The Root Beer Float Murder
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A burglar caught red handed leads police to a killer and a poisoned root beer float. Peter Van Sant reports.
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| 0:00.0 | When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their |
| 0:05.9 | property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide. |
| 0:10.3 | Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker, |
| 0:16.5 | the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy. |
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| 0:47.6 | Yeah, this is |
| 0:49.7 | No state road 135. |
| 0:52.5 | My husband's and our begging for all these non-responsive and I need to be released. |
| 0:57.0 | Marsha Allen called 911. |
| 0:59.0 | Do you want to start CPR if I help you? |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, I could do that. |
| 1:05.0 | She appears to be crying on the call. |
| 1:09.0 | She appears to start getting a little panicked. |
| 1:12.6 | He's just a clean here on his mouth was in. |
| 1:15.6 | Go ahead. |
| 1:16.6 | Is he called to the time? |
| 1:19.6 | First responders get there. |
| 1:21.6 | What did they find? |
| 1:22.6 | They found Harold Allen unresponsive. |
| 1:25.6 | He was dead. Yes. |
| 1:32.3 | Harold and Marshall Allen had only been married for a year, year and a half when this happened. |
| 1:39.3 | Harold had had some health problems, so it wasn't initially a huge surprise that he would have died. |
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