Deadly Pizza

Chester Turner a pizza delivery man has been sentenced to death for the murders of 10 women and an unborn baby in Los Angeles during the 1980s and 90s.

Turner preyed upon prostitutes and other women with drug problems mostly in the South Los Angeles.
Turner, 40, declined to say anything at the court hearing, he was convicted of 10 counts of first-degree murder, plus one count of second-degree murder for the death of one victim's unborn baby.

Paula Vance, 24, found in the business, Olympia Tool, in Azusa. Brenda Bries, 39 was found slumped over a portable toilet.

The Vance murder was witnessed from a bystander at a neighboring trailer park.

Diane Johnson, 21, found partially nude and strangled in March 1987 in a roadway construction area west of the Harbor Freeway.

Annette Ernest, 26, found lying on a shoulder of a road in October 1987, partially nude and strangled.

Anita Fishman, 31, strangled and left partially nude outside a garage in an alley off Figueroa Street in January 1989.

Regina Washington, 27, also found partially nude and strangled with an electrical cord behind a vacant house inside a garage off Figueroa Street in September 1989. Washington was six months pregnant. The death of the fetus was attributed to the strangulation of the mother, and it was ruled a homicide.

Andrea Tripplett, 29, strangled, found partially nude behind a vacant building on Figueroa Street inApril 1993.

Desarae Jones, 29, found strangled next to a vacant residence in May 1993.

Natalie Price, 31, found partially nude and strangled next to a vacant residence in Febuary 1995.

Mildred Beasley, 45, found partially nude and strangled; she was left amongst the bushes alongside the 110 Fwy in November 1996.

Turner was already serving an eight-year prison sentence for a 2002 rape when his DNA linked him to the killings, which were carried out between 1987 and 1998.