MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Bartlett woman makes a bizarre, gruesome discovery inside her apartment and now she needs help with a strange issue.
She said she entered her Bartlett apartment weeks ago and discovered blood inside.
The woman, who did not want to be identified or shown on camera, told WREG that when Bartlett Police searched her home, they told her the blood may have been caused by a raccoon.
However, an animal was never found inside her apartment.
The following images show how the woman’s home looked on February 17:
Throughout her Preserve at Bartlett apartment, blood could be found on her walls, blinds, couch and even her clothes.
She said her front door was locked, but her attic door was open.
The woman said that when Bartlett Police entered her home, they also were puzzled.
“Called the police, they came, they looked at the scene and then the police they were like, ‘This don’t look right, we don’t know what it is because we can’t find nothing, nobody,” she said. “And they were like, ‘We think it may be a person, because it looked like a bloody print on my ID for my work, my work badge. But they were like, ‘We don’t know.”
The woman said she doesn’t believe that a raccoon was responsible because her food and trash were undisturbed.
She also said she has cameras inside and outside of her apartment, but they never captured the incident.
It’s been weeks since the bloody discovery, but the woman said her apartment is still covered in blood because the property managers are not doing anything to accommodate her.
According to the woman, she asked if the complex could provide cleaning services in her unit, but they told her they were unable to.
She said the property managers have offered her other alternative options. However, none of them fix the situation.
“They tried to offer me an apartment that was like $300 more,” the woman said. “They were like, ‘Oh, we don’t have anything available.’ But then I go online, y’all got multiple apartments available, the same square footage, the same layout as mine.”
The woman said she no longer feels comfortable staying inside her unit, so she’s had to temporarily stay with friends or even sleep in her car.
She told WREG this situation is bringing back memories from a traumatic experience she survived two years ago outside her downtown apartment.
“I was taking groceries up to my apartment… and a guy, I don’t know who he is because he has not been caught yet, stabbed me 12 times,” the woman said. “(In) my face, my head. my chest and my hands.”
The person who stabbed the woman has never been identified or arrested.
WREG attempted to reach out to the woman’s apartment complex, but we have not heard back.
