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(Narrator) Every fraud
begins with a promise.

He wanted to be married
by the time he was 30.

(Narrator) A quick fortune,
easy money, or a life

transformed overnight.

You put all of that together,

you're looking at
well over $1 million.

(Narrator)
But behind these illusions

lie calculated deceptions

carefully hidden in plain sight.

(Penny Penn) It was wantonly
horrible and inhumane.

He suffered.

(Narrator) Sometimes these
criminals are backed into a corner

and feel their only way out
is to kill.

This case was about
lust, greed, and murder.

(suspenseful music)

(mysterious music)

(Marcus Garner)
My name is Marcus Garner.

I started working as
a freelance reporter

while I was in college
at Clark Atlanta University.

(Narrator)
On January 21, 2001,

emergency services entered the home

of 32-year-old fireman
Randy Thompson.

After not being able to hear from
or find Randy for some time,

some of his colleagues
came to his apartment

and kicked the door in
when he didn't answer.

They found him dead.

Forsyth County Medical Examiner
rules Randy Thompson's death

the result of natural causes
and said that he showed

an enlarged heart, which is
not normal for a 32-year-old

who didn't have any history of
heart problems or heart disease.

(Narrator) Randy left behind
three children,

two of which were from
his relationship

with girlfriend Julia Lynn Turner,

also known as Julie Lynn or Lynn.

They had been together six years.

(sirens wailing)

(Patrick Head)
My name is Patrick Head,

and I am
the district attorney emeritus

for the Cobb Judicial Circuit.

Julia Lynn Turner was
a 911 operator in Cobb County.

She was very outgoing.

Lynn Turner was described as
kind of the life of the party

in a lot of situations.

She was described on her surface
as bubbly, exuberant, exciting,

kind of fun, party-type person.

(Patrick)
She was what you might refer to as

a groupie
with the police department.

She sort of had a thing
for following officers around.

She mostly hung out with
police officers, law enforcement.

(Marcus) Julia Lynn had
a thing for men in uniform.

She was rumoured to have been
dating multiple police officers.

In some cases,
she would disappear.

It was said that there were cases
where she had enthralled herself

into police investigations,
setting herself up as a honeypot

or a patsy or something like that,
going in with wires on

to make drug buys
and things of that nature.

(Narrator) Before Julia Lynn
met Randy Thompson,

she had been in a relationship
with 29-year-old

police officer Glenn Turner.

(Patrick) Glenn Turner was
a Cobb County Police officer.

I'm not exactly sure
when they met,

but my recollection,
it was in 1993.

(Marcus) Glenn Turner was a
very laid-back and fun-loving guy.

Glenn Turner was in a group of
friends who were police officers.

He was, at least
at one point, a motorcycle officer

with Cobb County Police.

(Patrick) Other police officers
that Glenn worked with,

they held him in high esteem.

They felt that
he was a good friend,

and some referred to him
as a teddy bear.

(Marcus) He was pretty much
looking for love.

He told people that he wanted to
be married by the time he was 30.

Julia Lynn met Glenn Turner
at one of the bars

that they would frequent.

I guess it stands
to reason that Julia was there

because it was a place that
police officers would frequent.

They kind of hit it off.
She was bubbly and perky.

Glenn was attracted
to her vivacious attitude.

(Narrator) Within a few weeks
of meeting, Julia Lynn

and Glenn Turner
began a relationship.

(Marcus) When Lynn
and Glenn got together,

Lynn showered him with gifts...

snakeskin boots,
expensive snakeskin boots,

trips, new clothes,
things like that.

If she wanted to impress,
then she would give gifts,

and sometimes expensive gifts.

They ended up going on a cruise.

(Bryanna Fox)
I'm Dr Bryanna Fox.

I'm a psychological criminologist
at the University of South Florida

and a former FBI special agent.

One thing that we commonly
see with a fraudster

is that it doesn't just
go straight to the fraud.

They don't just pitch
the initial fraud right outright.

There are grooming behaviours
that occur.

First, they have to get
the person to trust them.

They have to befriend them.

(suspenseful music)

(Marcus) I guess
he wasn't, you know,

I don't want to say necessarily
in a position to buy for himself,

but things that
he didn't necessarily

try to buy for himself,
she did those things for him.

(Narrator) On August 21, 1993,
Glenn Turner and Julia Lynn

got married,
and the expensive gifts continued

despite Julia Lynn
working as a 911 operator.

