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She was arrested ten months after her second husband"s death and was tried for Glenn Turner"s murder in 2004. She was found guilty and went to trial again for murdering Randy Thompson in 2007, ultimately being convicted. Turner died in prison on August 30, 2010.
The cause of death was an apparent suicide by toxic overdose of blood pressure medication or being hanged on the ceiling with a bedsheet.
Glenn Turner went to the emergency room on March 2, 1995, complaining of flu-like symptoms. He was treated there and when he felt better, he went home.
The next day, he was found dead when Lynn came home. On January 22, 2001, she killed her boyfriend, Forsyth County firefighter Randy Thompson, age 32.
She had been having an affair with Thompson at the time of her husband"s murder.
Thompson reported to the emergency room complaining of a stomach ache and constant vomiting. He was treated and released on January 21. She made him some Jell-O. By the next day, he was dead.
She collected around $153,000 in death benefits for her husband"s death and $36,000 in her boyfriend"s death.
According to a Georgia Department of Corrections website, Turner was serving a life sentence at Metro State Prison. She faced the death penalty for the 2001 murder of Randy Thompson but she was instead sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Turner was found dead in prison on August 30, 2010. Much speculation remains as to whether her death was suicide, or perhaps due to an accidental overdose of prescription blood pressure medication, or hanged herself with a bedsheet.
An episode of Murder She Solved on the Oprah Winfrey Network claimed that she intentionally accumulated enough prescription medication to cause an overdose.
Turner"s case has been profiled on many different television programs. Her case first aired on Forensic Files in 2007 in an episode entitled Cold Hearted. Her case aired on season six of Snapped on the Oxygen Network that year, and three programs on the Investigation Discovery network: Deadly Women, Main Street Mysteries, and Motives and
