Daughter donates $30K after cops ID her dad’s killer in cold case

2$30K gift fuels Baltimore cold case breakthroughs after daughter’s emotional tribute

Baltimore, MD – On Wednesday, Ann Allen handed a $30,000 check to the Baltimore County Police Department, a deeply personal gesture driven by decades of unanswered questions and one recent breakthrough that changed everything.

The donation is intended to fund advanced DNA testing and forensic analysis on unsolved homicides, with the hope of unearthing long-buried evidence that could finally bring closure to grieving families. Allen’s motivation is rooted in her own experience: in September, investigators identified the suspect in her father’s decades-old murder, a revelation that came after years of uncertainty.

Allen’s father was killed in a case that remained unsolved for years before modern DNA tes