Lynn Turner (serial killer)

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Lynn Turner
Birth name:	Julia Lynn Womack
Born:	July 13, 1968 Texas
Penalty:	Life sentence
Killings
Number of victims:	Two
Span of killings:	1995 through 2001
Country:	U.S.
State(s):	Georgia
Date apprehended:	2002

Lynn Turner (born Julia Lynn Womack) is an American serial killer. 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 only lasted for 12 days.^[1] Before her arrest, she worked as a 911 operator.

[edit] 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, DeKalb 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.^[2] ^[3]

Turner is currently serving a life in prison at Lee Arrendale 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.