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November 07, 2022 What Happened to Murdered Georgia Mom Debbie Collier?
While there aren't many concrete investigative details surrounding the woman's initial disappearance, here's everything we know about the case: Deborrah Todd Collier was a 59-year-old Athens resident, according to police. Police identified Collier's adult daughter as Amanda Bearden. She told investigators that her mother had no history of mental illness and that she had a "bad back," indicating to law enforcement she couldn't walk far on foot. Carriage House Realty, Inc. in Athens employed someone by the name of Debbie Collier as a Front Office Manager, according to the website. The company's social media had not publicly acknowledged Debbie Collier's death as of Sept. 22. Debbie Collier appears to have shared a Facebook account with her husband, Steve Collier. Collier was reported missing from Athens on Sept. 10. Her daughter, Amanda Bearden, told investigators that her mother’s car was in the shop at the time and that she left home in a rented Chrysler Pacifica SUV, carrying only her license and a debit card. Based on the incident report narrative from the Habersham County Sheriff's Office, Athens-Clarke County police received assistance from Habersham deputies on Sept. 11. Disturbing details were revealed in the case of Georgia's mother stripped, burned, and killed Athens-Clarke County police are revealing more of the disturbing details surrounding Debbie Collier's death. She is the woman who was found naked, partially burned, dead, and "grasping a small tree" in the woods. In the afternoon on Sept. 11, Habersham County deputies and Tallulah Falls Police Department officers responded to the area on Ga. Highway 15 in Clarkesville where Collier's car was reported. A police sergeant found a car parked in an apparent "pull-off" that led to an old logging road off Ga. Highway 15 on the northbound side, according to an incident report. A Tallulah Falls police officer told investigators the car was in the same spot at around 5 p.m. on Sept. 10. In the investigative report, the officer said it's ordinary for cars to pull over in the area. A memorial sits on the side of the road where the Athens woman’s body was found. The car was unlocked and empty, according to the investigative narrative. Law enforcement called Georgia State Patrol Aviation for help. Someone working for Sirius XM contacted Habersham County Sheriff's Office investigators on behalf of Athens-Clarke County police regarding the location of Debbie Collier's car. The satellite radio provider said there was a signal coming from Ga. Highway 15 and Victory Home Lane in Clarkesville. Not every car with Sirius XM is capable of being tracked by law enforcement. The GBI crime lab is annalizing Debbie Collier's body and items from her car. Investigators' findings are still pending. #DebbieCollier #truecrime #JusticeForDebbie SUBSCRIBE HERE: www.youtube.com/c/deeptruecrime?sub_confirmation=1 SUPPORT MY WORK Buy Me a Coffee ☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/deeptruecrime ☕ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA www.twitter.com/deeptruecrime www.facebook.com/deeptruecrime www.tiktok.com/@deeptruecrime www.instagram.com/deeptruecrime Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research.
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October 31, 2022 St. Louis 'Package Killer' Caught After 32 Years | While Serving Life Sentence For Another Murder
Gary Muehlberg has confessed to at least 4 killings after being sentenced to a life sentence without the possibility of parole. On March 26, 1990, the body of 19-year-old Robyn J. Mihan was discovered alongside a Highway stuffed between two mattresses in Silex, Missouri. She had been reported missing four days prior on March 22. An autopsy showed that she had been strangled, and her hands were bound together. She had worked as a prostitute. On June 11, 1990, the body of 40-year-old Donna Reitmeyer was found inside a rubber trash bin near South Broadway. Her body was so badly decomposed that the cause of death remains unknown, but signs of violence were located. On October 4, the body of a woman was found inside a plastic trash can along a roadside near Interstate 270 by a jogger who had noticed a foul odor. The woman remained unidentified for months until police were able to confirm the woman was 27-year-old Brenda Jean Pruitt, whose family had reported her missing on May 9. On February 17, 1991, the body of a woman was found stuffed in a wooden box along the I-70. The victim was found to have been wearing a stocking cap, and authorities released the type of cap in hopes to identify the body. She was identified as 21-year-old Sandy Little, who had been missing since September 4, 1990. She was found to have worked as a sex worker. On May 12, 1991, the body of 37-year-old Sandra Cain was found on the road along Interstate 44. An autopsy wasn't able to confirm the cause of death but narrowed it down to that she either had been hit by a car or thrown off the overpass. Cain had worked as a sex worker, and reportedly, victim Sandy Little had told Cain to not go with the man in the station wagon. It is speculated that the man is the killer. #PackageKiller #STLPackageKiller #GaryMuehlberg #truecrime SUBSCRIBE HERE: www.youtube.com/c/deeptruecrime?sub_confirmation=1 SUPPORT MY WORK Buy Me a Coffee ☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/deeptruecrime ☕ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA www.twitter.com/deeptruecrime www.facebook.com/deeptruecrime www.tiktok.com/@deeptruecrime www.instagram.com/deeptruecrime Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research.
