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Chester Turner
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Chester Turner was convicted April 30, 2007, of 10 counts of first-degree murder, plus one count of second-degree murder for the death of one victim's fetus. That victim, Regina Washington, 27, was 6½ months pregnant when Turner strangled her with an electrical cord behind a vacant house in September 1989.
Another victim was found slumped over a portable toilet, and one woman was found in front of a crack house.
Turner, a pizza deliveryman, was sentenced to death July 10, 2007, for the murders in Los Angeles neighborhoods plagued by a crack cocaine epidemic. Prosecutors said Turner preyed upon prostitutes and other impoverished women with drug problems who lived primarily in South Los Angeles.
Turner was already serving an eight-year prison sentence for the 2002 rape of a woman on Skid Row when his DNA linked him to the 10 killings, carried out between 1987 and 1998.
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