S6, Chapter 1: The Girl Who Melted

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Listener discretion is advised. Clay and
Sheila Fletcher were both sixty four years

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old, their birthdays less than two
months apart. Clay was born in August

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of nineteen fifty seven in Sheila in
September. They lived in small town USA

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in the swampy state of Louisiana.
The town they resided in was a thirty

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minute north of Baton Rouge and bore
the sinister name of Slaughter. There's only

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around a thousand people who live in
Slaughter, Louisiana, maybe three hundred families,

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of which the Fletcher family was one. They lived in a single family

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home on a three and a half
acre lot. Pictures of the house radiate

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the spirit of the American dream.
A perfectly manicured front lawn grass, a

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lush green, uniformly trimmed. A
quaint, old fashioned frosted lamp overlooks the

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long dirt driveway leading to the back
of the house. But inside the Fletcher

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family home there was a deep,
dark secret, a secret that was rotting

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on their living room couch, and
that was their daughter, an only child,

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Lacy Ellen Fletcher. I think everyone
has a bit of a fascination with

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the dark side. I myself most
love the dark side as well. I

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think it's something that everyone secretly longs
for a months, I ask him,

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how's license? You know, I
haven't seen it. He said, Oh,

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she's still a little sire. She's
doing fine. She's the dark side

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dark. January third, two thousand
and twenty two, two twenty seven am,

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the East Feliciana Parish emergency Communications dispatch
receives a nine one one call from

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a woman who identifies herself as Sheila
Fletcher. Sheila is sixty four years old,

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white, blonde hair, blue eyes, and of average stature. She

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also happens to be one of the
town aldermen. According to the Sheriff's department

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report, Sheila advised that her thirty
six year old daughter needed an ambulance because

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she was not breathing. She said
her daughter had been sick, but that

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it was quote a long story.
The call was transferred to ambulance services and

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the police and fire department were dispatched
to the Fletcher house. Officer Dalton Corbin

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of the Slaughter PD was first to
arrive on scene. Nothing could have prepared

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him for what he was about to
see, a scene so bizarre and depraved,

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like nothing the town had ever witnessed
in its history. But first,

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let's go back to nineteen eighty five. Clay and Sheila Fletcher were both twenty

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seven years old when they gave birth
to their first and only child. January

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twenty fifth, nineteen eighty five,
Lacey Ellen Fletcher entered this world. The

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family bought a house in Baker,
Louisiana, a town about twenty minutes south

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of Slaughter and only about ten minutes
south of the town of Zachary. Sheila

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would hold a number of roles in
local government over the years. In Baker,

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she worked as a records clerk,
and in Zachary she became the criminal

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deputy clerk, before finally landing a
job as the assistant to the prosecutor.

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Around nineteen ninety five. Sheila Clay
and their daughter Lacy, would move to

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a house on Tom Drive in the
town of Slaughter, Louisiana. In addition

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to her role as assistant to the
prosecutor, Sheila became a town alderman.

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An alderman is kind of like a
member of city council. There's still a

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mayor in Slaughter who basically runs the
town, but the five aldermen act as

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advisors and helped make decisions. According
to an article from NOLA dot com,

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Sheila served as aldermen for four years
and even for a short period as mayor

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pro tem. Less is known about
the patriarch of the family, Clay Fletcher.

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As we have said, he's the
same age as Sheila and also of

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average stature, blue eyes, brown
hair, five foot ten. One of

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the only things I could find out
about Clay was that he was on the

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board of a nonprofit group called the
Baton Rouge Civil War Roundtable. Established in

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nineteen sixty three, it's one of
the oldest civil War roundtables in the country.

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On their website, their goal is
stated as quote, to provide a

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nonpartisan atmosphere to educate and foster and
appreciation the sacrifices made by All during the

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Civil War. According to NBC Local
thirty three news, Clay Fletcher was the

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press of the group, and BC
also obtained an interview with John Potts,

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who worked closely with Clay and was
the Roundtable program director. Here is a

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portion of that interview. The program
director, John Potts has known Clay Fletcher

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for roughly six years and is stunned
by the news. Shock. Yeah,

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because it doesn't match with my experience
with him. He's completely different than what

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you would expect someone like that to
be. The details are horrific, There's

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no doubt about that, and I
can't conceive of how something like that could

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even happen. As Lacy grew older, her parents began to notice that she

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was not quite like the other kids
in her class. Her parents scheduled a

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meeting with a psychologist and Lacy was
diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, which is a

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lifelong condition and is part of autism
spectrum disorder. According to Autism speaks dot

