so Turner was not charged with its murder. Desarae Ellemae Jones, 29, was found strangled in a backyard in May 1993. Her brother Frank described her as "smart, outgoing, and funny" and stated that before succumbing to her addiction, she worked at a rest home for the elderly. Natalie Price, 31, was found partially nude and strangled next to a vacant residence in February 1995. Mildred Williams Beasley, 45, was found partially nude and strangled; she was left amongst the bushes alongside the 110 Fwy in November 1996. She was married and had a teenage son. The last two murders occurred outside of this corridor in Los Angeles County: Paula Vance, 24, was found in the Olympia Tool business in Azusa in February 1998. Vance suffered from mental illness and was transient. Brenda Bries, 39, was found strangled in a portable toilet near Little Tokyo in April 1998. She was found just 50 yards away from the hotel where Turner was staying. A bystander witnessed the Vance murder at a neighboring trailer park. Turner was jailed seven times from 1995 to 2002, six for nonviolent offenses and once for an assault charge on an officer and cruelty to an animal on April 9, 1997. In March 2002, Turner sexually assaulted a 47-year-old woman for approximately two hours and threatened to kill her if she told the police. He was convicted and sentenced to eight years at a California state prison. Turner was required to give a DNA sample to California's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). In September 2003, based on that sample, Turner was identified as a match for DNA recovered from Vance and Beasley. Detectives then began a careful examination of Turner's background. Nine of the 11 unsolved murders were matched to Turner using DNA evidence. Additional murder convictions and second death sentence On June 19, 2014, Turner was convicted of four additional murders. The four victims were identified as Cynthia Annette Johnson, 30; Elandra Joyce Bunn, 33; Mary Edwards, 42; and Deborah Williams, 28. Authorities said that DNA linked Turner to the killings. He received another death sentence for those murders on June 26, 2014. The California Supreme Court heard an automatic appeal on 2 September 2020 in the case. On November 30, 2020, the California Supreme Court reversed Turner's murder conviction for the unborn baby. However, the death sentence for the other 14 victims was upheld. Wrongful