[dramatic music]
Here's a man who sets out to become the world's
most famous serial killer.
♪
A man who decides that would be the ultimate profession.
He gets himself a shotgun. He gets himself a hitlist.
He's calling people to talk about what he's done.
He's bragging about what he's done.
He wants the world to know who he is
and what he's capable of.
[tense music]
♪
[soft dramatic music]
Columbia, South Carolina is a Southern town.
That's the only way I can describe it.
People are friendly. People know each other.
Everybody gets along.
It is a peaceful place to live.
Most folks are hardworking folks.
I think most people feel safe. I think they did in 2002.
It was around 4:45 a.m. when we got two different calls
from passersbys on the highway
that saw the fire in the dead-end of Oakway Road
which was, like, a side road off the beaten path
that backed up to an interstate.
The fire department responded. They put the fire out
and that's when they realized they had a body.
♪
I received a page from our desk sergeant.
So I get there in a grassy area next to the highway.
♪
There was a nude, burned body.
Appeared to be an African American female.
She had been shot.
The back of her head had an exit wound.
I noticed right away that her leg was
kind of deformed-looking like it had been shot in half.
♪
And there were several empty
12-gauge shotgun shell casings.
♪
Every run-of-the-day murder doesn't usually happen
with a 12-gauge shotgun.
It's just a huge projectile
that is devastating to the human body.
Any time you see a human treated in this manner,
with this kind of brutality, it becomes personal
to an investigator. It's just horrific what we see
that humans can do to other humans.
There was no identity.
There were no personal belongings.
There were some clothes that were found nearby her body
but other than that, we had no idea who she was.
The body was so completely burned.
There weren't any identifying characteristics about her.
♪
So we began this investigation with a Jane Doe female.
I notified a fellow investigator to come out
who worked on our arson unit.
He had a device that would detect accelerants
and when he came out it showed
that there had been accelerants used to set her on fire.
To kill someone like that, shoot them multiple times,
and then burn their body is not something that we normally see.
♪
When you recover a victim from a scene like this,
obviously the autopsy
is one of the most significant investigative avenues.
The coroner report showed that she was shot three times
with a 12-gauge slug.
And a 12-gauge slug would've more than likely killed her
with the first shot.
To us, that's a clue.
They want to inflict a lot of pain on them.
According to the coroner's report she was dead
when she was set on fire.
And the way they could tell this was because
the inside of her lungs were not discolored.
She hadn't taken any breaths after she was set on fire.
That's oftentimes an attempt to destroy
any potential evidence on the body.
♪
When you work a murder, one of the first things
you attempt to do is identify the victim.
So they had fingerprinted her
and we were working that angle
but the body was burned pretty bad.
Technology was not as good as it is now, unfortunately.
There really wasn't a whole lot to go on.
Quite frankly, there were no leads.
We had nothing.
♪
This woman has been degraded in every way possible.
She's been mutilated, she's been burned,
and her body is found naked in a remote area.
Generally, when you see overkill, in this manner,
it indicates that this was personal in nature.
There was an emotional connection here.
You have to understand the use of a shotgun
is extremely rare.
You have to have a sense
of not caring about anything or anyone.
Whoever did this to her was full of rage
and wanted to obliterate her identity
by shooting her in the face
and setting her on fire after she's dead.
That's where you have to start in the investigation.
Who is this individual?
Why her? Why here? Why now? Why this way?
♪
The following day, we got a break from an employee
of the Sheriff's department. He came forward
and said he had a relative that had been missing.
♪
Deputy McCants contacted us and said that the victim
matched the general description of his cousin
named Dale Evonne Hall
and that she lived close to where the body was found.
I spoke to Dale's mother, Martha Pressley,
and she just reaffirmed the information
that Dale was missing.
Martha provided the dentist
that Dale Hall was going to.
So the coroner's office got her dental records
and the medical examiner here compared them
and identified her and said that that was definitely her.
