CuriousCricket
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So incredibly sad. This outcome isn't unexpected, but so sad and disturbing. I'm wondering how Fletcher managed to get in the car or to get Birchfield to stop.
Silver Alert TN - Victor Birchfield, 61, vehicle sighted in SC, Elizabethton, 21 June 2024
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It is pointless. He didn't have a plan, didn't get far from home, even with transportation and a 24-hour or more head start before Birchfield could be reported missing.
Fletcher seems to have been without a thought in his head, just wandering around. Even if he did qualify for a trusty position, how could he just walk away? Are they just turned loose without any oversight? Why was he not spotted walking away? Is 7 a.m. shift change for the Sheriff's department?
I've driven past that detention center many times, so near a corner of two busy roads. How was he not seen? Looking at maps.google I realize there is plenty of cover -- once he crossed the 4-lane 19E/321 highway. But then he would have been on the opposite side of the road Birchfield would have been traveling headed home.
The detention center is beside a ballfield and park, directly across from several apartment buildings and near the city park. If I lived in Carter County, I imagine I'd be re-considering usage of that area and would be feeling very unsafe.
At the very least CC sheriff should be rethinking the oversight necessary for his trusties.
Doesn't this incident make you determined to have your gun with you when traveling?
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