Eliza Fletcher: Mother, Teacher, Heiress, and Victim

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 45 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.

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	BODY Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
0:20.4	Well we've been waiting.
0:25.2	We've been waiting to try to find out what actually happened to a loss of
0:30.3	Fletcher.
0:34.0	Now we've got those answers.
0:42.6	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is BODY Bags.
0:51.6	With me is a friend Jackie Howard, executive producer for Crown Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:58.3	Jackie, we've been waiting that way.
1:00.0	We've been waiting to finally get some detailed answers relative to what happened to
1:08.6	a loss of Fletcher.
1:09.8	What brought about her death specifically?
1:12.4	We've heard a lot out there.
1:14.4	Now we finally have some details, don't we?
1:17.6	We do.
1:18.6	Eliza Fletcher, 34-year-old teacher from Memphis, went missing during a pre-dawn run and she
1:24.5	was killed.
1:25.5	Her body was found four days later.
1:27.5	What we know now is that she died a very violent death.
1:32.8	We already had intimations of that from the fact that her body was found decomposed.
1:38.6	Her clothing was in a separate location from her body.
1:41.8	So we did know that she had a very violent death.
1:45.6	The information that's coming out with the release of the autopsy shows us just how violent
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