Chester Dewayne Turner (born November 5, 1966 in Warren, Arkansas) is a convicted serial killer. On April 30, 2007, he was convicted of the murders of 10 women in Los Angeles, and was also found guilty in the death of the unborn child of one of his victims. Prosecutors have called Turner "one of the most prolific serial killers in the city's history".[1] On July 10, 2007,[2] Turner was sentenced to death.

Turner moved to Los Angeles with his mother when he was five years old, after his parents separated. He attended public schools in Los Angeles but dropped out of high school. Working for Domino's Pizza as a cook and delivery person as a young man, he lived with his mother until she moved to Utah. After that, he moved around to different homeless shelters and missions.

urner has been convicted of 11 murders that occurred in Los Angeles between 1987 and 1998. The first nine of these murders took place in a four-block-wide corridor that ran on either side of Figueroa Street between Gage Avenue and 108th Street:[5]
Diane Johnson, 21, found partially nude and strangled in March 1987 in a roadway construction area west of the Harbor Freeway.
Annette Ernest, 26, found lying on a shoulder of a road in October 1987, partially nude and strangled.
Anita Fishman, 31, strangled and left partially nude outside a garage in an alley off Figueroa Street in January 1989.
Regina Washington, 27, also found partially nude and strangled inside a garage off Figueroa Street in September 1989. Washington was six months pregnant. The death of the fetus, referred to as Baby Washington, was attributed to the strangulation of the mother, and it was ruled a homicide.
Andrea Tripplett, 29, strangled, found partially nude behind a vacant building on Figueroa Street in April 1993.
Desarae Jones, 29, found strangled next to a vacant residence in May 1993.
Natalie Price, 31, found partially nude and strangled next to a vacant residence in February 1995.
Mildred Beasley, 45, found partially nude and strangled; she was left amongst the bushes alongside the 110 Fwy in November 1996.
The last two murders occurred outside of this corridor in Los Angeles County:
Paula Vance, 24, found in the business, Olympia Tool, in Azusa in February 1998.
Brenda Bries, 39, found strangled in a portable toilet near Little Tokyo in April 1998.
The Vance murder was witnessed by a bystander at a neighboring trailer park.[6] Turner was jailed seven times from 1995 to 2002, six for nonviolent offenses and once fo