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I'm so glad that you are here today and that you are listening to this episode. Into the Dark is a true crime podcast that every so often also ventures into everything spooky, dark and mysterious. Before we get into today's Halloween episode, I need to do my 10 seconds. Garrett and I spent the weekend away from home because he was competing in a pickleball tournament. And I decided that I was going to attempt to bring Daisy, our dog, to the tournament because dogs were allowed. It was outdoors. But sometimes when there's that many people around, Daisy will get overstimulated. And so I went to Target and I bought like a wagon and fans and just a whole bunch of stuff to try to make it so it was more comfortable for her. And she did so good, you guys. Everyone kept coming up being like, oh, she's so cute. I had her in the wagon with her fans. She just watched the tournament. She just watched people. She didn't bark. She didn't cry. She seriously was so good. I was so impressed. I think her having like a designated space where she felt safe was a really big thing. I think if she had been on the ground, she would have felt really nervous. Granted, she's so small that people will sometimes not see her and get close to her, so that's kind of scary for her. But yeah, either way it went great. She did so good and I was so, so proud of her. So yeah, that was the first time I had taken her to a public place that was kind of just stimulating where people are coming up and petting her and it's loud and she did so well, so I'm so proud of her. That is my 10 seconds for this episode. And let's get right into the case. You know, it seems like everyone loves vampire stories, especially these days. I mean, you just look at the box office. There are a bunch of movies that kind of surround vampires, but there are different approaches to vampire mythology. And you cannot go to the bookstores without finding shelves and shelves of novels about creatures of the night. Some of us like scary stories about evil bloodsuckers, other like the more romantic takes. And who doesn't love the idea that it's possible to live forever, never get old and become incredibly strong and powerful? I mean, it makes complete sense that people are into vampires. But it is worth mentioning that sometimes it's possible to like vampires a little too much. What starts as a pop culture fandom can go too far and become an obsession. And it is not healthy to be too fixated on anything, especially something that's potentially not even real. And that may have been the case for a 23 year old man named Alan Menzies. He had been born and raised in a region of the UK called West Lodeon, and that's a part of Scotland and it's not too far from Edinburgh now. By 2002, Allen was between jobs. He usually worked as a security guard, but he just wasn't having any luck in his search for new positions at the time. Of course, he had a lot of free time being unemployed in Scotland. So Alan filled his hours by reading and watching every book, movie or TV show he could find, especially ones about vampires. He loved these kinds of stories. So anytime Allen heard about a new vampire book, TV show or film, he just had to find it right away. And in February of that year, a new movie came out called Queen of the Damned. It was a sequel to the 90s film interview with a Vampire. This follow up was about a vampire named Akasha. She was the queen of the undead. As you can probably tell from the title, the character was played by a famous R and B singer named Aaliyah. And before it even got released, this feature was already pretty infamous because after Aaliyah finished filming, but before the movie could come out, she actually died in a plane crash. She was only 22 years old. So when Queen of the Damned hit the theaters, a lot of Aaliyah's fans bought tickets so they could watch her last performance and say goodbye. But other than those devoted fans, the film actually didn't do very well. Critics said that it wasn't good. Film buffs and horror fans alike decided to skip the screenings. And at the end of the day, the Queen of the Damned flopped. But it still had a very small cult following, a handful of people who really loved the feature. And that included Alan Menzies. He was obsessed with the movie. Over the course of about 10 months, Alan watched this movie a hundred times. This meant countless trips to the theater. And then when it was released on video or dvd, he did buy a copy. And he watched it over and over again so often that it prevented him from pursuing his hobbies, finding another job, honestly doing anything with his time. In a lot of ways, it seemed like Allen's entire life, now that he couldn't find work, was devoted to vampires and Aaliyah's fictional character. But for the most part, his friends weren't too concerned about this. Apparently they knew that Allan had always been a little odd and that he tended to develop extreme fixations on things. And for the most part, the people who knew Allan thought that these quirks were harmless. They just tried to support him however they could and let him be the person that he wanted to be. And this included Allen's best friend in the entire world, a 21 year old man named Thomas McKendrick. Now, Thomas had a lot in common with Allen. He was currently unemployed and looking for work in Scotland and the two men actually lived in the same place. But even though Thomas didn't have a job, he was known for being very responsible. So he wasn't spending his entire time watching vampire movies. He checked in with his family regularly to make sure they were okay. He was good about staying in touch with Allan, his best friend, making sure he was all right, showing up when they had plans. Thomas didn't share Allan's fascination with vampires or with the movie Queen of the Damned, but otherwise they had a lot of similar hobbies