Eliza Fletcher: What officials said about Memphis jogger's murder case, suspect

4. AT 4 WHILE NO COMFORT TO MANY AUTHORITIES SAY THEY BELIEVE THE ABDUCTION AND MURDER OF MEMPHIS MOTHER ELIZA FLETCHER BODY WAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED BY AUTHORITIES THIS MORNING. DAYS AFTER SHE WAS SEEN ON SURVEILLANCE VIDEO BEING ABDUCTED WHILE ON AN EARLY MORNING RUN NEAR THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. I’M APRIL THOMPSON FROM ALEX COLEMAN AND WELL ARE KIDNAPPING HAS GARNERED NATIONAL ATTENTION IT’S ALSO CREATED LOCAL CONCERN ABOUT WHAT A POSSIBLE WRE G SHAY ARTHUR SPOKE WITH INVESTIGATORS TODAY ABOUT WHAT THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS CASE SHEA. HEY ALEX APRIL, YEAH,

SO RELEASED A MOTIVE IN THIS CASE AND TONIGHT SO MANY QUESTIONS REMAIN JUST WITHIN THE LAST FEW HOURS OR SO THE CRIME SCENE TAPE THAT SURROUNDED THIS HOME CAME DOWN IT WAS OUTSIDE OF THE HOME TONIGHT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HAS A MESSAGE FOR THE PUBLIC. WELL OUTCOME OF THIS INVESTIGATION IS NOT WHAT WE HOPED FOR. WE ARE NONETHELESS PLEAS TO REMOVE THIS DANGEROUS PREDATOR OFF THE STREETS OF MEMPHIS TONIGHT, THE ANNOUNCEMENT INVESTIGATORS DISCOVERED BELOVED MOTHER AND TEACHER ELIZAH FLETCHER’S BODY OUTSIDE OF AN ABANDONED HOUSE IN SOUTH MEMPHIS. IS MET WITH HEARTBREAK ACROSS THE COMMUNITY. JOSEPHINE

THE GUY NEVER MET FLETCHER. BUT TODAY SHE PLACES BALLOONS AND A TEDDY BEAR AT THE HOME WHERE SHE WAS DISCOVERED, TELLING US HER SISTER WAS KILLED IN 1983 AFTER SHE WAS KIDNAPPED OUTSIDE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. AND IF THAT WOULD’VE

BEEN THERE I WOULD DO IT. COULD THE STAFF OTHERS LIKE 80 YEAR-OLD THE BIRTH OF JOHNSON WHO HAS LIVED IN HER HOME DOWN THE STREET MORE THAN 40 YEARS IS LEFT GRIEF-STRICKEN. WHEN A WHO DID FRED AND MOAN OF SHE NOW HAS QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MAN POLICE SAY IS RESPONSIBLE CLEO ABSTON PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF KIDNAPPING TONIGHT.

SO MANY ACROSS THE CITY AND THE NATION QUESTIONING WHY INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE HE TARGETED FLETCHER EARLY FRIDAY MORNING WHILE SHE WAS ON HER USUAL RUN. NEWLY-ELECTED SHELBY COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY STEVE MULROY ENFORCEMENT AND OUR OFFICE WAS IN CONTACT WITH THE FAMILIES ARE OUT. THIS LONG WEEKEND. THEY HAVE BEEN FULLY COOPERATIVE. THROUGHOUT THAT ENTIRE PROCESS AND IN CONTRAST TO WHATEVER BASELESS SPECULATION YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN WE HAVE NO REASON TO THINK THIS WAS ANYTHING OTHER THAN AND ISOLATED. ATTACK BY A STRANGE HIS MESSAGE TO THOSE LIVING IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS AREA WHERE OFFICERS SAY HER ABDUCTION

WAS CAUGHT ENFORCEMENT AND THE DA’S OFFICE RIGHT HAVE AS THEIR ABSOLUTE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY KEEPING PEOPLE SAFE. AND TRAGEDIES LIKE THIS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT WE’RE GOING TO BE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN WALK. THE STREETS WITHOUT LOOKING OVER THE SHOULDER AND GOING ABOUT THEIR DAILY BUSINESS WITHOUT FEAR. FOR ALEX INVESTIGATORS ANSWERING VERY FEW QUESTIONS TODAY THAT SO MANY ACROSS THIS COMMUNITY HAVE WHAT WAS A POSSIBLE MOTIVE. AS WELL AS HOW FLETCHER WAS KILLED THERE ARE ANSWERS THAT WE WILL