, 14-Year-Old Daughter of Lana Turner
Kills Hollywood Underworld Figure
Who Threatens Her Mother
HOLLYWOOD, UFi — Actress
Lana Turner’s 14-year-old daugh
ter Fri. night killed a handsome
Hollywood underworld figure ro
mantically linked with her
mother.
Police said brown-haired Cheryl
Crane plunged a knife into the
abdomen of husky Johnny Stom
panato, 42, in a pink-carpeted
bedroom of Miss Turner’s home.
Stompanato died instantly.
Beverly Hills police chief Clin
ton Anderson said he was told
Cheryl stabbed Stompanato after
he threatened her 38-year-old
mother in a stormy scene in the
glamorous blonde movie star’s
bedroom.
Cheryl, serene, and her mother,
sobbing, were taken to the Bever
ly Hills station. Miss Turner’s
second husband and Cheryl’s
father, Stephen Crane, met them
there.
Cheryl was booked on suspicion
of murder and then turned over
to juvenile authorities. . She was
given sedation and held overnight
at the. jail.
Anderson said Cheryl and her
mother told him this story: Stom
panato, who returned from an
Acapulco, Mex., vacation with
Miss Turner March 19, went to
her home last night and started
berating her.
Cheryl heard the argument and
went into the bedroom.
“I’ll get you if it takes a year,
week or day”, Stompanato raged
at Miss Turner. “I’ll cut you up.
I’ll stomp you and if I can’t do it
myself I’ll find someone who can.”
Cheryl went to the kitchen,
picked up a 10-inch butcher
knife and returned to the bed
room.
“You don’t have to take that,
mama,” Cheryl said.
Then she stabbed Stompanato,
pulled the knife out of his body
and laid it on a coffee table.
Cheryl came home from Happy
Valley School at Ojai, Calif.,
Monday. for Easter vacation.
Anderson said on Monday tiight
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Cheryl heard her mother and
Stompanato in bitter argument.
The next day Anderson said
Cheryl asked for explanation and
her mother told her she was un
happy with Stompanato and
afraid of him.
Anderson said that after Cheryl
stabbed Stompanato her mother
tried to stop his bleeding with
a towel.
Stompanato, Miss Turner and
Cheryl were fully clothed.
Reporters asked how Cheryl
could stab the angry Stompanato
without harm to herself.
“It was just a hell of a sur
prise to him,” the police chief
replied. “He was standing up at
the time.”
Anderson said that on one oc
casion Stampanato beat Miss
Turner.
Their return from Acapulco
was in time for Miss Turner to
attend last week’s Academy
Award dinner at which Miss
Turner was a nominee for an
Oscar as best actress.
Hollywood’s famed attorney,
Jerry Giesler, quickly joined
Miss Turner and Cheryl at the
police station.
“This is justifiable homicide,”
he said. “There, of course, can
be no trial because of the girl’s
age. It will be handled by juve
nile court.”
But Cheryl was booked on su
spicion of murder for the pur
pose of holding her overnight. A
petition will be filed to deter
mine whether the ftase will be
handled by juvenile court or
adult court, Ajnderson said.
Cheryl was in the news in 1956
when she ran away from an ex
clusive girl’s school near Holly
wood. Several days later she
was found wandering on Los
Angeles’ skid road.
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