Julia Lynn Womack Taylor, antifreeze killer
marilyn...@aol.com
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Julia Lynn Womack Turner, who was convicted
in 2007 of murder for the deaths by antifreeze poisoning of her
boyfriend and husband, died Monday in prison in Georgia, prison
officials said.
Turner "was found unresponsive in her cell at 6:55 a.m., at which time
prison medical staff and EMS responded but were unable to revive her,"
the Georgia Department of Corrections said in a statement.
The cause of death was under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation's medical examiner's office. Turner was serving life
without parole in the Metro State Prison for women in Atlanta.
Turner was convicted of murder for the 1995 death of her husband,
police officer Glenn Turner, and for the 2001 death of her boyfriend,
firefighter Randy Thompson, both of whom were poisoned with
antifreeze.
Glenn Turner died March 3, 1995, from what was initially determined to
be an irregular heartbeat. A week later, Turner moved in with
Thompson, with whom she had begun an affair several months prior.
But it was not until Thompson died in 2001 under similar circumstances
that authorities exhumed the body of Glenn Turner and performed
another autopsy.
In both cases, the men had exhibited flulike symptoms before being
taken to the emergency room. They both died less than 24 hours after
they left the hospital, from what a coroner initially identified as
heart failure.
Further examination, however, revealed traces of ethylene glycol, a
byproduct of antifreeze, in both of their bodies. Cobb County
prosecutors labeled the defendant a "black widow" who murdered both
men for financial gain.
After her husband's death, Turner received more than $150,000 in
benefits and interest from his life insurance and pension. She
received about $36,000 from Thompson's death.
Tim J.
>http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/30/georgia.inmate.death/index.html?hpt=T2
>
>Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Julia Lynn Womack Turner, who was convicted
>in 2007 of murder for the deaths by antifreeze poisoning of her
>boyfriend and husband, died Monday in prison in Georgia, prison
>officials said.
Any chance they found a jug of Prestone in her cell?
danny burstein
Never, pick up a stranger
Don't put, your car, in danger
Never, pick up a stranger
pick up Preston, Anti-Freeze!
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BobF
Previously on alt.obituaries (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:31:35 -0700 (PDT) to
be exact), "marilyn...@aol.com" <marilyn...@aol.com> wrote
thusly:
>Turner was convicted of murder for the 1995 death of her husband,
>police officer Glenn Turner, and for the 2001 death of her boyfriend,
>firefighter Randy Thompson, both of whom were poisoned with
>antifreeze.
Just a cold blooded killer.
--
"Go stick your head in the toilet
and get more brains in there.
- From "The Sayings of Roy"
Father Haskell
> Previously on alt.obituaries (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:31:35 -0700 (PDT) to
> thusly:
>
> >Turner was convicted of murder for the 1995 death of her husband,
> >police officer Glenn Turner, and for the 2001 death of her boyfriend,
> >firefighter Randy Thompson, both of whom were poisoned with
> >antifreeze.
>
> Just a cold blooded killer.
>
> --
>
> "Go stick your head in the toilet
> and get more brains in there.
>
> - From "The Sayings of Roy"
Convicted on the specific gravity of her crimes.
MWB
The non toxic antifreeze taste pretty good.
GO RED SOX NATION
Mark
Bill Schenley
> in 2007 of murder for the deaths by antifreeze poisoning of her
> boyfriend and husband, died Monday in prison in Georgia, prison
> officials said.
Poor kid ... She was only 42 ... http://snipurl.com/110e0s
Rare Weapon
FROM: The True Crime Library ~
By Katherine Ramsland
In 1993, Maurice Glenn Turner, a police officer in Cobb County, Georgia,
named Julia Lynn Womack the beneficiary on his life insurance policies and
retirement account. Three months later, they were married and she became
Lynn Turner. Not six months later, she started an affair with Randy
Thompson, according to Court TV's coverage of the case, apparently leading
him to believe that she was divorced. The encounter with this woman was to
prove unfortunate for both men.
Glenn Turner, 31, 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 dead. No one could understand how an apparently
healthy young man had just suddenly collapsed. The attending medical
examiner, Dr. Brian Frist, decided that he'd died from some complication
related to an enlarged heart, a natural cause, and he was buried on March 6.
Lynn collected around $153,000 in death benefits.
Within days, she leased an apartment for herself and Randy Thompson, who was
a sheriff's deputy for Forsyth County in Georgia (and later became a
fireman). She also booked a cruise. Within five months, they had
purchased a home, and by the end of 1995, Thompson had started proceedings
to designate Turner as his insurance beneficiary. A year later, they had a
daughter, and in 1998, a son. Thompson doubled his insurance coverage to
$200,000.
The relationship hit the rocks, especially with Turner's extravagant
spending habits, so Thompson moved out and Turner went deep into debt.
