Trial remains on track in Allen murder case
Published 9:16 am Thursday, August 21, 2025
Glen Snook
SCOTTSVILLE – The case against a man accused in a deadly shooting in Allen County remains on track for a jury trial later this year.
Glen L. Snook, 69, of Adolphus, appeared Tuesday in Allen Circuit Court for a pretrial conference in his criminal case.
Snook is accused of fatally shooting Johnny “J.L.” Crawford, 31, of Bethpage, Tennessee, on March 11, 2024.
A grand jury indicted Snook on charges of murder, abuse of a corpse, second-degree arson, tampering with physical evidence and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Snook’s attorney, Kayla Fugate of the Department of Public Advocacy, informed Allen Circuit Judge Mark Thurmond that she anticipates having the case ready for trial on the scheduled date of Nov. 17.
A week had been set aside to hold the trial.
Thurmond set a pretrial conference for Oct. 14 and encouraged Fugate and Allen County Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney McGavinn Brown to bring any pretrial motions before the court in a timely fashion.
“As we get a little closer, let’s make sure we identify any pretrial issues as quickly as we can so we can address them on our time and not the jury’s time,” Thurmond said.
Snook was arrested on March 21, 2024, by Kentucky State Police and has been held since then in Allen County Detention Center under a $1 million cash bond.
KSP had been contacted the previous day by the Allen County Sheriff’s Office to assist in what was at that time a missing persons investigation.
According to an arrest citation, Crawford’s mother informed authorities she had not been in contact with her son for several days and that she and her husband went to her son’s last known residence on McDonald Road, where he stayed with his girlfriend, and found a boot belonging to Crawford near a burn pit in the backyard.
Police called to the residence found Crawford’s body in the burn pit, and detectives eventually learned that Snook had threatened “on several different occasions” to kill Crawford, according to court records.
“A witness also advised that they had observed video surveillance from this residence showing Lenny moving a large red trash can and that after they inspected it, they observed what appeared to be large amounts of blood inside the trash can,” Snook’s arrest citation said.
Detectives viewed video footage that reportedly linked Snook to the burn pit, and then obtained a search warrant for Snook’s home on Blankenship Road.
Snook was taken into custody after police found him hiding in his residence, his citation said, and he was interviewed at the Scottsville Police Department.
“When asked why he believed he was there, Snook stated, ‘because I killed that man,’ ” Snook’s arrest citation said.
During a police interview, Snook reportedly claimed to have gotten into a verbal altercation with Crawford at the McDonald Road property, fired two warning shots over Crawford’s head and another three shots as Crawford neared and then crossed a fence.
Snook claimed that Crawford brandished a switchblade knife and threatened him with it during the confrontation.