(Marcus)
I believe after their wedding,

Julia bought a pair
of Chevrolet Camaros.

One was a convertible
and another one was a pace car...

and I'm not sure for which race...

but each one
costing about $25,000.

Now, this is for a woman who
was working as a 911 operator

with salaries of $30,000 a year.

Lynn was someone
who liked to be grandiose.

She was what some people
might call a person

with champagne taste
but a beer budget.

And she spent
more than she earned.

My name is Dr Keri Nixon,

and I'm a consultant
forensic psychologist.

Their spending habits,
their presentation,

their standing in the community,
all of these things

are part of the same motivator...

to generate trust,
generate confidence.

When you see somebody who
has a career, has nice things,

lives as part of
a middle-class community,

you're going to trust them.

(Narrator)
Despite the lavish gifts,

it was not long before cracks
began to appear in the marriage.

(Patrick) It was pretty clear
from the things

that Glenn told some of his
friends that he and Lynn

were not having
marital relationships.

So that put their relationship,
I think, on shaky ground

very shortly
after they were married.

(Narrator) Not long after
the wedding, friends and family

began to notice that Glenn
was becoming isolated.

(Marcus)
Leading up to their marriage,

everything seemed like
they were doing well.

He was head over heels
in love with her.

But at the same time,
while he seemed very happy

and into the relationship,
she kind of walled herself off

from his family,
and in so doing, kind of also

walled him off from the family.

And the closer
they kind of got together,

the further he got
from his sister and mother

and the rest of his family.

(Narrator) Glenn's family members
were also concerned

about Julia Lynn's
controlling behaviour.

It seemed like
once they got married,

the romance immediately
came to a halt,

and he seemed to be
less enthralled.

Family members and friends said
that Julie was controlling,

that she was manipulative.

She put him on an allowance
so he could only spend

so much money on a given basis.

(Narrator) Julia Lynn
had a part-time job

at a local gas station
and made Glenn cover her shifts,

claiming she needed to stay away
from home to help local police

with undercover sting operations.

Glenn agreed to pick up
some of the shifts,

making only $7 an hour

when everybody knows that
as a police officer,

he could take on
security jobs or private jobs

for $20 to $30 an hour or more.

And his friends seemed
to be concerned about, you know,

why he was doing all this for her.

And she seemed to be
more and more,

progressively, out of the picture.

(Keri Nixon) Something that's
fascinating in this case is,

she was very, very controlling.

We see her isolate him.

It also suggests that
she's a controlling individual

that wanted
to take control of him,

wanted to make him vulnerable.

And that's absolutely coercive
control, which tells me that

this was also
an abusive relationship.

(Patrick) They had financial
troubles from the very beginning

when they got married,
and Glenn was actually

working two
and sometimes three jobs

in the latter part
of their relationship,

when she was off
doing undercover work.

So Glenn was the one that
had made the decision that

he was going to end
the relationship.

(Narrator) There were
also rumours of Julia Lynn

being unfaithful to Glenn.

(Marcus) Julia Lynn had been
disappearing during the time

that she was married to Glenn
Turner, and it had been rumoured

that she was in an affair
with another police officer

or someone else in a uniform.

On March 2, 1995, Glenn Turner
went to the hospital

with severe flu-like symptoms.

He was throwing up,
had a headache, was dizzy,

just totally wasn't feeling well,

had had a conversation
with his mother even saying

he felt like he was going to die.

He got himself into the hospital
and they said that he had

what appeared to be
an enlarged heart.

They treated him
and sent him home,

telling him that he should take
some liquids and things like that.

Julia went home with him
to nurse him back to health.

I think one of the things
that doctors told her was maybe

a good thing for him to do
was to have something fluid,

like gelatine.

She prepared gelatine
for him, and she said

she left to go off to the store.

(Narrator) When Julia Lynn
returned home,

she found her husband
unresponsive in bed.

(Patrick) When the police
department showed up,

and the emergency people,

everything seemed natural
in the house.

There was nothing askew,
nothing out of place,

nothing that would indicate
any signs of violence.

(Narrator)
On March 3, 1995,

emergency responders pronounced
31-year-old Glenn Turner

dead in his home.

So when he was transported back
to the medical examiner's office,

they did an autopsy.

And in the autopsy, they found
that he had an enlarged heart.

He declared that the person
had died of natural causes.

And the case was closed.

