Murder Suspect Brought
Back To Santa Monica
Carolanne Sudderth
Mirror Staff Writer
On Friday
morning, July 23, Jimmy Ronald Turner, 23, was returned to Santa
Monica, from Alabama and formally charged with the first degree murder
of a 14-year-old girl in Santa Monica on Feb. 26, 1998.
Turner was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama on July 20
after Police there were tipped off by viewers of “America’s Most
Wanted” television show.
Lieutenant Gary Gallinot, Santa Monica Police
Department, said local detectives flew to Birmingham the following day
to continue their investigation.
The suspect waived formal extradition and was flown
back to California and was arraigned later the same day.
Currently being held without bail, Turner faces life
without possibility of parole, if he’s founf guilty of first degree
murder.
SMPD Sergeant Ray Cooper is in charge of the case. He
told the Mirror, “There are satanic overtones in the murder of this
girl,” a runaway with a history of “hanging with the wrong crowd,”
She was strangled and left in an abandoned building. He declined to
discuss the case in detail because of Scott’s pending trial.
Two other defendants in the case have already been
convicted. On July 15, a jury found Glen Mason, 22, guilty of
first-degree murder. A 17-year-old female, Elizabeth Mangham was tried
as an adult and pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
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