GBI: Antifreeze Killer Lynn Turner Committed Suicide

ATLANTA,None — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation State Medical Examiner's Office has determined that Lynn Turner committed suicide.

Turner, who was convicted of killing her husband and boyfriend with antifreeze, was found dead in her cell at Metro State Prison on Aug. 30.

Medical Examiner's Office officials said on Tuesday that Turner, 42, died as a result of the toxic effects of the prescription medication propranolol, a blood pressure medication that Turner had been prescribed.

Toxicology studies revealed that Turner had a lethal level of the drug in her blood, indicating that she had ingested an amount well above the prescribed dosage, officials said.

GBI officials said there was no evidence of injury or foul play and her death was being classified as a suicide.

Her family reacted with disbelief to the suicide. Her mother, Helen Gregory, said she and Turner's two children, ages 12 and 14, had visited her at the prison days before she was found dead. And she said that her daughter was hopeful that a new round of legal appeals would exonerate her.

"It's totally untrue. She had too much to live for," Gregory said. "She had a Georgia Supreme Court case filed. She had another case to be filed. She has two children, a mother and a father she loves dearly. There's no way she committed suicide. There's no way."

Turner, a former 911 operator, was sentenced to life without parole in 2007 after a jury found her guilty in the 2001 killing of her boyfriend, Randy Thompson, who died from antifreeze poisoning.

Thompson was a Forsyth County firefighter and the father of her two children.

When convicted in the Thompson case, Turner was already serving a life sentence for the 1995 death of her husband, Glenn Turner, a Cobb County police officer.

The murder charge in Thompson's death was filed after that 2004 conviction.

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