Billionaire heiress abducted during her Friday morning run in Memphis

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Anonymous wrote:Newest article with new photos. Husband has sleeve tattoos, tattoos on his legs, and on his finger(s). And if she’s such a classy WASP, interesting how she’s wearing black nail polish in professional family photos with her children. Strikes me as strange.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11177191/Cops-detain-man-car-wanted-search-missing-Memphis-mother.html

They had a beautiful wedding.
https://memphismagazine.com/style/a-memorable-memphis-wedding/

He is so clean cut and cute in these pictures - from the short statement linked above it looks like everyone in that family has lost like 20-30 lbs and all look gaunt. I'm not linking that to her disappearance, it's just really noticeable.

She was an obsessive runner and he was an obsessive long distance cyclist - which raises the question of why he wouldn't bike along side her running, presuming they had a nanny or au pair. Anyway, that's why they look skinny.

I run in part to get a much needed break from family life. Would not want my husband trailing along next to me on a bike, thank you very much. That wouldn’t really even work. Runners and cyclists go at much different speeds.

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Anonymous wrote:The arrested person was simply in the vehicle she was seen be forced into. We don’t know if he’s the kidnapper yet.

I mean, he’s at least an accomplice.

Maybe. He could’ve borrowed the vehicle or let someone else borrow his vehicle.

But his shoes were found at the scene…

Yikes on bikes! Nvm then. Hope she’s found alive smh

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Anonymous wrote:How is anyone assailant catching a woman who can easily run a sub-7:30 mile? If she was sprinting she could go even quicker. This is a woman who qualified for Boston. She could outrun a random criminal.

Also the police describe a “brief struggle”, which I guess is on the surveillance video. Again, doesn’t seem to add up with a woman in very good physical shape who could run to safety.

Yeah, we haven't seen the surveillance video so we don't know what happens. You can presumably run to safety if you are able to escape your attacker. Her phone was found smashed and her water bottle was also found at the scene. I can envision a scenario where she was hit with something disable or injure her. Maybe the car pulled up to the light and the assailant was waiting to ambush her as she approached so they had the advantage. If she was wearing headphones she might not have heard anything to alert her to danger.

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Anonymous wrote:The arrested person was simply in the vehicle she was seen be forced into. We don’t know if he’s the kidnapper yet.

I mean, he’s at least an accomplice.

Maybe. He could’ve borrowed the vehicle or let someone else borrow his vehicle.

But his shoes were found at the scene…

Yikes on bikes! Nvm then. Hope she’s found alive smh

Local news reports are disturbing.

https://wreg.com/news/eliza-fletcher/eliza-fletcher-new-details-revealed/

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Anonymous wrote:Newest article with new photos. Husband has sleeve tattoos, tattoos on his legs, and on his finger(s). And if she’s such a classy WASP, interesting how she’s wearing black nail polish in professional family photos with her children. Strikes me as strange.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11177191/Cops-detain-man-car-wanted-search-missing-Memphis-mother.html

They had a beautiful wedding.
https://memphismagazine.com/style/a-memorable-memphis-wedding/

He is so clean cut and cute in these pictures - from the short statement linked above it looks like everyone in that family has lost like 20-30 lbs and all look gaunt. I'm not linking that to her disappearance, it's just really noticeable.

She was an obsessive runner and he was an obsessive long distance cyclist - which raises the question of why he wouldn't bike along side her running, presuming they had a nanny or au pair. Anyway, that's why they look skinny.

I run in part to get a much needed break from family life. Would not want my husband trailing along next to me on a bike, thank you very much. That wouldn’t really even work. Runners and cyclists go at much different speeds.

As long as you're not running in Detroit at 3AM, no problemo.

On the other hand, if DH is encouraging you to go out running at odd hours in questionable areas, maybe it's time to hire a P.I. or something. Say he says, "honey, why not run in thigh-highs tonight?". That could be a red flag.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we stop talking about the husband now that they've arrested the guy who did it?

Whenever you watch Dateline and you think the case is solved, Keith Morrison drops some bombshell, "and then they discovered something that would turn the case on its head"

(then you have to sit through a other 5 minutes if commercials)

Affidavit says suspect worked for a cleaning service. Where? Maybe their house? Or the boat works her hubs married? Way too soon to tell.

