Memphis woman, Alicia Franklin, 22, says she was raped by the same man charged with the murder Eliza Fletcher and claims that police had 'more than enough evidence' to arrest the suspect
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Posted - 21 September 2022
"Alicia Franklin, 22, in a bombshell interview, said that if sex crimes investigators had done their jobs properly, Eliza Fletcher, who was kidnapped and killed while jogging through Memphis on September 2 could still be alive.
'They had more than enough evidence to get him off the street that night when they interviewed me to get him off the streets. But they didn't,' she told ABCNews.
Cleotha Abston-Henderson, 38, is now charged with raping Franklin nearly a year ago -- but the charges were not filed until after he was arrested and charged with the murder of Fletcher."
"While DNA evidence from Fletcher's abduction was tested within hours, the rape kit in Franklin's case sat on a shelf for months, and she says police failed to take basic steps such as gathering fingerprints after she was violently assaulted.
'I'm angry. Not a day goes by that I didn't think about this,' she told Good Morning America.
'I definitely believe she would have still been alive today,' she said, speaking of Fletcher."