♪
We made contact with the son and Dale's mother
and obviously, they were distraught.
♪
It's like I blacked out.
I don't remember that much.
The only thing I know I just felt like
I lost a part of myself.
Everything just went blank.
I didn't get angry. I didn't get upset.
I just felt like I just lost my best friend.
Which I did.
I love her and I miss her
and I think about her every day,
every hour, every minute of my life
since she's been gone.
♪
And I'm sorry that I couldn't protect her.
♪
When we got in touch with Dale Hall's family
they told us that she was a nurse.
And once we started looking at her criminal history,
we realized that she was somebody else.
♪
She had multiple arrests for prostitution,
soliciting prostitution.
She was one of the girls that would walk up and down
Two Notch Road and work the streets.
I don't think her family obviously knew
or wanted to admit what she was doing or acknowledge that.
It's a tough thing to do.
She was a mother, she was someone's child
and she didn't deserve to die
just because of the profession that she had chosen.
♪
I spoke to Dale's mother. She said that her daughter
had said that if anything ever happened to her,
that we needed to talk to her boyfriend at the time
and his name was Charles Reddick.
We found out that he had a violent past with her.
This kind of lined up with how violently she was killed.
Her mother said that Charles Reddick lived in a trailer
probably ten minutes from where she was found.
♪
We had more than just a gut feeling
that he was involved in something with her.
Once we started running down his background information,
we realized Charles Reddick was a convicted sex offender.
It was looking pretty good
that he was going to be the guy that did it.
The individual raised his shirt.
He had the words "Serial Killer"
written in blood.
It was like, "Catch me if you can."
[gunshot]
On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, in the early morning hours,
the body of Dale Hall was found.
She had been shot and burned.
And we learned from the mother that Dale had confided in her
at one point in time that if she ever ended up dead
that we needed to go talk to her boyfriend,
Charles Reddick.
[soft dramatic music]
♪
We got information that Charles Reddick
and Dale were living in a trailer park about two miles
from where she was found.
♪
We went by his trailer. Nobody was home.
When we talked to the neighbor, they said, "Yeah.
"Well, we noticed that night he came home
and was washing his car."
And they said that was very unusual for him
because he just never did that.
We felt like that could be indicative of him
trying to cover up evidence
whether it be prints
or DNA or blood.
At this point with Charles, we were feeling very strongly
that he had something to do with Dale's murder.
♪
Later that morning, we went back
to the trailer park and Mr. Reddick was outside.
He was doing something with his truck.
I told him why we were there and I told him
that Dale Hall had been murdered.
And his immediate reaction was grief. Intense grief.
♪
And we'd pick him up,
transport him to our headquarters.
And we interviewed him about Dale
and if he knew anything about it.
And he just adamantly denied
anything having to do with her death.
♪
During our interview with him, we offered him a polygraph test
and he agreed to take it.
♪
Charles Reddick failed the polygraph test
which indicated that he was being deceptive
about the questions we were asking him concerning Dale,
but we still didn't have enough evidence.
We didn't find any shotguns in his house.
We didn't have the probable cause
to charge him for the murder.
He had motive. He had opportunity.
But we had nothing else to link him to the murder.
♪
Five days or so after Dale's body was found,
we were approached by another female.
♪
I received a phone call on my office phone
from a girl named Shonda, a prostitute
that worked around the same area of Two Notch Road
that Dale worked, and she told me
that she was working the night after Dale was found dead
and she got into a car with a customer.
She made a negotiation for a sex act,
went to an isolated area where they were going to go
ahead and engage in the transaction,
and before it happened,
the individual raised his shirt.
And he had the words, "Serial Killer."
She described it as being written in blood.
She just knew that he was going to kill her.
She got out of the car and ran.
♪
It was highly unusual and it was in the same area
where Dale was known to frequent
and that was pretty significant.
So we felt like this may be related
to our investigation into the murder of Dale Hall.
We're thinking that she got a good look at this guy
and he could've very easily been the suspect
we're looking at, Charles Reddick.
