As the investigation unfolds, Fletcher's community is mourning the junior kindergarten teacher and mother of two.
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Shortly after investigators in Memphis, Tennessee, found a body Monday that was later identified as missing schoolteacher Eliza"Liza" Fletcher, they discovered a pair of purple running shorts discarded in a trash bag nearby, officials said in a newly released affidavit.
The teacher's death, which authorities say was violent, is still surrounded by questions about where and how she was killed. National News Memphis police ID body of abducted jogger Eliza Fletcher Over the weekend, during an intense search and investigation, investigators zeroed in on Cleotha Abston, who is now accused of kidnapping and murdering Fletcher.
On Tuesday, prosecutors added charges of first-degree murder, premeditated murder and murder in the course of the perpetration of a kidnapping. Abston is set to be arraigned on those charges Wednesday. Witnesses say suspect was acting oddly after abductionDuring the search for Fletcher, police obtained surveillance video that shows a black GMC Terrain passed by the teacher while she was on her jog around 4 a.m., according to an affidavit filed Sunday.
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