SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 14, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — A convicted serial killer currently incarcerated in California has been charged with murdering a 22-year-old woman in Salt Lake City in 1998.
The body of Itisha Camp was found by three juveniles near the back of a business at 165 E. 900 South on Sept. 24, 1998, according to charging documents. Camp’s body had a scarf around her neck, and the state medical examiner later determined the woman died by strangulation.
DNA evidence led law enforcement to Chester Turner, 57, who has been convicted of 14 murders — 10 in 2007 and four in 2014 — in Los Angeles County.
Detectives learned that Turner was on parole in California in 1998 and absconded to Utah. He has been charged with first-degree felony aggravated murder.
“It must have been profoundly difficult for Ms. Camp’s family and loved ones over the last 25 years, not knowing if the suspect in her murder was still out in the public,” said Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, who filed the charge Friday in 3rd District Court. “We hope the filing of this charge brings some relief to Ms. Camp’s loved ones and our entire community, knowing that the defendant is already behind bars.”
Camp had only been in Salt Lake City for a few weeks before her body was found, police said.
