Lynn Turner (murderer)

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subject_name = Lynn Turner


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date_of_birth = Birth date and age|1968|07|13
place_of_birth = Texas, United States
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penalty = Life imprisonment
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Lynn Turner (born Julia Lynn Womack on July 13, 1968) is an American convicted murderer. She was convicted on March 24, 2007 for the second of two murders she committed by poisoning her victims with antifreeze and her second trial lasted for twelve days. [ [http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/03/27/antifreeze.deaths.ap/index.html "Jury spares life of antifreeze killer"] . Associated Press, March 27, 2007] Before her arrest, she worked as a 911 operator.

Murders

In 1995, Turner murdered her husband, Cobb County, Georgia police officer Maurice Glenn Turner, age 31. Turner went to the emergency room on March 2, 1995, complaining of flu-like symptoms. He was treated there and when he felt better, he went home. The next day, he was found dead when Lynn came home. In 2001, she killed her boyfriend Forsyth County firefighter Randy Thompson, age 32. She had been having an affair with Thompson at the time of her husband's murder. Thompson reported to the emergency room complaining of a stomach-ache and constant vomiting. He was treated and released on January 21. She made him some Jell-O; By the next day, he was dead. She collected around $153,000 in death benefits for her husbands death and she received $36,000 in her boyfriends death. [ [http://www.courttv.com/trials/turner/051404_verdict_ctv.html "Wife found guilty of killing husband with antifreeze"] , May 14, 2004, CourtTV.com] [ [http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensics/toxicology/14.html "Forensic Toxicology, how it solves cases and the major cases it solved"] . The Crime Library, 2007]

According to Georgia department website, Turner is currently serving a life sentence at Metro State Prison. She almost faced the death penalty for the 2001 murder of Randy Thompson but she was instead sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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