The State - News from Oct. 7, 1986

Retired Adm. Stansfield Turner and his adopted daughter sued each other over ownership of a house in Walnut Creek. Turner, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency in the Carter Administration, said Laurel Turner Armbrister, 41, and her husband sold their home to him for $145,000. But the Armbristers said Turner had promised to will the house to them at his death--a promise on which he reneged when he was divorced from Mrs. Armbrister’s mother. Turner said his daughter threatened to hire someone to kill him, and his son-in-law dropped a two-pound statuette on him. Mrs. Armbrister said the threat was “ludicrous” and her husband called the dropping of the statuette a “little accident.” But Turner said the statuette incident prompted him to disinherit everyone--except his former secretary, who is now his fiancee.