(suspenseful music)

(Narrator) In March 1995,
Glenn Turner's sudden death

was ruled as natural causes
due to an enlarged heart.

His wife, Julia Lynn, attended
his funeral with a mystery guest.

Julia Lynn brought a date
to her husband's funeral.

No-one identified who the man was
that came to the funeral with her,

but she was seen sort of
fondling the man's leg

or holding his hand
at times during the funeral.

(Bryanna) I guess from
a behavioural standpoint,

subtle things that many people
take for granted,

which is the way we display grief,
that's telling in itself.

(Patrick) She did not seem
to be very grief-stricken.

She was more or less carefree.

She did not demonstrate
what people thought

she would be demonstrating
if she truly

had lost a person that she loved.

(Marcus) So Julia Lynn acted
very cold toward Glenn's parents,

and within a week of the funeral,
she had moved out of the house

that she lived in
with Glenn Turner.

(Narrator) Julia Lynn collected
around $150,000

as a result of her husband's
untimely death.

(Marcus)
Julia Lynn was the beneficiary

of Glenn Turner's insurance policy
and his pension.

So she stood to gain more than
$150,000 from the policy,

as well as $700 a month
from his pension.

(Patrick)
At the time Glenn died,

he had left his benefits
to his sister,

and Lynn actually filed suit
against the sister

to try to recover.

They ended up settling for half,

but she was after every penny
she could get.

(Marcus) She identified
that there was $6,300

that Glenn had left in deferred
payments to his sister,

and she stepped in
and said, hey, no,

some of this money
should go to me,

and was able to get half of it.

(Narrator) Less than a month
after Glenn Turner's death,

Julia Lynn revealed a new
relationship with another man

in emergency services.

Julia Lynn had been disappearing
during the time that she was

married to Glenn Turner,
and it had been rumoured

that she was in an affair
with another police officer.

It's suspected that Randy Thompson
was the person that

she brought
to Glenn Turner's funeral.

(Patrick) Randy Thompson
was a Forsyth County Deputy.

He left the sheriff's office then
came back to Forsyth as a fireman.

(Marcus) He became enthralled
with Julia Lynn,

and that relationship progressed
to a point where he and Julia Lynn

were essentially having an affair

while Julia Lynn
was still married to Glenn.

Shortly after the funeral
for Glenn Turner,

Julia Lynn moved in with
Randy Thompson to his apartment

in Cumming, Georgia,
which is in Forsyth County,

where he worked as a firefighter.

(Narrator)
After moving to Forsyth County,

Julia Lynn got a job working
in the county courthouse.

(Penny)
My name is Penny Penn,

and I am the Forsyth County
District Attorney.

When I started working in
the district attorney's office,

Lynn was employed here as...

they were called secretaries then.

Now she would be
an administrative assistant.

(Marcus) She wasn't making
more than maybe $30,000

at her courthouse job,
about the same

or maybe just a little bit more
than what she was making

when she was a 911 operator
with Cobb County.

(Penny) Lynn was smart,
and she was one that,

if she did something for you,
you gave her an assignment,

she really was like
a dog with a bone.

Her mother was also the secretary
for the chief judge.

(Narrator) With a new job
and a new relationship,

Julia Lynn rarely mentioned
her deceased husband, Glenn.

Julia Lynn seemed to be kind of
cagey about what her relationship

was prior to getting with Randy.

It's not clear whether or not
she told him if she was a widow

or whether she told him
she was divorced.

But it was clear
to Randy and his family

that she had been married before.

When Lynn and I
were working together,

she had actually brought her
wedding pictures to the office.

And I had gone through them,
and she had related that

her husband had died
of a heart attack.

You hear that, and, you know,
that's a tragic story.

Here is this couple.

He's young, they're recently
married, and then he... he dies.

(Narrator) During the first
few months of their relationship,

Julia Lynn was very generous
towards Randy Thompson.

When she was dating
Randy Thompson,

she gave him gifts,
a pair of cowboy boots,

and she paid for all of the stuff
with her own funds.

Randy certainly
had no reason to think

that Lynn did not have money.

She had told his sister,
I think, at one point,

that she had received
an inheritance

from the death of her grandmother.

(Marcus) They would go
on expensive and exciting trips,

and it just seemed like
the thing that couples would do.

But she was, a lot of times,
footing the bill for that.

And it was a thing
that he enjoyed,

because I don't think that
he had ever experienced

a woman who would do as much
for him as she was doing.

