Serial killer Chester Turner gets second death sentence

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Convicted serial killer Chester D. Turner received a second death sentence on Friday.

Turner was originally convicted of murdering 10 women, and was recently convicted of the murders of four more women. He has already been sentenced to death before the additional sentencing Friday.

The murders were committed between 1987 and 1998. DNA testing linked Turner, 47, to all of the murders.

Turner was serving time for rape when genetic evidence connected him to 10 killings in South Los Angeles. The victims had all been raped and strangled. Their bodies were dumped in alleys, an abandoned garage and a portable toilet.

Some were prostitutes, some were crack users and some were just snatched off the streets.

Turner was previously convicted and sentenced to death in those cases, and given an additional term of 15 years-to-life for killing a victim's fetus.

Evidence emerged later that also linked him to the killings of Elandra Bunn, 33, in June 1987; Deborah Williams, 28, in November 1992; Mary Edwards, 42, in December 1992; and Cynthia Annette Johnson, 30, in February 1997. All were choked to death.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.