Autopsy: Convicted murderer died of flesh-eating bacteria
(MCT) — A man sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing a man during a home invasion robbery in 1998 died of blood poisoning and the so-called flesh-eating bacteria, the results of an autopsy this weekend showed.
Robert J. Turner, 32, died Friday at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago’s intensive care unit after he was transferred there last Wednesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
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