How cops were able to locate body of missing heiress Eliza Fletcher

The pungent scent of Tennessee heiress Eliza Fletcher’s decaying corpse led a police search and rescue workforce to find her physique, paperwork obtained by The Put up Tuesday revealed.

Fletcher, of Memphis, went lacking Friday throughout her early-morning jog and was found by authorities on Monday after a multi-day search.

Police charged Cleotha Abston, 38, along with her homicide and kidnapping. Within the affidavit launched Tuesday, authorities outlined grisly new particulars about how they discovered Fletcher, 34, in excessive grass close to a vacant residence on Victor Road in south Memphis.

“The officers observed automobile tracks within the grass … and the officers smelled an odor of decay,” in response to the affidavit. 

After following the scent, a cop “positioned an unresponsive feminine mendacity on the bottom.”

Images obtained by Fox Information present the home and space the place Fletcher’s physique was discovered.

Authorities introduced the invention of a physique that Monday, however didn’t affirm it was Fletcher’s till Tuesday. Her physique was discovered greater than three miles southwest of her residence within the tony Central Gardens neighborhood.

“The scene investigation revealed that the feminine match the outline of lacking particular person, Eliza Fletcher,” the doc stated. 

After the invention, regulation enforcement additionally discovered a trash bag that “contained purple Lululemon working shorts that have been consisted [sic]  with those Eliza Fletcher was final seen sporting.”

Fletcher’s physique was present in an space near the place police say Abston was seen cleansing out the GMC Terrain seen in surveillance footage of Fletcher’s violent abduction.

She was snatched off the road about 5 miles east from her residence.

Abston, who beforehand served 20 years in jail for a violent kidnapping, refused to disclose the place Fletcher was after his bust.

Fletcher was the mother of two younger boys, an elementary college trainer and granddaughter of a billionaire {hardware} firm magnate.