Left to Die | Lacey Fletcher & Valerie Wallach

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🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Lacey Fletcher’s childhood, growing up in Slaughter, Louisiana seemed to be fairly normal. She played volleyball and had a close group of friends. There are public photos of a smiling Lacey taken from her yearbook and neighbors recall interacting with her and seeing her regularly out exercising.

When Lacey reached the age of 14, something happened. Her parents withdrew her from school and allegedly began to home school her. They have said that she was diagnosed with autism and her condition became more severe around this time.

Nobody saw Lacey in public for over a decade. Her mother Sheila called 911 in January 2022 to report that Lacey was unresponsive on the couch. When authorities arrived, they were met with the most horrific scene they had ever encountered. 'I have been a sheriff for six years, and I have had a lot of things happen here in East Feliciana Parish, but this type of scene, this is by far the worst,' Sheriff Jeffery Travis said.

Lacey had essentially been left to rot and die on the couch in her home. Her mother has said she refused to get up to use the bathroom, so she lay in her own excrement for years. The details of Lacey’s sad death are so horrific that medical staff were on hand to treat jurors after they saw photos of the scene.

In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the deaths of Lacey Fletcher and Valerie Wallach. Both women were left to die in agony in their own homes.

You can read our blog for their cases here - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2022/05/22/murder-by-neglect-the-death-of-lacey-fletcher/

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0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:23.6	What's up guys? Open to another episode of True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia.
0:28.4	It is Thursday, May 19th, 634, as usual sitting in the cell closet with my cats ready to go.
0:38.7	The weather report um it might rain in a few minutes. It's been pretty warm here. It's going to be like
0:45.0	90 this weekend which is a little crazy. How about you? It's um being still yeah like some of the
0:51.1	mornings have been absolutely freezing but it's been quite nice during the days like that's what
0:56.0	it is here like it doesn't ever get super cold it doesn't snow where I live so um it's quite
1:01.5	pleasant at the moment you know how I really want it to get too much colder but we have pretty
1:06.2	generally mild winters anyway here where I live but yeah it's been nice no rain I think the
1:10.2	rain's meant to come back for the weekend as usual. Here's my cat here's peep on the desk ready to
1:18.2	help put her in my lap see if she'll stay. I was just gonna say we had lots of messages about how
1:23.9	he spoke about the Akidna Elmo and Daisy last week he's still around I do think from what I've
1:28.9	read he will hibernate soon as it gets a little bit colder. I hope not like I do find now he's
1:36.0	because we have an acreage and some of it doesn't get a lot of sunning winter so when I was sitting
1:41.0	around lately he's only in the sunny bits which makes sense so um I don't know he was here yesterday
1:47.6	I haven't seen him yet this morning I hope he comes back I'll be sad when he goes away for the winter.
1:52.8	You need to put out like a heating lamp. Yeah stay out the tanning bed. Vicky's I should have
2:00.2	purchased it. Yeah it's probably cheap. But yeah he's still around he's very cute I know lots of
2:06.3	people asked so he put a photo up on our Instagram story last night I think it was my time of him
2:11.2	and Daisy so still friends however their friendship might be short lived for a little while in the winter
2:18.3	yeah wonder what she'll find to entertain herself over winter. Are there any winter critters?
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