As the suspected killer of Eliza Fletcher appeared in court on Monday, another woman alleged that he raped her last year—but police failed to properly investigate the case of an “average Black girl.”
Alicia Franklin, 22, has identified herself as a previous victim of Cleotha Abston-Henderson, who faces charges for kidnapping and murdering heiress Eliza Fletcher during her early morning jog on September 2.
According to Franklin, it was a year earlier—in September 2021—when she met Abston-Henderson on the dating app Plenty of Fish and went to his apartment. As soon as she arrived, the accused killer pressed a gun to her neck, covered her with a T-shirt and raped her, she told The Daily Memphian on Monday.
“I really thought he was going to shoot me in the back of my head,” she said.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) told Newsweek in an email that it received Franklin’s sexual assault kit from the Memphis Police Department on September 23, two days after the alleged crime. But since officers did not request a “rush” for her case—as they did for Fletcher’s—Franklin’s kit was trapped in the state’s severe backlog of samples with unknown assailants.
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SOURCE: Newsweek, Shira Li Bartov
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:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/cmg/IYHLXECK55AM3HHRYLBXORX4SE.png "BREAKING: ELIZA FLETCHER IS DEAD. Again, Daniel Whyte III Tells Women Including His Many Daughters and Grand-daughters, I know You Want to be Footloose and Fancy Free and do What You Want When You Want, But You Are Not Living in That America Anymore Because Due to Online Pornography, Video Games, Rape and Murder Movies, a Church That Has Fallen Away, and Other Reasons, Demon-Possession in Men Has Increased. Psychologists Would Call it “a Compulsion” But it is Actually Demon-Possession. So be “Wise as a Serpent and Harmless as a Dove” and do Not do Risky Things Like Going Running at 4:30 in the Morning by Yourself, or Going Shopping Late at Nights by Yourself. In Fact, if I Were You, I Would Plan my Day Around Bright Sunshine. Now, Regarding Eliza Who Literally Had it All And a Great Future in Front of Her, I Want Everybody to Pause a Few Minutes AND NOT “TAKE A MOMENT OF SILENCE,” Whatever That is, But if You Are a Born-Again Christian, Pray For That Family and Pray Also For the UVALDE FAMILIES. For Your Own Benefit, Stop Doing What You Are Doing and Try to Feel the Devastating Pain of All of These Families That Will Never Go Away, and no Medicine Can Make it go Away.")
