Chester Turner, California

Status: Incarcerated, Condemned

Chester Turner is a serial killer in the United States. He was active from 1987–1998 . He currently has 15 victims, though he is suspected of 16 . According to Wikipedia, he was convicted of murdering ten women and a viable unborn baby in South Los Angeles .

This happened primarily in California. He was sentenced to death .

His appeal includes:

On November 26, 1964, at about 11:30 p.m., the prosecutrix, 32 years old and employed as an operating room supervisor at a hospital, was returning home from a hockey game. She was walking east from the bus stop at Cottage Grove Avenue on the south side of 60th Street in Chicago. She observed a white, late model automobile which she "thought was a Chevrolet or something like it." Subsequently, a police bulletin described the car as an Oldsmobile or Buick. The car passed her, then pulled to the curb a short distance ahead. A man whom she subsequently identified as the defendant, Chester Turner, got out of the car and walked toward her with his right hand in his pocket and told her not to cry out or make a sound; that he was not going to hurt her. He told her that "he needed money, that he needed a fix," and that he had a $50 to $60 a day "habit." He took $4.35 from her purse, all the money she had. He then forced her at gunpoint to walk east along Drexel Boulevard and through an empty lot, then along a fence to avoid the lights of a passing automobile. He walked behind her, with the gun at her head or to the side. He then marched her south through the alley, into a yard, and to the rear of a darkened three-story house, holding the gun at her side. He raised the gun to the back of her head and told her that he hated white people because they had been the cause of all his trouble. At this time she heard the gun click. A light went on in the house and the man forced her into another yard across the alley. There he told her to take of her coat and lie down upon it on the ground. He then forcibly raped her. As he left the yard he told her she should not cry out or move or he would kill her. After being rebuffed at one apartment where she sought assistance, she encountered a special policeman of the University of Chicago whom she told of the attack and who summoned the Chicago Police. She described her assailant to the police as a Negro, male, 25 to 30 years of age, five feet ten to six feet, medium build, wearing a white or beige carcoat, hat and dark trousers. She also said that her assailant had medium color, rough skin. Defendant does not have rough skin. She also described the kind of gun carried by assailant

Victims

His victims include:  Paula Vance, Brenda Bries, Diane Johnson, Annette Ernest, Anita Fishman,  Regina Washington, Andrea Tripplett, Desarae Jones, Natalie Price, Mildred Beasley, Tammie Christmas; Debra Williams, and Mary Edwards.

You can write to Chester Turner at:

Chester Turner J69942

San Quentin State Prison

Death Row

San Quentin, CA 94964

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