Rachael Mullenix was sixteen when she was arrested for the murder of her mother in California. According to court documents Rachael Mullenix was upset that her mother wanted to end the relationship with her daughters boyfriend Ian Allen. The mothers body would be found floating in the bay near Newport Harbour Yacht Club and she had been stabbed over fifty times and stuffed into a cardboard box.
Rachael Mullenix and Ian Allen had fled the state and would be arrested in Louisiana. Rachael told the jury that her boyfriend had murdered her mother and she was shocked when she walked into the brutal murder however she would be convicted of murder and this teen killer would be sentenced to twenty five years to life in prison
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| Inmate Name | MULLENIX, RACHAEL SCARLETT |
| CDCR Number | X34327 |
| Age | 30 |
| Admission Date | 11/03/2008 |
| Current Location | Central California Women’s Facility |
| Location Link | Directions |
| Parole Eligible Date (Month/Year) | 12/2026 |
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A Huntington Beach teen convicted of the brutal slaying of her mother again proclaimed her innocence today, telling an Orange County judge she never could have committed such a crime.
“She was my life. To have someone say I stabbed her really affects me because I didn’t,” 19-year-old Rachael Mullenix told Superior Court Judge David A. Thompson. “My mom is my heart. Every day without her is a struggle … I did not do this to my mom.”
Moments later, Thompson sentenced Rachael Mullenix to 25 years to life for the Sept. 13, 2006 slaying of Barbara Mullenix – whose body was discovered floating in Newport Bay with a butter knife embedded in her right eye.
Earlier, Thompson denied the teen’s motion for a new trial.
The crime made headlines when the body of Barbara Mullenix was pulled from the waters near Newport Harbor Yacht Club a day after the murder. The woman had been stabbed more than 50 times and stuffed in a cardboard box. Investigators deduced she had been killed the night before in her Huntington Beach home – where she lived with Rachael Mullenix.
Rachael Mullenix, who has no prior criminal record, and her boyfriend, Ian Allen, were arrested in Louisiana a few days later. Deputy District Attorney Sonia Balleste prosecuted them both for murder, arguing the couple thought the mother was interfering in their relationship.
At the sentencing, Mullenix cried as her father said he loved his daughter and believed she wasn’t a murderer.
“She didn’t do this,” said Bruce Mullenix. “I will never stop supporting her for the rest of my life.”
After the hearing, Balleste said the sentence wasn’t stiff enough.
“She’s an expert manipulator who is a danger to our society,” the prosecutor said. “She should never be let out.”
Rachel Mullenix was convicted in July. She testified Allen was the sole murderer, and that she was shocked when she walked in on the attack. She claimed she tried to pull Allen off her mother, but that he pushed her away. She told jurors she cleaned up the crime scene and helped dispose of her mother’s body because she was scared of Allen – whom she accused of kidnapping her.
The teen’s trial testimony echoed her statement in court today.She told jurors she loved her mother, whom she called “her best friend.”
But in her diaries, which were used by the prosecution as evidence, Rachael Mullenix repeatedly wrote that she hated her mother.
Allen, who was convicted during a separate trial last month, also claimed innocence. His defense was that Rachael Mullenix was the murderer, and that he had shouldered the blame out of love. Jurors in his trial were as unconvinced as those in Mullenix’s trial, convicting him of first-degree murder.
Allen, who also faces 25 years to life in prison, will be sentenced Nov. 14.
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It’s impossible for Huntington Beach teenager Rachael Mullenix to have reacted more bitterly to her mother’s 1 a.m. curfew, especially after she bragged she’d discovered how to use sex to manipulate men.
In September 2006, Rachael, then 17, and her 21-year-old boyfriend, Ian Allen, used three or four knives to stab Barbara Mullenix more than 50 times and then dumped the corpse in Newport Harbor near Corona del Mar with a butter knife protruding from an eye socket, according to police reports.
From her new home–a prison cell at Chowchilla’s Central California Women’s Facility, Rachel Mullenix continues to insist she is innocent of a murder committed solely by Allen, and that both Orange County homicide prosecutor Sonia Balleste and an inept defense lawyer robbed her of a fair trial.
According to Rachael, Balleste didn’t just improperly inflame the jury but she also presented “a deliberate distortion of evidence” while her counsel failed to make key objections.
Besides, she argued, Balleste should have been softer on the defense given her youth.
It is true the prosecutor called the defendant “a vampire” during the trial, argued it was “impossible” only one person inflicted all the stab wounds even though her own forensic expert witness had testified otherwise, and won on the record rebukes from the judge, David Thompson.
But federal magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian studied the complaint in depth and noted critical, incriminating evidence: After the duo was arrested fleeing in Louisiana, cops placed them in a police vehicle, secretly turned on a recording device and left them alone.
Rachael Mullenix can be heard reminding her boyfriend to take the fall and urging him to claim he’d kidnapped her after the killing.
Law enforcement also recovered text messages Rachael sent Allen in the hours before the attack on Barbara, including, “Ian, I don’t care what I have to do in order to be with you! Nothing is going to take you away from me.”
Chooljian concluded Balleste’s conduct did not sabotage due process rights and that Rachael’s lawyer hadn’t committed malpractice in her defense.
This month, U.S. District Court Judge Manuel L. Real accepted Chooljian’s findings and closed the case.
Upshot: Rachael, now 25, will continue serving her 25 years to life punishment.
Allen earned the same sentence and lives in a California State Prison cell at Centinela.
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Rachael Mullenix is currently incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility
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Rachael Mullenix is serving a life sentence and is eligible for parole in 2026