Crime & Justice

Cops Botched Rape Case That Could’ve Saved Eliza Fletcher, Suit Claims

‘DID NOTHING’

Alicia Franklin is suing the city of Memphis, saying Fletcher’s murder could have been prevented had police tested her rape kit sooner.

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On the day schoolteacher and heiress Eliza Fletcher was abducted, DNA evidence from another case that could have put her suspect behind bars was sitting in a Tennessee testing facility, unentered into the national law enforcement system.

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