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October 29, 2022 Tim Norman of 'Welcome to Sweetie Pie's' Had Nephew Murdered
A federal jury on Friday convicted a former star of the St. Louis-based reality TV show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” of arranging the shooting death of his nephew.
The jury deliberated about 17 hours over three days before reaching its verdict in the murder-for-hire case against James “Tim” Norman, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
Norman and his nephew, Andre Montgomery, both starred in the long-running OWN reality show about a popular soul-food business founded in the St. Louis area by Robbie Montgomery — Norman’s mother and Andre’s grandmother.
Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty but Norman could be sentenced to life in prison. Sentencing is set for Dec. 15.
Federal prosecutors said Norman, 43, hired two people to kill the 21-year-old Montgomery on March 14, 2016, then tried to cash a $450,000 life insurance policy taken out on his nephew months earlier.
Defense attorney Michael Leonard said after the verdict that he and Norman were “extremely surprised and disappointed in the outcome” of the case. He said they plan to appeal and that Norman continues to be optimistic that he will eventually prevail.
Leonard said the testimony during the trial of two co-conspirators was shown to be “extremely non-credible.” And he said Norman testified well during the trial, noting he was not cross-examined.
U.S. Attorney Sayler Fleming said she was “very, very pleased” with the verdict but that her office would make no further statements until after the sentencing.
During closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Angie Danis said Norman was the architect of the plan to kill Montgomery.
“This plan doesn’t exist but for Tim Norman’s greed,” Danis said.
Leonard argued in his closing argument that the murder plot presented by prosecutors was a “made up theory.”
Prosecutors said Norman paid $10,000 to an exotic dancer, Terica Ellis, to lure his nephew to the site where he was shot and paid $5,000 to Travell Anthony Hill to shoot Montgomery.
Ellis and Hill both testified for the prosecution in the case. They have both pleaded guilty to participating in the scheme.
In testimony during the trial, Norman said he helped his nephew move to St. Louis about 18 months before he was killed and supported him financially because he was trying to watch out for Montgomery. He said he sought to be a “father figure” to his brother’s son.
Former Sweetie Pie’s employees and other character witnesses testified that Norman and his nephew had a close relationship.
Danis said all the testimony from the scheme’s co-conspirators was backed up in trial by texts, call records, and location data.
She said Norman created “an image of being a mentor and a father figure to all these people, but it’s fiction.”
Leonard said during his closing argument that Ellis testified to get a shorter sentence and said Hill admitted he was a heavy drug user and that he was “hopped up on drugs that day.”
Norman testified Tuesday that he took out the life insurance policy on his nephew to give a longtime customer of the family restaurants, Waiel Rebhi Yaghnam, some business.
Yaghnam pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and wire fraud in the case.
Montgomery left St. Louis after at least $220,000 in cash, jewelry, and other items were stolen in a June 2015 burglary at Robbie Montgomery’s home.
Norman told jurors he and his mother hired a private investigator to find and confront his nephew about the robbery but he had no intention of hurting him.
