Alicia Franklin filed a lawsuit against the city of Memphis on Tuesday.
According to the lawsuit, Franklin connected with the man she knew as Cleo on a dating app and met him in person at his apartment complex on Sept. 21, 2021. When she arrived, he put a gun to her neck, blindfolded her, and raped her, the lawsuit said. Abston allegedly told Franklin not to leave the apartment until she could hear his car engine rev. When she heard it, she ran away and drove herself to a hospital to seek medical attention for the rape.
On Sept. 23, 2021, Memphis police submitted Franklin's rape kit for analysis, but they did not request to have it"rushed" to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the lawsuit said. That alone could have led to his arrest and prevented Fletcher's death, the lawsuit said.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Cops Botched Rape Case That Could’ve Saved Eliza Fletcher, Suit ClaimsOn the day schoolteacher and heiress Eliza Fletcher was abducted, DNA evidence from another case that could have put her suspect behind bars was sitting in a Tennessee testing facility, unentered into the national law enforcement system.
Read more »
Libby Adame, Alicia Galaz plead not guilty to Karissa Rajpaul murder in illegal butt injections deathA California mother and daughter accused of killing a woman in a buttocks augmentation procedure pleaded not guilty to murder on Tuesday.
Read more »
Woman allegedly assaulted by suspect in Eliza Fletcher case speaks out: 'I'm angry'A woman claims she was sexually assaulted by the same suspect in the Eliza Fletcher case last year -- and police ignored her case.
Read more »
Cops Botched Rape Case That Could’ve Saved Eliza Fletcher, Suit ClaimsOn the day schoolteacher and heiress Eliza Fletcher was abducted, DNA evidence from another case that could have put her suspect behind bars was sitting in a Tennessee testing facility, unentered into the national law enforcement system.
Read more »