Found Deceased TN - Victor Birchfield, 61, vehicle sighted in SC, Elizabethton, 21 June 2024 *arrest*

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Vehicle of missing person located, investigation into missing man and escaped inmate continues - Elizabethton Star

A vehicle associated with a missing person report has been located in South Carolina, and the investigation into the missing person and an escaped Carter County inmate is continuing. “We […]
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Wait, does this mean they’ve actually located the vehicle as in LE physically has it now?

A confirmed sighting of Birchfield’s vehicle was reported in the Clemson, S.C., area following his disappearance, and his vehicle has now been located in South Carolina.
 
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mlhenn said:
www.elizabethton.com

Vehicle of missing person located, investigation into missing man and escaped inmate continues - Elizabethton Star

A vehicle associated with a missing person report has been located in South Carolina, and the investigation into the missing person and an escaped Carter County inmate is continuing. “We […]
www.elizabethton.com

Wait, does this mean they’ve actually located the vehicle as in LE physically has it now?

A confirmed sighting of Birchfield’s vehicle was reported in the Clemson, S.C., area following his disappearance, and his vehicle has now been located in South Carolina.
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No, I think it just means they pinged it and know it is in the area.

Sadly, I think Birchfield is much closer to home especially since Fletcher is wearing his belongings.
 
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Unfortunately, it seems Billy Fletcher was right in the path of Victor Birchfield.

ETA Siam, where Birchfield lives.
 

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OddOneOut said:
No, I think it just means they pinged it and know it is in the area.

Sadly, I think Birchfield is much closer to home especially since Fletcher is wearing his belongings.
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Can you confirm your last sentence
 
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A man who was violent and charged with kidnapping and assault was on probation. That's crazy. Slap on the wrist
 
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mst said:
A man who was violent and charged with kidnapping and assault was on probation. That's crazy. Slap on the wrist
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Plus, he had violated probation. Then he was allowed outside jail on work release? How nuts is that? I greatly fear for Mr. Birchfield.
 
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mlhenn said:

The sheriff’s office said state law enforcement received a tip regarding Fletcher’s location and deputies found and arrested him without incident at 8:38 p.m. Thursday.

Birchfield’s vehicle was recovered in South Carolina after it was spotted in the Clemson area. He remains missing.
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I'm actually surprised he was captured so quickly. I was predicting another deadly carjacking after VB's card was eventually declined. I'm glad to be wrong.
 
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The news media in upstate SC, until WSPA’s report on July 2nd, was treating these as two separate cases for whatever reason.
 
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The Carter County Sheriff’s Office said it is investigating Birchfield’s disappearance in connection with escaped inmate Billy Fletcher. While Fletcher was captured on July 4, the search for Birchfield isn’t over.

“We’re just asking people, please, whatever you saw at the time please notify law enforcement, even if you think it’s small,” Hayes said.

Hayes and Davison are asking people in both Carter County and Johnson County to look at camera footage that might show Birchfield in the area between 6:50 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.
 
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wcyb.com

Escaped inmate Fletcher in custody, fails to make bond; Birchfield still missing

Escaped Carter County inmate Billy Fletcher was arrested last night and appeared at a bond hearing earlier today.
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In the hearing, Fletcher signed a waiver of extradition.

Cole says finding Fletcher was the first step. Now she wants to turn all the attention to finding her father.

“I understand finding the fugitive was the biggest element for that, but this isn’t over. I don’t want us to get quiet about where my dad is at or the fact that my dad is still missing – that is the most important part of this. Billy Fletcher should have never been able to walk away from this detention center to start with and now they need to work to make that as right as they possibly can,” she said.

Cole is unsure of what happened to her father but says she has a message for Fletcher.

“I'm disgusted. My dad would have given you his vehicle given you his belongings - whatever items you wanted to take from him but if you've taken him from us, if you've taken his soul from us, if he is not able to come home alive and well to us - you will answer to that.”
 
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mlhenn said:
wcyb.com

Escaped inmate Fletcher in custody, fails to make bond; Birchfield still missing

Escaped Carter County inmate Billy Fletcher was arrested last night and appeared at a bond hearing earlier today.
wcyb.com wcyb.com

In the hearing, Fletcher signed a waiver of extradition.

Cole says finding Fletcher was the first step. Now she wants to turn all the attention to finding her father.

“I understand finding the fugitive was the biggest element for that, but this isn’t over. I don’t want us to get quiet about where my dad is at or the fact that my dad is still missing – that is the most important part of this. Billy Fletcher should have never been able to walk away from this detention center to start with and now they need to work to make that as right as they possibly can,” she said.

Cole is unsure of what happened to her father but says she has a message for Fletcher.

“I'm disgusted. My dad would have given you his vehicle given you his belongings - whatever items you wanted to take from him but if you've taken him from us, if you've taken his soul from us, if he is not able to come home alive and well to us - you will answer to that.”
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Surely the remainder of Fletcher's life will be spent in maximum security lock-up. Wonder how he will handle that when he couldn't handle 3 years in a county detention center -- with time outside? When he couldn't even handle a probation?
 
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mst said:
A man who was violent and charged with kidnapping and assault was on probation. That's crazy. Slap on the wrist
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“Had Carter County known this individual was going to walk off, obviously they would not have made him a trusty,” Eric Stanton, a criminal justice instructor at Northeast State Community College, told News Channel 11 Friday.

Fletcher was legally eligible to be a work detail inmate, or trusty — Tennessee law only prevents registered sex offenders from such privileges — but the question of whether the 43-year-old with an assault conviction and other charges of violent crimes should have been is at the top of a number of people’s minds.

They include the woman whose father remains missing days after authorities discovered his vehicle more than 100 miles away in South Carolina. Tiffany Cole told News Channel 11 she isn’t convinced the department did an adequate job vetting Fletcher.
 
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Just found this: https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/ccso-human-remains-found-in-butler-tenn/

I don't have a link so this is just my opinion. However, in a separate video I watched earlier, his daughter says that his car passed a business 40 minutes after he left the airport and that should have been just a 15 minute drive. The business showed in the video is at 1051 Hwy 321 which is on the way to Butler.
 
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Moo..it is so pointless, dude gets himself a few free hours, kills man, steals beater truck (maybe he hitch hike), hurts family unknown to him. Wonder if he has children?.....
 
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