Funeral Services

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A funeral director is murdered and his son, the sole beneficiary of his estate, is considered a likely suspect... until witnesses provide him with an ironclad alibi. When police find a mask near the crime scene, they hope it will lead to the killer.

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0:00.0	Up next, the murder of a funeral director.
0:03.5	I don't want to say emergency.
0:05.5	Ma'am, I'm breaking murder, just kidding.
0:08.5	Stop!
0:09.5	It just didn't make sense.
0:10.5	Didn't ring clear at all.
0:12.5	Cell phone records provided some important evidence.
0:15.5	There was a whole lot more to this story than what was originally thought.
0:19.5	But a homemade mask found near the scene, indicated the victim and killer knew one another.
0:26.5	I'm thinking we've messed up enough somewhere.
0:29.0	We've made a mistake.
0:39.5	In the small town of Navasota, Texas, Lonnie Turner was an important figure.
0:45.5	Lonnie was the owner, operator of local funeral home there in Navasota.
0:51.5	He was a well-respected member of the community at large.
0:55.0	He would help the needed.
0:57.5	I mean, if you didn't have money or you didn't have insurance to take care of a service,
1:02.0	he would talk to note for you.
1:04.0	A lot of times, he went unpaid.
1:07.0	And Lonnie was one of the first African-American members of the City Council and the school board.
1:14.0	He broke down a lot of racial barriers, good businessmen, all around good guys.
1:19.0	One November night, shortly before midnight,
1:23.0	Lonnie's son arrived home and discovered the light bulb had been unscrewed near the door on the back porch.
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