November 5, 1966 - Chester Turner
Operating across more than a decade in Los Angeles, Turner carried out a pattern of sexual violence and murder that went largely undetected while he moved through periods of homelessness and incarceration for unrelated offenses. It was DNA evidence collected years later — not investigative breaks at the time — that ultimately connected him to fourteen killings and multiple rapes. The protracted span of his crimes and the number of victims left unaccounted for during his active years reflect both the scale of harm and the systemic gaps that allowed it to continue.
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Chester Dewayne Turner (born November 5, 1966) is an American serial killer and sex offender who was sentenced to death for sexually assaulting and murdering fourteen women and an unborn baby in Los Angeles between 1987 and 1998.
Turner spent much of his adult life homeless prior to his capture. He spent some time in prison for unrelated crimes during his murder spree. In 2002, Turner was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping a woman earlier that year. While incarcerated, DNA analysis implicated Turner in numerous unsolved murders and rapes. He was sentenced to death in July 2007 for ten murders, and sentenced to death again in June 2014 for an additional four murders. He was also found guilty of the death of the unborn child of one of his victims. Prosecutors have called Turner "one of the most prolific serial killers in the city's history".
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