Dallen Bounds

Dallen Forrest Bounds (August 9, 1971 – December 23, 1999) was an American serial killer who killed four people in Greenville and Easley, South Carolina – two during robberies and another two out of personal animosity – between June and December 1999. The killings led to a manhunt resulting in him taking two women hostage and his eventual suicide to avoid arrest by authorities.

A definitive motive for the crimes was never established.

Early life Dallen Bounds was born on August 9, 1971, in Ashland, Oregon, and grew up in Lacey, Washington, where he attended the Timberline High School. Described as an average student with no special qualities about him, he was imprisoned for unspecified crimes as a juvenile, but as his record is sealed, it is unclear for what exactly and how long it lasted.

In April 1990, Bounds and 21-year-old Son Minh Hoang Underwood burglarized Gitcho's Discount Sales in Lacey, from where they stole four pistols, a rifle and a shotgun.

In the following three years, Bounds was arrested at least two more times for thefts in the cities of Olympia and Sedro-Woolley. While in prison, he was alleged to have developed ties with white supremacist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations. In January 1997, Bounds was arrested and charged with domestic battery after he attempted to choke out his wife after she said to him that she wanted a divorce. There, he shot her in the head, before chasing after her ex-husband, 32-year-old Timothy Ott. Timothy ran to the doorstep of his neighbor Idell Davenport, but found that the house was empty - before he could search for help elsewhere, Bounds caught up to him and shot him to death. The first person he came across was an elderly woman living at 108 W. Seventh Street, but instead of harming her, he simply asked where the bathroom was before promptly leaving. Initially, both women believed that Bounds was an acquaintance of the family, but when they realized that neither of them knew him, they asked him who he was. Bounds proceeded to close the blinds and readily confessed that he had murdered two people earlier and was on the run from law enforcement.

For the remainder of the ordeal, Bounds remained in the living room and talked with Tinsley, while Browning went in the kitchen to make him some cookies.

While it is unclear if the prosecution against Nedrow continued, Laster was put on trial, convicted, and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for aiding and abetting a fugitive. During the trial, her lawyer argued that she was afraid of Bounds and that she should be shown leniency, with Laster herself claiming that she never saw him shoot Lara. This was contradicted by the testimony of another roommate, Brian Gale, who claimed that she never appeared afraid of Bounds and seemed to be acting normally around him. She later appealed her sentence, but the appeal was denied by the South Carolina Court of Appeals.