and interests. And more importantly, they just enjoyed each other's company. Thomas knew Alan wasn't very popular and he didn't have an easy time getting to know people. But I want to be clear, this was not a pity friendship just because Allan was a little weird. It was genuine between Allen and Thomas. So on December 11, 2002, Thomas was supposed to visit Allen at his home. They didn't have any firm plans beyond that. There was no one else they were going to meet. There was no movie tickets, nothing concrete in mind. They were just going to hang out. The idea was they would maybe talk or watch tv, just kind of Have a day at Allen's house together. Now, Thomas and Allen didn't check in with anyone for the rest of the day, so it wasn't clear what they were up to once they started hanging out. But Alan had a weird encounter with Thomas's mother, a woman named Sandra French. And this encounter happened a short while later. It was the same day Sandra was actually shopping for groceries. And at one point while shopping, Allen walked up to her and started chatting. This is his best friend's mom. It's a pretty typical interaction, except Alan asked Sandra for advice. He said, hey, can you tell me how to wash blood stains out of clothing? Now, I know that probably sounds very strange and mysterious, but it's important to remember that Allen had a reputation for just being a little weird. So it actually didn't phase Sandra at all that he was wandering around a grocery store and talking about cleaning blood splattered clothing. If anything, she might have figured this was just something that came along with his vampire obsession, like fake blood. I don't know. Maybe he was talking about it because he was pretending to be a creature of the night. Who knows? Or maybe he cut himself while performing his chores. The point is, Sandra, Thomas's mother, shared all of the laundry advice she could think of. And then she went back to her grocery shopping. And she didn't give that conversation with Allan a second thought. At least not until later that day. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Fiscally responsible financial geniuses, Monetary magicians. These are things people say about drivers who switch their car insurance to Progressive and save hundreds. Visit progressive.com to see if you could save Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates. Potential savings will vary. Not available in all states or situations. All right, you guys. Fall is here. Kids are back in school, Vacations are over, and it is officially the start of cozy season. Which means it's time to slide into some bombas. 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But then several more days go by and Sandra never sees Thomas. And none of Thomas's friends have seen him either since that last day he was hanging out with Alan. They have no idea where he is. So finally, someone in Thomas's family calls the police to report him missing. And his family told the investigators it was very out of character for him to just take off like this. Even though he is an adult, he was responsible and close to his family. He had never done anything like this before. And to make things even stranger, Christmas was coming. The holiday was a big deal to Thomas. Of course he would want to be involved with all of the planning, the decorating, the shopping for presents and everything else. Except Christmas came and went without a word from Thomas. And then New Year's passed, and still nobody had heard from Thomas. Nobody had seen him. There was no sign of where he had gone. And I want to know. I'm not sure that everyone knew he had been hanging out with Alan that day because he was an adult. It's not like he was telling everyone what he was doing. So if you're wondering why they aren't, like, asking Alan a bunch. It's because of that. So the good news is the police took the reports of Thomas's disappearance seriously, and they were doing everything they could to try and find him. So they even pulled his bank records to see if there were any clues there. And as soon as they looked at his transaction history, it became clear that the situation was pretty grim. See, Thomas was receiving government assistance, and he got checks in the mail to help him make ends meet while he was looking for a job. But Thomas hadn't cashed any assistance checks since mid December. He hadn't touched his bank account since the last day he was seen. And he didn't have a ton of money in savings either. I mean, he didn't have any income. The point was, to all appearances, he should have been broke. The investigators knew there was no way Thomas could afford to book a hotel room or buy groceries if he wasn't at home and he wasn't staying in a hotel. That didn't leave very many possibilities for where he can now be without access to money. So this was very concerning and a sign that he probably didn't disappear willingly. Something might have happened to him. One early theory was that Thomas might have just been in a deadly accident. See, he enjoyed ferreting, which is a special kind of hunting. Basically, if you want to hunt rabbits, it's easy for them to get away by going down their holes. But ferrets can be trained to chase rabbits, catch them, and bring them back to the owner. And they're small enough to follow rabbits into their dens. So Thomas often took his trained ferrets with him out into the woods to hunt for rabbits. And he particularly loved to do this near an old quarry near town. And this is why the police thought maybe he might have just slipped, hit his head. A rock may have fallen on him. He could have been hurt, trapped, or even killed. When he was hunting, the officers sent massive teams to search the area top to bottom, but there was no sign of him there or of any of his ferrets. Now, by January 8, the officers still had no idea what had happened to Thomas. But on that day, they found evidence that