25 Facts About Chester Turner

Chester Turner spent some time in prison for unrelated crimes during his murder spree.

In 2002, Chester Turner was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping a woman earlier that year.

Chester Turner was sentenced to death in July 2007 for ten murders, and sentenced to death again in June 2014 for an additional four murders.

Chester Turner was found guilty of the death of the unborn child of one of his victims.

On June 14,2024, Chester Turner was charged in the 1998 murder of Itisha Camp in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Chester Turner was born on November 5,1966, in Warren, Arkansas.

Chester Turner moved to Los Angeles with his mother when he was five years old after his parents separated.

Chester Turner attended public schools in Los Angeles and attended Locke High School until dropping out.

In 1992, Chester Turner began dating Felicia Collier, with whom he had one child.

Chester Turner has fathered a total of four children with separate women, some of whom were raised by his mother after his arrest.

Chester Turner was jailed multiple times in the 1980s and 1990s for theft and drug possession, first from 1987 to 1989, then 1989 to 1992, and from 1993 to 1995.

Chester Turner was then jailed for assault on an officer and cruelty to an animal on April 9,1997.

Chester Turner's body was found on March 9,1987, by two passing motorists in a roadway construction area west of the Harbor.

Chester Turner's body had been discovered by 11-year-old Alvin McThomas.

Chester Turner was the daughter of Mildred White, who was friends with Jerri Johnson Tripplett, mother of Turner's fifth victim, Andrea Tripplett.

Chester Turner was found just 50 yards away from the hotel where Turner was staying at the time.

Chester Turner was incarcerated at Sierra Conservation Center in Tuolumne County.

Chester Turner was required to give a DNA sample to California's Combined DNA Index System as part of his prison term.

In September 2003, based on that sample, Chester Turner was identified as a match for DNA recovered from the murders of Vance and Bries; after that, detectives began an examination of Chester Turner's background.

Chester Turner was arraigned on December 22,2004, on ten murder charges and pleaded not guilty.

Chester Turner was convicted of eleven murders on May 10,2007, and sentenced to death on July 10,2007.

In February 2011, Chester Turner was charged with four additional murders, those of Cynthia Johnson, Elandra Bunn, Mary Edwards, and Deborah Williams.

On June 19,2014, Chester Turner was convicted of those murders and received another death sentence on June 26,2014.

On November 30,2020, the California Supreme Court reversed Chester Turner's murder conviction for the unborn baby.

Chester Turner is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison.