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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Allen_Ross

US filmmaker Allen Ross married Linda Greene and followed her cult,[when?] the Samaritan Foundation, based in Guthrie, Oklahoma, US. The couple moved from place to place following her instructions.[1][2] Following Allen's murder on November 22, 1995, the group disbanded. Prosecutors believe that Linda Greene committed the murder. She died of liver failure in 2002 and was never charged. A cult member, Julia Williams, was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact to murder, by helping to bury the body in the basement. She was sentenced to two years in prison.[3][4]

Ross' remains were found in July 2000 in his Cheyenne, Wyoming home.[5]

Media accounts
Ross' disappearance is depicted in the 2001 documentary, Missing Allen, and in the Dateline NBC episode, 'Searching for Allen'.[6][7]'The Bad Samaritans', a 2013 episode of Deadly Devotion, which aired on Investigation Discovery, also recounted the story.[8] A 2017 episode of Ghost Adventures, entitled 'Samaritan Cult House' features an investigation of the former prison building in Guthrie, Oklahoma, in which the cult resided from the 1990s to early 2000s.
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Woman gets prison for covering up filmmaker's murder
Associated Press/March 12, 2005
Cheyenne -- A Cheyenne woman convicted of helping cover up the murder of a Chicago filmmaker will serve 24 to 34 months in prison, a judge ruled.

Julia Williams, 51, was found guilty in November of being an accessory after the fact to murder. She plans to appeal the felony conviction, according to a court transcript.

Williams was charged in February 2003, three years after police unearthed the remains of cinematographer Allen Ross in the basement of her East 17th Street home.

Ross' mysterious disappearance motivated friends to film a documentary called 'Missing Allen.' One of the producers, Gaylon Emerzian, said news of Williams' sentence gave her little comfort.

'It doesn't give me closure,' she said from her home in Evanston, Ill. 'My thing is that it doesn't satisfy me because it seems Julia is the only one who got caught in the trap.'

Williams was sentenced by District Judge Peter Arnold, who also ordered her to pay a $2,500 fine and $3,500 to the public defender's office.

The case was unusual because no one has been charged in the murder. The prime suspect, Linda Greene, died in 2002 in Arkansas from natural causes.

According to prosecutor Jon Forwood, Williams told investigators she helped bury Ross's body but maintained that Greene was innocent. She said Greene's ex-husband, Denis, killed Ross and threatened her harm if she didn't help cover it up.

But investigators cleared Mr. Greene in the murder, and all evidence pointed to Linda Greene as the shooter.

During trial, Forwood argued that while Williams didn't shoot Ross and didn't see it happen, she heard the shots fired, helped bury the 42-year-old man's body, then misled police.

Forwood contended Williams was involved in a religious fringe group called the Samaritan Foundation, led by Linda Greene. He alleged Greene shot Ross when he threatened to part ways with the group not long after Greene relocated her circle from Guthrie, Okla., to Cheyenne.

During the trial, Denis Greene testified that Linda told him in 1996 that she shot Ross, and with help from Williams, buried his body in the basement.

Police looked in the basement that year but found nothing unusual. In 2000, another search revealed a shifted grave, covered with a thin coat of cement.

Five years ago local filmmaker Allen Ross seemed to drop off the face of the earth. He called his father in Naperville from Saint Louis on October 16, 1995, while he was shooting a documentary on the Mississippi River for Christian Bauer, a German filmmaker who had frequently employed Ross as a cameraman. About a month later someone in Bauer’s office had a brief phone conversation with Ross and arranged to wire his final paycheck.