(Narrator) Ten months after
the death of her husband, Glenn,

Julia Lynn and Randy celebrated
the birth of their first child.

Lynn got pregnant very soon after
she and Randy moved in together,

and so then based on
the birth of their daughter,

Lynn really prevailed on him
to get this insurance policy.

And it was for the daughter,
and Lynn was a trustee.

(Patrick)
They never got married.

They ended up having two children.

And during that time period
when the first child was born,

Lynn made Randy take out
a $100,000 life insurance policy.

When the second child was born,
she made him take out...

or increase it to $200,000.

(Narrator)
As long as she never remarried,

Julia Lynn would still receive
monthly payments

from Glenn Turner's police pension.

Despite this, Julia and Randy
soon ran into financial difficulty.

Between 1996 and 2001,
Julia Lynn's financial situation

only changed because of the money
that she was receiving

from Glenn Turner's pension
and the money she'd received

from his insurance payout.

She was still working
in a relatively low-paying job.

Now they had purchased a home and
were raising a family together.

But the expensive trips,
the lavish gifts,

all of that seemed to have died
at this point.

And while... while Randy Thompson
made a good living

as a firefighter,
it seems that there were

still things
that Julia Lynn wanted

that were beyond their means.

(Fiona Hotston Moore)
My name is Fiona Hotston Moore,

and I'm a forensic accountant
and expert witness.

So I would say that people's
financial spending

gives you an indication
of what they are.

So if normally they
spend $1,000 a month

on whatever it is they spend it,

they typically continue
with that pattern.

(Patrick)
Lynn was in financial trouble.

She was behind on payments.

Her credit cards were maxed out.

She was in bad financial trouble.

(Penny) She was still living
way beyond her means,

and her financial records
reflected that.

So towards the end of 1999
into 2000 and beyond,

she had many credit cards.

She was overdue
on those credit cards.

She was behind
on her house payments.

She had to refinance her house.

She was overdrawn
on a couple of bank accounts.

So all of the money that
she had gotten as a result

of Glenn's death, she had spent.

(Narrator)
In early January 2001,

Julia Lynn and Randy Thompson's
relationship was also in trouble.

Randy Thompson had
separated from Julia Lynn.

He had moved into an apartment
away from the home

that he had shared and had
purchased with Julia Lynn,

and lived in with their children.

So he was living by himself.

They were sort of back and forth
in a relationship.

He was going through
bouts of depression.

(Patrick) They had separated
and were living apart

and were really
not seeing each other.

And then Lynn called Randy

and asked him to have dinner
with her at Longhorn.

And he cancelled some dinner plans
that he had with a friend

and went to dinner
with her at Longhorn.

(Marcus) The next day,
January 20th, Randy Thompson

went to the hospital
with severe flu-like symptoms.

Checked into the hospital
and was treated, then released.

On January 22, 2001,
Randy Thompson was found dead.

(suspenseful music)

(Narrator) On January 22, 2001,
Randy's worried co-workers

forced their way into his
apartment and found him dead.

Forsyth County Medical examiner
rules Randy Thompson's death

the result of natural causes,
and said that

he showed an enlarged heart.

(Narrator)
After Randy Thompson's death,

Julia Lynn's behaviour
was once again questioned.

She was criticised because
she didn't take her children

to the funeral,
and Randy's friends' reaction,

their reactions when they heard
he had died, and you know,

Lynn just... she stayed at work.

People grieve differently.

Just because someone doesn't cry
doesn't mean that they are not sad

or that they are not grieving.

(Marcus)
News of both men's deaths

wasn't something that
was common knowledge

to the general public at the time.

However, when the news
and the similarities

were brought to the attention
of the media,

it raised flags
for everyone who was aware

that something was wrong.

(Narrator)
A few weeks after the funeral,

Randy's heartbroken mother
received a letter

from the mother of Glenn Turner.

(Marcus)
They compared notes,

and after comparing notes,
they reached the conclusion

that something was amiss.

(Narrator) Both the Turner
and Thompson families

contacted police,
who decided to look again

at the results of Randy's autopsy.

Randy Thompson's autopsy was
conducted by the state crime lab.

Dr Koponen
was the medical examiner

who performed the autopsy.

And when he was going through
everything and found something

that shouldn't be in the body.

So he asked them to do
a test for ethylene glycol.

Ethylene glycol is a
colourless, odourless liquid.

You might know it as antifreeze.

When the test was performed,
the chemist who performed it

made a little bit of an error.

