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Cleotha Henderson has been brought to tribunal connected charges of first-degree execution and first-degree execution successful perpetration of kidnapping successful transportation with the decease of teacher Eliza Fletcher.
Heiress Eliza Fletcher Confirmed Dead After Kidnapping
A antheral suspected of kidnapping and killing Memphis kindergarten teacher Eliza "Liza" Fletcher has been arraigned connected a execution complaint successful transportation to her death.
On Sept. 7, Cleotha Henderson, 38, to whom authorities antecedently referred arsenic Cleotha Abston, appeared successful court for what marked his 2nd arraignment. There, a Shelby County, Tenn. justice revoked a $510,000 enslaved that had been acceptable earlier earlier helium was charged with murder, NBC News reported. He was appointed a nationalist defender and has not entered a plea. He is owed backmost successful tribunal Sept. 8.
Fletcher, 34, was jogging successful a vicinity adjacent the University of Memphis astir 4 a.m. connected Sept. 2 and did not instrumentality home. Police aboriginal recovered surveillance video that showed a man getting retired of a achromatic GMC Terrain, tally toward her and unit her into the rider broadside of the vehicle, according to a constabulary affidavit.
Henderson was arrested connected Sept. 3 for suspected engagement successful Fletcher's disappearance. Authorities said they had matched DNA recovered connected descent sandals located connected the thoroughfare astatine the country of the abduction to his successful an FBI database.
Police besides recovered a achromatic GMC Terrain, bearing the aforesaid distinguishable harm and partial licence sheet recognition seen successful the surveillance video, successful a parking batch adjacent the man's home. Henderson attempted to fly earlier helium was taken into custody, the affidavit added.
Henderson was initially arraigned on charges of kidnapping and tampering with grounds successful transportation with the woman's disappearance. On Sept. 6, constabulary announced connected Twitter that Fletcher's assemblage was recovered down a vacant duplex. Henderson was past issued further charges of first-degree execution and first-degree execution successful the perpetration of kidnapping, NBC News said.
Memphis Police Department
The origin of Fletcher's decease has not yet been released. In their affidavit, constabulary wrote that her "abduction was violent" and that "it is believed and supported by the facts and carnal grounds that she suffered superior injury."
The household of Fletcher, a parent of two, issued a connection pursuing her death. "Liza was specified a joyousness to truthful many—her family, friends, colleagues, students, parents, members of her Second Presbyterian Church congregation, and everyone who knew her," it said. "Now it's clip to retrieve and observe however peculiar she was and to enactment those who cared truthful overmuch for her."
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