A Murder & A Kidnapping

The devastating scene wouldn't be discovered until later that afternoon when a concerned co-worker stopped by the apartment. Sylena had been stabbed to death and her lifeless body left precariously covered on the couch. Reports would later show that she had been stabbed six times, five times in the chest, and that the wounds were deep enough to pierce her heart, lungs, liver and stomach. Minimal wounds on her hands and a lack of blood spatter suggested that Sylena had been sleeping when she was attacked. But baby Allyson was missing, along with several of her bottles and the weapon that was used to kill her mother. Despite the fact that neighbors don't recall seeing or hearing anything out of the ordinary, police believe that Sylena's murder and Allyson's kidnapping occurred sometime between 9:15 and 10:30 that morning.

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An Unresolved Motive

Sylena's mother, Angela Dalton, would eventually file a wrongful death suit against Pompell for $1.5 million, alleging he killed her daughter and kidnapped Allyson. Angela lived with her daughter and granddaughter in the apartment, but was out when the murder and kidnapping took place. Angela stated that Sylena had wanted to keep her child support case out of the courts because she was afraid of Daniel and that he would come after her; Authorities had been called several times to the home for domestic disputes.

A Crime Watch Daily Confession

Police focused their investigation on two men who could have been Allyson's father, and decided they were satisfied with the alibi of one man. Daniel Pompell would later admit to Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen that a paternity test had shown he was in fact the father of Allyson Dalton. At the time of the murder Daniel was married and had four daughters with his wife, Tiffany. During the investigation Pompell said that he did go to Sylena's apartment that morning, but that he had knocked and left the area when he received no answer. In 2016 private investigator Christopher Borba discovered that a neighbor of Sylena's had heard a noise around the time of the murder and had looked outside to see a white male placing a baby in the passenger seat of a pickup. That witness has since passed away.

Allyson Kathleen Dalton was born May 17, 1998, and is a Caucasian female with blue eyes. At the time of her abduction she had brown hair and was 1'8" tall and weighed approximately 8 pounds. She would be 20 years old at the time of this article.

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