Maurice Turner Case Summary

During the year 1993, Maurice Turner, a police officer in Cobb County, Georgia, listed Julia Lynn Womack as the inheritor on his life insurance policies and retirement account. The two got married three months later and not even six months later, she started an affair with Randy Thompson. Supposdly she led him to believe that she was divorced.

In March of 1995, Mr. Turner began to experience flu-like symptoms and as a result he made his way to the emergency room where he would be treated then sent home. Shockingly, the next day he was deceased. No one was able to grasp how he just died unexpectedly considering that he was a healthy individual. After examinations done by medical examiner, Dr. Brian Frist, he concluded that Mr. Turner died

Eventually, they bought a home together and had two kids during the course of two years. Also towards the ending of 1995, the same year her husband died, Thompson began the process of selecting Lynn as the beneficiary on his life insurance. With her pockets being full with a lot of cash and her unlimited splurging Lynn and Thompson's relationship began to decline. He also decided to move out leaving Lynn in debt which limited her from spending on her desires.

One night they decided to meet up to have dinner together and after they had dinner Thompson complained of a stomachache and was vomiting nonstop. This led him to the emergency room where he was treated and then released. The next day Mr. Thompson was pronounced dead. It was concluded that he had clogged arteries which led to his irregular heartbeat. This time Lynn scored $36,000 because as I mentioned previously, she was listed as the beneficiary on his life insurance. Evidently, both cases sound extremely familiar which would later raise

Previously forensic toxicologist claimed that the previous results of Thompson's examination showed nothing faulty. Later Tilson from the Georgia crime lab admitted that in his initial tests on Randy Thompson's samples he made a mathematical error which led him to say that the levels of ethylene glycol found in Thompson's blood were not significant. Once he re-examined the samples he ran a test on Thompson's urine samples and blood and concluded in the end that there definitely was a high level of ethylene glycol in the victim's body. This clearly shows that the toxicologist's research plays a huge role in a case because if Tilson would have kept his initial test results as his conclusin, Lynn Turner may have been a free woman. Toxicologist William Dunn at National Medical Services detailed the tests that were ran on both Thompson and Turner and it was said that toxins found in Turner's body came from embalming fluids. This would raise red flags because there are companies that provide embalming fluids to funeral homes. The company that provided the funeral home where Turner's body was embalmed with embalming fluids denied using any substances containing ethylene glycol. The findings of the toxicologists were extremely significant in the cases because they were able