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October 07, 2022 Public Administrator, Robert Telles, Kills Investigative Reporter Who Outed His Wrong Doings
The Las Vegas official accused of killing a journalist who wrote negative stories about him was all smiles during his first court appearance — as prosecutors slapped him with premeditated murder charges. Disgraced Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, handcuffed around his bandaged wrists and arms, smirked and nodded at the judge during his brief arraignment. Telles, 45, is accused of “lying in wait” outside 69-year-old Jeff German’s home on Sept. 2 before stabbing the veteran journalist to death. Prosecutors said the crime was a “willful, deliberate and premeditated” murder, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday. German, of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covered public corruption and had previously exposed Telles’ workplace misconduct, including an alleged ‘inappropriate relationship’ he was having with estate coordinator Roberta Lee-Kennett, 45, who is also married. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told reporters he did not anticipate pressing additional charges against Telles, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Telles’ defense attorney, Travis Shelter, said he “needed more time” and asked to continue the hearing for another week, which the judge allowed. “We consider him to be a flight risk and a danger to the community, so when the bail issue arises, we’re going to argue for a very high bail,” Wolfson said after the court hearing. Investigators said DNA found under German’s fingernails matched samples taken from Telles, which lead to his arrest. During a press conference on Sept.8, Capt. Dori Koren, head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Homicide and Sex Crimes Bureau, said investigators also found a straw hat and gray sneakers at Telles’ home that were cut into several pieces, which was a “likely attempt to destroy evidence.” Video surveillance from near the crime scene showed a man wearing a large straw hat, an orange shirt with reflective stripes, black pants, and gray sneakers walking to and from German’s home on Sept 3. German was found unresponsive and lying outside of his home at around 11:30 a.m. At the time of his death, German had been seeking further information, including copies of text messages, sent by Telles. The Public Administrator, a Democrat, had been running for re-election when German’s stories were first published. He then lost a primary in June. Telles is scheduled to appear back in court for his arraignment on Sept. 20. #RobertTelles #JeffGerman #TrueCrime SUBSCRIBE HERE: www.youtube.com/c/deeptruecrime?sub_c... SUPPORT MY WORK Buy Me a Coffee ☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/deeptrue... ☕ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA www.twitter.com/deeptruecrime www.facebook.com/deeptruecrime www.tiktok.com/@deeptruecrime www.instagram.com/deeptruecrime Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research.
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October 06, 2022 Memphis Teenager Live Streamed His Terrible Assault of the City
A gunman who live-streamed himself driving around Memphis shooting at people, killing three and wounding three others in seemingly random attacks, was finally arrested after crashing a stolen car, police said early Thursday.
The hours-long rampage had police warning people across the city to shelter in place, locking down a baseball stadium and university campuses, and suspending public bus services as frightened residents wondered where the man might strike next.
Memphis Police Director Cerelyn "CJ" Davis said four people were killed and three others were wounded in seven shootings and at least two carjackings before Ezekiel Kelly was arrested without incident at around 9 p.m.
Kelly, 19, was released early from a prison sentence for aggravated assault, court records show, raising a sore point between the city's mayor and the county's top prosecutor that played out before the cameras at an early Thursday news conference.
"This is no way for us to live and it is not acceptable," said Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, who later pounded the podium as he demanded accountability. "If Mr. Kelly served his full three-year sentence, he would still be in prison today and four of our fellow citizens would still be alive," he said.
The first killing was at 12:56 a.m. Wednesday and officers responded to three more crime scenes before receiving a tip at 6:12 p.m. that the suspect was live streaming himself threatening to cause harm to citizens, Davis said.
In one clip from the video, the suspect casually speaks to the camera before opening the door to an AutoZone store and shooting someone inside with what appeared to be a pistol. That man was taken to a hospital in critical condition. In another, a man narrates himself driving — "green light, green light" — and sings "no faking." At one point, he fires two rapid bursts of gunfire out the driver's window while driving. Referring to police, he says he's going to "go down to the valley, shoot it out with them in the valley."
Three more shootings and two carjackings followed after police sent out an alert warning people to be on the lookout for an armed and dangerous man responsible for multiple shootings and reportedly recording his actions on Facebook.
Police said he killed a woman in Memphis as he took her grey Toyota SUV, which he left behind when he stole a man's Dodge Challenger across the state line in Southaven, Mississippi.
Kelly was arrested without incident two hours after the initial police alert when he crashed the Challenger during a high-speed chase, and two guns were found in the vehicle, Davis said.
As the shooter terrorized the city, buses stopped running and the Memphis Redbirds cleared the field during their minor-league baseball game.
Police received "numerous tips" from the public during the ordeal, Davis said.
The University of Memphis sent a message to students saying a shooting had been reported near the campus. Rhodes College, which is about 4 miles away from the university, advised students on and off campus to shelter in place. Kelly was ultimately arrested in the Memphis neighborhood of Whitehaven, about 11 miles from the two campuses.
