Samantha Allen

Samantha "Sam" Allen is the daughter of serial killer/rapist and pedophile J.B. Allen. She appeared in Foundation.

Background
Born in 1976, Samantha's father J.B. was a real-estate developer who was constantly busy. While she was still young, her mother fell terminally ill with cancer. Sometime in 1982, Samantha climbed into her mother's bedside in the nighttime, seeing that her father was not there. She then spotted J.B. holding a boy captive and taking him to his van. Unable to accept that her father was capable of such actions, Samantha repressed the memory. Things became worse for her when her mother died while she was five, and she consequently underwent grief counseling. J.B. also began giving her gifts, among them a catcher's mitt, a bicycle, and a puppy, the latter of which she named Randy. As a teenager, she became heavily involved with sports.

In 2012, when an emaciated boy named Angel Suarez is found and another boy, Billy Henderson, goes missing, Samantha's repressed memory comes back after she watches a news report of Angel's discovery. She goes to a local police station to report what she saw, but after spotting a photo of J.B. on the wall, as J.B. contributed to the design of the police station, Samantha quickly tells the detective of the event she witnessed and defended her father before leaving.

Foundation
The BAU is called in to investigate Angel's discovery, and Rossi and Prentiss, having been told by Garcia of what occurred at the police station, interrogate Samantha, who denies everything she did before leaving with Randy. However, she changes her mind and goes to the police station, where Prentiss helps her recreate the repressed memory, causing the BAU to consider J.B. as a suspect. As a result, Samantha is instructed to wear a wire, go to her father's house, and explore the basement, where the BAU assumes J.B. is keeping his victims. Initially, she is reluctant, but decides to go for it. There, she tells J.B. that she plans to retrieve her catcher's mitt from the basement with the intention of coaching softball. At first, J.B. is reluctant, but he allows her to explore the basement. Unfortunately, Samantha doesn't find anything and leaves after J.B. helps her find the mitt.

When Prentiss further interrogates her, Samantha tells her that J.B. gave her gifts and the BAU realizes that he was giving her possessions the victims had on them when they were abducted. Then, she confirms that in 2004, she was given a puppy; Angel had a puppy with him when he was abducted. Samantha also tells Prentiss that J.B. had his teeth recapped a few years ago and that J.B. gives children rides on a backhoe. The BAU confirms that J.B. is the unsub and arrest him before he can kill Billy. When J.B. is taken into custody, he is spotted by a shocked Samantha.

Appearances

 * Season Seven
 * Foundation