Autopsy shows Diamond Turner, found dead in dumpster in Grand Crossing, was asphyxiated, beatena

Jeff Mayes — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 11:35:38 -0500

Diamond Turner, a 21-year-old woman whose body was found in a dumpster last month in the South Side Grand Crossing neighborhood, was beaten and asphyxiated, an autopsy has shown.

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A garbage collector found the body about 12:30 p.m. March 3 in the 7300 block of South Kenwood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy at the time did not rule on Turner’s cause or manner of death, but further investigation determined she died of asphyxia and blunt force trauma to the head, and her death has been ruled in a homicide, authorities said early Saturday.

Turner lived just a block away from where she was found. Her body was thought to have been there for a few days.

No arrests have been made in the case.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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Autopsy shows Diamond Turner, found dead in dumpster in Grand Crossing, was asphyxiated, beatena