2004 Jenner, California, double murder
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The Jenner, California, double murder of 2004 occurred on the night of August 14–15, 2004, in which a young couple was shot to death as they slept on a state beach. The bodies of Lindsay Cutshall, 22, and her fiancé Jason S. Allen, 26, were found on Fish Head Beach, between Russian Gulch and the mouth of the Russian River, in the small coastal hamlet of Jenner, California. Both Cutshall and Allen were killed with a .45-caliber Marlin rifle as they slept in their sleeping bags on the beach. The Sonoma County Coroner's Office estimated that the couple was slain on either the night of August 14, 2004 or in the early morning hours of August 15, 2004.
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Location | Fish Head Beach, Jenner, California, United States |
Coordinates | 38.45409°N 123.13353°W / 38.45409; -123.13353 |
Date | August 14, 2004 (2004-08-14) or August 15, 2004 (2004-08-15) Overnight (Pacific Time Zone) |
Attack type | Murder |
Weapon | Marlin .45-70 lever-action sawed-off rifle[1] |
Deaths | 2 |
Victims |
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Perpetrator | Shaun Gallon |
Assailant | 1 |
Motive | Mental illness |
Accused | May 14, 2018[2] |
Convicted | June 13, 2019[3] |
Verdict | July 15, 2019[4] |
Convictions | 3 life terms w/o parole (consecutive) + 94 years[4] |
Charges | 2 counts: First-degree murder[3] |
The case has received considerable national attention, but the crime remained unsolved, until news given at a press conference on May 5, 2017, suggesting that authorities had solved the crime. In 2019 Shaun Gallon was sentenced to life in prison for the murders.[4]