Why are police saying the kidnapping and murder of a Memphis teacher was a random attack?



Former FBI agent and ABC News contributor Brad Garrett discusses the investigation into the kidnapping and death of Memphis, Tennessee teacher and mother Eliza Fletcher. WATCH ABC News live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Ma8oQLmSM SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://bit.ly/2vZb6yP See more at http://abcnews.go. com/ LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/abcnews FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/abc #abcnews #abcnlupdate #elizafletcher #memphis

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42 comments

  1. I used to go walking at 4:30am. Not anymore. Ironically, I am an elementary teacher as well. Praying for her family. Just terrible.

  2. Every interracial crime gets an R rating. They are either random, as in this obvious case of a blk man going out of his way to target a wht woman, or they're racist, like when a wht person defends themselves from a violent blk who targeted them.

    But the WSs are in charge, lol.

  3. wow even women are blaming that woman for her own demise. wow. the audacity of you c**ts……..

  4. dude didn't have a clue who she was. completely random.

  5. Worthless piece of crap why why why would anyone do that rot in hell

  6. Finally a man of sense. Right under my rule of never vacation in North Korea, it would be dont go jogging in skimpy clothes at 4am. Who needs to tell an adult this.

  7. Why is a woman in today's world jogging at 4am in the dark? Come on people in what world is that a safe thing to do, we see this over and over and over and over and over again, if i were her father I would be so incredibly angry with her for putting herself into known harms way i don't know if I'd attend her funeral, knowing there are rapist, knowing there are Richard Ramirez, John Wayne Gacy's, knowing there are Ted Bundys..ect in the world and still go jogging alone at 4am in the dark and subject her family to such needless suffering, I know it seems cruel to say this but it needs to be said even Christ who was loved by GOD Almighty when tempted by the devil saying if you are the son of God jump from this cliff for as it is written his angles will bear you up least you dash your foot against a stone, Christ answered "Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God"..so you don't just go willingly in to harms way.

  8. Cruel and unusual punishments need to be allowed in these cases

  9. at least he is not pronounced an innocent victim…

  10. He most likely sexually assaulted her. He took her pants.

  11. The fact that richie is walking around smiling counting the money and coos frame a drunk black guy wow Richie you will pay for killing her

  12. Why put a gag order on the case?!! We the people want to see what the suspect has to say along with the witnesses why not check the husband to see if he had her killed … Huh why we want to see this case play out

  13. Our system is a joke ! This is proof that there is no such thing as rehabilitating a kidnapping , murdering thug. We need the death penalty! And i am not talking about letting them rot in jail, i am talking death !

  14. He was sentenced to 24 years at just 16. He did 20 years in prison so he spent more years of his life in prison than free. If he wasn't a monster before, he definitely was after getting out. People like this do not fear prison as they are more comfortable there than in society. Many like him have no issues returning to the only life they know. I doubt he was waiting in this specific area for a random person to attack. Likely his family will be receiving payments from the husband for years to come.

  15. You need to live in sa where you get killed for a phone in brought day light and Julius malema killing the white farmers just so sad they are being taught to kill white people coming all over from Africa

  16. a smarter investigator would say I DONT KNOW

  17. Everytime a black attacks white people it's "random."🤔🤔🤔

  18. Cops actually do their job when a white woman goes missing smh

  19. I like how the news is trying to act like this was some pissed off parent .

  20. I feel very badly for her family especially her children. I am a runner also, but I change up my routes all the time and I run at different times. May her Memory Be Eternal.

  21. Democrats are getting softer and softer on criminals. Kathy H ( New York) passed a Law that says no Politician may call an inmate “inmate”. They must be called incarcerated person. The Dems are burning books. Sound familiar?

  22. She was the wrong color and so was he…no coverage on this story

  23. I would never let my wife go running alone at 4am, no matter where.

  24. This wasn’t random… that thing had this in mind

  25. She must have been so afraid in her last moments. So sad. My heart goes out to her. Rest in peace angel!

  26. Imagine if a white man kidnapped and killed a black woman jogging? Race would be the number 1 motive.

  27. He had no idea he kidnapped an heiress ! I figured that out as soon as I saw who it was. He looks way to simple, remedial and dumb for that! He never asked for a ransom ….he unfortunately just ran into her while he was out on the prowl! He was just a sociopathic predator who crossed paths with this poor woman. Unfortunately someone else had to be victimized for him to be put away permanently! Had she been anyone but who she was resources and effort may not have garnered such rapid capture !

  28. Random attack? Well going jogging half naked , in a certain neighborhood like that? Yeah right! Funny how they down play it pretending otherwise. He raped her too death

  29. She would have been a billionaire and she still taught kindergarden.

  30. This was a racially motivated hate crime. The left, woke, media only wishes the killer was a Trump supporting, white, wearing a MAGA hat, then these fake news people would be gleeful.

  31. That wasn’t random, they are protecting her husband

  32. They are definitely covering something up

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  34. The most shocking crime against a child at a Memphis grocery store
    https://youtu.be/T3TaSIAH7xs

  35. I know why Ezekiel Kelly randomly shot.

  36. Why was Brianna Taylor randomly picked? Why was George Floyd randomly picked? Why do black men get randomly stopped? Why are black children randomly ignored at Disney world?

  37. Hate crime. Just doesn't fit the kosher narrative.

  38. Although we should feel safe running in our neighborhoods we are not safe because of monsters like this. We are not living in a world where we can. It's not worth it! He could have been watching her and plotting! Death is not even suitable for this monster! I'm sick for her family.

  39. Brings to mind the case of Bill Cosby's son, Ennis, who was shot and killed in a roadside 'random attack'. Meaning that these perps did not know their victims. But I must ask: in what way does this revelation bring any comfort to agonized, grieving loved ones? Ms. Fletcher (and young Mr. Cosby) they're just as dead NO MATTER WHAT THEIR KILLERS motives and 'issues' were. Ludicrous. Who cares?