James Woo will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend, Julie Tureson. In what District Attorney Dan May called one of the fastest homicide verdicts he's ever prosecuted, a jury found Woo guilty Tuesday morning.
He was then immediately sentenced to life in prison without the option of parole. Woo was convicted for killing year-old Julie Tureson, his ex-mistress. Tureson's body was found handcuffed to the inside of a car door inside a storage unit along Platte Avenue on April 22, Prosecutors say Woo was attempting to hide the odor of her corpse by covering it in baking soda. Courthouse staff said no family was present for James Woo as they were organizing the long line of spectators and media gathered outside of the courtroom for the start of the murder trial.
Woo is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, Julie Tureson, and leaving her body inside her van, which was parked in a locked storage unit in April Documents in the case had been sealed, but information was finally made public during opening statements that started on Wednesday. Prosecutors laid out their case during opening statements.
They said the mother of four put her kids to bed the night before her disappearance. Woo and Tureson reportedly had a tumultuous relationship over the last few years before her murder. They had reportedly broken up not long before she was killed. The prosecution showed surveillance images of Woo renting out the storage unit 12 days before the murder.
Other images showed Woo buying four jugs of vinegar, eight boxes of baking soda and four rolls of duct tape. It shows someone eventually walking out about an hour later. That person is caught on a different surveillance camera throwing something away at a Walgreens near the storage units. He was in Seattle about to board a flight to Hong Kong. The prosecution alleges Woo deliberated, planned and murdered Tureson.
