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Julia Lynn TURNER

 
 
 

 

The Trial of Lynn Turner
 

 

The trial of Lynn Turner, a Georgia woman charged with poisoning her husband with antifreeze —
and later having a relationship with another man who died of a strikingly similar cause — featured
 a parade of witnesses. Click through the photo gallery to see what key witnesses had to say.

 

 

Angie Bollinger
The sister of Randy Thompson, the man Lynn Turner had two children with following the death of her
husband, testified that Turner said her late husband, a police officer, was killed in the line of duty.
 Actually, Glenn Turner died the same way Bollinger's brother would die six years later. Though
Lynn Turner was not charged with Thompson's death at the time, prosecutors were permitted
 to present evidence of similarities in their bid to prove Turner killed her husband.

 

 

Dr. Donald Freeman
Dr. Freeman, an emergency-room physician, treated Glenn Turner on March 2, 1995. Turner was sent
home but died the following day. Freeman testified that classic symptoms indicating "a single acute
large ingestion" of ethylene glycol, the main ingredient in antifreeze, were not present, and suggested
the police officer might have ingested smaller amounts of the poison over a period of days.

 

 

Vince Turley
The former Metropolitan Life sales agent told the jury that Glenn Turner made his then-fiance his
beneficiary at her request in late September 1993. "He said Lynn was all over his back to get it
changed," said Turley, who was also once a police officer. Upon her husband's death,
Lynn Turner received more than $110,000 in benefits and interest.

 

 

Samantha Gilleland
Gilleland, an animal-shelter worker, testified that Lynn Turner made several visits to the shelter to play
with rescued cats and had learned that antifreeze would effectively poison them. "We discussed the
stray cat problem she was having at the time and she asked if antifreeze had the same effect on
 cats as it did on dogs," Gilleland testified.

 

 

Dr. Brian Frist
The Cobb County medical examiner autopsied Glenn Turner in 1995 and believed he died of heart failure,
though he noticed calcium oxalate crystals in his tissues under a microscope. It was only after he learned
 that another man romantically linked to Lynn Turner had died under similar circumstances that he
reconsidered his initial findings and ordered Turner's body exhumed. "In retrospect, I realize that
 there's more significance to them," Frist said. "I do believe they are the result of ethylene glycol toxicity."

 

 

Dr. Kris Sperry
Chief medical examiner at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Sperry testified that it appeared Randy
Thompson first ingested antifreeze up to two days before he went to the emergency room on Jan. 20,
2001. Because Thompson left the hospital feeling better, Sperry said the firefighter likely ingested more
antifreeze afterward, based on the levels of ethylene glycol found in his body after his death.

 

 

Chris Tilson
Lethal levels of ethylene glycol were not immediately detected in Randy Thompson's blood because of
an analysis error, not because it was an inconclusive cause of death, testified the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation crime lab analyst. Further testing was done when a medical examiner found alcium
oxalate crystals – a hallmark of ethylene glycol poisoning – in Thompson's kidneys. "I had made
a mathematical calculation error," Tilson admitted. "I took full responsibility for the error."

 

 

Helen Gregory
The defendant's mother testified that Lynn Turner may have seemed cold at the funerals of her husband
and boyfriend because she is not an emotional person. "She just does not show openly her feelings or
her emotions," she said. But on the day of Glenn Turner's death, she testified, her daughter was "crying
 hysterically." Gregory is caring for the defendant's children by Thompson, 5-year-old Blake
 and 8-year-old Amber.

 

 

Dr. Robert Palmer
A toxicologist testifying as a defense witness, Palmer questioned whether the calcium oxalate crystals
found in Turner's exhumed body could have come from another source, such as embalming fluids,
flowers or other materials decomposing inside the coffin. Palmer also expressed concern that the
crystals found in Glenn Turner's kidneys should have been found in his other organs as well.
"I don't believe that the evidence supports the cause of death," he said.

Lynn Turner died in prison on Monday, August 30, 2010.

 

 

The victims

 

Her husband, police officer Maurice Glenn Turner, 31.

 

 

Her boyfriend, firefighter Randy Thompson, 32.

 

 

 
 
 
 
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