The tragic life of Lacey Fletcher, the woman who melted into the couch

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Lacey Fletcher was on the volleyball team when she is in 9th grade, and she looks like any other healthy teen. But her parents say she is "on the spectrum" and take her out of school and take her home. For the next 20 years, they don't take their daughter to the doctor, they don't do anything with her until she becomes totally non-verbal. For the last 12 years of her life she didn't move from her spot on the couch, she slept in her spot, she ate in her spot, she went to the bathroom in her spot, and it was rarely cleaned. Lacey Fletcher dies at 36, after withstanding years of pain and suffering. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look behind the sofa to answer the questions about the woman who melted into the couch.

Transcript Highlights

00:02:40Talking about melting

00:06:22 Talk about smell of urine, feces, nothing cleaned

00:09:46 Talk about staying in same spot for years

00:12:46 Discussion of healthy and active to dead on the couch

00:15:14 Talk about Lacey Fletcher on the couch 20 years

00:19:25 Discuss bed sores joining with other bed sores

00:23:15 Talk about chronic bone infection

00:27:17 Describing her condition at 36-years-old

00:31:10 Discussion of weight as Lacey Fletcher weighed 96 pounds

00:34:53 Talk about maggots in her body

00:38:56 How did Lacey Fletcher get covid?

00:42:01 Discussion – she is non-verbal, always in pain, and trapped

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. You can say many things about my beloved home state of Louisiana that will give you a sense of what
0:27.5	people think about the place.
0:29.7	You know the first thing I think of is the love that I have for my family that are there.
0:35.0	Think about our food, our cuisine.
0:38.0	Arguably, I'd argue with anybody probably the most unique in the US. You can talk about our music. No one touches our music,
0:48.8	whether it's Zodico or country and western or
0:58.0	or the jazz clubs that inhabit those dark spaces in the French quarter.
1:07.0	But one thing I think that everybody can consistently come to grips with when it comes to New Orleans. It's a temperature and I can't tell you over the years how many people I've heard say that they have never been so hot as they were on a trip to New Orleans
1:25.0	during the middle of summer. And that brings about thoughts.
1:28.0	You think about, well, how did your ancestors ever survive
1:31.0	in that environment before days of conditioned air, if you will.
1:38.6	You feel like you're going to melt. But you know, there is a young woman.
1:47.0	Actually there was a young woman.
1:51.0	Actually, there was a young woman.
1:55.0	She's no longer with us.
1:57.0	And she died, but what was left behind of her has been described in terms of having melted away.
2:16.0	And I can tell you this.
2:17.8	It had nothing to do with the heat of Louisiana.
2:25.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
2:30.0	It's often said I think you know that you can never take off enough clothes when it's hot outside Dave.
2:44.4	Some people will say well if it's cold I can always bundle up I can get layer upon layer.
2:48.9	Now I know my friends up in Minnesota and North Dakota and
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