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Police: DNA links inmate to deaths of 12 women
Suspect is serving rape sentence

Saturday, October 23, 2004 Posted: 11:08 PM EDT (0308 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Two Los Angeles cold case homicide detectives used DNA test results to link an imprisoned rapist to the deaths of 12 women and an unborn girl between 1987 and 1998, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton told reporters Saturday.

Another fetus was omitted from the toll because it was considered "unviable," Bratton said.

All of the victims were sexually assaulted and strangled.

The suspect in the killings, 37-year-old Chester Dwayne Turner, was convicted of rape in March 2002 and is serving an eight-year term at California State Prison. As a result of the DNA findings, 44-year-old David Allen Jones, who was sentenced to life on three murder charges, was released in March, the chief said. He had served about nine years.

Several relatives of victims were at the news conference, including two women -- friends for 30 years -- who recently discovered that Turner is accused of killing their daughters in separate incidents in the same neighborhood.

"He'll never be able to do this to someone else's child," said Jerri Johnson, the mother of Andrea Triplett, 29, whose body was found in 1993. "No family will have to go through what we went through."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/23/murders.dna/