On May 1, 2018, 56-year-old Allen Clifford Sandlin was found shot to death at a house in Carbon Hill, Alabama. He and 55-year-old Hernan Antonio Padilla were discovered at Padilla’s residence after what investigators later described as a robbery that turned deadly. Sandlin had been doing construction work at the home when the violence occurred.

Investigators from the Fayette Police Department and the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation identified five people connected to the killings: Brandon Lowery, Lorazo Moran, Lindettia Lynette Lowery, Michael Council, and Brittany Bell-Spates. In the months and years that followed, several defendants pleaded guilty and received life sentences without parole—Michael Council in July of the year after the murders, and Lorazo Moran and Lindettia Lynette Lowery in October. Brandon Lowery later pleaded guilty to two counts of capital murder and was also sentenced to life without parole. The case against Brittany Bell-Spates remained pending.

If anyone knew Allen Sandlin, his work at the Padilla residence, or has information about that day in Carbon Hill, please come forward.