He was subsequently convicted and sentenced to death in 2014 for the killings of 33-year-old Elandra Bunn in the Figueroa Corridor area of Los Angeles in June 1987 28-year-old Deborah Williams, who was found dead in November 1992 at the bottom of a stairwell leading to a boiler room at 97th Street School 42-year-old Mary Edwards, whose body was found in a carport in December 1992 and the February 1997 killing of 30-year-old Cynthia Annette Johnson in Watts.Īt Turner's 2014 sentencing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Turner was linked to the strangulations through DNA test results after being arrested and convicted of raping a woman on Skid Row in 2002. Turner lived within 30 blocks of each of the killings - with Bries' body discovered in downtown Los Angeles just 50 yards from where he was living at the time, according to prosecutors. Brenda Bries, 37, who was found dead in the Skid Row area on April 6, 1998.3, 1998, during the commission of a rape, which was caught on grainy black-and-white surveillance videotape in which the assailant's face cannot be seen Paula Vance, 38, who was strangled on Feb.Mildred Beasley, 45, whose body was found in a field on Nov.Natalie Price, 31, whose body was found outside a home on Feb.Andrea Tripplett, 29, who was strangled April 2, 1993, in South Los Angeles.Desarae Jones, 29, who was killed in May 1993.Regina Washington, 27, who was 6 1/2 months pregnant when she was slain in September 1989.Anita Fishman, 31, who was murdered in January 1989.Annette Ernest, 26, who was killed in October 1987.Diane Johnson, 21, who was found dead in March 1987.Turner, an Arkansas native who once worked as a pizza deliveryman, is now 53 and has been on death row at San Quentin State Prison for more than 13 years.
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Questions linger after the death of serial killer, 'Grim Sleeper.'Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. The evidence basically was DNA,'' Pounders said. The judge said the "circumstances of the up-close and very personal nature of the strangulation'' of each of the victims "revealed a cruelty rarely seen in murder trials.'' Pounders said there was "overwhelming evidence'' that the defendant methodically located lone women and "strangled each to death for his own sexual pleasure.'' He was described at the time by prosecutors as the city's most prolific serial killer.Īt Turner's July 2007 sentencing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William R. 2 either by video or teleconference before the state's highest court in the case of Chester Dewayne Turner, who was convicted in April 2007 of 10 counts of first-degree murder, along with a count of second-degree murder of the unborn baby of one of the victims. The California Supreme Court is set to hear an automatic appeal next month in the case of a man who was initially sentenced to death for murdering 10 women in Los Angeles over an 11-year period and later convicted of the killings of four other women in the Los Angeles area.Īttorneys are set to appear Sept.