He misplaced a decimal
by one point.

So he was off 10 times.

So the amount that
was reported back,

they did find ethylene glycol,
but the amount that was reported

was such a small amount
that it is what

the scientists call insignificant.

(Narrator) When the state medical
examiner realised the error,

they ran a new test.

And it came back positive
with a very high number.

So based on that,
Dr Koponen had some concerns.

He learned that Randy Thompson
was having a relationship

with Lynn Turner, and he also
found out that Glenn Turner

had died under
similar circumstances.

He obtained the lab results
from Glenn Turner's autopsy

and found that Glenn
also had calcium oxalate crystals

in his kidneys.

Based on that and the
relationship between both of them

with Lynn Turner, Dr Koponen
put his down as a homicide

as the cause of death.

(Keri) That's another
psychological significant fact.

Shooting somebody and strangling
somebody and stabbing somebody,

they are so what we call
interpersonal crimes.

You've got to be close.

You have to see the fear
in their eyes.

You have to see
the life drain out of them.

Whereas if you poison somebody,
you can then distance yourself

from the result.

It's almost... it's still horrific,

but it's less invasive.

It's less violent.

(Marcus) In June 2001, the
Georgia Bureau of Investigations

took over both investigations,
and a similar autopsy

was done for Glenn Turner
after his body was exhumed.

Again, oxalate crystals
were found in his kidneys,

revealing the presence
of ethylene glycol,

the primary substance
in antifreeze.

Because antifreeze is a substance
that has a sweet taste

and can go undetectable
in substances

like Jell-O or sweet tea...

(Narrator) Police discovered
that Julia Lynn

had admitted to serving both men
either Jell-O or sweet tea

before their deaths.

Investigators were able to draw
a very clear through-line that,

in both cases,
pointed back to Julia Lynn.

(Narrator) In November 2002,
Julia Lynn Turner

was indicted by a Cobb County
grand jury and charged with murder.

(Patrick) You had
two different homicides.

The first one occurred here
in Cobb County in 1995,

and the second would've
occurred in Forsyth County.

Glenn Turner was here in Cobb.

Randy Thompson was in Forsyth.

(Narrator)
Having two suspected murders

in two very close-knit communities

meant holding a trial
was challenging.

(Penny) We spent a week here,
across the street

in the old courthouse,
trying to pick a jury,

and we were just unable.

Too many people
had heard about this case,

you know, knew about it, and had
formed an opinion about her guilt.

They could not be fair.

We realised we were not going
to be able to get a jury here,

and so venue was changed.

(Narrator) There were further
complications due to the fact

that many of the prosecutors
involved in the case

knew Julia Lynn Turner personally.

(Penny) It was odd.

You know, that is a unique aspect
to this case as... as well.

When Lynn got arrested, she was
working for one of our judges.

You know, that's a little awkward,
to say the least.

And then her mother
still worked here.

So that... that, too, was awkward.

And I always had a good
relationship with her mother.

That... that was unfortunate.

(Narrator) After being unable
to form a jury in Cobb County,

in 2004, Julia Lynn Turner was
put on trial in Houston County

for the murder of Glenn Turner.

(Patrick)
The opening line that I used

when I was addressing
the jury, I said,

this case is about
lust, greed, and murder.

(Penny)
It was a circumstantial case,

and so that often
has just so many more pieces.

There are so many more witnesses,
so many more facts.

(Marcus)
Julia Lynn seemed confident.

She presented herself
as calm and self-assured.

There wasn't any view
of her seeming

to be frightened of anything,
or even contrite.

And she entered in
knowing that there was

only circumstantial evidence
that was being ruled against her.

(Narrator) One of the
strongest pieces of evidence

for the prosecution was
the presence of ethylene glycol

in Glenn Turner's body.

(Patrick)
The amount of ethylene glycol

that should ever be found
in a dead person's body is 0.

The fact that they found any
would indicate foul play.

The fact that they found so much
and that it was the cause of death

means it was a homicide...

or a suicide.

But there was nothing
in Glenn's case to make it appear

that he had ever
considered suicide.

(Narrator) The prosecution
argued that Julia Lynn Turner

poisoned her husband
by adding ethylene glycol

into his last meal.

If she had added
ethylene glycol to the gelatine,

it would be difficult
to detect the difference

or that there was anything
additional added to the gelatine.

(Patrick)
You can hide it in soup.

You can hide it in Jell-O.

