In February , Patricia Taylor Allanson, age 70, was arrested and charged with doctor shopping for thousands of pain pills over the past year. It is believed she may have received over 3, pills in less than a year. This Southern Belle just can't seem to help herself. On second thought, she has done nothing but help herself to get everything she ever wanted no matter the cost. Killing Through Others. By Katherine Ramsland - Trutv. Patricia thought of herself as special.
Her parents had always bailed her out and she'd never had to take responsibility for herself. Partly because of that, she felt that her husband ought to be able to give her anything she wanted. She needed constant attention—what some men might call high maintenanceand unqualified love. She first had married an army sergeant and stayed with him long enough to have three children, but got tired of him, so she left him in to find a better quality of life—what she felt she deserved.
She met Tom Allanson, six years younger than her. She had her eye on someone else, but it looked like Tom could give her whatever she wanted.
He had money and as soon as he was divorced, he was quite insistent that Pat marry him. He later recalled that he was the one who pressured her, while she would say, "You don't want to marry me. In , he married her dressed as Rhett Butler, while she played Scarlett, and gave her a heavily-mortgaged, acre home in Zebulon, Georgia, that she referred to as Tara.
They set about to raise Morgan horses, and even Jimmy Carter, then governor of Georgia, came to visit. Pat's ambitions of being the proper Southern belle were being realized—or so it seemed. Ann Rule indicates that she had quite another scheme at work that would eventually involve murder.
When Walter Allanson, Tom's father, disapproved of her and angrily tried to force Tom out of his life, Pat filed complaints of sexual harassment against him, claiming that he had exposed himself to her.
Yet his father was taking a defensive stand, believing that his own son was out to kill him. The police searched Tom's home and came up empty-handed, yet the intense fear and anger continued to grow on both sides.
With no form of communication taking place, it was the perfect set-up for a manipulative psychopath who wanted to get something for herself. On July 29, , Walter and his wife, Carolyn, were ambushed. As they took a trip in their car, someone began to shoot at them. They survived the inexplicable attack and felt sure that Tom had orchestrated it, although he was far away on that day. Pat had told him that someone had been calling their house all night long and then had just breathed.
His mother was not home, although he expected her, so to avoid the possibility of running into Walter, he checked the basement door, found it unlocked, and went to sit inside and wait. To his surprise, Walter came home—it was later determined that he'd received a call from an unknown woman telling him that Tom was at his houseand began to rant and rave over Tom's presence.
The electricity was off, so he went into the basement to look around, found the switch box tampered with, and then went out to call the police.
But the phone line had been cut, so he used a neighbor's phone to get the police out there. They arrived, but Walter said he'd take care of the situation himself, so they left.
He then went back into the basement and started shooting randomly. Carolyn was home by that time and he called up to her that he had Tom cornered.
He needed the gun he'd just purchased, so she grabbed it to bring it to him. Tom later claimed that he panicked, certain that his father would kill him. He could not imagine how he had gotten into such a situation.
When officers arrived once again in response to an emergency call, they found Carolyn Allanson sitting upright on the basement steps, shot dead. Through the basement window, they could see numerous sprays of blood. Not far away inside, Walter lay on the ground. He'd been shot numerous times—it was later determined that there were 20 separate entrance woundsand the police immediately suspected Tom. He'd been seen there, and a man matching his description had run from the crime scene.
Tom had his own story—also a lie—and it didn't match. Pat was left alone, so she began working on Tom's wealthy grandparents until they finally named her in their will as the primary beneficiary.
Then she laced food with arsenic to feed to Tom's grandparents. Once she got out, she started up again with her scheming. She persuaded a wealthy couple from Atlanta, Mr. It wasn't long before they, too, got sick and the husband died. In the meantime, Tom had served 15 and a half years and gotten out on parole. Investigators on the Crist case arranged to see him to find out what had happened the day he had shot his parents. It was their belief that Pat had not only choreographed the entire episode by fanning the flames of paranoia between father and son and then by sending them into a head-on confrontation, but also that she had fully expected Tom to die.
The investigators believed Pat had hired someone to ambush Walter and Carolyn and to cut their phone lines, but they couldn't prove anything. Tom's story might solve the riddle.
As they spoke with him, a new piece of information came out: after shooting his parents in self-defenseafraid they meant to trap and kill himhe had run to find Pat and she had told him to find his own way home—60 miles away. He had done so without question. Both of them had denied seeing each other that morning, and even as he protected Pat, it wasn't long before he had wondered if he and his father had both been set up.
Pat was a liar, Tom told the investigators. The tragedy of his life would never have happened, he believed, if he hadn't married Pat. In a shrewd and controversial plea bargain, she agreed to seven charges, including theft, attempted murder, and posing as a registered nurse, with the proviso that she never be charged with the murder of Mr.
One again, she was sentenced to eight years. In an update on her Web site, Rule writes that Patricia Allanson has been free from prison since and lives with her stepfather and his new wife. While it seems evident that Pat was among those women who set other people up to kill, some women do the killing and then deflect the blame to others.
Patricia Allanson always thought of herself as special. Her parents took any responsibility away from her and thus Patricia was convinced that a husband had to give her anything she ever dreamed of. Patricia found this with her first husband, an army seargeant and had three children with him.
Obviously he was not giving enough so she headed for six year younger Tom Allanson , who seemed able to offer her what she meant to deserve. It was only two months after their marriage that Patricia talked her husband into a paranoia that his father, Walter Allanson , wanted to kill him. Walter Allanson made no secret about being against his daughter-in-law. On June 29, Walter and his wife Carolyn took a ride with their car, when someone shot at them.
