CA CA- Cecil “C.T.” Turner, 2, Mission Viejo, found deceased August 13,1996

[PetDetective]

https://mylifeofcrime.files.wordpress.com/2006/03/information-needed.pdf
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/nov/12/local/me-cecil12
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-16/news/mn-34850_1_father-seeks-answers

LA Times article
Nov. 12, 2003

“911. What's your emergency?

"I have a 2-year-old that's wandered off," Marie Wu told the operator. "I'm hoping one of my neighbors grabbed him."

There was no hint of panic in Wu's voice. She says she felt embarrassed, apologetic. She expected to find her diaper-clad son, Cecil Turner, "eating cookies in the apartment of some neighbor" in the Villa Marguerite apartments in Mission Viejo.

She didn't, and a massive search soon was underway. The child's body was found the next day, Aug. 13, 1996, near a creek behind the apartment complex. Cecil Turner, known as C.T., had been suffocated.

The killing of a towheaded toddler in one of Southern California's safest communities sparked widespread horror and revulsion. In such cases, the public craves closure, the reassurance provided by a prompt arrest and conviction. After seven years, there has been no arrest, nor any closure, in the death of Cecil Turner.

For those seven years, Orange County sheriff's detectives have stuck doggedly to the belief that the boy's stepfather killed him, possibly with Wu's help, and that she has been covering up for her husband all this time.

Twice, detectives have asked the Orange County district attorney's office to file charges against Marie and Feilong Wu. Twice, prosecutors have refused, citing insufficient evidence.....”


This case was introduced to me by a friend a couple of weeks ago and I was unable to find a thread on it here. We are both anxious to hear everyone’s thoughts on the case.

 

[Tulessa]

For those seven years, Orange County sheriff's detectives have stuck doggedly to the belief that the boy's stepfather killed him, possibly with Wu's help, and that she has been covering up for her husband all this time.

Twice, detectives have asked the Orange County district attorney's office to file charges against Marie and Feilong Wu. Twice, prosecutors have refused, citing insufficient evidence.

Sounds like they are on the right track, just don't have enough evidence for a conviction. So heart breaking.

 

[PetDetective]

Sounds like they are on the right track, just don't have enough evidence for a conviction. So heart breaking.

I’m curious about the inconsistencies regarding time of death and parent statements. There were undigested hot dogs in his stomach at autopsy which means he had eaten them 0-4 hours before death. The parents said he had eaten hot dogs the night before around 7:30-8:30pm, but at the time of autopsy which was at 5pm the day he was found, he was still partially in rigor. That means he couldn’t have died before 5am the day he was reported missing.

I’m wondering if one of the parents gave him a hot dog unattended and he choked on it. Then they covered it up.


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