Killer pizza man.

[Steff]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9893291/

 

Man ordered to stand trial over 10 L.A. killings

 

Updated: 6:43 a.m. ET Nov. 2, 2005

LOS ANGELES - A former pizza deliveryman accused of being one of the city’s most prolific serial killers was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on charges of murdering 10 women, two of whom were pregnant.

 

Superior Court Judge William R. Pounders ruled during a preliminary hearing that there was sufficient cause to believe Chester D. Turner committed the slayings that occurred from 1987 to 1998.

 

Turner, 38, is currently serving an eight-year prison sentence in an unrelated rape case. Pounders set a Nov. 15 arraignment date.

 

Turner’s DNA was matched to sperm cell evidence from the bodies of all the victims, said Carl Matthies of the police department’s scientific investigations division. The likelihood of the genetic profile belonging to someone other than Turner was one in one-quintillion, Matthies said.

 

Defense attorney John Tyre said outside court that DNA does not prove murder. “If it is his DNA it indicates he had sex with these women some time prior to them dying,” Tyre said.

 

Deputy medical examiner Lisa Scheinin testified that all 10 women were strangled, nine had cocaine in their systems, one was 6½ months pregnant and one was between four and five months pregnant.

 

Prosecutors have not said whether they would seek the death penalty if Turner is convicted. In addition to 10 counts of murder, Turner is accused of the special circumstances of multiple murder and murder committed during a rape.

 

The slayings remained unsolved until a cold case homicide unit began looking into them. In 2002, Turner agreed to submit a DNA sample as part of a no-contest plea to the unrelated rape charge. A detective allegedly found that it matched evidence found in two murders and began looking for more.

 

for the families of the victims.

[Texsox]

[Kyyle23]

So they had sperm cells on each one of these chicks, and all of them were matched, and I am only hearing about this serial killer right now, 7 years after his last murder?

 

I consider myself somewhat informed, I watch the news and CNN, and i never even heard of this case.

[Steff]

So they had sperm cells on each one of these chicks, and all of them were matched, and I am only hearing about this serial killer right now, 7 years after his last murder? 

 

I consider myself somewhat informed, I watch the news and CNN, and i never even heard of this case.

 

 

They just found the match because previously they didn't have his DNA in the system. He got caught on another rape case and as a condition had to give a DNA to the database (I thought this was SOP in sexual assult convictions..?) and that's how they linked him. I just heard about it for the first time last night.

[J-MAN]

They just found the match because previously they didn't have his DNA in the system. He got caught on another rape case and as a condition had to give a DNA to the database (I thought this was SOP in sexual assult convictions..?) and that's how they linked him. I just heard about it for the first time last night.

Death penalty would be too good - thinking something along the final scenes of Bravehart would be appropriate!!!!

[Steff]

Death penalty would be too good - thinking something along the final scenes of Bravehart would be appropriate!!!!

 

 

No brainer on that one.. although for some reason they aren't sure of they'll seek it.. :rolly