Keitha Turner and Betty Jo Frank
Jury selection starts for ex-prison guard's murder trial
Jury selection has started in Fort Bend County for the trial of a former prison guard accused of stabbing to death his wife and mother-in-law in front of his children.
Albert James Turner, 46, is charged with capital murder in the Dec. 27, 2009 slayings of Keitha Frank Turner, 39, and Betty Jo Frank, 66, at his in-laws' home in Rosenberg.
Police have said an argument among the family members led to the violence. Turner was also accused of injuring his father-in-law, Gene Frank, founder of the Church of Living Waters and Living Water Christian School.
More than 300 prospective jurors have been summoned, and the selection process that got under way Thursday could last for weeks before the trial starts in state district Judge Brady Elliott's court in Richmond, said Wesley Wittig, assistant district attorney.
Turner, who worked at a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison in Sugar Land, fled his in-laws' home after the violence and a police manhunt ensued.
The U.S. Marshals Service added him to the 15 most-wanted list and the case was aired on several television programs, including America's Most Wanted. On March 5, 2010, he was arrested while sitting on a bench in a shopping mall in Concord, N.C.
Turner is represented by Houston attorney Pat McCann. The district attorney's office is seeking the death penalty.
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