In 1958, her daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato to death.

Turner was survived by Cheryl Crane, her only child, and Crane's life partner Joyce "Josh" LeRoy, whom she said she accepted "as a second daughter".

Advocate.com, interview of Cheryl Crane (November 26, 2008)

Also, Cheryl Crane, the daughter of Lana Turner, was not "acquitted" of killing her mother's lover, as Oates says.

On April 4, 1958, at age 14, Cheryl Crane stabbed her mother's boyfriend Johnny Stompanato to death.

In Her Own Words In the late 1950's, Cheryl Crane was probably the most famously troubled teenager in America.

Their daughter, Cheryl Crane, was born on July 25, 1943.

"She just took a breath and she was gone," her daughter, Cheryl Crane, was quoted as saying in Daily Variety, a trade newspaper.

In 1958, after a tumultuous relationship with actress Lana Turner, he was stabbed and killed by Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane.