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Investigation Continues Into Elderly Couple Found Dead in Their Home

Hilton and Jeannette Turner (Contributed photo)

Date: February 18, 2021
By Greg Rickabaugh

Richmond County authorities are still looking for clues after Wednesday’s discovery of an elderly couple who were found dead in their home on East Hale Street.


126 E. Hale St., Augusta (Google Maps photo)

At 3:24 p.m. Wednesday, the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office responded to 126 E. Hale St. in reference to a deceased person.

Officers located residents Hilton Turner Sr., 75, and Jeanette Turner, 73  inside. Both had been shot.

“Investigators are working the investigation as a homicide,” a RCSO press release said.

 If anyone has any information, please contact any on duty Investigator or Inv. Wesley Ward at 706-821-1080 or 706-821-1000.

Greg Rickabaugh is the Jail Report Contributor for The Augusta Press. Reach him at greg.rickabaugh@theaugustapress.com

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The Author

Greg Rickabaugh is an award-winning crime reporter in the Augusta-Aiken area with experience writing for The Augusta Chronicle and serving as publisher of The Jail Report. He also owns AugustaCrime.com. Rickabaugh is a 1994 graduate of the University of South Carolina and has appeared on several crime documentaries on the Investigation Discovery channel. He is married with two daughters.

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