Outcome of Rutherford County Aggravated Rape Case Reveresed - New Trial to be Set Dec 11, 2020 at 10:55 am by WGNS
ABOVE: Victim Kimberly Allen testified against her estranged husband (left) Lawrence Allen and one week later she was found murdered. A man living with Mrs. Allen at the time of her death plead guilty to killing her in 2018.
The outcome of a Rutherford County Circuit Court case has been reversed and a new trial will take place for a man convicted on one count of aggravated rape and one count of domestic assault.
Looking back, on June 18, 2015, Lawrence Eugene Allen, was arrested for aggravated rape and domestic assault of his wife, Kimberly Allen. The charges were based primarily on Ms. Allen’s statement to Detective Dustin Fait that Defendant struck her and penetrated her with his hand. On June 22, 2015, the day before the original setting of the preliminary hearing, Ms. Allen sent two emails to Detective Fait. In the first email, Ms. Allen