Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: Eliza Fletcher Mother, Teacher, Heiress, and Victim
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 16 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Eliza Fletcher, a Memphis teacher and mother, is reported missing the morning of September 2, 2022 after she doesn't return home from her morning jog. A search is launched shortly thereafter and comes to an end on September 5th when her body is found by police. Suspect, Cleotha Abston has been arrested and charged for her murder.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss what the autopsy report shows, what her cause of death was determined to be, what drugs were found in her system, and more.
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Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Background and overview of case
1:42 - The autopsy report: how you read it and what you learn from it
16:17 - Eliza’s cause of death
22:16 - What the gunshot wound tells us
26:23 - Internal and external beveling
28:03 - Le Fort fracture
32:25 - Submission
34:10 - Fentanyl
40:13 - Was Eliza Fletcher raped?
43:36 - Wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | What if you had the chance to change the past? |
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| 0:51.0 | Well, we've been waiting. |
| 0:53.0 | We've been waiting to try to find out what actually happened to a loss of |
| 1:00.0 | pleasure. |
| 1:03.0 | Now, we've got those answers. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags. |
| 1:17.0 | With me is a friend Jackie Howard, executive producer for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 1:28.0 | Jackie, we've been waiting that way. |
| 1:30.0 | We've been waiting to finally get some detailed answers relative to what happened to |
| 1:38.0 | a loss of pleasure. |
| 1:40.0 | What brought about her death specifically? |
| 1:43.0 | What brought a lot out there? Now we finally have some details. |
| 1:48.0 | We do. A lot of the FUTURE 34-year-old teacher from Memphis went missing during a |
| 1:53.0 | pre-dawn run and she was killed. Her body was found four days later. |
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