FBI investigator describes the moment she found her colleague murdered in his home in 2017
Three years after a retired FBI agent was found shot and beaten to death inside his Maryland home, his former supervisor at the agency and detectives who investigated the homicide are speaking out as the mystery of his grisly death lingers.
The unsolved March 2017 slaying of Scott Horn, 62, is the subject of the latest installment of NBC's Dateline, titled 'The House,' which is scheduled to air at 10pm ET/9pm CT on Friday.
Horn was found dead outside a shed in the yard of his home in the 200 block of Patuxent Road in Laurel, Maryland, suffering from major trauma to his face and upper body.
Retired FBI agent Scott Horn, 62 (left and right), was shot in the neck and beaten to death outside his Laurel, Maryland, home in March 2017
Horn's body was discovered outside a shed in the yard of his home on Patuxent Road in Laurel
Detective Kezzi Henderson (left), with the Laurel Police Department, said that Horn was shot in the back of the neck, but that wound was not fatal. Horn's former supervisor at the FBI, Monique Winkis (right), arrived at the crime scene and told police he was a fed
Detective Kezzi Henderson, with the Laurel Police Department, said that Horn was shot in the back of the neck, but that wound was not fatal.
'The neck wound would've disabled him,' he told Dateline presenter Josh Mankiewicz during a sit-down interview.
Monique Winkis, Horn's former supervisor at the FBI, recounted how she arrived on the scene of the crime to find her former colleague dead.
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Share'I go right up to the officers and I identify who I am and I let them know that he's one of ours. They know he's a retired FBI agent,' she recalled.
Winkis explained that in that moment, she had to find a balance between being a federal investigator and the victim's friend.
'I'm there for the family. I'm there for him,' she said.
Horn's estranged nurse wife, Anne Allen, and her alleged lover, Jason Byrd, were arrested later that year and charged with his murder. Allen was acquitted at trial in 2018 and Byrd had all charges against him dropped before trial
Horn's estranged nurse wife, Anne Allen, and her alleged lover, Jason Byrd, were arrested later that year and charged in connection to the retired FBI agent's murder.
Prosecutors argued the 63-year-old woman fatally shot her husband for a potential life insurance payout and to profit off his rental properties.
They also alleged that Allen enlisted the help of Byrd as her 'muscleman.'
Allen's attorneys argued there was no physical evidence in the form of fingerprints, blood or DNA to show she fired the gun that killed Horn.
'There is no smoking gun, there's no confession, there's no text or email that is incriminating whatsoever,' defense attorney Andrew Jezic told WTOP at the time.
The defense team suggested that Horn, who was in the habit of carrying large sums of cash from collecting rent payments, could have been killed as part of a robbery, or ambushed by a recently evicted tenant.
Allen and Horn had a troubled marriage marred by allegations of domestic violence.
Horn is pictured above with his daughter, Kelly. He also left behind a son
Horn had filed for divorce from Allen in December 2016, but during her trial, her defense attorney argued that the couple were not estranged but actively working on their relationship at the time of Horn's killing.
In November 2018, following a three-week trial, jurors found Allen not guilty of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and the use of a handgun in a crime of violence.
Charges against Byrd were dropped before trial.
Less than three month's after Allen's acquittal, she was charged with attempting to influence witnesses in the murder case.
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