A decomposing body found in the tall grass behind a vacant building has been identified as Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher. The mom of two vanished last Friday during an early morning jog. Less than a mile from the kidnapping site, officers combing the area noticed footprints, tire tracks and “an odor of decay.” A pair …
A Texas woman is facing attempted kidnapping charges after police say she tried to take a child who was inside a Walmart store with her mother. According to an arrest affidavit, the incident happened at a San Antonio Walmart on Sunday, as a mother was shopping in the store with her 4-year-old child. The suspect, …
A New Hampshire man will admit on Wednesday that he killed his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son last year. The Boston Globe reported that Joseph Stapf, 31, will plead guilty to manslaughter, second-degree assault, falsifying physical evidence, and witness tampering. Stapf was dating Elijah Lewis’ mother at the time of his disappearance and death. In October, a …
Attorneys for missing Harmony Montgomery’s father are pushing to know what kind of deals prosecutors made with witnesses scheduled to testify on his weapons and theft charges. Adam Montgomery’s lawyers filed a motion at the Manchester court in New Hampshire this week, and according to the Union Leader, they’re casting “doubt on the stolen firearms …
An Iowa girl will be sentenced on Wednesday for killing her alleged rapist when she was 15. Pieper Lewis, 17, said in a plea agreement that she stabbed Zachary Brooks, 30 times in June 2020 after he raped her multiple times in the weeks leading up to the slaying. The teen claimed she did not …
A Washington teen accused of killing his mother’s former boyfriend claims that the victim’s “biker buddies” pushed him into robbery and murder. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Gabriel Michael Davies, 16, and another teen, identified as 16-year-old Justin Jiwoon Yoon, were arrested Friday and subsequently charged with suspected burglary, murder, and unlawful possession of a firearm. …
The man charged with the abduction and murder of Memphis mom Eliza Fletcher appeared again in court on Wednesday and was ordered held without bond. Abston, called Henderson by the court because that is his “true valid name,” appeared Tuesday on kidnapping and tampering with evidence charges, as CrimeOnline reported. He was ordered back to …
The suspect in the kidnapping and killing of Memphis mom Eliza Fletcher may well face the death penalty, CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says. Prosecutors have not said if they will seek execution for Cleotha Abston, 38, which in Tennessee could come in the form of either lethal injection or electrocution. “This is a qualifier to the …
Memphis police have arrested one of two suspects in the kidnapping of a mom and her 1-year-old child last week as the mom was loading groceries into her car in a Target parking lot. As CrimeOnline previously reported, an armed man demanded cash from the mother and then grabbed the toddler from her car and …
Surveillance video obtained by WREG shows Cleotha Abston arriving at his brother’s apartment complex just hours after he allegedly abducted Memphis mom Eliza Fletcher during her morning jog. The video ultimately shows Abston spending an hour cleaning the passenger side of the black GMC Terrain.
Eliza Fletcher, a 34-year old mother of Memphis, Tennessee went missing around 4:20 am, on September 2nd, 2022 while out for a morning run. CCTV footage shows her being forced into an SUV. An arrest has been made in connection to her disappearance. Eliza Fletcher’s remains have now been found and positively identified. Joseph Scott Morgan …
A Florida judge on Tuesday denied an attempt by OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney’s attorney to restrict potential evidence in her upcoming trial on charges that she stabbed her boyfriend to death in their luxury Miami apartment earlier this year. Clenney, 26, was arrested in Hawaii last month and brought back to Florida to stand trial …
