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Heiress Eliza Fletcher Confirmed Dead After Kidnapping
More accusation on Eliza Fletcher's decease has travel to light.
The kindergarten teacher—whose passing was confirmed on Sept. 5—died from a gunshot coiled to the backmost of her caput and besides had "blunt-force injuries to her close limb and jaw fractures," according to an autopsy study obtained by the Associated Press.
On Sept. 2 Fletcher was retired moving erstwhile a information video from the country showed a idiosyncratic attack her and forcibly put her into the backmost of an SUV, according to Memphis police.
Two days aft her disappearance, Cleotha Abston was charged with kidnapping and tampering with grounds successful transportation to the crime. When her assemblage was found, additional charges of first-degree execution and first-degree execution successful the perpetration of kidnapping were added.
Following quality of Fletcher's death, galore tributes from friends and family began pouring in.
"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," a Sept. 6 statement from her family read. "Now it's clip to retrieve and observe however peculiar she was and to enactment those who cared truthful overmuch for her."
Senior pastor George Robertson told mourners that though "Liza didn't person the resume of a satellite changer," the alteration she made within her assemblage was insurmountable.
"She struggled done schoolhouse and her assemblage shot vocation was chopped short. She battled her mode to decorativeness college," helium said, per New York Post. "Then she got her master's grade and joined Richie and had her beauteous boys and became a kindergarten teacher."
He added, "She was a airy and besides a joy. It is close for america to grieve, but fto america grieve with hope. Let's transportation connected the bequest of our beloved sister."
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