Memphis has been shaken by several high-profile killings in recent weeks, including the shooting of a pastor during a daylight carjacking in her driveway, the shooting of an activist during an argument over money, and the slaying of a jogger abducted during her pre-dawn run.
"I understand it feels like so much violence and evil to experience in such a short time," Memphis City Council member Chase Carlisle said on Twitter. "We are SO much more than this."
In February 2020, Kelly, then 17, was charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault, using a firearm to commit a dangerous felony and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, court records show.
Records show he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced in April 2021 to three years. Kelly was released from prison in March, 11
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October 05, 2022 Pike County Massacre | Family Kills Family for Custody of Child
Eight members of the same family were executed in a remote area of southern Ohio one night six years ago, and four members of another family were charged for the shocking slayings that stunned the country.
After numerous delays, George Wagner IV, 30, is the first defendant in the case to go to trial, which began last week in Pike County Court with the seating of 12 jurors.
After seven adults and one teenager were found shot to death at three trailers and a camper on April 22, 2016, authorities launched what became the largest criminal investigation in Ohio’s history.
Rumors initially swirled that a Mexican cartel may have been responsible due to two family members’ alleged role in a marijuana-growing operation.
But the probe ultimately led to the arrest of George Wagner IV, his brother, Edward “Jake” Wagner, their mother Angela Wagner, and their father George “Billy” Wagner III.
Officials said the Wagners spent months planning the killings and were motivated by a custody fight between Jake Wagner and a child he had with victim Hanna Rhoden.
The victims were Christopher Rhoden, Sr., 40, his ex-wife Dana Manley Rhoden, 37, and their three children: Hanna Rhoden, 19, Christopher Rhoden Jr., 16, and Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 20.
Frankie Rhoden’s fiancée, Hannah “Hazel” Gilley, 20, was also killed, along with the elder Christopher Rhoden’s brother Kenneth Rhoden, 44, and cousin Gary Rhoden, 38.
Most of the victims were repeatedly shot in the head as they slept. The killers spared two infants and a toddler who were later found splattered with their parent’s blood.
Some of the victims were collateral damage, “killed because they happened to be there,” according to special prosecutor Angela Canepa.
Prosecutors say Jake Wagner began dating Hanna Rhoden when she was 13 and conceived a child with her two years later when he was 20, according to prosecutors.
The couple split and a vicious fight over custody of their daughter soon erupted. Rhoden refused to sign papers agreeing to share custody with George Wagner IV.
“They will have to kill me first,” she wrote in a message on Facebook in December 2015.
Unbeknownst to her, the Wagners had seen the message after Angela Wagner allegedly hacked into her Facebook account.
Rhoden had also become pregnant with another man’s child, and Jake Wagner didn’t want their daughter exposed to her new boyfriend or his family, according to prosecutors.
The Wagners allegedly began plotting Rhoden’s demise and anyone else in her family that they felt stood in the way of custody.
Rhoden wasn’t the first ex allegedly targeted by the Wagners.
Tabitha Claytor, George Wagner IV’s ex-wife with whom he shares a son, told investigators she signed court papers under pressure from the family giving up custody with a promise that the arrangement was temporary.
But the Wagners allegedly wouldn’t let her see him.
George “Billy” Wagner III has pleaded not guilty and is set to go to trial after his son.
In a surprise move, Jake Wagner pleaded guilty last year to multiple counts of murder and other charges on the fifth anniversary of the executions.
The 29-year-old confessed to killing five of the victims in a plea deal that will spare him the death penalty if he testifies against his brother and father.
He said in court he was “deeply and very sorry” for what he’d done, and his lawyer added that Wagner understood that he would spend the rest of his life behind bars.
After her son turned on the family, Angela Wagner soon followed, giving prosecutors new information and asking for a deal.
She pleaded guilty to helping plan the murder — which she was not present for — and agreed to testify against her husband and son in exchange for a recommended prison term of 30 years.
