A woman in North Carolina foreshadowed a tragic crime on social media, posting ominously about her home becoming “a murder scene” before she allegedly took her father’s life.
Twenty-year-old Maleigha Allen stands accused of fatally stabbing her father, Michael Allen, inside their Lexington residence on April 17. Just a day prior, she had alarmed acquaintances by sharing a haunting Facebook post that read, “THIS WILL BE A MURDER SCENE STOP MY DADDY’S VOIECES (sic),” as reported by the Daily Mail.
Facing charges of premeditated murder, Maleigha reportedly arrived bleeding and injured at a family friend’s doorstep, claiming she had only completed what her abusive father had initiated.
“She was covered in blood, with stab wounds on her stomach, neck, heart area, and legs,” Jennifer Lanning recounted to the publication, describing Maleigha’s unexpected and unsettling appearance on her porch at approximately 7:20 a.m. that day.
Once Lanning alerted authorities by dialing 911, responding officers questioned Maleigha about the origins of her injuries.
She responded: “‘My dad, and I’m sorry, I had to kill him,’” Lanning said.
“And I was like, what the heck? And the cop looked at me and said, ‘You heard that too?’ I said, ‘Yeah, but I hate that I did,’” she continued.
Lanning – who described the father-daughter duo having an overly-cozy relationship that resembled “dating” – recalled a disturbing statement that Maleigh had made while the pair were leaving a hangout at their house the night before.
“That night before they left, Maleigha whispered to me that she didn’t want sexy time with her dad,” she said, adding that Maleigha – who was allegedly using meth at the time – seemed to be struggling mentally during their visit.
Before they left at around 2 a.m., a boozed-up Michael had also shown off three new knives, including a switchblade, Lanning said.
Maleigha was taken to a local hospital while cops searched the remote, heavily-wooded home where she and her father had been living together – and found Michael dead from stab wounds inside, a Davidson County Sheriff’s Office deputy said during an April news conference.
Maleigha was arrested for murder after getting released from the hospital four days later, but she walked free after a grand jury declined to indict her on the basis that there was not enough evidence to bring the case.
Earlier this month, however, she was re-arrested after a separate panel returned an indictment on the first-degree murder charge.
She is currently being held without bond while awaiting trial. She had not yet entered a plea.
“I was disappointed to see they’re seeking an indictment for the first degree murder instead of a lesser included, or taking feedback from the first grand jury’s decision,” Maleigha’s defense lawyer, Karen Gerber, told The Post.
“We are asserting [Maleigha’s] innocence at this point and will continue to do so,” the attorney lawyer said, and noted that Michael’s history of abuse, including a 2019 arrest, “spells everything out pretty well.”
Back in 2019, Michael was reportedly arrested on six incest and child rape charges involving his daughter, but the charges were dropped after Maleigha, then 13, recanted.
In a jailhouse interview with the Daily Mail this week, Maleigha claimed that the stabbing was in self-defense – because her father had “been molesting me again,” she said.
She was seen with a black eye in her mugshot, as well as in many photos posted on Facebook before her latest arrest.
The pair have always had a toxic and sometimes violent relationship, made worse by their individual substance addictions and alcoholism, Maleigh’s biological mother and half-sister told the outlet.
“Maleigha never had a chance living with her dad. He just messed with her and messed with her mind too,” said her mother, Amy Simerson.
Regardless of the circumstances, “I still miss him,” Maleigha admitted this week from her jail cell.
Gerber and the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to inquiries.