just made the entire situation look even worse. Someone found a bag that had been dumped in a public area in town, and the bag was full of clothes. Now, when police compare these clothes to Thomas's, they realize it's his. It appeared to be the same outfit he had been wearing on the day he went missing, although the police needed to gather more information to confirm that. The point was, if Thomas had Been in an accident, he wouldn't have taken all of his clothes off, stuffed them in a bag and dumped it somewhere else. Somebody else must have taken those clothes off and then disposed of the clothing. And his disappearance was no accident. So at this time, the officers made a public statement in which they said they were now treating Thomas's missing persons case as a murder investigation. They put together a huge task force with 20 investigators from multiple departments. And by working together, this team made another big discovery a few weeks later on January 20th. Now, by this point, it had actually been six weeks since Thomas had last been seen alive. And the new discovery was, again, bad news for him. See, a search team found a decomposed body buried in the woods just outside of town. A post mortem examination showed that these remains were Thomas's. And as the police had suspected the entire time, he had not died of natural causes. Someone had beaten him, stabbed him, and buried him. Now, the next step was for detectives to speak to all of his friends and acquaintances, try to really figure out what happened the last day he was seen alive. They wanted to know if he had been with anyone on the day he had gone missing, or if anyone had motive or opportunity to abduct and kill him. Well, many of Thomas's friends had spoken him that day, either in person or on the phone, and he had told them he was gonna go visit his friend Andy. Now, that is not Allen. Problem is, none of his other friends know who Andy is. They couldn't tell the police's last name or where he even lived, Just that it was one of Thomas's friends. These witnesses also didn't know if Andy had a motive to want to hurt Thomas. Well, it seems the officers spoke to Thomas's mother around then, and they asked her if Thomas did have a friend named Andy that she knew about. And from what I can tell, this question somehow sparked her memory of the strange encounter she'd had with Alan at the grocery store when he was asking about how to wash blood out of his clothes. Now, of course, now that Thomas was missing, this question seemed a lot less innocent than it had to her before. So the officers figured maybe Allan was Andy and he sometimes used a nickname. Or maybe Thomas didn't want other people to know his name. Even if he wasn't Andy, Allan is still now an important part of this story. In trying to nail down the timeline, he could confirm if Thomas had made it to his house, how long he had been there, when he had left, what he planned to do. So they pulled him into the station for questioning. And while Allan was in the interrogation room, other officers actually went through his house to look for physical evidence. Maybe they were hoping to find a murder weapon, those bloody clothes that he had mentioned, or even something that had once belonged to Thomas. They don't find a smoking gun, but this probably won't surprise you. They find a ton of books about vampires. So as they're searching Allen's house, they are like, wow, this guy has an obsession. And it seemed like Alan had been reading everything he could about vampires. But police don't need a smoking gun because for Allen himself, he seemed collected. When the police were talking to him, he wasn't nervous at all. And he almost immediately blurts out that he had killed Thomas. He was very calm and matter of fact, as he gave this confession to murdering his best friend, he sounded equally undisturbed when he explained why he had done it. And I have to tell you, his motives are bizarre. Allen started by admitting to police that he was obsessed with vampires. It was just like what I said before. He loved the movie Queen of the Damned, and he'd watched it over a hundred times. Except Alan didn't seem to understand that the film was a work of fiction. At this point, he believed the main character, the vampire queen, was real. And not only that, but according to his statement, he says that she had been appearing to him late at night when he was alone in his bedroom. He claims she would walk up to his bed and have long conversations with him. And apparently these talks had started out fairly casual. The queen and Alan chit chatted about whatever popped into their heads, like it was no big deal for a vampire queen to just be visiting him at night. But as the time went on, according to him, eventually she said she wanted to turn Alan into a vampire like her. Now, according to Alia's a character, fictional character that's now visiting Alan, she tells him, you can become immortal. There's just one catch. The you can't transform into a vampire unless you kill someone and drink their blood. And Allen told the police that with this obsession with vampires, he couldn't resist it. He realized he also needed to become a vampire, and that meant someone around him needed to die. Except at first, Alan didn't want Thomas to be his victim because according to him, they were best friends. Alan wasn't sure who he should kill, but he certainly didn't want to harm someone he cared about. But then something went very wrong. While Thomas was visiting Allen on December 11, according to Alan, they were sitting and talking and of course Alan starts discussing his favorite topic in the world, vampires in the movie Queen of the Damned. Except Thomas kind of made a dismissive comment. He said, I don't like the movie. I don't even care about this vampire queen. I'm not sure of the exact words he used, but apparently he went on to insult the character in the film. And. And