Ex-Playboy model accepts plea deal in California psychiatrist's murder

A former Playboy model accused of murdering a psychiatrist and stuffing his body in the trunk of a car after he stopped paying her rent has quietly accepted a plea deal.

entered an Alford plea on Wednesday, which means that she avoids a trial and maintains her innocence of the heinous 2019 murder, but accepts the punishment of a guilty verdict on a second-degree murder charge.

Investigators said Turner and Dr. Thomas Burchard, 71, were in a relationship and that the child psychiatrist was paying her rent for at least a year before he traveled from California to to tell Turner that he could no longer foot the bill, which led to a fight.

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