So we showed her a lineup with the suspect in it.
She was adamant that Charles Reddick
was not the one that she saw in the car that night.
♪
Shonda was describing an individual younger, thin,
driving a car that was clearly different than Reddick.
Reddick had a pickup truck.
And when I first approached Reddick
and got that reaction from him with total grief,
my gut instinct told me that this wasn't our guy
and he was cooperative in the investigation
which is usually pretty telling.
And then we get this different description
of an individual much younger than Reddick
with this bizarre behavior, we moved on from Reddick.
♪
So now we have a murderer
riding around Richland County for days now.
Not only has he killed one person,
he's possibly trying to pick up another victim who has,
by the grace of God, gotten away from him.
♪
Some days later, we learned about another shotgun-related
incident that happened in Columbia Police Department's
jurisdiction in downtown Columbia
just a couple of days before Dale's body was found.
♪
The homeless man named Jimmy White
was sleeping on a bench in Finlay Park
and he was approached by a young, African American male.
Without any sort of argument or dispute, he just came up
and shot him several times with a shotgun.
[gunshots]
Jimmy White was critically injured.
He ultimately survived, but he was not able to provide
a lot of detail about the shooter.
There was no interaction with the shooter
prior to him being shot.
The brutality of a close-range shotgun blast
felt like that it could be relevant.
♪
So at this point, what investigators have
are two unsolved shotgun attacks.
Is it possible these crimes are related?
We've got Jimmy who's shot on July 7th in a park.
We've got Dale who's murdered--
brutally murdered on July 10th. And then Shonda.
The shooting of Mr. White was almost like a target practice
and the perpetrator was seeing what they were capable of
and--and sort of practicing what they would be able to do.
By the time they get to Dale, they've honed their craft
and are able to carry through with the killing
and cover their tracks.
And by the time Shonda is picked up,
this is someone who is brazen and confident
in what they're doing.
It's a bad thing that this guy is advertising
that he's a serial killer.
It makes me wonder what's he going to do next?
We were still trying to identify who killed Dale.
Trying to find another lead,
we started checking all these hotels and motels
and started talking to other prostitutes
that frequented the area and that was a dead end.
Nobody had seen her. Nobody remembered.
But in about a month after Dale's murder,
we received a 911 call about a shooting
at the Texas Roadhouse involving a shotgun.
The Dale Hall murder basically became--
I hate to use the word cold,
but we didn't have any substantial leads.
We had this description from Shonda of an individual.
We had the related shooting of Jimmy White.
We were earnestly trying to work anything
we could at that point in time,
but we had not developed a suspect.
[soft dramatic music]
There is somebody out there with a shotgun
and the hard part of it, for law enforcement,
is that the guy can go out and do it to somebody else.
♪
We received a 911 call on a Thursday night
about a shooting at the Texas Roadhouse
which is on I-77 at Two Notch Road
here in Richland County.
A uniformed patrol officer found witnesses
attending to a wounded individual
adjacent to his vehicle.
He had been shot in the head
and was barely hanging on to life.
He was identified as Jedediah Harr by witnesses.
EMS took him to the hospital.
The back windshield of the victim's vehicle,
which was a Mercedes-Benz, had been blown out.
♪
We did find one 12-gauge shotgun shell
in the parking lot.
That was pretty telling that
it was a shotgun at Texas Roadhouse.
♪
The crime scene was very chaotic.
We had lots of witnesses
and we had people that were very upset.
We began quickly identifying other parties
that had knowledge of what had occurred.
Some employees of the restaurant there,
some other customers who were witnesses.
We were able to piece together what had transpired there
leading up to the shooting.
We learned that there had been some sort of dispute
involving employees from the Texas Roadhouse Grill
named Brian Marquis and Quincy Allen.
We learned that Quincy would play sort of childish games
with some of the female coworkers.
Marquis's girlfriend, Tiffany Todd,
was also an employee.
