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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Calvin Allen Bennett
(Allen)
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Sex: Male |
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 28 |
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Height: 6'0" |
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Weight: 153 |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown
Full beard or moustache and goatee |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Blue |
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Wanted for :
Capital Murder - 2 counts, Nashville, AR;
Oct 30, 2006
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Rose Hill, VA
Cops say that after murdering the O'Dells Bennett stole their 2001 Chevy Silverado pick-up truck
and drove to Rose Hill, Va. to visit a woman he had met through a phone dating service earlier in the year. |
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Possible Location : Nashville, AR
Virginia |
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Last Known : Nashville, AR |
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Traits |
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Case Story |
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A Brutal Discovery |
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Ben and Mary O'Dell were an elderly couple living out their golden years on their farm in Nashville, Ark. Police say they probably had no idea that a soon-to-be killer was living in their barn.
Calvin Bennett had disappeared while serving a probation for car theft, and sometime in September 2006, police believe he made the O'Dell's barn his home and began a plot to rob them.
On October 30, 2006, Ben and Mary O'Dell were found brutally murdered in a wooded area outside their Nashville, Ark. home.
Earlier that day, at about 6:30 a.m., Mary O'Dell's niece greeted her with her daily morning phone call, which Mary ended abruptly.
The niece didn't think much of it at the time, but when she called again at about 4:00 p.m., no one answered. She was worried and went to the O'Dell's house, but the couple wasn't home. After going to check the hospital, doctor's office, and any other place the couple could be, she was left with nothing but a bad feeling. She called one of Ben O'Dell's cousins to see if he could check the house once more. |
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Scarecrows? |
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At Ben and Mary's empty house, he walked outside and noticed some freshly cut wood by their back door and thought the elderly couple might have gotten injured while chopping down a tree. At a trail about 100 yards away from the house, he thought he saw two discarded scarecrows from the watermelon patch. Then he saw a human hand.
To his horror, he saw that the two figures weren't scarecrows, but the bodies of Ben and Mary O'Dell.
A Fatal Plan
Police believe Bennett was in the O'Dells' house when Mary's niece called. They say he took the couple's own gun and shot them each once in the head. Police claim Bennett tied a rope to their legs, attached it to a 4-wheeler, and dragged the couple, face down, to a place away from the house.
According to the coroner's report, Mary and Ben were likely still alive as they were being dragged through the rough terrain.
Cops say Bennett put a shopping bag over each of their heads, went back up to the house to clean up the scene, took Ben's wallet and Mary's purse, and drove off in the couple's pewter/gray 2001 Chevy Silverado pick-up truck. His destination: Rose Hill, Va., and the home of Bessie, a woman he met through a phone dating service. |
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Running From The Law |
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Evidentally, Bennett had blood on his clothing, so police say he knocked on Bessie's neighbor's door and asked to use her shower. She refused to let him in, so police say he waited two hours for Bessie to come home.
Bessie wasn't happy to see him and sent him away, then called Bennett's family. She knew Bennett was a low-life, but cops say she was surprised to hear he was an accused killer. All she could tell them was that he was driving a greyish pickup truck and didn't know where he was heading next.
The last anyone saw of Bennett was at Lou's Country Store in Rose Hill. He got jittery when he saw surveillance cameras -- but he probably would have been even more nervous if he knew the store was owned by a deputy sheriff who released the surveillance video to AMW. |
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