Missing and Murdered Children

I received an email from a visitor to my blog regarding the ten-year-old unsolved murder of CT Turner. I remembered this story when it hit the news in southern California so many years ago.

Below is an overview of the story as it appears at the website Orange County California Sheriff’s Department:

Two-year-old Cecil Turner (Also known as: C.T.) was murdered between Sunday, August 11, 1996, 10:30 p.m. and Monday, August 12, 1996, 2:30 a.m. Evidence reveals C.T. died of asphyxiation. C.T.’s parents reported him missing Monday morning after his step-father reportedly returned from his morning jog. C.T.’s body was found Tuesday, August 13, 1996 - concealed in the creek bed, in close proximity to his home.

Just like so many other missing and murdered children the mainstream media lose interest in covering the story once the investigation grows cold, the same thing has happened in CT Turner’s case.

If anyone knows anything about what happened to CT Turner on that warm August day in 1996, please contact the Orange County California Sherriff’s Department.

Below is the entry from my first guest blogger, Barbara L.

Another Death Memory that Hit Close to Home…Literally

It was about 4:00 pm on August 12, 1996. I noticed the police helicopter flying in a pattern over the area where I lived. When I got out of my car to pick up my son at pre-school, I could hear the police over their PA system alerting us to be on the look out for a two year old boy who was missing.

I immediately sensed foul play, just my cynical mind I guess. I drove around with my son in the car looking for this little boy. I walked around my neighborhood. No word about him until the next day. His sweet little innocent body was found nude covered in debris in “the creek”.

The news said he had “disappeared from his home” early on the 12th. He lived in the apartment complex across the street from me. There are very few apartment complexes in this area and they are known for having “undesirable” tenants. Maybe that’s why I felt suspicious. How judgmental of me.

Anyhow there is a LONG, LONG, LONG, steep, wooden staircase that leads from the apartments to the creek. I have lived near this creek for most of my life and never attempted to climb those stairs because they were intimidating to me. CT (the 2 year old victim) could not have walked down those stairs. No flippin way!

He did not WANDER OFF and end up down in the creek. If he would have attempted to go down the steps, he would have fell and most likely been seriously hurt or killed in the fall. He didn’t walk down there and end up in the creek. Someone killed him, carried him down there and hid his body under some leaves in the creek. His cause of death was asphyxiation - not drowning, not a head injury, he suffocated. Someone intentionally took the breath out of his life.

My personal opinion….well, let’s just say the police highly suspected the mother and step-father. The victim’s sister was immediately taken from her mother and sent to Texas to live with her dad. There was no physical evidence but it looked like the parent/step-parent was involved. Maybe it was an accident and they were just trying to cover it up. But they acted GUILTY not grieved, which was my first clue. There was also some issue with the step-dad’s green card (he was from China I think). I don’t know what that has to do with anything, but it kept surfacing in the investigation.

The mother and step-dad ended up suing the police in a civil case for defamation of character…but the case was discharged. They could not prove anything against the police. As much as they tried to turn the facts around to get all eyes off them as suspects, I think they did it or know who did.

The sick thing is…that boy is dead and his murderer(s) are walking around free to kill again. Who could kill a 2 year old boy?

I am the great-aunt of the most adorable sweet 2 year old boy on earth and if anyone even BRUISED him, I would not rest until they were punished. How can this mom walk away from her son’s unsolved case?

I know little CT Turner is in Heaven, I just hope his last memories were not of someone he knew and loved hurting him.