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Blood stain consistent with knife, analyst says at Turner trial
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Published: August 11, 2009
MOCKSVILLE - A blood-stain analyst with the State Bureau of Investigation testified today that a blood stain on Dr. Kirk Allen Turner's shirt was consistent with the pocketknife that prosecutors say Turner used to kill his wife.
The SBI analyst, Gerald Thomas, was expected to continue testifying this afternoon.
Jennifer Leyn, a former SBI agent, testified last week that blood found on both the pocketknife and the shirt matched Jennifer Turner's DNA.
Kirk Turner, who has a dental practice in Clemmons, is on trial on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his wife. She was found dead Sept. 12, 2007, in the shop building at the couple's house at 627 Jack Booe Road, just north of Mocksville. Her throat had been slashed.
Prosecutors have argued that Kirk Turner was so rattled by a divorce and a lawsuit that his wife had filed against his girlfriend, Tondja Woods Colvin, that he killed his wife with a pocketknife.
Defense attorneys have argued that Kirk Turner was defending himself after his wife attacked him with a 7-foot-long Viking-like spear, stabbing him twice in the left thigh near the groin. Kirk Turner had bought the spear.
The couple's daughter, Gwendolyn "Wendy" Elizabeth Turner, testified yesterday that her mother was afraid of Kirk Turner and feared that he would hurt her.
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