Career
She had been Special Assistant to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, chief of staff for Connecticut representative Rosa DeLauro and before that, aide to Missouri representative Dick Gephardt. They had three children. On the morning of January 10, 2011 she had planned to drive to the airport for an air trip related to her work.
Instead, a neighbor telephoned at 4:49 a.m. to report Turton"s garage was on fire.
Inside the garage, firefighters discovered her body in her 2008 Bayerische Motoren Werke X5 SUV. Her death was investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department with assistance from the city fire department, two Bayerische Motoren Werke engineers, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. The coroner"s report found “acute alcohol intoxication” and said she died from “inhalation of products of combustion and thermal burns”. According to authorities, there was no indication of foul play and there were "no obvious signs of trauma".
