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In February 2008, Patricia Taylor Allanson, age 70, was arrested and charged with doctor shopping for thousands of pain pills over the past year. It is believed she may have received over 3,700 pills in less than a year.
- Patricia Vann Allanson
- Meeting Tom Allanson
- Gone with The Wind
- Wedded Bliss? Not So Much
- Woman with A Vengeance
- The Murder of Walter and Carolyn
- Of Homicide and Suicide
- The Search For Wealth Continues
- A New Start as Pat Taylor
- Tom Speaks Out
Patricia Vann's family tree was filled with women who had started motherhood at an early age, and Pat followed in their footsteps, finding herself pregnant at the age of 15. She married her teenage boyfriend and left her childhood home, only to return a few years later with three children in tow. While many young mothers would have felt defeated af...
Over the course of a few years, Pat dated many men, but none struck her fancy—that is, until she met Tom Allanson. Tom was young, handsome, and came from a wealthy Georgia family. His father, Walter Allanson, was a prominent Georgia attorney. Tom was everything Pat had ever wanted, and she cared little that Tom was six years her junior and a marrie...
Pat always compared herself to Scarlett O’Hara, the protagonist from Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone With The Wind. Scarlett was a woman who knew what she wanted and wouldn’t stop until she got it. This is how many would describe Pat. The difference between Scarlett and Pat, however, is that the former is fictional. Pat, unfortunately, was not....
What might have been obvious to others somehow eluded Pat. Independently, Tom wasn’t wealthy; it was his parents who controlled the purse strings. And yet, try as she may, Walter and Carolyn Allanson refused to accept their son’s divorce, much less his new marriage to Pat. Tom's parents felt that what he'd done was a disgrace to the family. Tom did...
Walter and Carolyn were so disgusted with their son and his decisions that they removed him from their lives and their wills. Pat was outraged. Nobody, especially not Tom’s parents, was going to stand in the way of her getting the money she viewed as rightfully hers.
Anonymous threatening phone calls were pouring in unrelentingly to both Allansons' homes. Of course, each blamed the other. The conflict escalated when Walter and Carolyn found themselves as shooting targets as they drove along a country road. Terrified, the couple notified police, who unsuccessfully searched the area for the shooter. The Allansons...
The feud between the Allansons was no secret to anyone, nor were the reasons why the feud began. So it goes without saying that Tom was the detectives' first and prime suspect. Despite Tom's insistence that he did not kill his parents, he was arrested and charged with two counts of homicide. Pat immediately retained the services of a local attorney...
Kentwood Farms, the name given to the property upon which Tara sat, was still heavily mortgaged. The debt was owed mostly to Tom’s paternal grandparents, who were lovingly referred to as Papaw and Nona. With Walter and Carolyn gone and their grandson in prison, the couple was a prime target for a gold-digging murderer. Putting on her best Scarlett-...
American prisons—being overcrowded as they are and filled with too many inmates with petty records—allow for murderers such as Pat to be released after a relatively short period of time. The Georgia Department of Corrections unleashed a narcissistic murderess on a society completely unaware of the evil slinking among them. In search of employment, ...
Prison gives a man a lot of time to think and, while incarcerated, Tom had come to some realizations: Pat wasn’t who she pretended to be. She had used him to orchestrate the murder of his parents, and would do anything for riches. Money was the only thing that mattered, and Pat was the only person Pat had ever truly loved.
Listen to the story of Pat Taylor Allanson, a serial killer who posed as a southern belle and poisoned her victims with arsenic. This episode of the podcast explores her motives, methods and crimes in detail.
Patricia Taylor Allanson was released from prison in 1999. After her release went to live with her stepfather and his new wife (Marguerite, Pat's mother had died by this time). There she opened a doll shop she named Pat's Pretty Play Things.
Pat is arrested again for doctor shopping, she may have received more than 3,700 pain pills in the past year. Her bail was set at $22,500 for three felony counts of unauthorized distribution. General Information.
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In A Dark Heart, we examine the relationships and evil acts of Patricia Taylor Allanson. This is a woman who left behind a string of broken families and lost lives in an effort to obtain the...
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Apr 25, 2022 · Pat Taylor Allanson wanted nothing more than to be Scarlett O’Hara - to live in Tara with her own Rhett Butler. She spent her whole life trying to convince everyone she was a perfect...
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