True crime program ‘Final Moments’ revisits infamous 2004 Jenner beach killings

The deaths of Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen, young Christian camp counselors found shot to death on a Jenner beach in August of 2004, shocked Sonoma County and the nation and went unsolved for more than a decade.

Now, true crime program “Final Moments,” airing Sundays at 7 p.m. on the Oxygen network, has revisited the case and traced the last days of the couple as well as the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office investigation, and eventually the confession by a Forestville man in 2017.

First aired on Dec. 31, the episode titled “California Nightmare” is available to stream online at Peacock or with a TV provider.

Longtime locals will remember the grim details of Cutshall and Allen’s killing. The couple, who were to be married the following month in Ohio, were found Aug. 18, 2004, dead in their sleeping bags on a bed of sand and driftwood, at the bottom of a 200-foot cliff on the Sonoma Coast.

Both were shot in the head at close range, most likely as they slept the night of Aug. 14, officials estimated. No valuables were taken and there were no signs of a struggle.

In the recent “Final Moments” episode, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Detective Joey Horseman said the unsolved case “consumed” him.

While Shaun Gallon was privately named by the sheriff’s office as a suspect early on in the investigation, it would take 13 years for Gallon to confess to the killings of Cutshall and Allen as well as the 2017 shooting death of his brother Shamus Gallon at their family’s home in Forestville and a 2004 bombing that maimed a woman in Monte Rio.

Judge Robert LaForge sentenced Gallon in 2019 to serve three consecutive life terms without parole plus another 94 years in state prison for his crimes.

In addition to Horseman, “Final Moments“ spoke with Chief Deputy District Attorney Spencer Brady and the families and friends of Cutshall and Allen.

For more, go to oxygen.com.