Billionaire heiress abducted during her Friday morning run in Memphis

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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.

Memphis and also Nashville are Democrat Machines going back 50 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Whoever did it, how dumb can a preposterously rich person be not to have personal protection?[/quote
You are all nuts! My in-laws are billionaires and they do not have security. Do you know how many incredibly high net with (billions) families there are around here? Way more than apparently you think. Also the conclusions are nuts. No one in my family expects or knows if they will inherit a thing. Her family may be billionaires but that does not mean she is.

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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.

Memphis and also Nashville are Democrat Machines going back 50 years.

Memphis and Nashville don’t have their own sentencing guidelines. Use your brain.

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Sounds like the law was followed. He wasn’t even paroled!

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Anonymous wrote:Whoever did it, how dumb can a preposterously rich person be not to have personal protection?

You are all nuts! My in-laws are billionaires and they do not have security. Do you know how many incredibly high net with (billions) families there are around here? Way more than apparently you think. Also the conclusions are nuts. No one in my family expects or knows if they will inherit a thing. Her family may be billionaires but that does not mean she is.

She clearly had access to more cash than her pre-k private school teacher salary and his "boat salesman" wages earned. Not to mention her two college degrees alone cost north of $300,000.

Walking around with security is a bit much, but clearly she could afford a Peloton or high-end athletic club membership or a nanny to watch the kids while she ran during the day or early evening. Running around at 4am in a violent druggy town is insane.

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He probably killed her within a few minutes of abducting her. She didn’t have a chance.

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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.

Ummm...rehabilitation and release shouldn't be the goal for violent offenders. Why should innocent victims pay the price?

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Anonymous wrote:He probably killed her within a few minutes of abducting her. She didn’t have a chance.

The car was stopped for 4 minutes at the place where he abducted her on the street. So he assaults her, drags her in the car, and the car sits there for 4 minutes. Then he drove off.

She was dead within minutes, imho. The cops apparently have all of it recorded via the home security camera across the street from where the abduction took place. They know exactly the timeline.

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Anonymous wrote:Whoever did it, how dumb can a preposterously rich person be not to have personal protection?

You are all nuts! My in-laws are billionaires and they do not have security. Do you know how many incredibly high net with (billions) families there are around here? Way more than apparently you think. Also the conclusions are nuts. No one in my family expects or knows if they will inherit a thing. Her family may be billionaires but that does not mean she is.

There are between 700 and 800 billionaires in the US. So no, not that many.

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Anonymous wrote:He probably killed her within a few minutes of abducting her. She didn’t have a chance.

You mean right after he realized she didn't have a wallet with cash and ATM? Another question is -- did he just randomly get this itch, did someone pay him to do it, or has he been doing this since he got out of prison two years ago? Didn't Jesse Matthews in Charlottesville allegedly get tied to a couple of other missing young ladies after they found the UVA student's body? Scary.

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I still think it’s related to the husband because this is what the people in their neighborhood are whispering.

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Anonymous wrote:He probably killed her within a few minutes of abducting her. She didn’t have a chance.

Sadly, yes. And those posters saying she should have been able to run away... How? When it's dark, and a 175 lb, 6 ft male slams into you and shoves you into his vehicle?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh no, I didn't realize that the fact that my husband's tattoos make him a criminal!! Thank you DCUM for letting me know!!!

DCUM hates tattoos. Not “classy.”

It's not just the tattoos and it's not like he has just one inconspicuous tattoo. He has very sketchy sleeve tattoos, tattoos on his knee and calve, on his chest, even on his hands. And he's an admitted substance abuser. And he looks disheveled.

+ a Daily Mail report said that Richard “has multiple arrests for alcohol related offenses including public drunkenness and driving under the influence.”

And if you look at him at the wedding vs current, he looks like he's aged 20 years in only 8 years, and the visible tattoos look to be all post-marriage. Very sketch.

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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.

NP who is also a runner. I'm not going to speculate about what she should or should not have done, but for any other runners reading this it actually can work really well to have someone on a bike 'coasting'/barely pedalling beside you for company/safety. Agree with the PP that I don't necessarily want it to be my husband, but I have a good friend who lives nearby and will sometimes accompany me on my long runs to catch up, plus she carries my water on the bike and keeps me motivated. She doesn't break a sweat but we have fun.

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I'd bet anything that man is addicted to hard narcotics.