Tiffany was pregnant by Marquis.
On this particular night, Quincy annoyed her to the point
where she confronted him, told him to stop,
and at that point in time, Quincy threatened Tiffany
and he said that he would punch her hard enough
to harm her baby.
Tiffany had enough.
She called Brian Marquis on his cell phone
and told him that Quincy was back at it.
She asked Brian Marquis to come there.
That evening, Brian, Jed, and I
we're just having a good time joking around.
That's when Tiffany called Brian talking about
how Quincy was being evil.
So Brian and Jed got into Jed's car and drove it down there.
And I drove down there because
kind of under the understanding
that we were going to go pick Tiffany up and take her home.
[tense music]
Witnesses told us Brian went into this restaurant,
confronted Quincy Allen, they had an exchange of words,
manager made them leave the restaurant
before it became a problem with the customers.
♪
I get in my car
and Jed and Brian get into his car.
Witnesses told us that Quincy Allen
went to the trunk of his car and retrieved his shotgun.
♪
And as they started driving off,
that's when I saw Quincy point the gun at the back window.
Everything was running through my head to where,
"Yes, Quincy is a little crazy sometimes but no,
I think he's just doing that for show."
♪
[gunshot]
I heard the gun go off.
[soft dramatic music]
When I saw the window shatter
and Jed go over the little ravine,
it was just a little hill,
down into the gas station parking lot,
I realized that Quincy had just shot Jed's car.
♪
My emotions were a mixture
of fright,
hatred,
and just confusion.
♪
I drove across, jumped out,
saw Brian getting out of the car
and running into the gas station.
♪
I was waiting on some customers
when I heard a loud crash.
So I step away from the cash register
and I went to the window.
As I came around the counter,
the young, white guy came in.
[dramatic music]
♪
He say, "Somebody's after me and they trying to kill me."
I guess my adrenaline was running
that I really didn't think about what I was doing.
I just know I had to do something.
[tense music]
♪
And I said, "Okay.
"You see that cooler right there behind me?
Go in the cooler and be quiet."
I walked to the cooler with him
and made sure the door was closed.
♪
By the time I got halfway,
in the front of the register at the counter,
is when this Black male came in the door.
♪
When I looked at him, I noticed
he had a shotgun in his left hand,
he had shotgun shells in his right hand,
and the shotgun was smoking.
And he said, "Where the eff is he?"
[tense music]
August 8th, there was a shooting
at the Texas Roadhouse on Two Notch Road.
We immediately identified our shooter
as one Quincy Jovan Allen.
♪
And we learned from the witnesses
that Brian Marquis ran for safe haven.
He went to this convenience store.
Quincy spotted him and went after him
and he was confronted by the clerk.
A Black young man, early twenties,
came in the door, looked me in my face,
and asked me "Where the H was he?"
I said, "Well, I don't know who the eff you looking for,
"but ain't no guy ran in here
and you need to get up out of here."
♪
And then he looked at me.
And he just turned around and went out the door.
♪
It took a lot courage
for the clerk at this convenience store
to confront a gunman with a shotgun.
She's very fortunate not to have been another victim.
♪
The 12-gauge slug that was used at Texas Roadhouse
was fired from a similar-type weapon
that was used to kill Dale Hall.
♪
Here we have two shootings involving a shotgun
a month apart and they're in close proximity to one another.
I remember distinctly looking across I-77
at just how close that Oakway Lane cul-de-sac,
where Dale's body was found
was to the Texas Roadhouse Grill.
We became convinced that Quincy Allen
was our man for that murder, but he was not on-scene.
He was gone.
[soft dramatic music]
We had a lot of people working on this case
because there are so many things
that had to go on at the same time.
Preserving a crime scene and then starting
an investigation to locate Quincy Allen.
♪
Law enforcement also have got Jedediah Harr
in the hospital with a shotgun blast to his head.
♪
In a situation like this, the first thing that
law enforcement does is talk to the family.
