Convicted Killer Charged With 4 New Murders
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A man who was sentenced to death in 2007 for murdering 10 women in Los Angeles County over a decade was charged Tuesday with strangling four other women in the 1980s and 1990s.
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The latest case against Chester D. Turner charges the 44-year-old death row inmate with the June 5, 1987, slaying of Elandra Bunn; the Nov. 16, 1992, murder of Debra Williams; the Dec. 16, 1992, killing of Mary Edwards; and the the Feb. 22, 1997, slaying of Cynthia Annette Johnson.
The criminal complaint includes the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder during the commission of a rape or attempted rape involving all four of the victims.
It was unclear how soon Turner would be brought from San Quentin State Prison to the downtown Los Angeles courthouse to be arraigned on the new charges.
The Arkansas native -- who once worked as a pizza deliveryman -- was sentenced to death in July 2007 for murdering 10 women between 1987 and 1998, and was described at the time by prosecutors as the city of Los Angeles' most prolific serial killer.
Turner lived within 30 blocks of each of the killings. Turner was linked to the strangulations through DNA test results after being arrested and convicted of raping a woman in the Skid Row area in 2002.
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