Overview
- A tattooed severed arm recovered from Lake Mattoon triggered the probe after boaters reported the limb on June 28; investigators used the tattoos to identify the victim as 38-year-old Dalewayne Turner.
- Will County court records and prosecutors say Turner was stabbed to death and dismembered, and two people from his Plainfield home—his half-brother James Adams and his wife Robin Turner—were arrested and charged.
- Investigators allege they found additional remains in a locked basement freezer and recovered weighted trash bags with body parts from the lake, and they detailed steps taken to clean, repaint, burn paneling, and discard rugs to hide the crime.
- Court documents say Adams admitted to killing Turner but told investigators he acted in self-defense, and both defendants remain in custody awaiting detention hearings on felony charges including dismembering a human body.
- Forensic work and an autopsy are underway to determine cause of death and to recover remaining evidence, and the case now faces heavy prosecutorial scrutiny because of the alleged concealment, multiple agency involvement, and the serious felony classifications under Illinois law.