memorabilia few was one of the richest best organized cities in the country. had a booming economy. it had beautiful municipal parks and a lot more than 100. had one of the most modern sanitations systems in the world, something we take for granted now. when yellow fever was real, no one took it for granted. memphis was such a big deal it was the informal capitol of the entire region, the mississippi delta. not anymore. in fact by last year, if you want to memphis, hard to believe any was true at any point because at that point and now, memphis had become a husk and a highly threatening one. in 2021, according to federal statistics, memphis, tennessee, was the most dangerous city in the united states. last year it record add total of 342 murders. how much is that? by comparison, san antonio, texas, has more than twice the population recorded fewer than half as many murders. so by any measure at all, memphis was absolutely falling apart. but eliza fletcher decided to make a li
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more horrible. but here s what may be the scariest part. e didn tsome people didn t seems particularly shocked or horrified by it. in the hours after eliza fletcher s disappearance, biden voters and social medisociala so dismiss the crime on racial grounds. why are we paying so muchmis attention to kidnapping of annt attractive, privileged white woman that s racist? todnappingf an others seem toe fletcher for the atrocity committed against her. t why was she jogging at that hour anyway in memphis? come on n., the point they re making was clear . everyone knows the rules. if fletcher violated those rules, you can t go outside a certain hours. ein certain places in america,ts obviously. and if you do, iff you violate the rules, you run the risk of being and murdered.ped an adat s how things work in this country. so adapt, acceptcc it,ept, a mo. to some extent for beingwhether honest. all of us feel that way,we whether articulated or not. we know what the rules are.ne we know what we
and his perversity. he terrified his neighbors, bute no one from any partig of the justice system seems to have intervened early. las t friday morning, as fletcher and clutha epstein met for the first and last time as her husband and two youngt children slept at home whiled la fletcher went for an early morning run through her neighborhood to abstain, followed home. stalking her even move from a black suv. a b lack according to the indictmt ,as fletcher jogged by , epstein leapt out, beat her bloody, smashed her cell phone,g then dragged her into hised vehicle. his vehicwithin an hour, realit fletcher was dead. she d been sexually assaultedte and murdered. police arrested absents soond after baseabstond on surveillane video, but he refused to say what had happened to lisa fletcher. etcher sso her family waited in, but he didn t care. he never spoke.a yesterday, authorities finally found lysa fletcher s body. she d been thrown like garbage behind an abandoned building in a cd part
apartment complex for terrifying his neighbors and nobody in the justice system seemed to have intervened. early last friday morning, eliza fletcher and cleotha abston met for the first and last time as her husband and children slept at home. abston followed her on her run in a black suv. fletcher jogged by, abston leapt out, beat her bloody, smashed her cell phone and dragged here into his vehicle. within an hour, she was dead. she d been sexual assaulted and murdered. police arrested abston soon after based on surveillance video and he refused to say what happened to eliza fletcher so her family waited in agony but he didn t care. he never spoke. yesterday authorities finally found eliza fletcher s body and thrown like garage behind an abandoned building. what may be the scariest part,