Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
None of the women knew their assailant in the four sexual assaults, reported June 26, 2013; Jan. 30, 2014; March 25, 2014; and April 7, 2014.
After the verdict was read in court, Dayton police Maj. Brian Johns said one of the victims told a detective: “Now my chains are off. He gets to wear the chains that I’ve carried around for 10 years.”
Two victims gave statements before Turner’s sentencing and a third also was in court. The fourth victim is now deceased, Johns said.
The major thanked the law enforcement investigators and Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation for the DNA testing that ultimately led to Turner’s arrest and conviction, but said the most credit is due the victims.
“It took a lot of courage for them to report that crime when it happened some years back, but also to come forward during this trial and testify,” Johns said.
Based on the brutality involved in these crimes, Johns said police do not believe the four rapes from a decade ago are the only involving Turner.
“I think we have more victims out there than those four,” Johns said.
In the first rape, Turner officered to give the victim a ride to the store, but instead drove her to a secluded area where he brutally beat her and then raped her. In the January rape, Turner shoved the victim into his car, punched her in the face several times and then raped her, according to a statement from Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr.
At least two rapes happened inside a vacant house in the 1900 block of West Grand Avenue, according to Dayton Municipal Court records.
In the third case, Turner kidnapped a victim, took her to the abandoned house and beat her so severely he broke her lumbar and then raped her, court records show. The fourth victim “was grabbed while she was walking in an alley, was taken to the same abandoned house (where Turner) assaulted her and raped her,” Heck said.
DNA collected at the crime scenes was processed by the BCI and linked genetically to the suspect’s family. Investigators obtained a search warrant and took a DNA sample from Turner, which matched DNA collected in each case, according to court documents.
Johns urged anyone who may have been a victim or who has knowledge of any cold case to call the Dayton Police Department at 333-COPS (2677) or, to remain anonymous and possibly collect a cash reward, call Miami Valley Crime Stoppers at 222-STOP (7867).
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