'They had more than enough evidence that night when they interviewed me to get him off the streets. But they didn't.'
In Sept. 2021, Franklin said she met a man who went by "Cleo" on an online dating site and the two texted and talked on the phone for weeks before finally planning to meet in-person for a dinner date.
Cleotha Abston in a booking photo provided by the Shelby County Sheriff's Office, Sept. 3, 2022. The Memphis Police Department said Abston has been charged with kidnapping and tampering with evidence in the disappearance of Eliza Fletcher, a Tennessee woman who was out jogging when she was accosted and forced into an SUV."I told him I was pregnant. He didn't care," she said.
"GMA" reached out to the Memphis Police Department for comment, but did not receive a response. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said they were unable to answer specific questions about Franklin's case, but offered a statement."TBI's role in forensic processing of evidence and providing the results of that analysis is to support law enforcement investigations," the TBI said in part of a statement.
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