Jury reaches verdict in case of man at center of cold case, serial rape investigation

DAYTON — A jury has reached a verdict in the case surrounding a cold case and serial rape investigation.

Tiandre Turner, 43, was convicted last Friday on over a dozen charges, including multiple counts of rape, kidnapping, felonious assault and abduction, according to Montgomery County Common Pleas Court records and the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office. The jury found him not guilty of two counts of robbery.

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Turner was arrested in November. The day after his arrest, Dayton Police announced that his arrest was part of a cold case investigation.

Turner was convicted of four rapes that occurred between 2013 to 2014. Three of the four victims were sexually assaulted in Dayton and the fourth victim was abducted in Dayton and taken to Harrison Twp., where they were sexually assaulted.

News Center 7 previously reported that analysis of DNA evidence found at all four scenes lead to linking Turner to the assaults.

In March 2014, one victim said that she was abducted, sexually assault and beaten. The assault caused a fracture to her back, according to an affidavit and statement of facts filed in Dayton Municipal Court.

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Just over a week later, in April 2014, a second victim said she was “dragged from an alleyway” into a residence on W. Grand Avenue where she was sexually assaulted, beaten and “robbed of her cellphone and $40.”

Both of the alleged assaults were listed to have happened at the same address on W. Grand Avenue, according to court records. Johns noted Tuesday that the assaults all happened in the areas of N. Main Street and W. Grand Avenue.

Turner will be sentenced on May 3.

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