♪
11:00, I had people
ringing the doorbell constantly.
And I thought, "What the hell's going on?"
And opened the door and they said,
"Are you, Mrs. Harr?" And I says, "Yes, I am."
And they said, "You need to get dressed."
I was up in North Carolina
waiting to make a delivery.
Another driver from the company I worked for
drove up and he said, "It's your son.
He's in the hospital. You need to go home now."
The moment I saw my son, Jedediah,
in the emergency room,
my heart broke in half.
[downbeat music]
I bent down
and I whispered into his left ear,
"Jed, Mommy can't help you this time.
"I can't fix it.
"I love you.
I'll always love you and never forget you."
♪
And he had one clear tear
come out of his left eye.
So I know he heard me.
♪
After that, Jed was pronounced dead.
♪
[dramatic music]
We had everybody out working this case.
We had multiple teams going in all different directions
trying to find Quincy Allen.
We need to get him.
And that was our number one priority
before he killed again.
Based on the vehicle records
and the identification of Quincy Allen,
we were able to learn the vehicle that he drove.
He was in a white Dodge Neon that had the tag number.
And we put that out immediately
to all of our units,
all the area law enforcement agencies,
as being an individual wanted for murder.
♪
We wanted to learn as much as we could about Quincy
in an effort to try to find out,
you know, where he'd be going.
We learned from pulling our own records
that he had just gotten out of prison earlier that year
from a car theft-related charge.
He had just had a history of behavior that was aggressive.
♪
Authorities found that Quincy Allen was abused,
neglected, raised in extreme poverty.
The lack of parental care, love, nurturing,
it created this wall, this lack of empathy.
He's alone. He's abandoned.
The rage and anger that he experienced as a child
just bubbled up in him and so as he got older,
his only way of releasing those emotions
was to enact them on other people.
The same violence that he project on others
is what he felt.
It's often the case that our past behavior
is a predictor of our future behavior.
It's not a good thing that Quincy Allen
had the childhood he had,
but it's not an excuse for his behavior.
It's an explanation for it, but it doesn't excuse it.
♪
The following day, we were able to secure arrest warrants
and we got him into
the National Crime Information Computer.
That hit on a speeding ticket in the state of Virginia.
He had been ticketed by a Virginia State patrolman
early that Friday morning.
That told us that he was heading north.
We didn't know exactly where he was headed at that point.
Not only are we trying to catch him,
but we're trying to protect people
that could be potential victims.
We're afraid of what he's going to do.
Who else is going to kill?
Before he gets to the counter,
you see Quincy Allen lift a shotgun
which he had leaned up near the cash register.
It was like, "Catch me if you can."
[dramatic music]
♪
After the shooting at the Texas Roadhouse,
Quincy sort of went off the radar.
We don't know where he's at.
We're one or two steps behind him.
♪
He was so unpredictable.
We had no idea what he was going to do next.
♪
It was really late, the wee hours of morning,
and my phone rings and it's a captain
with the Sheriff's office here in Surry County
and he said, "Hey, I need your help.
"We've got two people that's been murdered
in a convenience store out near Interstate 77."
It's a store I've stopped at many times and got coffee.
♪
When I got to the scene, it was just a very violent,
horrific scene.
A lot of debris.
A lot of blood spatter everywhere.
♪
I can see one victim in front of the counter
down on the floor.
The other victim behind the counter.
From seeing where he was shot,
it looked like he was working, maybe his back turned.
We contacted the owner of the store
who told us who was working that night.
It was Richard Hawks.
He lives out in the community where I live
and he's 53 years of age.
♪
The victim on the floor in front of the counter,
he didn't have any identification
on him whatsoever.
♪
There was a vehicle in the parking lot,
a white 2002 Dodge vehicle.
[soft tense music]
We ran the tag on the Dodge
and it came back with his driving license pictures.
Quincy Allen out of South Carolina.
One of the officers said, "Hey, the license plate hit.
He's a homicide suspect."