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org, Asperger syndrome is generally characterized
by difficult social interactions, narrow interest in

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an intense desire for sameness, though
the disorder is not without its strengths,

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which can include remarkable focus and persistence, pattern recognition, and an eye for

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detail. Some of the most severe
challenges for a person with Asperger's deal with

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hypersensitivity to sensory input, lack of
coordination, and oftentimes social anxiety, the

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latter of which Lacy is reported to
have suffered from intensely, but that didn't

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stop her from making friends. Lacy
attended Brownsville Baptist Academy. She was even

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on the volleyball team, which there
is a picture of Lacy would have been

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thirteen years old. She appears in
the back row standing on some kind of

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riser, a wide eyed smile on
her face, surrounded by her peers.

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The Daily Mail obtained an interview with
one of Lacy's former classmates, who remembers

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her vividly. She says about Lacy, quote, she was one of the

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first people that I was friends with
when I started at the school. She

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was thoughtful. Just sweet is the
word I keep coming back to. One

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of the sweetest people you could ever
meet, So very kind. Brownsville Baptist

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Academy is now closed and has been
for years, but at the time they

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only offered education through grade nine,
which after Lacy completed her parents were faced

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with a choice that had potentially dramatic
consequences. Clay and Sheila chose to transition

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to homeschooling Lacy. This seems to
mark the beginning of a downward trajectory for

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Lacy's life. The Daily Mail obtained
an interview with one of the family's neighbors.

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His name Robert Blades the Third.
He was born the same year as

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Lacy, in nineteen eighty five,
which Manti grew up around her. His

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house was diagonally across the street.
I last saw around fifteen years ago.

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I wouldn't say I was a particular
friend. She'd hang out with my younger

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brothers sometimes, but she was definitely
different from other kids or age. I

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knew she was not your typical teenager. She was smart, smart as hell,

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but I guess the best way to
put it is that she wasn't as

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mature as us. She still liked
children things, not teenage things. Robert's

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father, Robert Blades the Second,
also spoke with The Daily Mail. He

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was fifty nine on the day of
this interview. I mean, when was

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the last time that you saw Lacy. I told you about ten fifteen years,

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though I don't really remember exactly,
but a long time. And what

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did she look like? Oh,
she just looked like a young woman.

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She was. She had these little
little what do you call the little weights

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that you hold in your hand,
the little down bails. She was exercising.

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Yes, she was. She'd walked
from her house around the circle and

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she used to do that, you
know, I don't know, two or

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three times a week. Okay,
when was the last time you mentioned that

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you'd spoken to Clay about five years
ago? Did you ask? I asked

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him, how is Lacy? What's
she up to? I said, you

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know, I haven't seen her.
He said, oh, she still lives

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here. She's doing five and just
changed the subject. What sort of girl?

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Well, she she was sweet girl
the few times that I talked to

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her, you know, But like
I said, she didn't come out a

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lot shocked, very surprised. I
just just there, I thought, you

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know, I just never thought than
anything, you know, like that will

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happen here, you know, and
you caught goes down to head. Yeah,

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what's I happened? We'll be right
back with more tapes from the Dark

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Side. Stay with us, Pain, Filth, and Squalor. On the

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night of January third, twenty twenty
two, at approximately two thirty am,

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Sheila Flescher called nine one to report
her daughter was not breathing. Officer Dalton

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Corbyn was first to arrive on scene. He initially saw Lacy curled up on

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the end of the couch in the
living room, wearing only a T shirt,

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nude from the waist down. Nearly
her entire body was covered in feces.

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It appeared that excessive urine and feces
had pulled underneath Lacey was sitting on

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the couch, which indicated that she
urinated and defecated on the couch frequently.

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The following is from Dalton Corbin's police
report. On one O three, twenty

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twenty two, at approximately ZO two
hundred twenty seven hours, I was dispatched

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to Tom Drive in reference to an
unresponsive female. Upon arrival, I made

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contact with Sheila Fletcher at the front
door of the residents, who directed me

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to the living room. In the
living room, on a brown colored sofa,

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I noticed Clay Fletcher, the victim's
father, performing CPR on an unresponsive

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female, who I later identified as
Lacy Fletcher. During the act of performing

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CPR, the father stopped and I
checked for the victim's pulse to no avail.

