In 1989, a distraught father was filmed finding the body of his 5-year-old son. He's now accused in the boy's murder.

A South Carolina man who was seen crying on TV upon finding his dead son's body during the filming of a harrowing 1989 news broadcast has now been charged in the boy's killing, authorities announced this week. Victor Lee Turner and Megan R. Turner, the child's stepmother, were both arrested Wednesday at their home in Cross Hill, and charged with murder.

The couple's 5-year-old son, Justin Turner, was found dead on March 5, 1989, inside of a cabinet in his family's small camper, which at the time was parked near their home. After police officers and community members launched an extensive search for the boy reported missing two days earlier, it was his father who discovered the body. Footage shows Victor Turner opening the doors to the family camper, stepping inside and, distraught, backing out of the vehicle while telling the search crew, "My son's in there." The archived footage was part of a news segment filmed by reporters at WCBD-TV, an NBC affiliate station based Charleston.

It has been more than three decades since Justin Turner's body was found, but investigators were only able to make headway in the cold case after reopening it in 2021, the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. The office said it has a unit that reviews old cold cases "for new information or the application of new technology" that may help to solve them. In this instance, detectives reviewed evidence collected during the autopsy, and at the scene where the child's body was discovered, and submitted it for forensic tests and analysis. That led to the arrests of Victor Turner and Megan Turner, who previously went by the name Pamela Turner, according to the sheriff's office.