A South Carolina dad who was filmed tearfully claiming to stumble across his 5-year-old son’s body nearly 35 years ago has now been charged with his murder.
Victor Lee Turner, now 69 and wearing a medical tube in his mugshot, was arrested with wife Megan Renee Turner, 63, at their Cross Hill home Tuesday and charged with murdering little Justin Lee Turner in March 1989, the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office said.
“I can’t think of a more tragic, horrendous murder — a 5-year-old boy,” Sheriff Duane Lewis told a Wednesday press conference.
Megan Turner, the boy’s stepmom, known as Pamela Turner at the time, claimed to have been in the shower at their then-home in Moncks Corner when the 5-year-old left to catch his school bus from a neighbor’s house, WCBD reported.
She told police that she didn’t realize the youngster was missing until he failed to get off the school bus home that afternoon.
However, the neighbor never saw the boy and he was reported missing from school that day. “He never got on that bus because he was dead inside that house,” the sheriff said.
Two days after his son’s disappearance, Victor Turner was filmed by news crews as he went inside his camper — only to turn around within seconds and say: “My son’s in there. Someone hurt him.”
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