remained unknown, and no arrests were made in connection with Jill Allen's 1986 murder. The case went cold, leaving her family and the community without closure.
A decade later, on August 28, 1996, another woman named Jill Allen, a 24-year-old Caucasian female from Aberdeen, Idaho, was found murdered in her North Salt Lake, Utah, condominium. She had been bludgeoned and strangled, with no signs of forced entry. Investigators determined that her husband, Paul Christopher Allen, had orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot to avoid a divorce and collect a $50,000 life insurance policy. He enlisted Joseph Sergious Wright to facilitate the plan, who then recruited George Anthony Taylor to carry out the killing.
Taylor confessed to the murder and was sentenced to six years to life in prison in 1998. Wright pleaded guilty to attempted murder and criminal solicitation, receiving a five-year sentence. In 2000, Paul Allen was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
It is important to note that these are two distinct cases involving different individuals named Jill Allen, both of whom were tragically murdered under different circumstances.
