MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Heather Turner Part 2
Nine years after Heather Turner was found dead on her bathroom floor in Dallas, Georgia, the questions surrounding her final night haven’t gone away. They’ve only gotten louder. Her husband Andy says they spent the night together before he woke up to the sound of a gunshot. But Heather had been telling people she planned to leave him that very weekend. Then there’s a five-word note, a bathroom wall the coroner said looked washed, and an anonymous source who says something they overheard just before Heather’s service still gives them chills. This is part 2 of Heather Turner’s story.
Heather Turner
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Heather Turner
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The house Heather and Andy were renting in Dallas, Georgia, where Heather died on May 4, 2017.
Source: Paulding County Sheriff’s Office
The notebook found on the bathroom counter that says “I’m sorry, I love you.”
Source: Paulding County Sheriff’s Office
Heather’s revolver, found under a bloody towel beside the toilet, with one spent shell casing still inside.
Source: Paulding County Sheriff’s Office
Heather and her husband, Andy Turner
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Heather and her husband, Andy Turner
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Heather and Andy with their daughter
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Various notes left on the bathroom mirror
Source: Paulding County Sheriff’s Office
The wall beside the toilet in the bathroom
Source: Paulding County Sheriff’s Office
A textured wall in the Turners’ home.
Source: Paulding County Sheriff’s Office
Christy Chupp and Andy Turner
Source: Christy Chupp
Christy Chupp
Source: Facebook
Timeline:
Heather and Andy Turner marry.
A search for “does suicide void life insurance in the US” is made on Andy’s phone.
Heather tells a coworker she’s going to leave Andy that weekend.
Heather and Robb allegedly make plans to resign from their jobs the next day so they can be together
4 or 5 a.m.
According to Andy, he and Heather are intimate until the early morning.
5:57 to 5:59 a.m.
Andy calls his mother, Pam, four times.
5:59 a.m.
Andy calls 911 and says Heather shot herself.
6:11 a.m.
Andy’s parents arrive while he’s still on the phone with dispatch. His father, Curtis, gets on the line.
Deputies find Heather naked on the bathroom floor with a single gunshot wound to the head.
Heather’s case is featured on the TV show “It Couldn’t Happen Here.” An anonymous funeral home director comes forward with concerns about Heather’s wounds and about Andy’s and Curtis’s behavior before her funeral.
Andy publishes his book, “Who Turned Up The Silence.”
The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office holds a press conference announcing it is closing Heather’s case. It concludes her gunshot wound was self-inflicted and acknowledges investigative mistakes.
Coroner Lindsey Eberhart Fuller announces she will call a coroner’s inquest.
The coroner’s inquest is scheduled to take place.
The Turner Home
The approximate location of where Heather died and where deputies responded to Andy’s 911 call.
Paulding County Courthouse
Where Heather worked as a clerk, and where a judge met with her and Robb the day before she died.
Resources:
Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
If you or anyone you know is thinking about suicide, please be aware that emotional support can be reached by calling or texting the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, help is available through the National Domestic Violence Hotline by texting ‘START’ to 88788 or by calling 1-800-799-SAFE (7233).
For state-specific legal information about protection orders, custody, housing protections and more, visit WomensLaw.org.
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Episode Source Material
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Original reporting by Madison Cavalchire and Taylor Day
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Paulding County Sheriff’s Office. Investigative Case File. FOIA release, 7 July 2026. Various files.
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Records and Assets from Family Advocate Mary Alldredge
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Turner, Andy. Who Turned Up the Silence. Colorful Crow Publishing, 2023.
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Craun, S. W., Tanner, L., Clausen, V., Merola, M. A., Opanashuk, L., & Keel, T. G. (2022). Homicide or Suicide: How Nudity Factors into This Determination. Homicide Studies, 26(3), 292-307. https://doi.org/10.1177/10887679211013071
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