On October 30, 2008, 16-year-old Aaron Turner left his Coatesville, Pennsylvania home on Chester Avenue around 3:00 p.m. He was headed to a community service assignment at the Community, Youth and Women’s Alliance on Lincoln Highway. A junior at Coatesville Area Senior High School who also took auto mechanics classes, Aaron was last seen wearing blue jeans, a red hoodie, and black Converse sneakers. He had black hair in a natural afro, brown eyes, and tattoos of the letter A on one hand and T on the other.

Initial inquiries treated Aaron as a runaway, but the investigation shifted after searches of a nearby house turned up firearms, marijuana, bloody clothing, and two bloodstained chainsaws that smelled of human remains. DNA testing matched the blood to Aaron, and his DNA was also found on a bloodstained jacket with a bullet hole. A visiting relative later told police that Aaron had been forced into a basement at gunpoint, shot, and that his body was dismembered and placed in trash bags. Extensive searches of a local landfill have not recovered a body.

Anyone with information about Aaron, his last movements on October 30, 2008, or what happened after he left his home is asked to come forward.