Despite Tom was far away, they were convinced that her son had organized the attack. When Tom wanted to discuss the escalating situation on July 3, he went to his parents home and found nobody at home. To his surprise his father came home, who had received an anonymous call by a woman, that Tom would be in the house. After some struggle Walter called the police but sent them away when they arrived. When his wife Carolyn came home, Walter demanded her to bring him the gun, he recently bought.
When police officers arrived once again after another emergency call, they found Carolyn and Walter shot numerous times. Tom was soon arrested as prime suspect and Patricia tried to get him out by telling lies.
Also Tom told lies and so he was convicted and sentenced to life. Soon after Patricia tried to convince Tom into a suicide pact, he later thought, this was her attempt to get rid of him and inherit everything. Patricia now had the farm for herself, two months after their marriage only. Patricia fed them arsenic with their meals and when they grew ill, she was arrested and convicted to eight years in prison.
After her release she did not hesitate to persuade a wealthy couple from Atlanta, Mr. Christ , to hire her as nurse. Christ survived only a short period.
Meantime police had quested Tom again, who was free on parole after serving 15 years in prison. In a controversial plea bargain Patricia Allanson agreed to seven charges, including theft, attempted murder and posing as registered nurse for not being charged with the murder of Mr. Patricia Allanson went to prison for another eight years and allegedly lives with her stepfather and his new wife since her release By Kim Cantrell - KimKantrell.
Right out of the starting gate, Mary Linda Patricia Vann didn't have much of a chance of not becoming a teenage mother. Her maternal family had special talent from bringing children into the world; the fact they didn't as we say in the South have a pot to piss was of little regard.
It was really no surprise when Pat found herself knocked-up and unwed at fifteen. Marrying the teenage baby daddy was a useless endeavor and, with three children in tow, had returned home to the home of her mother and stepfather.
While many young mothers would have been defeated after a failed marriage, not Pat. She had big dreams. Big, big dreams. All she needed was to find and marry a wealthy man to achieve them. After a couple of relationships that didn't pan out, Pat met Tom Allanson , a handsome young man from a wealthy Georgia family.
His father was prominent Georgia attorney Walter Allanson. Yes Family event Pat becomes pregnant Age of family event 15 Problems in school?
No Teased while in school? No Physically attractive? No Physical defect? No Speech defect? No Head injury? None Physically abused? No Psychologically abused? No Sexually abused? No Branch Type of discharge Saw combat duty Killed enemy during service? Applied for job as a cop? No Worked in law enforcement? No Fired from jobs? No Types of jobs worked Self-employed shop Employment status during series Unemployed, and self-employed Relationships Sexual preference Heterosexual Marital status Was married, currently divorced.
No Abused alcohol? No Been to a psychologist prior to killing? No Time in forensic hospital prior to killing?
No Spent time in jail? No Spent time in prison? No Killed prior to series? Killer age at start of series 54 Date of first kill in series Date of final kill in series Gender of victims Male, possible male and female. No Type Did killer have a partner? Yes Killing occurred in home of killer? No Victim abducted or killed at contact? No Behavior During Crimes Rape?
No Tortured victims? Yes, poison over time. Stalked victims? No Overkill? No Used blindfold? Mary Linda Patricia Vann was the name they gave her at birth. She would have many names in her life. Patricia, rather Pat, was the only one that would stay with her. American prisons, being overcrowded as they are and filled with too many inmates with petty records, allow for murderers such as Pat to be released after a relatively short period of time.
The Georgia Department of Corrections had unleashed a narcissistic murderess on a society completely unaware of the evil slinking among them. In search of employment, Pat convinced a prominent Atlanta, Georgia, couple, Mr.
Jimmy Crist, Sr. Crist lived only a short time after Pat began working for them. The Crist family were convinced Pat neglected Jimmy and poisoned his wife, Betty Crist, but the thefts of Pat and Debbie were the only thing which could be proven.
The thieving duo had stolen money and valuables from the couple. It was also learned that Pat had lied about her being a licensed nurse. Taking full responsibility for the thefts, Pat pleaded guilty to multiple charges in June She was sentenced to serve another eight years in prison.
She had used him to orchestrate the murder of his parents, and would do anything for riches. Money was the only thing that mattered, and Pat was the only person Pat had ever truly loved.
After serving 15 years in prison, Tom was released. Soon afterward, Tom found himself as someone police wanted to interview. Pat was released from prison in She went to live with her stepfather and his new wife, whom he'd married after the death of Pat's mother.
In , Pat was charged with doctor shopping and fraudulently obtaining more than painkillers in less than a year. She was charged with three counts of unauthorized distribution. She entered a plea agreement with a sentence of probation only. How much more will the lady now known as Pat Taylor get by with before she kills someone else? Each year, he provides a multitude of services, including housing for men recently released from prison. His mission is to provide a more smooth transition from prison to society living, in the hopes that fewer inmates will return to a life of crime and ultimately prison.
It was said she engaged in a heated battle with his widow over his remains. Why she believed she was entitled to an opinion escapes most, and the outcome of the disagreement is publicly unknown.
This content reflects the personal opinions of the author. Answer: After Pat was released, she's gone on to live a quiet life and has seemingly dropped off the radar. It's very likely she has changed her name or going by some skewed alias. As result, no updates can be found regarding her present status. Answer: She is no longer in prison, but her current whereabouts, or even whether she's alive or not, is unknown.
If she is alive, she would be 81 years old. I LOVE your passionate personality and love for true crime. Im a big fan of ID investigation discovery and true crime as well.
God bless you. The Radcliffe family lived next door to my family. The bio outlined by Kim Bryan is faulty. The details of Pat's pregnancy and marriage are faulty, for I attended the wedding of Pat and Gil Taylor.
Several of your facts are incorrect. For example, their farm was named Kentwood Morgan Farm, not Tara. It was not at his office.
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