Woman Convicted Of Murder By Antifreeze

A former emergency phone operator in Georgia was convicted Saturday of murdering her boyfriend by poisoning him with antifreeze.

Lynn Turner could face a death sentence in the 2001 killing of Randy Thompson, a firefighter and the father of her two children. The same jury that convicted her will return to court Monday to decide whether to impose that sentence.

Turner, 38, is already serving a life sentence for the 1995 death of her husband, Glenn Turner, a police officer. The murder charge in Thompson's death was filed after that 2004 conviction.

Turner, who had maintained her innocence in both cases, did not testify in either trial.

Prosecutors said tests on their bodies showed they were poisoned with ethylene glycol, a sweet but odorless chemical in antifreeze. During her 2004 trial, they suggested it could have been placed in foods such as Jell-O.

Prosecutors said the motive in both cases was Turner's greed for the victims' life insurance money.

Defense lawyers argued there is no direct evidence proving murder, and that the prosecution's evidence added up to character assassination, not murder.