Unfortunate Ending: In 1950, Turing decided to move into a home in Manchester and not live in anymore apartments like the earlier times in his life. He was starting to slow down, and then he got into a relationship. When Turing was 38, he met a man named Arnold Murray, who was 19. Quickly, Turing realized that he started to become sexually attracted to Murray. Turing and Murray shared the same feelings for each other. In 1952, a year after they got together, Turing realized that he was missing a lot of money from his wallet, but Murray denied everything and Turing believed him. Murray then also asked Turing for money to help him pay off random debts that Turing had never heard about before. Turing, not realizing what was going on, gave him the money he desired.
Another incidence occurred in 1952. Turing was robbed by a man named Harry. Harry and Murray were friends, and Harry had the idea to break into Turing's home. Murray refused, but Harry followed though with the plan anyway. There was an investigation because Turing didn't know what happened and he wanted to figure things out. Fingerprints were found that belonged to Harry during investigation. But when Harry was caught, he told the police that Turing and Murray were having a sexual relationship. Today, that wouldn't be an issue, but back in the 1950's in England, it was a crime to be sexually attracted to the same gender. Turing then was accused of breaking the law and he admitted to having a sexual relationship with Murray. He even wrote a five page write up on what happened during the affair. The police liked his honesty and how helpful he has been in many fields of research, but he still broke the law and had to be punished in some way. In March 1952, Turing decided to plead guilty because his brother convinced him he was going to be guilty anyway, and it would avoid trial and publicity. Instead of going to jail like most people do, Turing was not going to be locked behind bars because of how much great work he accomplished. He instead received regular injections of estrogen, so he would be prevented from having erections.
Because of Turing's sexual orientation, he was not allowed to be a cryptography consultant to the British intelligence community. He was not allowed to be in any job position that worked with the government because the policy was that homosexuals could not be trusted with state secrets.
Turing started to travel more and go on many vacations to other European countries that were okay with homosexuality because he wanted to be accepted for his sexual orientation. He also started going to a therapist named Franz Greenbaum to try to figure out why he was unhappy. Franz concluded that his sadness had a direct correlation to his mother. Sara, Turing's mother, was always concerned with physical appearances, and was often disappointed in Turing's frayed clothes and messed up hair. When Turing's father died in 1947, Sara started to become more accepting of Turing and proud of him. She also sometimes helped him with his biology research.
In April 1953, Turing was aloud to stop taking his hormonal treatment. A month later after he stopped, Manchester University promised his employment for another five years.
A year later, he wrote an article in a newspaper about the concept of solvable and unsolvable problems. That was a big deal because Turing's writings were always for an audience of people around his intellectual ability. After that article, he wrote a fiction story about a man that was homosexual. He used some of his personal experiences but not personal achievements.
Out of nowhere, Turing died on June 7th, 1954. The people who investigated his death ruled it a suicide, but Sara thought differently. Turing was found in bed right next to a half eaten apple. It was normal to have an apple before he went to bed every night. His examination showed that he died from cyanide poising. Sara thinks his death was all an accident. She said that he worked a lot with cyanide for research and wasn't careful enough. She thought that one day, when he was working with cyanide, he didn't wash his hands before he went to bed. Her thought was that he got cyanide on the apple and then digested it. Nobody ever thought that Turing was suicidal, they thought he always had a positive attitude, even though he was unhappy sometimes. It was tragic because he was only 41, about to be 42, when he passed away. He made so many scientific and mathematic discoveries, who knows what else he would have been able to discover.
Above is a picture of a statue of Alan Turing in Bletchley Park.