Thompson continued to see her and one evening early in 2001, after he had
dinner with her, history repeated itself. Thompson, 32, reported to the
emergency room complaining of a stomach-ache and constant vomiting. He was
treated and released on January 21. Lynn made him some Jell-O. By the next
day, he was dead. The cause of death was listed as an irregular heartbeat,
due to clogged arteries. Lynn received $36,000.
But to the family of Glenn Turner, something seemed wrong. Glenn's mother
saw the newspaper articles about Thompson and sent a letter to Randy's
mother to discuss the similarities between what appeared to have occurred
with their respective sons. They brought this to the attention of Dr. Mark
Koponen, deputy chief medical examiner of the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation. Noticing calcium oxylate crystals in the man's kidneys
during the autopsy, Koponen, who had seen this symptom before in his
practice elsewhere, sent several blood and urine samples to the crime lab.
Yet toxicologist Chris Tilson said that the results indicated nothing amiss.
But Koponen was not satisfied, so he sent samples to National Medical
Services (NMS), an independent testing lab in Pennsylvania. Their results
proved to be quite different.
Randy Thompson had high levels of a toxin, ethylene glycol, the principle
component of antifreeze, in his tissues and blood. Ingested, it produces
slurred speech and a tipsy sensation before moving into severe headaches,
nausea, delusions, dizziness, and a feeling of breathlessness. Death occurs
from kidney failure or heart attack.
That substance would not naturally be found in the human body, which meant
that Thompson had been exposed to it in large doses or had ingested it. Six
months after he died, his cause of death was changed to antifreeze
poisoning.
Then Dr. Frist, the medical examiner from Glenn Turner's case, ordered his
remains to be exhumed and re-examined. By the fall of 2001, nine months
after Thompson had died, Turner's cause of death was also changed to
antifreeze poisoning.
According to the Court TV coverage, which aired the case on television,
these deaths were the only two in the state ever attributed to antifreeze
ingestion.
On November 1, 2001, a grand jury returned an indictment against Julia Lynn
Turner, a 911 dispatcher, for the murder of Glenn Turner, and in May, 2004,
after a few delays, she stood trial.
DA Patrick Head assembled a number of damaging witnesses who testified to
Lynn's aloofness to Glenn throughout their marriage, her comment that she
had only wanted the insurance money, her question to a veterinary nurse
about the effects of antifreeze on cats, and her lack of emotion after
Turner died. A friend of Glenn's said that a few months before he expired,
he had said that if anything should happen to him to "look at Lynn."
Because it bore such striking similarities to the case in which Turner was
charged, Superior Court Judge James Bodiford allowed prosecutors to present
facts about Thompson's death as well, though Turner had not been charged
with it. Prosecutors called this evidence a "criminal signature" that
linked the two incidents.
Lynn Turner's defense attorney, Victor Reynolds, insisted that the deaths
were not similar and that no evidence linked Turner with the death of her
husband. The entire case was circumstantial. Reynolds indicated in media
interviews that allowing evidence about Thompson's death offered a way to
appeal, maintaining that a jury that heard nothing about Thompson's death
would likely have a different reaction to the Turner case.
Yet the state of Georgia does allow such evidence to be admitted.
The key testimony for the prosecution involved forensic toxicologists and
medical examiners. Toxicologist William Dunn at NMS described the tests
they had run on both victims, and easily deflected the defense's theory that
the toxin found in Turner had come from embalming fluids. (This idea was
further undermined by chemists at the companies that had supplied embalming
fluids to the funeral home that embalmed Turner in 1995 when they said their
companies did not use substances that contained ethylene glycol.)
Chris Tilson, from the Georgia crime lab, admitted that in his initial tests
on the Thompson samples he had made a mathematical miscalculation, which had
led him to say that the levels of ethylene glycol found in Thompson's blood
were not significant. Yet even as NMS was testing the samples sent to them,
he had run a test on the urine samples and got significant results. So he
had retested the blood and realized his error.
The chief medical examiner at the GBI, Dr. Kris Sperry, told jurors that it
seemed likely that Thompson had ingested antifreeze twice, and it was the
second dose that ultimately killed him.
Cobb County medical examiner Brian Frist, who had ordered Turner to be
exhumed, described the experiments he performed in which he put antifreeze
into various food substances such as Jell-O and Gatorade. In his opinion,
the antifreeze could have been introduced without changing the texture,
behavior, or color of the food, so Thompson could have consumed it without
suspicion.
In closing arguments, the prosecutor pointed out the there was one clearly
common element in both unnatural deaths: Lynn Turner. "The simplest
solution," he said, "is correct."
Each of the arguments the defense submitted had fallen short, as had several
witnesses to Lynn Turner's good character.
On the evening of May 14, 2004, after five hours of deliberation, the jury
found Turner, 35, guilty of "malice murder" in the death of her husband,
Glenn Turner. She displayed no emotion as she received a sentence of life
imprisonment.