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The victim's body was sitting in her
feces. I also noticed the sofa

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was severely damaged, where Sheila states
Lacy always sits. Lacy's body was in

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the fetal position under green color blanket, sitting in the damaged portion of the

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sofa, which was filled with a
lot of her feces. Sheila explained that

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Lacy refused to eat for several days. I asked Sheila if Lacy had been

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sick or suffered from any pre existing
medical conditions. Sheila stated Lacy has not

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been sick, but that she was
diagnosed with asperers, which made her on

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social She also stated Lacy did not
take any medications. Sheila and Clay both

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stated Lacey has not seen a doctor
or received any kind of medical treatment in

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a long time. This matter is
pending for their investigation. At this point,

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the fire department had also arrived and
confirmed the assessment that Lacy was deceased

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and any life saving efforts would be
futile. A Katie and ambulance services were

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canceled by the Slaughter Fire Department at
two forty six am, just nineteen minutes

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after the original nine. Call was
placed. On January eighteenth, fifteen days

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after Lacy's death, Clay and Sheila
Fletcher met with Lieutenant Kevin Garrick at the

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East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's department. They
were both mirandized and waved their right to

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an attorney and were interviewed together as
a couple. There is a video of

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this interview, but it has not
yet been released to the public because of

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the pending litigation, but I do
have the lieutenant's notes. Both Fletcher parents

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say they were primary caregivers for Lacy, that she had some degree of Asperger's

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but that she was quote mentally normal. Sheila said that Lacy had not been

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to a doctor in her adult years
because she was never sick. The last

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physician she saw was a pediatrician who
worked in Baton Rouge. Clay said that

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Lacey had developed phobias that made her
afraid to get off the couch for any

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reason. He says they placed a
portable toilet in the living room, but

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Lacy became afraid. She refused to
walk the three steps and preferred to defecate

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on herself. Lieutenant kerrig D asked
if they had attempted to get Lacey's psychological

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help. Sheila said they did take
her to a psychologist named doctor Hope in

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her teenage years, but that she
had not seen anyone since. When asked

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if they ever considered having Lacy committed
for mental evaluation, Sheila said it had

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come up one single time, but
Lacy said she didn't want that, and

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so they didn't do it. Sheila
continued to emphasize that Lacy was of sound

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mind to make her own decisions and
that she had no intellectual deficiencies. She

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said Lacy went to Brownsfield Baptist Academy
from kindergarten to ninth grade, and then

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in tenth grade was homeschooled from the
curriculum in the Parkview Christian Homeschool program,

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where she received her diploma. Sheila
stated that prior to death, Lacey had

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been eating less than usual, but
that she dressed normally. She said Lacy

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never complained about her bed sores hurting, and that she regularly helped her daughter

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clean the source with saline wash,
antibiotic spray, and zinc. The last

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time Sheila saw Lacy alive was ten
PM the night prior. Sheila alleges that

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she served Lacy a meal of a
sandwich and cheetos, and that she fell

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asleep on the chair in the living
room right next to her daughter when she

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woke up and found her not breathing, which is when she called nine one

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one. As you will come to
find out, most of the information that

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Sheila and Clay provided to police was
directly contradicted by the coroner's report and the

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autopsy. We now know that Lacy
suffered from Asperger's and was obviously not of

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sound mind, and that she had
not just been eating less, but was

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chronically malnourished and neglected to the point
of death. The true reality was reported

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on the autopsy conducted by doctor Trucks
Claire. The following information is extremely graphic.

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Quote. This is the case of
Lacy Fletcher, a thirty six year

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old special needs female who is reportedly
discovered unresponsive by her parents. Significant fines

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at autopsy include extremely poor hygiene,
contractors, malnutrition, dehydration, and stage

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four to cubitius ulcers with maggot activities. Extremely poor hygiene was evident by one

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poor oral hygiene two Lacy's hair which
was long matted knotted with fecal matter,

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and maggots. Three the presence of
fecal material on the face, ears,

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trunk, extremities under the toenails,
and fingernails covering her lower body as a

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result of contact with the pool of
liquid stool that she was submerged in.

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Four unshaved auxiliary and lower extremity hair. Five strands of matted hair wrapped tightly

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around her index finger. Six insect
bites on left ear and face, likely

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resulting from their attraction to the stagnant
pool of liquid stool and urine. The

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contractures that were present indicated prolonged immobility
and lack of use. In this case,

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Lacy's legs were folded underneath of her
in an attempt to relieve pressure from

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the area of decubitus ulcers. Essentially, the muscles and tendons in her legs

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had shortened and hardened to the point
of permanent rigid deformity. The ulcers that

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had formed on Lacy's body were the
result of pressure wounds, also commonly known

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as bed source. Many were at
stage four, which is the most severe.