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October 04, 2022 'Bones In Yard' - Stalked His Prey, Then Killed His Co-Worker Holly Grim
The man who kidnapped and killed his coworker in 2013 will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Michael Horvath was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole, followed by 10-20 years in prison, in the killing of Holly Grim. He addressed the court and the Grim family during the sentencing hearing Thursday morning: "I am sorry for their loss, but judge, I did not commit this murder and I am going to fight this until the end." Judge Margherita Worthington said this case was "probably one of the most horrifying crimes" she's ever presided over, noting the impact on Grim's family members "went well beyond her death." She said, based on the evidence presented during the trial earlier this summer, she believes Grim wasn't killed right away, and she must have "been in incredible terror, fear and horror, (enduring) things you only see in movies." "If he could do one good thing, he would tell us what he did with the rest of her, and he can't do that," another family member said. Grim's partial remains were found on Horvath's Ross Township, Monroe County property in 2016, three years after she went missing. Investigators say Horvath obsessively stalked and tracked Grim, with whom he worked at Allen Organ, before kidnapping her from her Lower Macungie Township home in November 2013, torturing her, and ultimately killing her. Worthington convicted him in June on charges of homicide, kidnapping, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse in the nearly-decade-old case. #MichaelHorvath #HollyGrim #TrueCrimeStories SUBSCRIBE HERE: www.youtube.com/c/deeptruecrime?sub_c... SUPPORT MY WORK Buy Me a Coffee ☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/deeptrue... ☕ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA www.twitter.com/deeptruecrime www.facebook.com/deeptruecrime www.tiktok.com/@deeptruecrime www.instagram.com/deeptruecrime Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research.
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October 03, 2022 The HORRIFIC Story of the Kidnapped Heiress Eliza Fletcher
Eliza Fletcher suspect was reportedly a ‘weird pervert’ who tried to pay neighbors for sex
New details emerge in ‘violent’ kidnapping of missing Memphis teacher
Abston was later convicted of aggravated robbery, as well as especially aggravated kidnapping — the latter being one of two charges he was again hit with Sunday for allegedly abducting Fletcher, the 34-year-old teacher and hardware heiress who had still not been found Monday.
He was sentenced in 2001 to serve 24 years in prison — and Durand fought for him to remain locked up when he tried to challenge the sentence, according to records obtained by the Commercial Appeal.
“My feelings about being the victim of this crime, and the feelings of those around me, are that I was extremely lucky that I was able to escape from the custody of Cleotha Abston,” the attorney wrote in a victim impact statement objecting to the 2003 bid, the paper noted.
“It was very fortunate that an armed, uniformed Memphis Housing Authority guard happened to come” across them, he reportedly wrote.
“It is quite likely that I would have been killed had I not escaped.”
In sharp contrast, Durand had testified on behalf of Abston’s co-accused, Marquette Cobbins, to try to get him a lighter sentence, his law firm noted.
“As Kemper saw it, the man was at the wrong place with the wrong person at the wrong time,” his law firm said, making clear that the late attorney always viewed Abston as his sole kidnapper.
He testified to hearing Cobbins begging Abston to “stop the car, let this man out, give him his keys, and go!”
Eliza Fletcher was jogging before she was violently abducted Friday.
Tennessee teacher and hardware heiress Eliza Fletcher was snatched Friday during her regular 4 a.m. jog.
Durand died in early February 2013. Abston was released in November 2020, the Commercial Appeal said.
He was busted Sunday after DNA testing on a pair of sandals left at the site of Fletcher’s abduction, with video footage later showing him allegedly violently abducting the mom during her daily early morning jog.
His phone also put him at the scene, and video footage showed he had been stalking the area for at least 24 minutes before Fletcher was grabbed, according to an affidavit.
Before his arrest, he was also seen washing the inside of his work SUV and scrubbing his clothes while “acting very strange,” according to the document.
Abston, 38, is being held on a $500,000 bond on charges of tampering with evidence and especially aggravated kidnapping. His arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday.
He “declined to provide investigators with the location of the victim,” the affidavit said as the huge search for Fletcher continued Monday.
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#CleothaAbner
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September 30, 2022 Sandals Led to Suspect in Heiress Abduction | Cleotha Charged and Eliza Fletcher Still Missing
Eliza Fletcher suspect was reportedly a ‘weird pervert’ who tried to pay neighbors for sex
New details emerge in ‘violent’ kidnapping of missing Memphis teacher
Abston was later convicted of aggravated robbery, as well as especially aggravated kidnapping — the latter being one of two charges he was again hit with Sunday for allegedly abducting Fletcher, the 34-year-old teacher and hardware heiress who had still not been found Monday.
