Disturbing details emerge in the death of jogger Eliza Fletcher as the suspect is arraigned on murder charges
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Police were searching near a vacant home in Memphis, Tennessee, when they discovered Eliza Fletcher's body and a discarded garbage bag containing what appears to be her running shorts.
The disturbing details were included in an amended affidavit filed Tuesday in a Shelby County criminal court, days after police arrested Cleotha Abston in Fletcher's abduction.
Abston, 38, was initially charged with kidnapping and tampering with evidence. First-degree murder and first-degree murder in perpetration of kidnapping were added after Fletcher's body was found. He was arraigned Tuesday on the charges of kidnapping and tampering with evidence where a judge ordered him to be held on a $510,000 bond.
On Wednesday, during another arraignment on the murder charges, the judge revoked Abston’s bond.
Police were alerted to Fletcher's disappearance around 7 a.m. Friday after Richard Fletcher told officers that his wife had not returned home from her regular 4 a.m. jog, the affidavit states.
Fletcher, an avid runner, kindergarten teacher and a mother of two, was running near the University of Memphis when she disappeared. Security video showed "a black GMC Terrain passing and then waiting for the victim to run by," according to a criminal complaint.
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