A 57-year-old man accused of murder, rape and burglary in the killing of a prominent banking executive whom he dated gives off the appearance that he is successful, charming and charismatic, but that appearance is a mask over a much darker side, a prosecutor told a jury during closing arguments in the man’s trial Thursday, Aug. 7.

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Anthony Duwayne Turner of Los Angeles is on trial in the death of 48-year-old Michelle Avan, who was found beaten and strangled inside her Reseda home on Aug. 5, 2021. Prosecutor Cindy Lee Wallace told the jury Avan was killed on Aug. 3.

Turner’s attorney, Jovan Blacknell, compared the case to putting Turner’s BDSM lifestyle on trial and said prosecutors were arguing that “if you are into the BDSM lifestyle, you are violent.”

Turner and Avan

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