You can hide it in Gatorade.

And these are all things
that these people had consumed.

(Marcus)
Julia Lynn had served Glenn Turner

his last known meal
the morning that he died,

green Jell-O.

And it's known now
that antifreeze has a sweet taste

and can easily be passed off
in Jell-O without being noticed.

(Patrick) Glenn had
even told somebody that

when she had seen Glenn before she
left, that he was feeling poorly

and had eaten some Jell-O
that she had made.

When Randy was sick and she went
over and carried stuff to him,

she carried him iced tea,
which he liked,

which could easily hide
the ethylene glycol.

She carried him what we heard
was chicken soup,

which can also hide
the ethylene glycol.

(Narrator) Prosecutors argued
that Julia Lynn Turner's motive

for the murder
was financial fraud and deception.

Typically,
fraudsters are very aware

of the different items
in their toolbox,

so they're very aware
of the different ways

that they can defraud money.

So they will be aware
of hidden identities,

fraudulent loan applications,
and so on.

With Glenn, there was
a life insurance policy

with MetLife that was $100,000.

There was life insurance
through Cobb County

as an employee that was $47,000.

He had deferred compensation,
which was close to 4,000.

He had the retirement,
which, if she had drawn

all of the retirement that he
would have been able to get,

was $84,000.

And if you pull up
the future retirement

that she would have gotten,
it comes to over $450,000.

So that's how we get to
the total dollar amount of Glenn,

which would have been $693,000.

Julie Lynn inherited more than
a $1/4 million

from Glenn Turner's insurance
and state proceeds.

And that's just from Glenn Turner.

(tense music)

(Narrator) On May 14, 2004, after a
three-week trial in Houston County,

a jury took just five hours
to reach their verdict.

Usually,
a quick verdict is not guilty.

When the bailiff came in and said,
the jury has reached a verdict

and it's the same day,
to be honest, I was concerned.

(Marcus)
A jury found Julie Lynn Turner

guilty of murdering Glenn Turner.

That means that all 12 jurors
ruled against her.

(Narrator) The judge sentenced
Julia Lynn Turner

to life imprisonment
for the murder of Glenn Turner.

I know that Glenn's mother
was very appreciative,

and she used to come by
every year after that trial

and would bring cookies
to the office,

up until the day that I retired.

(sombre music)

(Narrator) Three years later,
Julia Lynn Turner

was tried for the murder of
Randy Thompson for financial gain.

(Penny)
The case against Lynn

was about her murdering
her former partner,

the father of her two children,
solely for financial reasons.

And we also sought
the death penalty.

(Narrator) It was revealed
that in the months leading up

to Randy Thompson's death, Julia
Turner was in financial trouble.

As a result of a lot
of the expenses that she had

or had accumulated because
of her lavish lifestyle

and her expensive taste,

there were a lot of bills
that were difficult to pay.

Julia Lynn had racked up
credit card expenses again,

which said at one point
in time that she had

over $35,000 worth
of credit card debt.

She actually had gone to the bank

because she was unable
to write cheques.

She had made a comment
to a bank employee

that she was going to
take care of this soon.

And it wasn't long
after that that Randy died.

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(Narrator) Once again, prosecutors
argued that Julia Lynn Turner

was financially motivated
when she poisoned

Randy Thompson with antifreeze.

If you take the $200,000
that she was going to get,

she has two children who are now
going to draw Social Security

until they are 18 or 20,
depending on whether

or not they stay in college.

And you put all of that together,
and it's over $600,000.

So Lynn is looking
at the potential of receiving,

over some period of time,
over $600,000.

So if you couple that
with what she'd got from Glenn,

or would have gotten
in total from Glenn,

you're looking at
well over $1 million.

(Narrator) During the trial, it was
revealed that Julia Lynn Turner's

plan to collect Randy Thompson's
insurance money was foiled

by Randy one month before he died.

Yeah, he had taken out
a $200,000 life insurance policy

and made Julia Lynn
the beneficiary.

However, as a result
of uncertain expenses

or however they were managing
their funds or their finances,

he allowed that insurance policy
to lapse,

unbeknownst to Julia Lynn.

(Patrick) I believe it was the day
of the funeral for Randy

that she called
the State Farm agent to collect

on that $200,000 policy,
because she believed

it was still in effect.

And he told her it had
expired or lapsed

because of non-payment
the month before.