A grand jury will meet later in the year to consider the Thompson case.
Bill Schenley
I heard it stunts your growth ...
BobF
Previously on alt.obituaries (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:29:27 -0400 to be
exact), "Bill Schenley" <stra...@neo.rr.com> wrote thusly:
>> The non toxic antifreeze taste pretty good.
>
>I heard it stunts your growth ...
Stop trying to belittle Mark.
--
> You people are so crass. Don't any of you ever stop to think
> about the family of the deceased? This man was a friend of
> mine ... and he left behind a wife and two young children, one
> of whom is just a baby ... Poor little baby Ruth.
But, do you mean the baseball Babe, or the other story that it was
(possibly, but probably not likely) Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth?
I've heard conflicting stories on just how that chocolate bar was
really named (1921), although Snopes.com made a choice on who it most likely
was with a third possibility. And therefore, it *can't* be a 'baby' since
he was 26 that year. ;-)
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, marilyn...@aol.com <marilyn...@aol.com>
wrote:
> Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Julia Lynn Womack Turner, who was
> convicted in 2007 of murder for the deaths by antifreeze poisoning
> of her boyfriend and husband, died Monday in prison in Georgia,
> prison officials said.
"The Anarchist's Cookbook" cannot praise antifreeze as a poisoning
method enough. Replace 1/4 of a liter bottle of Coca-Cola with it,
and your victim may not even taste it. Do it to a drunk with rum and
"coke" and you are effectively assured success. (Ethylene glycol is
very sweet-tasting.) And as Taylor's story demonstrates, if you don't
get greedy about it, you have a very good chance of getting away with
it.
This post for entertainment purposes only.
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_|70|___:)=}- J.D. Baldwin |quite prepared not only to retract it, but also
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Rob Cibik
wrote:
>
> "The Anarchist's Cookbook" cannot praise antifreeze as a poisoning
> method enough. Replace 1/4 of a liter bottle of Coca-Cola with it,
> and your victim may not even taste it.
>
a.o.
MWB
WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU DOING????
You're gonna get us all killed.
GO TROPHY WIFE
Mark
wiref...@gmail.com
Unable to find an effective alternative suicidal means, Thompson eventually decided to use on himself the same weapon he had used to kill Turner: Womack's only "crime" -- if in fact she was guilty of a cognizable offense -- was being a slut, which adequately explains her demeanor at trial.
In RE "crime": Womack's infidelity to Turner may have been a civil offense against Turner, but without his testimony, we can't ascertain whether it was.
Moreover, Turner's reluctance to confront Womack during the many months of the affair preceding his death strongly both indicates that he was either conspiring with Womack in the affair (either in the form of an open marriage, swinging, pimping her out, or some other alternative lifestyle), or that he was "whipped" (submissive to, or controlled by, his wife).
There seems almost no evidence to support the notion that Turner was coercing Womack, who lived openly with both men, and the lack of civil action by Turner indicates that he was okay with the affair.
Although civil disturbances at his residence with Womack suggest there was some cause of discord between the wedded pair, there seems to have been no proof -- but only assumptions and speculation -- that their arguments evinced his disapproval of her affair with Thompson.
If Thompson believed that Turner was pressuring Womack to end the affair, he certainly had motive; moreover, Turner's reluctance to assert his rights under the law would have indicated to Thompson that Turner was pusillanimous and weak, an easy target against whom utter contempt was the only appropriate emotion.
Thompson likely felt that killing Turner wasn't merely going to benefit him directly (by freeing Womack) and collaterally (he would have access to the funds inherited by Womack), but also it was going to free her from Turner's abuse (which likely wasn't much of a concern for him):
To Thompson, the emotional "big score" was that killing Turner was like taking out the trash: he was doing society a favor, and benefiting mankind. At the same time, he wasn't stupid enough to brag about it -- although he may have shared the information of his deed with Womack in order to better control her.
Womack either didn't know what had happened, or she was guilted into silence for the affair and possibly for her failure to report Thompson's confession (assuming, of course, that he confessed to her).
Thompson's sentiments for Womack were those of chattel possession: in every significant sense, Thompson owned her, and he delighted in the knowledge that he had stolen and possessed for himself the wife of a cop. Taking the life of that cop, getting away with it, and enjoying the spoils (her affection and her inheritance) must have given him orgasms every time he thought about all that.
And that explains why things went sour between Womack and Thompson: he became increasingly apathetic towards her; he probably lost the ability to perform sexually without reminders of Turner and of Womack's civil union with Turner.
Thompson kept looking for a corporeal cause to explain his perceived physical discomfort, when the disease with which he was afflicted was moral in its nature; it kept after him, teasing him with half-hearted suicide schemes, perchance he would relent and confess -- but he hardened his heart, instead.
At last, there was nothing else that he knew to end his anguish; he poisoned himself -- and in a cruel and ironic twist, he ended up killing Womack as well.