Then nothing. No phone calls, no letters. Ross had close friends in Chicago, though most describe him as painfully shy and difficult to know. As a founder of Chicago Filmmakers and an instructor at the School of the Art Institute, he was an active presence in Chicago’s film community in the 1970s and ’80s. When he moved to Oklahoma in 1992, he always made a point of staying in touch, but he never revealed much in the way of particulars. He was notorious for sending short, enigmatic postcards. Performance artist Robert Metrick got one in early 1994 that simply said, “I’ve resigned from life. Can’t explain. I highly recommend it.�

After the long silence, Ross’s family hired a private detective, who tracked down some information about Allen’s wife of two years, Linda Greene. She led a quasi-religious group called the Samaritan Foundation, which advocated a blend of holistic medicine and New Age practices. Members of the group lived together in Greene’s house in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and in a rehabbed jail across the street. But after the group encountered legal problems, its core members relocated to Wyoming. In desperation, Ross’s family consulted a psychic, who told them he’d return to Chicago before the end of 1995, but New Year’s passed without a word.

In his absence, the rumor mill ran full tilt. Some said Ross had gone into hiding. Others believed he’d been murdered. Still others heard he was suffering from amnesia and living in Texas. The stories became more elaborate and improbable as they passed from party to party. In October 1998, I wrote a cover story for the Reader called “Where on Earth is Allen Ross?�

Now all the speculation about Ross’s whereabouts may have reached an unhappy conclusion. In late July the Cheyenne Police Department held a press conference to announce that a body had been found buried in the crawl space of a house at 303 E. 17th, the Samaritan Foundation’s last known address. “We are treating this as a case of homicide,� Lieutenant Bill Stanford told the local press. He refused to provide the name of the victim, pending a positive ID, but admitted he had already contacted the Ross family.

As someone who spent years looking for Ross, I have only one question for the police:

What took you so long?

Linda Greene had started the Samaritan Foundation with her previous husband, Denis Greene, and soon after Ross’s disappearance the Greenes began to accuse each other of foul play. Nearly three years ago Denis Greene told me his ex-wife had suddenly showed up at his home in Loveland, Colorado, in December 1995, in an agitated state. He said he’d grown alarmed by her behavior: “For quite some time, she had not been making sense to me.� Linda Greene, he said, “spun what I thought was a pretty wild yarn. . . . She told me that [she and Ross] had gotten into another marital dispute and she was afraid of him, and that she had done something to him that would ensure that he would no longer be able to hurt her.�

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Greene had contacted the Cheyenne police. According to officer Dave Padilla, Greene told them “Allen Ross had been killed by his wife. And that Mr. Ross’s body was buried in the crawl space.�

Around the time Denis Greene contacted the Cheyenne police, someone identifying herself as Linda Greene faxed the police in Guthrie, Oklahoma. In her writings, Linda Greene referred to zombies, vampires, and the Antichrist. She warned her followers not to talk on the telephone because vampires would steal their souls through the phone lines. That’s why she always preferred to fax. “She was claiming that people were out to get her and set her up for killing Allen Ross,� said Guthrie police officer Rex Smith, who told me he’d last talked to Ross in May of 1995, when the Samaritan Foundation was first relocating. “We got that fax in the latter part of 1996. . . . She had made accusations that Denis Greene and somebody else had killed Allen Ross. That she had nothing to do with it. That it had happened in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in November of 1995. That’s where they’d find the body. It was really off the wall. . . . Our hands were tied because we had no proof.�

Spurred by Denis Greene’s accusations, Padilla was among those who went to investigate the crawl space. “We dug and dug and dug,� Padilla told me in early 1998, “and we didn’t find a thing that indicated a body.�

After that, the Cheyenne police appeared to regard the case of Allen Ross with great skepticism. In their files, he was strictly a missing person. There was no law against dropping out and starting a new life elsewhere.

Five years later, a dig in the same basement revealed, in Lieutenant Bill Stanford’s words, “a body of a person who by the condition of the remains could very well have been there five years or longer.� Their first clue was a shoe poking up from the dirt.


Why didn’t the body turn up the first time they looked? “I have no explanation for that,� Stanford says.

Why the police chose to resume their search after five years is an easier story to tell—attribute it to the power of television.

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