Dad nailed for murdering son 34 years after staging TV hoax

MORE than three decades after grieving father Victor Turner was filmed shedding tears after discovering the body of his murdered five-yearold son, he and his wife, Megan, were arrested for the heartless crime! “I want to say our justice system did what it was intended to do and put these two people where they deserve to be,” says the slaughtered boy’s cousin Amanda Parsons. “They’ve had freedom for 34 years, while our family has suffered.”

Turner, 69, and his 63-year-old wife were arrested at their Cross Hill, S.C., home on Jan. 9 and

charged with the March 1989 murder of little Justin Lee Turner.

“This is an amazing day,” declares Berkeley County Sheriff Duane Lewis. “I can’t think of a tragic, more horrendous murder.”

Megan, who was Justin’s stepmom, claimed the boy went to a neighbor’s house to wait for the school bus while she was in the shower. She says she didn’t realize he was missing until he failed to come home after school.

Two days later, a TV news crew filmed Victor crying after going into his camper and supposedly making the tragic discovery of his son’s lifeless body inside.

“My son’s in there,” he announced to the crew. “Somebody hurt him.” Suspiciously, Victor didn’t check to make sure Justin was dead. In fact, he told cops the boy “looked dead” and he didn’t even touch him!

An autopsy revealed Justin had been sexually abused and strangled.

Despite plenty of reasons to be suspicious about

Justin’s parents, the case went cold.

Victor and Megan then moved 165 miles away, and they never followed up with cops about the investigation. “I never got one phone call from his daddy or stepmother asking, ‘What are y’all doing about my son’s death?’” says Lewis. “Not one. What does that tell you?”

Authorities opened a cold case investigation in 2021 and cops say advances in technology led to the shocking arrest. A cord found in the Turners’ house matched wounds on Justin’s neck and also contained fibers that likely came from his shirt, lawmen claim.

“We got here because of new technology and forensic medicine,” says Lewis.

“And we kept pushing and plugging and pulling to finally get what we needed to make an arrest.”