(Penny)
We had her phone records,

and then we had a witness,

and it was the woman
who had to break it to her

that the policy had expired,
you know,

and testified that there was just

this long period of silence

on the other end of the phone
when she did that.

(Patrick) So she was a month late
on killing Randy.

If she'd done it a month sooner,
she'd have gotten $200,000.

But she believed at the time
that she did it that

she was going to get $200,000.

(Narrator) In 2007,
three years after she was

found guilty of the murder
of Glenn Turner,

Julia Lynn Turner's second
murder trial drew to a close.

(Marcus)
On March 24, 2007, a jury

found Julia Lynn Turner guilty
of murdering Randy Thompson.

In both cases, two different
juries found Julia Lynn guilty

of killing her lovers,

and the judge wanted to sentence
her to capital punishment.

That is, they wanted
to put her to death.

(Penny) We thought that
it was warranted given the fact

that she had murdered two people

and it was for financial gain.

Also, there is the fact
that it was, like,

wantonly horrible
and vile, inhumane.

He... he suffered.

It took him several days to die.

And she continued killing him.

She had poisoned him.

And then what she gave him
was enough to escape detection,

but it wasn't enough to kill him,

and so she had to give him
another dose.

So it was over an extended period
of time, and he really suffered.

(Narrator) During sentencing,
the Judge heard pleas

from Julia Lynn Turner's mother
for mercy

on behalf of her two young
grandchildren, aged 8 and 11.

(Patrick) When they went
for the punishment section,

the jury found that she should be
sentenced not to death,

but to life without parole.

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(Penny)
Lynn Turner was getting away

with murder until Randy's death.

I think that if
Lynn Turner had not been charged

with murder after Randy's death,

she would have killed
someone else.

(Patrick) Had she not
murdered Randy Thompson,

she would have
gotten away with murder.

If she hadn't done it twice,
she would have never been caught.

(Narrator) Between 2006 and 2010,
Julia Lynn Turner

launched two separate appeals
against her convictions.

All of them were rejected.

When the decision came back
on the habeas corpus,

I believe she then realised
that case was over.

She was going to
spend life in prison.

And it also meant that she
was never going to get parole.

(Keri)
When somebody continues to deny

many years after an offence,
it can be for many, many reasons.

However, when we look at
her history of control

and manipulation, I suspect
that this is just part

of her continued need for control.

On August 30, 2010,
Julia Lynn Turner

was found dead in her prison cell

at Metro State Penitentiary
for Women.

Julia Lynn was 42 years old
when she was found dead.

(Patrick) She had been found
unresponsive in her cell,

and that she had died,
and they believed that she had...

she was on medication
for blood pressure

and she was on some pills.

And what we believe
is that she hoarded those

until she could end her life.

(Marcus) Glenn Turner's mother,
Cathy Turner,

told me that she didn't believe
that Julia Lynn was able to go on,

and that she had pretty much
given up on life.

(Patrick) And I believe
that once she looked at it

and saw that
she was going to spend

the rest of her life in prison,

she decided she might
as well poison herself.

She'd done it to two guys.

She knew how to do it,
so she poisoned herself.

And my belief was,
justice was served.

So that's how I felt.

(Narrator) The double homicide
in the suburbs of Atlanta

cast a long shadow over all those
involved in the case.

(Patrick)
Well, as I said in the beginning,

this case was about
lust, greed, and murder.

It was the greed that made her
do the things that she did.

(Penny) Both Glenn's and Randy's
family sustained a loss.

It was also terrible here
because there were kids

who lost their dad,

and then two of them
ended up losing their mother,

such as it was,
when she committed this crime.

And that's always sad.

But here, you know,
purely for financial gain,

it's... and it's just so...

the planning that went into this,
the thought that went into this,

the fact that she can
just watch these people

suffer as she's doing this.

You know,
she's killing them gradually.

It's just so cold-blooded.

(Marcus) It's unfortunate
that Randy Thompson

and Glenn Turner fell prey
to Julia Lynn Turner's wiles.

These were men who had taken
the step to put themselves

and their lives on the line
for the sake of others

in an emergency situation.

They were willing to give
the ultimate sacrifice.

However, in the place where they
should have been most comfortable,

the place where they should
have been the safest,

in the arms of their lover,

that was the place where
they were the most in danger,

and the place where their lives
were taken from them.

And it's unfortunate
that while they had committed

to give their lives
for the community,

the person who had
committed their life to them

was the one who killed them
and snuffed their lives out.

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