this sent Alan, who. This is now his sole reason for existing. It sent him into an irrational rage. After all, in his mind, the Queen was a real person, someone who was willing to turn him into a vampire and was visiting him at night. He believed that she deserved respect, not mockery. So as he explained to the police, he became so angry that he lost control of himself. He claims this is when he grabbed a hammer, swung it around, and hit Thomas, his friend, with it. But Allen didn't stop there. He kept beating Thomas with the hammer over and over, a total of 10 hits. And by the time this assault was done, it was clear to Allen that Thomas was badly hurt and probably wouldn't survive. So that's when Allen also remembered what the Queen had said to him, that he could become a vampire if he murdered someone. So this is when Allen realized, oh, I've already done it. This is my opportunity. Rather than call an ambulance to try and help Thomas again. All this according to Alan. He decided to finish him off and become an immortal. Now, while Thomas was on the ground and unable to defend himself, Allen says he found two weapons. A kitchen knife and a bowie knife. He used them to stab his best friend 42 more times. Allen even cut off some of Thomas's flesh and ate it. And then, after Thomas was dead, Allen knew what he needed to do next. He needed to drink Thomas's blood. He told the police that he believed he had consumed about two cups of it in total, and then he had to dispose of the body. Allen admitted to the investigators that Thomas was too big for him to carry. So instead, he lugged his friend's remains into a wheel, wheelbarrow. And then he walked all the way to the woods where he dug the shallow grave. It's actually almost unbelievable that nobody saw Alan walking around with a dead body. But according to Allen's statement to the police, this worked. Clearly, it took about six weeks for anyone to find Thomas's remains, and nobody was able to connect Allen to the crime until then. And more importantly, at least in Allen's mind, he'd achieved his goal. He actually tells police that he is a literal vampire. Now, he also said that the Queen had appeared to him More times after the murder and you might hear that and think he was excited to keep seeing the Queen. But apparently he tells police he found her follow up visits to be a little disappointing. He believed that he should be meeting more vampires now that he was one of them. He was in with the in crowd. Except each time Queen came to visit him, she was still alone and he couldn't understand why the other vampires were snubbing him. When he asked Aaliyah's fictional character about it, she told him that he needed to kill even more people and Allen refused. And now there was apparently a bit of tension between him and his Queen friend. DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse is the one stop shop for all your footwear needs with sneakers, boots and everything in between for every style, mood and occasion. You'll definitely find shoes that get you at prices that get your budget. 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At one point he even said, quote, I'm gonna get 20 to 25 for this for doing him with a hammer and my bowie knife. But I got his soul. There wasn't any emotion in his tone when he said this. He might as well have just been talking about the weather. And the police knew he was telling the truth because his description of the attack was completely consistent with the autopsy results. It was almost as if Allan really believed this vampire story. So of course, Allen was charged with murder and with attempting to defeat the ends of justice. That second charge is the UK equivalent of what we might call tampering with evidence or obstruction of justice Here in The US the idea was that since he had buried Thomas's body, tossed his clothes in a bag, and tried to cover up his crime, Allen was, in fact, attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Now, after he consulted with a lawyer, he announced that he intended to go to court and claim that he wasn't mentally sound to stand trial. After all, if he is to be believed, he's clearly experiencing hallucinations that were interfering with his thinking. But that's not even the main point of his argument. According to Allen and his counsel, he hadn't actually committed the murders. They come up with this defense that Allen had given a false confession because it was hard for him to keep track of what was real and what wasn't. And on top of that, the police had allegedly manipulated him and gaslit him until he couldn't tell reality from fantasy about his friend Thomas. Now, supposedly, he now realized that two other men had killed Thomas. Namely, they were Alan's father and a friend of the family. Apparently, Allen knew this because of a psychic message he had received. A voice in his head supposedly told Allen that his father and friend were plotting to murder him. But instead, they had killed his friend Thomas and tried to frame Allen for the murder. Now, I know that this is, like, super ridiculous and honestly doesn't have much validity. It's hard to understand why Allen's lawyers even shared this unless they hoped it would prove that their client really was experiencing delusions. I will note that in addition to making these statements, his attorney also put Allen in touch with mental health professionals, and they did diagnose him with a severe personality disorder. Apparently, his condition caused obsessive behavior. And the doctors thought that Allen's fascination with vampires was a result of this mental health condition. And they also said the disorder could have caused delusions. It seemed that he really, genuinely believed the Queen vampire was real. In fact, while Allen was staying at the mental health hospital, he told his doctors that the Queen was still appearing to him and teaching him all