New Court Document Reveals Disturbing Clues That Led Police to Eliza Fletcher's Body

New documents explain how police found the body of Eliza Fletcher, 34, of Memphis, who was abducted while jogging early Friday. Ex-con Cleotha Abston, 38, has been charged in connection with her kidnapping and death…

IJR SyndicatedSep 7, 20223 min read

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According to

WREG-TV

, surveillance

video

showed Abston’s vehicle in the area about 5:48 on Friday.

The video shows Abston leaving the SUV and opening the back of the GMC Terrain. He appears to take something from the SUV with him when he enters an apartment.

Abston emerges and then spends about an hour cleaning the passenger side of the SUV. Witnesses have said he was cleaning the SUV.

The timing of the video showing Abston cleaning car roughly matches the timeframe of witness accounts saying Abston was acting strangely while visiting his brother, according to the New York Post.

April Jackson, 30, who was among those watching the police operation to recover Fletcher’s body, said the Crime moved her.

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“That could have been anybody out jogging that morning, a student, anyone,” she said, according to the U.K. Daily Mail.

During the initial search to learn what happened to Fletcher, police obtained surveillance video showing a black GMC Terrain passing Fletcher, according to CNN.

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The video showed a man getting out of the SUV. The man eventually forced Fletcher into the passenger’s seat, the affidavit said. The SUV was parked in a parking lot for about four minutes before driving away, the affidavit said.

Abston, who had served almost 20 years in prison on a Kidnapping charge before being released in 2020, has been charged with first-degree Murder and first-degree Murder in perpetration of Kidnapping.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.