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I stumbled upon this forum after doing a search for Allen Davis, but I have to chime in and set everyone straight. I went to school with Allen since the 4th grade. He is actually quite intelligent, but has had social issues since he was a kid. The articles from the Columbus Dispatch only scratch the surface, but are nonetheless accurate when it comes to his past. As long as I have known him (more like known of him), he has always been anti-social and bazzar. His mother walked him to school all the way through high school. He never spoke, not even to teachers, until 9th grade, and then only when called on. Until then, and maybe even after, he would stand in the middle of the school playground at recess and stand like a statue, in the same place, day in and day out, and just stand there and turn his head from side-to-side. Kids were relentless with teasing and name calling, which sounds like it carried over into his adulthood (thus the "ghosting" and haunted house dealings he has put up with in recent years). In my opinion, it is a classic case of a guy that finally snapped. What is surprising to me, as well as my old high school friends, is it actually took this long! The guy obviuosly has had something traumatic happen in his childhood, maybe even chemically, that caused this history of behavior. His mother has always seemed to me very controlling, which didn't help, and she herself also has similar issues as her son. My god, when Allen's grandmother died, his mother wouldn't let the paramedics take the body out of the home becuase she feared that the grandmother would suddenly wake and try to bang her way out of the funeral home's refridgerated locker! This is documented in the Worthington police records.

I could go on with the stories, but suffice to say this situation is about 30+ years in the making. I equate this to a Columbine, but on a 30 year delay. The fact that it was a teenager, noless a cheerleader, makes it sadly ironic. This is an intelligent but insane guy who took a lot of harrasement for over 3 decades and finally decided he had enough. Did the girl deserve it? Of course not, but you may be able to see now why he may have done what he did. She and her friends unfortunately chose the wrong house that night.