Todd Wade Allen was a Hutchinson, Kansas, police officer. He is also a serial rapist. In August, 2022, he was arrested on suspicion of being a serial rapist who had been committing sexual assaults in Rice Park, Carey Park and Fun Valley Sports Complex. Most of the women and the fifteen-year-old child he assaulted were with someone. Allen would shine a flashlight in their faces and say he was either a police officer or park security. He would tell the woman to go back to his vehicle and then assault her while interrogating her about drugs. He was not on the duty, nor in uniform, but with the light in their eyes, they could not see well enough to identify him. He was caught thanks to someone’s security camera tape.
The police chief noted that these crimes went back to 2012. In 2018, he announced that there were these several related assaults, that they were searching for a serial rapist. Allen resigned shortly after. They discovered he looked up the reports on the assaults he committed, finding out where the investigation was going.
There followed a change of method, with reports of prowlers and peeping toms. They didn’t put them together until they picked up Allen for peeping and connected the past sexual assaults to him. It’s interesting that he committed the more serious crimes while a police officer. When he was arrested, he was he was charged with two counts of kidnapping, five counts of rape, two counts of sexual battery, indecent liberties with a child involving a 14- or 15-year-old, and five counts of breach of privacy. There were ten sexual assault victims and five peeping victims.
He pleaded guilty to seventeen counts and was sentenced to from 20 to 23 1/2 years.
- Hutchinson News: Former Hutchinson Police Officer pleads guilty to several counts of sex crimes
- HutchPost: Former Hutchinson police officer arrested on sex crime charges
