Utah college student, 19, rescue from her suspected kidnapper's home

Utah college student, 19, is found alive but naked and covered in coal in the basement of her 39-year-old suspected kidnapper’s home five days after she was seen leaving her dorm

  • Madelyn Allen, student at Snow College, was rescued from the Loa, Utah, home of Brent Brown, 39, on Saturday, after five-day search 
  • Police found Allen, 19, naked and covered in coal in Brown’s basement, after he lied that he was alone at the house   
  • Brown faces charges of obstruction of justice, aggravated kidnapping, rape and object rape 
  • Affidavit alleges Allen met Brown in a slave domination chatroom on KIK messaging app and agreed to have him pick her up on December 13 
  • Allen said Brown tied her up, took away her phone and threatened to come after her family if she were to leave   

A Utah college student who went missing after leaving her dorm room a week ago to meet a man from an online fetish chatroom, was rescued by the police from the home of her alleged kidnapper, where she was found naked and covered in coal in the basement.

Law enforcement officials arrested 39-year-old Brent Brown in connection with the disappearance of Madelyn Allen, a 19-year-old Snow College student from Ephraim. He now faces charges of obstruction of justice, aggravated kidnaping, rape and object rape. 

According to a probable cause affidavit, Brown took away Allen’s wallet and phone, and tied her up while he was at work, later claiming that it was part of kidnapping role-play. 

During a press conference on Saturday night, Allen’s overjoyed parents recounted how they fell to their knees after getting a call from the police, telling them their daughter has been found alive.  

Allen met Brown in a group chat on the messaging app KIK and agreed to have him pick her up in Ephraim on December 13, the affidavit stated. 

Snow College security video showed Allen leaving her dormitory after 9.20pm last Monday.

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Madelyn Allen, a student at Snow College in Utah, was rescued from the Loa, Utah, home of her alleged kidnapper, Brent Brown, 39, on Saturday, after a five-day search

Snow College security video captured Allen leaving her dorm on the night of December 13

After meeting Brown online, Allen was said to have arranged for him to pick her up in Ephraim, Utah after walking out of her college dorm

Police used cellphone tower data to track down Allen, discovering her in the basement of this home on Main Street in the town of Loa, Utah 

This map shows the distance between the Snow College campus in Ephraim, Utah, and the house in Loa, Utah, where Allen was found five days after her disappearance 

When Allen failed to return home the next morning, her roommates filed a missing person reported, reported The Salt Lake City Tribune.

Investigators learned that Allen has been struggling with depression and anxiety. 

While police were looking for Allen, she was at Brown’s home in Loa, nearly 90 miles away, where, according to the court records, the relationship between the college student and her date became nonconsensual and violent.

The affidavit stated that Brown took away Allen’s Phone, allowing her only to text her family the words ‘I love you!’ on December 14 – a message that alarmed her parents and siblings, prompting them to go to the authorities. 

Brown allegedly tied up Allen while he was at work, took away her wallet and threatened to ‘come after her family and sister’ if she were to tell anyone about him.

After Brown learned that police were looking for Allen, he threw away her phone, but not before the authorities were able to use cellphone tower data associated with her December 14 text message to track her to Loa.

As police officers were scouring the small town of 500 inhabitants, according to the affidavit, they spotted a petite woman with blonde her in the basement of one residence.

Authorities announced the news of Allen’s rescue during a press conference on Saturday night

Allen’s parents, Jonathan and Taunya Allen, expressed their gratitude and joy after being reunited with their daughter  


Court documents allege that Allen met Brown on the messaging app KIK and arranged for him to pick her up on December 13. Brown allegedly took the teen to him home, where he tied her up and took away her personal belongings 

Allen texted her family ‘I love you’ on December 14, which alarmed them 

When they knocked on the door, asking about Allen, the man who answered – later identified as Brown – told them he was alone in the house and refused to let them in, the documents stated.

Officials obtained a search warrant and entered the home on Saturday, where they located a Snow College identification card belonging to the missing student. During a subsequent search of the residence, police found Allen alive in the coal room in the cellar, naked and covered in coal.

The affidavit stated that police officers found Brown to be in possession of a gun and three knives, reported Gephardt Daily. 

Under questioning, Brown allegedly admitted to keeping Allen tied up to prevent her from leaving, taking away her phone and threating Allen’s family, but he claimed it was part of a sexual role play involving a kidnapping scenario, according to KSL-TV. 

Authorities, however, said that Allen was being held against her will.   

According to the affidavit, Allen told police she did not want to have sex with Brown, but she did not leave because he knew her family’s address and had made threats against them. 

She said that Brown told her he had mailed her phone to the southern border so that nobody could find her, and later claimed that police had stopped looking for her. 

A candlelight vigil was held on Sunday as part of a ‘gathering of gratitude’ after Allen’s rescue

Following her dramatic rescue, the 19-year-old was taken to a hospital for a checkup, after which she was reunited with her family.  

During a press conference on Saturday announcing Allen’s rescue, her parents, Jonathan and Taunya, spoke of their gratitude and relief at having their daughter back,

‘We got the phone call and [the police chief] said, “I have her.” We dropped to our knees,’ Jonathan Allen, said. ‘We were so grateful, elated. We couldn’t describe the feelings that we had as we embraced each other.’

Her uncle, Jacob Allen said Madelyn has been through a ‘dangerous and traumatic’ ordeal, but she is a ‘fighter’ and a survivor. 

On Sunday, Allen’s family held two candlelight vigils as part of ‘gatherings of gratitude’ to celebrate her rescue.  

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