A woman is suing the city of Memphis, alleging that the police department failed to investigate Cleotha Abston Henderson, 38, who she says raped her in September 2021. Henderson is the suspect accused of abducting and murdering Eliza Fletcher this month.
Alicia Franklin, 22, a mother of one, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday, two days after she came forward to thecharged
Franklin claims that had the Memphis Police Department investigated her own alleged rape case, Fletcher may still be alive., Fletcher and Henderson met on a dating app. Knowing him as “Cleo,” she met him at 5783 Waterstone Oak Way, the same apartment complex where Henderson was arrested for Fletcher’s murder.
However, Franklin alleges in the lawsuit that investigators did not take any evidence from the crime scene, including not collecting fingerprints.:
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