Dallen Bounds
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Dallen Forrest Bounds (August 9, 1971 - December 23, 1999) was an American serial killer. After a spree of killing two acquaintances, he barricaded himself with two elderly females and ultimately committed suicide. Law enforcement officers have closed four murders in Greenville and Pickens counties of South Carolina and officials in the state of Washington suspect he was involved in several other murders.
[edit] Early life
Dallen Bounds was born to Dallen Terry Bounds and Sharon Lee Forrest Bounds in Ashland, Oregon.
[edit] Murders
- June 26, 1999 - Radio Shack employee Jonathan Lemuel Lara was restrained with flex ties to a chair in the back room of a Radio Shack store in Greenville, South Carolina. Lara was stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver and subsequently died. Casandra Laster, Bounds' accomplice, was found guilty of accessory after the fact to felony murder in 2001.
- December 22, 1999 - Florist was killed in the back room of a floral shop in Greenville.
- December 23, 1999 - Bounds killed his girlfriend and her ex-husband in his girlfriend's home in Easley. Bounds fled the house and took refuge in a nearby neighbors house holding two elderly women hostage. Bounds took his life shortly thereafter.
[edit] References
- Article detailing trial of Laster and murder of Lara:
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/news/2001/09/20/2001092012436.htm
- Greenville County Clerk of Courts records for Laster:
- Obituary from Greenville News detailing Bounds death.
