Chester Dewayne Turner (born November 5, 1966) is an American convicted serial killer. On April 30, 2007, he was convicted of the murders of ten women in Los Angeles, and was also found guilty of the death of the unborn child of one of his victims. He was convicted of four additional murders on June 19, 2014. Prosecutors have called Turner "one of the most prolific serial killers in the city's history". On July 10, 2007, Turner was sentenced to death for the 11 murders he was originally convicted of committing. On June 26, 2014, Turner was sentenced to death a second time for the four additional murders. Early life Turner was born in Warren, Arkansas. He moved to Los Angeles with his mother when he was five years old after his parents separated. He attended public schools in Los Angeles and 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. Crimes Turner has been convicted of 11 murders 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: Diane Johnson, 21, found partially nude and strangled in March 1987 in a roadway construction area west of the Harbor Freeway. Annette Ernest, 26, daughter of Mildred White, who was friends with Jerri Johnson Tripplett, mother of Turner's fifth victim Andrea Tripplett, was found lying on a shoulder of a road in October 1987, partially nude and strangled. Anita Fishman Breier, 31, strangled and left partially nude outside a garage in an alley off Figueroa Street in January 1989. Her nephew described her as "upbeat, happy". Her sister, Suzanne, was trying to help her through her struggle with addiction. Regina Nadine 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 mother's strangulation and was ruled a homicide. Andrea Tripplett, 29, strangled, found partially nude behind a vacant building on Figueroa Street in April 1993. She was months pregnant, but at the time, California law did not consider the fetus viable,