My bet is that this guy was hired by the husband.

Or the husband's mistress.

Wait, so he’s such an obvious loser with an unimpressive job, former addition and tattoos…and now he’s such a catch that he also has a mistress?

An “adventurous” loser driving an in-law funded $100k SUV, living in a $750k home and swiping an Amex platinum card is a high status male in a low class sphere. Wouldn’t be difficult for him to have a low class mistress. Look at the housekeeper Arnold Schwarzenegger was sleeping with for years.

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Anonymous wrote:Newest article with new photos. Husband has sleeve tattoos, tattoos on his legs, and on his finger(s). And if she’s such a classy WASP, interesting how she’s wearing black nail polish in professional family photos with her children. Strikes me as strange.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11177191/Cops-detain-man-car-wanted-search-missing-Memphis-mother.html

They had a beautiful wedding.
https://memphismagazine.com/style/a-memorable-memphis-wedding/

He is so clean cut and cute in these pictures - from the short statement linked above it looks like everyone in that family has lost like 20-30 lbs and all look gaunt. I'm not linking that to her disappearance, it's just really noticeable.

She was an obsessive runner and he was an obsessive long distance cyclist - which raises the question of why he wouldn't bike along side her running, presuming they had a nanny or au pair. Anyway, that's why they look skinny.

Your nanny starts work at 4 am?

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Abston was also charged with “especially aggravated kidnapping” in 2000. He entered a guilty plea, court records show. He received 24 years in prison, starting in November 2001. According to FOX13 Investigates, Cleotha Abston was eligible for release after 85% of his 24-year prison sentence, and got out “sometime in the past two years.” In a separate charge at the same time, he was charged with aggravated robbery. His sentence for that count was 11 years.

Yay prison reform! Had this POS been made to serve 100% of his sentence, this woman is still alive.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, here’s a story about the victim of the perp’s initial kidnapping back in the early 2000s

https://www.lewisthomason.com/remembering-kemper-durand-2/

Wow is right!

"Both men were tried and found guilty. At the sentencing hearing for one of the two men, a well-known lawyer appeared in the courtroom. It was Kemper. He told the judge he wanted to testify. Kemper took the stand, and testified that the man who was about to be sentenced was not the man who accosted him at gun point on that fateful evening. Yes, the man had been there and could certainly be considered an accomplice, but as Kemper saw it, the man was at the wrong place with the wrong person at the wrong time. Kemper then further described how during those hours he spent in the trunk of his car, he heard the two men talking. The man who was now about to be sentenced had pleaded with his friend to “stop the car, let this man out, give him his keys, and go!”

Forever the effective criminal defense lawyer, Kemper portrayed the man before the judge as an unwilling accomplice. He asked that the judge give him the most lenient sentence possible. The judge agreed."

Wonder if one of the "innocent accomplices" from then is the guy they arrested on this case!

https://yale1961.org/kemper-b-durand/

https://lawyers.findlaw.com/profile/view/1709216_1

No, the perpetrator of the current kidnapping served quite a bit of time but not nearly enough. Violent criminals should be kept incarcerated. This woman has paid a huge price for her kidnapper's freedom.

I’m not blaming the authorities on this one. The law and sentencing guidelines stipulate that he can get paroled after he serves 85% of his sentence if he maintains good behavior while in prison. He served his 85% and was paroled. If he posed a demonstrated danger, he would not have been paroled.

The is just a sociopath.

Then the original sentence should have been longer. He should not have been free to hurt or kill again.

He got 25 years for a kidnapping the first time around. That’s appropriate, imho. He was paroled after serving 85% of a 25 year sentence.

The law is the law.

Should have been life without parole. What in the hell do you think these monsters were going to do with the lawyer after they got his money? Same thing it sounds like they did to this woman. You can't reform demons like this. Shame on that late Ivy League lawyer for helping him get a weaker sentence.

I understand that this is a natural reaction, but it's not realistic and I don't think we give life without parole except in cases of murder. Our prisons are also ostensibly supposed to be about rehabilitation, which is presumably why the guy was paroled.