about his new life as an immortal. But while Alan was working with his doctors and trying to claim insanity, the prosecutors in Scotland were building a case of their own. They learned that Thomas's murder was not Allen's first brush with violence. Apparently, when he was just 14 years old, Alan brought a knife with him to school, and then he used it to stab a fellow student. Luckily, the victim pulled through, and Allen ended up serving three years behind bars for this attack. In all appearances, he wasn't in a better mental state afterward. In fact, according to his friends, as an Adult Allen seemed to really enjoy violence and hurting people. He didn't care about others pain. It was fun for him. He was weirdly, also obsessed with Hitler. And on top of that, Thomas was very interested in true crime, especially one particular case that was in the news at the time. It was a murderer named Matthew Hardman. And this story might sound a little familiar. Matthew loved vampires. He wanted to become one. So he murdered a woman and drank her blood to try and become immortal. The crime had happened in 2001, and he was convicted in 2002. Meaning every time Alan turned on the TV in the months before he murdered Thomas, he saw stories about Matthew's crime. I think this just fed into delusion. Might have served as inspiration. So to summarize, it's not like Alan had this amazing history and then really believed he needed to kill. Thomas Allen had a long history of violence. And on top of that, his doctors knew he was experiencing delusions and didn't seem to be thinking rationally. But the mental health professionals also didn't think he had been tricked or manipulated into giving a false confession. They thought he was grounded enough to know if he had murdered someone or not. It was just whether he believed it was the right thing to do. Plus, his mental profile fit the crime. It seemed like Alan was the sort of person who would kill Thomas and drink his blood to become a vampire. And on top of that, Allen still understood the difference between right and wrong. He'd still known it was illegal and immoral to kill Thomas. He tried to hide it. And that meant he did not meet the legal standard of his charges to be dismissed. So the courts threw out his plea and proceeded with a traditional trial. Now, during it, Allen still freely admitted to killing Thomas. He told the courts the same story he had told the police, that he was a vampire and his queen had transformed him after Thomas's murder. Except now he actually added a new detail. At this time, Allen claimed that he had multiple personalities. And one was named Vamp. According to Allen, Vamp had also committed the murder. It wasn't him, it was his vampire Persona. On top of that, Allen claimed that he didn't develop his split personality disorder until after he'd watched the Queen of the Damned movie. Supposedly, the film was so upsetting, it actually made him experience a break from reality. And Vamp showed up to handle it. Of course, Allen still isn't showing any remorse. He said it was because he didn't have anything to feel bad about. He said he didn't do anything wrong. The fault all lay with his alternate personality, and maybe even the filmmakers who had made Queen of the Damned. Except, of course, there were plenty of mental health professionals to poke holes in this story. Three separate psychiatrists testified against him. They all said that Allen committed the crime knowingly, willingly, and he was in control of his own choices. He could have not done it. It's probably no surprise to hear that he was convicted of the crime. In fact, the jury's decision was unanimous. Allen was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 18 years. Now, when the judge gave the sentence, he said it was because Allen was, quote, evil, violent, and highly dangerous. He figured Allen was too much of a threat to let him get out without a lengthy sentence. And the judge pointed at Allen's lack of remorse to support this ruling. Except at the end of the day, Allen served fewer than two years behind bars. Because just before 8am on Monday, November 15, 2004, a guard went to Allen's cell to check on him. And that's when they found him dead. The preliminary investigation suggested that he had taken his own life. Now, it's hard to say what ultimately led to his suicide. Perhaps the guilt of what he had done to his best friend finally caught up with him. Or maybe he realized he wasn't actually a vampire and this truth just drove him to despair. It's possible he simply realized he didn't want to spend years or decades in prison. We will never know exactly what went through his mind during those final moments. I find it tragic that he wasn't able to get psychological help while he had been in prison. Allen was a killer. But it is clear that there were mental health issues at play in this case. Doesn't excuse, it just explains it. Now, that said, it is not surprising that he became so obsessed with creatures of the night. They fascinate and frighten all of us. And vampires are, of course, a big part of Halloween, which is why I'm covering this case this month. But as we dive into books, movies, TV shows, and other works of fiction, it is important to keep one thing in. Sometimes the things that go bump in the night are all too real. And that is the case of the Scotland vampire. Thank you guys so much for listening to today's episode. And I will see you next time with another one. Goodbye. Foreign is precious, and so are our pets. So time with our pets is extra precious. That's why we started Dutch. Dutch provides 24. 7 access to licensed vets with unlimited virtual visits and follow ups for up to five pets. You can message a vet at any time. And schedule a video visit the same day. Our vets are can even prescribe medication for many ailments and shipping is always free. 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