And I noticed, from one angle,
there was a surveillance camera.
We actually put it on and watched the tape.
♪
We see a Black male,
whom we're thinking is Quincy Allen,
come in the store, make a purchase,
and go back out of the store,
and Mr. Hawks either stocking or straightening up
the cigarette rack.
And we see Quincy come back in the store...
♪
And he shoots Mr. Hawks.
Goes immediately behind the counter
and he begins to manipulate the cash register
as if he's trying to open the cash register.
Maybe within the next 30 seconds,
you see another person enter the store from the other door.
Before he gets to the counter,
you see Quincy Allen lift a shotgun
which he had leaned up near the cash register.
♪
Quincy Allen then takes his keys and his wallet.
He leans back over with his shotgun
and he shoots him again in the head.
He leaves the store but he returns back for a moment.
It was like, "Catch me if you can."
And you know what I thought?
"I'm coming to get you. I'm coming to get you."
This gesture is for everyone.
It's for the world to know who he is.
It's for the world to know what he's capable of.
It's to law enforcement.
It's to all the people who undermined him,
who disregarded him, who threw him away,
who didn't care for him. That's who that video is for.
The powerful feeling that Quincy Allen now has
from these killings is almost seducing him.
It's something that's taken over.
It's the ultimate feeling of control.
Clearly, Quincy Allen wants to take credit
for what he just did, killing two people.
He's looking at the camera as though to say,
"That's me. I did it.
That's who I am, the serial killer I aspire to be."
This challenge is on now to find him as soon as possible
because there is no sign that he's going to stop.
♪
We immediately get in contact
with Richland County Sheriff's office in South Carolina
because Quincy Allen has been identified in a homicide there.
I got a call in the middle of the night
as a number of other investigators did.
we were advised that Quincy had killed again.
♪
So now we have two more victims.
It felt like he wasn't afraid of any consequences.
He was just out there killing for the fact
that he could do it and that he enjoyed it.
♪
That morning, we learned from some of the other employees
at the Texas Roadhouse that while Quincy was on the run,
he tried to call them.
He was contacting people and telling them what he had done.
He was bragging about it.
Quincy was telling people that he had a hit list.
He wanted to be a serial killer.
♪
People would contact the Sheriff's Office
and tell them that, "Hey,
this is the number he's calling me from."
Richland County Sheriff's office
had subpoenaed those phone records and it came back to
29-year-old Robert Roush from Ohio.
That's when we learned Mr. Roush
was our victim on the floor in front of the counter.
We realized Quincy Allen, after he had murdered him,
had stolen Mr. Roush's vehicle, his Ford Explorer,
and he was using his cell phone.
After speaking to Mr. Roush's parents,
we later learned he was a school teacher.
He was traveling to Charleston, South Carolina
to meet up with some college friends.
♪
During the course of the day Monday,
another employee of the Texas Roadhouse told us
that she had gotten a call from Quincy.
He considered her an ally for some reason
and was confiding in her.
We were able to supply her with a tape recorder.
He wound up calling her again
and she was able to successfully tape
this conversation and it was like opening up a faucet.
He admitted everything.
Quincy basically told her
the clerk was doing inventory of cigarettes.
And then he described how the second victim had come in.
It was just very graphic
and he's bragging about all this.
Quincy Allen, he is continuously
calling people he used to work with saying,
"I'm going to come back. I'm going to kill everybody."
Mr. Roush had a cell phone in his SUV, his Ford Explorer,
so we're able to track Quincy with Mr. Roush's cell phone.
We know Quincy's got a hit list and he's headed south.
And we watched him actually coming back towards Columbia.
We felt like-- that Quincy probably wanted
to target Brian Marquis
and some of these other individuals.
So we called in probably a dozen or so investigators
to try to guard them, if you will, and catch him.
[dramatic music]
But we were able to track that phone
when he diverted on I-85 near Greenville
and headed towards Atlanta
rather than coming towards Columbia.
