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Monique Turenne
After 5 1/2 yrs of
silence about his real accomplices, liar Ralph Crompton reveals
existance of possible real accomplices: he may be telling the
truth this time but Florida and Canada won't give disclosure
to indicted Monique Turenne so she can answer to Crompton's lies
which find her facing extradition to a kangaroo court.
Crompton claims jury was coerced
DAVID ANGIER, The News Herald,
Saturday, May 19, 2001
A convicted murderer was back
in court Friday to argue again that the jury that found him guilty
in 1996 was coerced.
Ralph E. Crompton, 46, was
sentenced to life in prison on Nov. 25, 1996, for the first-degree
murder of David Turenne. Crompton, according to investigators,
was having an affair with Turenne's wife, Monique, and beat to
death the 42-year-old Canadian airman outside his Panama City
home in February 1996. David Turenne was stationed at Tyndall
Air Force Base.
Crompton admitted hitting Turenne,
but says Monique Turenne delivered the fatal blow.
Monique Turenne moved back
to Canada sometime after the killing, but before she was indicted.
A Canadian judge cleared her for extradition in 1999. Her case
has been working its way slowly through the high court system
there without a resolution expected in the near future.
On Friday, Crompton argued
in front of Circuit Judge Don T. Sirmons that he should be given
a new trial because his defense attorney didn't talk to some
possible witnesses and two jurors may have been coerced into
delivering a guilty verdict.
That argument was denied at
trial after Circuit Judge Glenn Hess, the trial judge, interviewed
the jurors in question after the verdict. Crompton again argued
the jury was coerced in 1999 before the First District Court
of Appeals. That court upheld Crompton's conviction and denied
him a new trial.
On Friday, Crompton brought
two daughters and two former bailiffs to the stand. All said
they heard arguing in the jury room during deliberations. One
female juror apparently left the room and might have been crying,
his daughters said.
Sheila Sharp, a bailiff for
nine years who was chief security officer for Crompton's trial,
said when she opened the jury room door to allow that woman back
in, two other women told her they were tired, wanted to leave
and speak to the judge.
The deliberations had gone
into the early morning hours.
Sharp said she relayed the
message to Hess. Hess, she said, after conferring with defense
attorney Waylon Graham and prosecutor Larry Basford, told her
to ignore their request and let them continue deliberating.
"Everyone agreed to let
it go on without interruption," Sharp said. Crompton wasn't
present, she said, for that meeting.
Basford asked Sirmons to give
him some time to get Hess on the stand to rebut this testimony.
Sirmons continued the hearing until the scheduling could be worked
out.
Crompton also asked the court
to review some evidence presented at trial. Hairs apparently
found in a stocking cap by Turenne's body were tested for a DNA
match, which came up inconclusive. Crompton wanted those hairs
tested again using more sophisticated methods now available.
One reason why, he said, Graham
didn't do a thorough job representing him is because he didn't
investigate a possible suspect - Diablo, "the tattoo guy."
Crompton's daughter, Mandy
Tilley of Atlanta, testified that she remembered several conversations
with her father before trial in which he mentioned "the
tattoo guy." Diablo apparently worked at a tattoo parlor,
she said, and Crompton told her he acted crazy. Crompton, Tilley
said, told her Monique Turenne asked about Diablo at some time
before the murder.
Sirmons didn't rule on any
of the motions put before him. He said he'd keep Crompton in
the Bay County Jail until the next hearing.
The writer can be contacted
at dangier@pcnh.com © The News Herald
Why
has no one investigated a possible connection between the use
of David Turenne's credit card in Montreal five days after his
death and the crazy "tattoo guy" Crompton told his
daughter about before the trial?
Gary Wagner
(who provided false testimony that Monique had approached him
to get her a gun) was asked by Crompton to find Diablo a few
days after his arrest. Gary Wagner NEVER informed the authorities/lawyers
or the court about this. Could he be the man on the other side
of the door while Diablo held Monique hostage in her own house
the night of the murder? Who has the suitcase of money?
It is being
raised in Quebec courts that a clear criminal pathway runs between
Florida and Quebec as authorities seek to indict Hells Angels
on running cocaine along that route.
Feb.
2003: Daniel, who drew
this likeness of the probable killer, turned 18 this year. In
the course of trying to gain access to the funds in David Turenne's
estate, more information has surfaced which points to dirty police
work. Monique Turenne has known for some time that Winnipeg cop
Loren Schinkel made up a statement and forged her signature on
it. She has also been aware that the police collaborated with
mischievous relatives whose only interest was gaining control
of the estate. It now seems likely that the police have forged
another signature.
(This rendering
is by Monique Turenne's son Daniel who also saw the pony-tailed
man who threatened to kill her and her children if she said anything:
this was just before she discovered her husband's murdered body
outside. Later, references to "another suspect" and
"Diablo" would show up in the Panama City press; disclosure
of Crompton's trial transcripts and the transcripts of her extradition
hearing have been denied Turenne by the state of Florida)
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Monique Turenne main
Monique Turenne:
the headlines
- 1996,
June 19: AP, Panama City, Fla.-- Turenne
to face more charges?
- 1996,
Oct. 12: AP, Panama City, Fla.--
Confession Detailed: Police say Turenne killing admitted
- 1996,
Oct. 16: Winnipeg Free Press -- Woman's
ex-lover convicted in killing: Widow hopes pain is over | Woman
advised not to testify | Winnipeg
Sun -- Monique to face trial predicts killer's lawyer: Says
Canada will extradite her to Florida 'sooner or later'
- 1997,
Mar. 20, Winnipeg Free Press --
Turenne indicted in U.S. slaying: Winnipeg woman could face death
penalty in husband's murder
- 1998,
June 12: Winnipeg Free Press
-- Turenne arrested in 1996 murder: Faces Florida trial in husband's
slaying (p.A1) | Turenne to contest extradition warrant
- 1998,
June 13: Winnipeg Free Press
-- Turenne gets bail: Extradition decision on Florida murder
charges may take year (Front page) | Legal hurdles still ahead
for Turenne
- 1998,
October 23: Winnipeg Sun
--- Florida hides game plan: lawyer (scanned image of paper)
- 1998,
Nov. 21: Winnipeg Sun
-- Judge rules release of statement: Local Turenne interview
unprotected
- 1999,
Mar. 27: Winnipeg Free Press -- Extradition
law unconstitutional: Turenne's lawyer; Don't breach her rights
to fair trial, he pleads
- May
5, 2000: Winnipeg Free Press
-- A Soldier's Murder by Dan Lett: Part
1a | Part 1b
- 2001,
Nov. 12: Winnipeg Free Press --
Turenne fights to get murder trial in Canada
- 2001,
February 21: Winnipeg Sun--
'Playing the system': Victim's sister sick of Turenne delays
(scanned image of paper)
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