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Lynn Turner
| March 3, 1995 |
Glenn Turner, a Cobb County police officer, dies after exhibiting "flu-like" symptoms for several days. |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| January 22, 2001 |
Randy Thompson, a Forsyth County firefighter, dies after exhibiting "flu-like" symptoms for several days. His live-in companion is Lynn Turner. |
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| June 22, 2001 |
Cobb County police link the deaths of Randy Thomson and Glenn Turner. They begin a homicide investigation. |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| July 30, 2001 |
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, having been called into the Lynn Turner case to assist the Forsyth County police, declare that firefighter Randy Thomson died from antifreeze poisoning. His death will later be ruled a homicide. |
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| June 27, 2002 |
Cobb County changes Glenn Turner's cause of death from irregular heartbeat to antifreeze poisoning. |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| November 1, 2002 |
Georgia's "Black Widow," Lynn Turner, is indicted on charges she killed her husband Glenn, a Cobb County police officer, in 1995
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Lynn Turner |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| February 2, 2004 |
Jury selection in the Lynn Turner trial begins in Marietta. |
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Marietta, GA |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| February 4, 2004 |
After 2 days of trying to seat an impartial jury in the Lynn Turner case, Cobb County Superior Court Judge Jim Bodiford orders a change of venue. |
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Houston County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| April 26, 2004 |
Lynn Turner's trial resumes in Perry, Georgia (Houston County). |
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Houston County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| May 14, 2004 |
After hearing evidence that included the antifreeze poisoning of boyfriend Randy Thompson, Turner County jurors convict Lynn Turner of killing husband Glenn Turner. |
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Lynn Turner |
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Houston County, Georgia |
| March 24, 2007 |
Lynn Turner is convicted of the murder of Randy Thompson |
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Lynn Turner |
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Whitfield County, Georgia |
Glenn Turner and Randy Thompson had little in common, except for Lynn Turner, a former 911 operator that Thompson dated and Turner married, and their causes of death - anti-freeze poisoning.
Glenn was a Cobb County policeman and Randy a Forsyth County fireman whose murders were linked together by the discovery of an astute Forsyth County medical examiner, who discovered calcium oxalate crystals in Thompson's kidney. Based on this information Cobb County exhumed the body of Glenn Turner and connected the crimes.
Ironically, when an impartial jury could not be seated, Lynn Turner's trial moved to Perry, Georgia, county seat of Turner County. Extensive coverage by Court TV, who dubbed the case "The Black Widow Murders," brought national attention to the south-central Georgia town on I-75.
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