That puzzled us. It appeared that Quincy was heading west.
And then the phone either died or he quit using it.
But we were also tracking his credit card.
Quincy had Mr. Roush's credit cards
and he would stop and use cards or whatever he needed.
♪
That early morning,
the subject stopped at a convenience store
in Barrett, Texas, and used a Visa credit card
that did belong to the victim, Robert Roush,
prompting a alert sent to law enforcement.
♪
The Sheriff's Office called me at home to let me know
that there was a possible murder suspect
traveling west on I-20 in a red Ford Explorer,
Ohio license plates.
I drove west looking for vehicles
that match the description.
And as I drove through the roadside park,
I spotted a Ford Explorer.
I ran that license plate number and affirmed
that that is the stolen vehicle
and should be occupied by Quincy Allen,
the murder suspect,
if he was in that vehicle asleep.
[dramatic music]
I was parked where I could keep an eye on the vehicle
until I could get more people over to help me.
♪
Your adrenaline starts going,
your heartbeat increases rapidly,
'cause you're dealing with the unknown.
We got enough people there that we felt confident
that we could take him into custody.
And we had some spike strips
set down in front of his vehicle.
I began calling him on my PA.
Get your hands up and come out of the vehicle.
Get your hands up, now!
That's when he did something that we didn't expect.
♪
He started it. - Get your hands up!
[tire pops]
♪
[gunfire]
♪
The spike strips, they did flatten one of the tires.
♪
So his vehicle was going to be hard to drive and steer.
He did try to take out one more person
before he wrecked out.
He did run into a vehicle
that had pulled off to the side of the road.
At the 200 mile marker.
Is he going to come out shooting
or is he just going to give--
come out with his hands up?
We just don't know what this guy's going to do next.
Get out of the car! Get out of the car, now!
Get out of the car! - Get out of the car!
Get out of the car, now!
♪
[indistinct radio chatter]
♪
His serial killer aspirations apparently didn't include
fighting it out with the police when he was cornered.
♪
He gave it up and surrendered.
♪
We brought Quincy back to Surry County, North Carolina.
We wanted a real, you know, detailed interview.
Quincy basically confessed
to everything that he was accused of
starting with the homeless man,
Dale Hall, Texas Roadhouse,
and Surry, North Carolina double murder.
He confessed to all of it.
In his statement, he said that
while he was in federal prison for car theft,
he had talked to someone about becoming a mafia hitman.
♪
With each crime that he got away with,
he was graduating to the next, more violent crime.
♪
Quincy Allen wanted to teach himself
to be a serial killer.
That is twisted and evil.
Quincy Allen's crash course in becoming a serial killer
happens with incredible speed and ease.
He accelerates from almost target practice
to becoming a cold-hearted serial killer
in such a short period of time.
Quincy succeeded in becoming a serial killer.
He got the notoriety that he wanted.
He got everyone's attention
and had it not been for law enforcement,
he would have continued.
He was tried in Surry County, North Carolina first.
♪
He took a plea bargain of life in prison
without the possibility of parole here in North Carolina.
I felt obligated to bring him back to South Carolina
and face the charges here.
I thought this was a brutal a crime spree as I had seen.
♪
I filed for the death penalty.
It was the just thing to do.
♪
He decided to plead guilty
which meant we went to the penalty phase
and that's when we presented the evidence.
♪
The judge sentenced Quincy Allen to death.
If there's anybody that needs the death penalty,
it's Quincy Allen.
'Cause if he ever gets the opportunity,
he's going to kill again.
I feel at peace knowing that he's away
and no one else will be hurt.
He done been judged by man,
but he still got one more judgment left to go.
Quincy Allen is evil.
There's no doubt in my mind he represents evil.
Well, I'm a man of strong faith
and I truly believe that the devil is at work
and alive today in the world.
And I felt like I caught one of his demons from this case
and maybe put him away that--
so nobody else would have to suffer.
[inhales sharply]