Dallen Forrest Bounds was born on August 9, 1971, in Ashland, Oregon. He grew up in a small town where he spent most of his childhood and teenage years. Details about his early family life are limited. However, it is known that he lived with his parents during his formative years.

Dallen Forrest Bounds committed a series of murders between June and December 1999. His first confirmed victim was Jonathan Lemuel Lara. On June 26, 1999, Bounds restrained Lara with flex ties to a chair in the back of a Radio Shack in Greenville, South Carolina. Bounds then stabbed him in the neck with a screwdriver, leading to Lara's death. An accomplice, Casandra Laster, was later convicted of being an accessory to the crime.

On December 22, 1999, Bounds killed a flower shop clerk, Karen Moore Hayden. He entered the shop during the day and attacked her, leaving her dead in a storage room. Her body was discovered the following day by a delivery man who found the store closed and dark.

The day after, on December 23, 1999, Bounds murdered Sandi Roberts Ott and her ex-husband, Timothy Ott, in their home in Easley. After this incident, Bounds fled to a nearby neighborhood where he took two women hostage. In the end, Bounds took his own life by shooting himself in the head.