Man wanted to blow up body of girlfriend's mother, witness says

Another friend of Allen, Alexander Dochmaschewsky, said he might have inadvertently given him an idea on how to dump the body. After Allen said he wanted to kill Mullenix and offered him $100 to drive the body to the desert, Dochmaschewsky said he made a joke.

“I said if I were ever to dispose of a body, I would weight it down and throw it in the ocean,” he said. “Now I’m not serious I thought we were just having a joking conversation.”

But things got more ominous soon after, Dochmaschewsky said.

“I said I’m going to tell on him, report him,” he said. “He said, ’Well, if you do, I’ll kill you.’”

Neptune too said the conversation, dismissed as “crazy talk,” made him nervous later — and it made the news of Allen’s arrest for murder no surprise at all.

“It was heavy on my mind at that point,” he said. “We were at a high school football game and my father called me. He said, ‘Remember that neighbor kid on the street, Ian? He’s on the news.’ I said ‘What, for murder?’ and he said ‘Yes, how did you know?’”