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They were rotting all the way down
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fully understand a stage four pressure ulcer
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the layers of the skin. First, we have the EpiDerm. Under that

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the dermis, and then the capillary
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At the base we have the fatty
subcutaneous tissue. Then it's just muscle

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and bone. When a person sits
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time, the pressure of a bone
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blood supply in those areas. This
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a bone. The coxus or tailbone, the pelvic bone, elbows, knees,

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and even ears and skull can all
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is immobile for long periods of time. When the outward surface creates a pressure

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point on the skin where the bone
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that skin. In where there is
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will then begin to die and rot. As mentioned before, there are four

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stages of decubitus ulcerformation. Stage one, the skin will be fully int act,

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but the area looks red and will
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two, the area looks damaged and
usually has an open sore that may look

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like a scrape or blister. Stage
three, the area begins to appear crater

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like, which is due to damage
below the skin surface. You can often

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see a layer of subcutaneous fat inside
the wound, which will appear yellowish or

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white. And lastly, Stage four
the most severe type of pressure wound.

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In this state, bone muscle,
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had a stage four to cubitus ulcer
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that was exposing her skull. She
had ulcers of unspecified stages on her

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mon's pubis and abdomen, buttocks,
and mid back. She had a stage

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four ulcer on her left buttock and
hip that was nearly a foot wide,

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exposing her sacrum, which is the
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spine. This also exposed the left
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of the hit bone. Black and
green necrotic tissue was present, and the

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femoral head was so eroded that it
had become flat. Lacy had an ulcer

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on her right buttock and right thigh, on her first and third right toes,

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her lower left leg, left ankle, and her left fourth and fifth

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toes. Post mortem full thickness lacerations
were present on Lacy's buttocks. These actually

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occurred after death and where a result
of Quote peeling Lacy from the couch in

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order for her to be placed in
a body back. Lacy wade ninety six

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pounds at the time of death and
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albumin and transferen were abnormally low and
reflected a key starvation. I read

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rumors that they found pieces of couch
cushion in Lacey's stomach, but the coroner's

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report does not include any such description, only that the stomach contained three hundred

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million liters of clear liquid with white
mucus and brown sludge. No ulcers and

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small and large intestines were unremarkable,
and upon opening contained only extremely scant brown

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fecal material. Lacey's hair was noted
as brown and extremely matted into a twenty

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four by eighteen inch knotted ball.
It could not be straightened for measurement or

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exact length. The paraneum is the
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and anus. Maggots were present inside
the ulcers of Lacey's paraneum. The coroner

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said quote, if the maggots would
have appeared after death, there would have

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been at least a minimal presence of
eggs or larvae in the region of the

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eyes, ears, or nose.
These areas, together with any wounds,

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are the preferred spots for colonization.
There was no evidence of decomposition at the

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time of the autopsy. Therefore,
it was determined that the maggots were present

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prior to death. The incidental finding
it autopsy was a postmortem swab testing positive

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bursars COVE two, also known as
COVID nineteen. The corner writes, it

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is my opinion that the cause of
death is sepsis due to osteomyelitis, which

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is a type of bone infection due
to the cubitus al serious as a result

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of poor hygiene, prolonged immobility,
and malnutrition as a result of chronic severe

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neglect. The manner of death is
best classified psalmicide. Well, it appears

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that doctor Trucks Claire was the one
to perform the autopsy on Lacy. Doctor

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Bickham was the corner and the one
closest to this case from the medical Examiner's

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office. He was the one who
responded to the scene that night when Sheila

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called nine one, and he was
actually one of the first to arrive.

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This was tough. This was tough. Slaughter First or Spider's Fire Department shareds.

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Deputies showed up on scene like within
thirty seconds. They deemed that it

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was obviously a deceased individual, so
they called me. When I first walked

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into the house, it smelled of
feces thinkal material, however you want to

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put that politely. When I got
to the body, the individual was basically

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sitting in a hole filled with liquid
stool and urine. After we processed the

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scene, I was able to place
her body in a black, black body

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bag and I took it down to
Jeffs in Paris for autopsy. It's the

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worst pomatical neglect I've ever seen.
No, I mean, I don't.

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I don't know any other adjectives or
adverbs. They add too that I've never

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seen anything like. This literally turned
my stomach as bad as it did.

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It got me to be emotional,
and I'm a pretty strong person. Coming

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up next week, in the conclusion
to the Lacy Fletcher story, now,

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I'm told by District Attorney Samuel de
Quilla that the grand jury will decide on

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Monday whether or not to charge Lacy
Fletcher's parents in one of those charges,

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includes potentially second degree murder. Guys, back to you, all right,

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Lester, do a force tonight.
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