This story is part of Evil in the Archives: The Case Files, a new digital series revisiting some of the most haunting crimes preserved in the Action News archives.
Three young employees were executed at pointblank range inside Fran’s Market in September of 1980 in Fresno, a crime authorities later described as a calculated act of retaliation ordered from behind prison walls.
Investigators concluded the shotgun slayings were not spontaneous but deliberate executions, carried out by a recently paroled man acting on instructions from convicted murderer Clarence Ray Allen, who was serving time at Folsom Prison at the time…