Episode 52, The Gut-Wrenching Death of Lacey Fletcher
The coroner said he couldn’t eat and cried for days, after recovering her body. This is the excruciating life and atrocious death of Lacey Fletcher.
This case is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard, but Lacey’s story needs to be told. In telling it, we also have hope to avoid this ever happening to anyone else. EVER. AGAIN.
This case is not as cut and dry as it seems on the surface. We are going to go over the facts of the case, as well as try to get some answers as to the WHY and HOW of it all. There is a lot of misinformation out there about this case as well, and a lot of it was used as clickbait. Trust me, the facts need not be embellished to make this case absolutely mind-blowing.
Join me on a deep dive into this horrible case, and I promise to hold your hand the entire way.
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