Chester Turner J69942
San Quentin Prison
San Quentin, CA 94964
Death toll 10
On April 30, 2007, he was convicted for 10 murders, and was also found guilty in the death of one of his victim’s unborn child,
Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Cold Case Unit of Robbery-Homicide Division will be presenting to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for filing, a case involving the most prolific serial killer ever identified in the history of the City of Los Angeles. Thirty-seven year-old Chester Dewayne Turner was identified following a complex yearlong investigation that involved extensive DNA testing. Turner was ultimately identified as the man believed responsible for a series of violent murders using California’s CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) database. It is a database of convicted felons DNA.