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Do her siblings or parents live nearby? I don't understand why any millenials so rich would willingly live in a depressing dump like Memphis full of feral dope addicts and violent criminals. Neither of them were alums of or employed by the University of Memphis either. Is it virtuous or some sort of local cachet to have a Memphis proper return addresses on your Christmas cards?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, here’s a story about the victim of the perp’s initial kidnapping back in the early 2000s

https://www.lewisthomason.com/remembering-kemper-durand-2/

Wow is right!

"Both men were tried and found guilty. At the sentencing hearing for one of the two men, a well-known lawyer appeared in the courtroom. It was Kemper. He told the judge he wanted to testify. Kemper took the stand, and testified that the man who was about to be sentenced was not the man who accosted him at gun point on that fateful evening. Yes, the man had been there and could certainly be considered an accomplice, but as Kemper saw it, the man was at the wrong place with the wrong person at the wrong time. Kemper then further described how during those hours he spent in the trunk of his car, he heard the two men talking. The man who was now about to be sentenced had pleaded with his friend to “stop the car, let this man out, give him his keys, and go!”

Forever the effective criminal defense lawyer, Kemper portrayed the man before the judge as an unwilling accomplice. He asked that the judge give him the most lenient sentence possible. The judge agreed."

Wonder if one of the "innocent accomplices" from then is the guy they arrested on this case!

https://yale1961.org/kemper-b-durand/

https://lawyers.findlaw.com/profile/view/1709216_1

No, the perpetrator of the current kidnapping served quite a bit of time but not nearly enough. Violent criminals should be kept incarcerated. This woman has paid a huge price for her kidnapper's freedom.

I’m not blaming the authorities on this one. The law and sentencing guidelines stipulate that he can get paroled after he serves 85% of his sentence if he maintains good behavior while in prison. He served his 85% and was paroled. If he posed a demonstrated danger, he would not have been paroled.

The is just a sociopath.

Then the original sentence should have been longer. He should not have been free to hurt or kill again.

He got 25 years for a kidnapping the first time around. That’s appropriate, imho. He was paroled after serving 85% of a 25 year sentence.

The law is the law.

Should have been life without parole. What in the hell do you think these monsters were going to do with the lawyer after they got his money? Same thing it sounds like they did to this woman. You can't reform demons like this. Shame on that late Ivy League lawyer for helping him get a weaker sentence.

I understand that this is a natural reaction, but it's not realistic and I don't think we give life without parole except in cases of murder. Our prisons are also ostensibly supposed to be about rehabilitation, which is presumably why the guy was paroled.

If he is guilty of this, he was clearly going to murder that lawyer 20 years ago had the lawyer not screamed for help near an armed man. At the very least he should have served his entire sentence, not 85% of it. If he had been made to serve 100% of it, he would still be in prison.

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Anonymous wrote:Affidavit is out for the arrest of Cleotha Abston.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to post a tweet, but here is the link:

https://twitter.com/ripple1026/status/1566451151880572930?s=21&t=fmpb4nFYUW6-bzOJiWQ2Vg

This is horrible. It will be a miracle if she is found alive. Prayers for her and her family.

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Abston was also charged with “especially aggravated kidnapping” in 2000. He entered a guilty plea, court records show. He received 24 years in prison, starting in November 2001. According to FOX13 Investigates, Cleotha Abston was eligible for release after 85% of his 24-year prison sentence, and got out “sometime in the past two years.” In a separate charge at the same time, he was charged with aggravated robbery. His sentence for that count was 11 years.

Yay prison reform! Had this POS been made to serve 100% of his sentence, this woman is still alive.

You realize TN is 100% controlled by Republicans, right? They are the ones who craft sentencing laws and standards in that state.

This has nothing to do with “prison reform.” Pretty much every state will give you a break on your sentence and parole early if you’re a no-drama prisoner.

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Anonymous wrote:Do her siblings or parents live nearby? I don't understand why any millenials so rich would willingly live in a depressing dump like Memphis full of feral dope addicts and violent criminals. Neither of them were alums of or employed by the University of Memphis either. Is it virtuous or some sort of local cachet to have a Memphis proper return addresses on your Christmas cards?

Pillars of the community who have been leaders for generations.

Same reason why you have very rich old money living in Baltimore, Philly, etc. They’ve been there forever, their social cachet and ties run deep.

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