Chester Dewayne Turner (born November 5, 1966) is an American serial killer and sex offender who was sentenced to death for sexually assaulting and murdering fourteen women and an unborn baby in Los Angeles between 1987 and 1998.

[6] 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.

[13] On October 29, 1987, the body of 26-year-old Louisiana native Annette Ernest was found lying on a shoulder of a road, partially nude and strangled.

In January 1989, the partially nude body of 31-year-old Anita Fishman Breier was discovered outside a garage in an alley off Figueroa Street.

[17] On September 23, 1989, the partially nude and strangled body of 27-year-old Regina Nadine Washington was found inside a garage off Figueroa Street.

On November 16, 1992, the seventh known victim, 32-year-old Debra Williams, was found dead in the 400 block of West 98th Street in Vermont Vista.

[19] A month later, on December 16, the body of 41-year-old Mary Edwards was found on the 9700 block of South Figueroa Street in Vermont Vista.

[20] In April 1993, the strangled and partially nude body of 29-year-old Andrea Tripplett was discovered behind a vacant building on Figueroa Street.

[21] 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.

Jones, who was barely literate, was questioned without an attorney and admitted using drugs with the victims in the areas where their bodies were found.

On November 6, 1996, the body of 45-year-old Mildred Williams Beasley was found partially nude and strangled amongst the bushes alongside the 110 Freeway.

[17] In February 1997, 30-year-old Cynthia Annette Johnson was found strangled to death in the Green Meadows neighborhood of South Los Angeles.

Portions of her murder were taped by five nearby security cameras, with the killer visible in several frames as a "dark shadow and little more".

[17][29] On April 6, 1998, the body of the final victim, 39-year-old Brenda Bries, was found strangled in a portable toilet near Little Tokyo.

He had approached Martinez before the attack to ask to borrow a cigarette lighter and proceeded to grab her neck and rape her for approximately two hours and threatened to kill her if she told the police.

In doing so, the detectives found that David Allen Jones, now 28, had been convicted of the 1992 murders of Tammie Christmas, Debra Williams, and Mary Edwards; the latter two had now been linked to Turner via DNA.

[36][37] In February 2011, Turner was charged with four additional murders, those of Cynthia Johnson, Elandra Bunn, Mary Edwards, and Deborah Williams.