He was sentenced in 2001 to serve 24 years in prison — and Durand fought for him to remain locked up when he tried to challenge the sentence, according to records obtained by the Commercial Appeal.
“My feelings about being the victim of this crime, and the feelings of those around me, are that I was extremely lucky that I was able to escape from the custody of Cleotha Abston,” the attorney wrote in a victim impact statement objecting to the 2003 bid, the paper noted.
“It was very fortunate that an armed, uniformed Memphis Housing Authority guard happened to come” across them, he reportedly wrote.
“It is quite likely that I would have been killed had I not escaped.”
In sharp contrast, Durand had testified on behalf of Abston’s co-accused, Marquette Cobbins, to try to get him a lighter sentence, his law firm noted.
“As Kemper saw it, the man was at the wrong place with the wrong person at the wrong time,” his law firm said, making clear that the late attorney always viewed Abston as his sole kidnapper.
He testified to hearing Cobbins begging Abston to “stop the car, let this man out, give him his keys, and go!”
Eliza Fletcher was jogging before she was violently abducted Friday.
Tennessee teacher and hardware heiress Eliza Fletcher was snatched Friday during her regular 4 a.m. jog.
Durand died in early February 2013. Abston was released in November 2020, the Commercial Appeal said.
He was busted Sunday after DNA testing on a pair of sandals left at the site of Fletcher’s abduction, with video footage later showing him allegedly violently abducting the mom during her daily early morning jog.
His phone also put him at the scene, and video footage showed he had been stalking the area for at least 24 minutes before Fletcher was grabbed, according to an affidavit.
Before his arrest, he was also seen washing the inside of his work SUV and scrubbing his clothes while “acting very strange,” according to the document.
Abston, 38, is being held on a $500,000 bond on charges of tampering with evidence and especially aggravated kidnapping. His arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday.
He “declined to provide investigators with the location of the victim,” the affidavit said as the huge search for Fletcher continued Monday.
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#CleothaAbner
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September 29, 2022 Heiress Daughter Abducted While Out for a Morning Jog
A Tennessee teacher who vanished after being abducted during her morning jog is the granddaughter of a wealthy Memphis family with a billion dollar business. Eliza Fletcher, whose grandfather launched the now $3 billion hardwares business Orgill Inc., was violently kidnapped during an early morning jog Friday. Her family has offered a $50,000 reward for information that can help find her. Fletcher, 34, did not return home from her normal run and was reported missing at 7:45 a.m. Friday. The suspect’s vehicle was used in the kidnapping of Fletcher in Memphis. Grainy surveillance footage showed the pre-kindergarten educator, clad in a bright pink jogging top and purple running shorts, being trundled off into a black SUV, which the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations later described as a “dark-colored GMC Terrain.” Her smashed phone and water bottle were discovered near the scene of the crime. “We look forward to Eliza’s safe return and hope that this award will help police capture those who committed this crime,” Fletcher’s family said in a statement, Fox13 Memphis reported. Fletcher's smashed phone and water bottle were found near the scene of the abduction. Fletcher’s grandfather Joseph Orgill III started the $3 billion hardwares business Orgill Inc. Less than 24 hours after the abduction, police were at Fletcher’s home and were seen towing a white SUV from the scene. A computer and a pair of lawn shears were tagged as evidence and removed from the home, local ABC24 reported. “We don’t know what’s going on, but everybody is desperately looking for her and the police here are on it,” Fletcher’s friend Hart Robinson toldWREG. “You can see there is a lot of activity, so if you know anything or saw anything early this morning, we just ask that you come forward. We want to find her.” Fletcher lives in midtown Memphis with her husband Richard Fletcher III and their two boys. She is the granddaughter of hardware magnate Joseph Orgill III. The private family business, Orgill Inc., employs 5,500 people and does $3 billion in sales annually, according to its website. #LizaFletcher #gonegirl #missingperson #abductions #Memphiskidnapping SUBSCRIBE HERE: www.youtube.com/c/deeptruecrime?sub_c... SUPPORT MY WORK Buy Me a Coffee ☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/deeptrue... ☕ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA www.twitter.com/deeptruecrime www.facebook.com/deeptruecrime www.tiktok.com/@deeptruecrime www.instagram.com/deeptruecrime Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research.
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