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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Lawyers for the City of Memphis want a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by a woman who says police failed to properly investigate her rape, arguing that police have no duty under law to investigate. Alicia Franklin claims she was raped by Cleotha Abston-Henderson, but he wasn’t arrested because evidence […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn says progressive policies that appear to support criminals are putting innocent Americans at risk, and Wednesday introduced the ‘Restoring Law and Order Act’. Blackburn and Senator Bill Hagerty both sent a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to take swift action to eliminate “soft-on-crime” policies and […]

MEMPHIS Tenn. — Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis said she’d like to speed up testing for every rape kit that gets processed, just like police did for Eliza Fletcher, but acknowledges the decision isn’t hers alone. “I’d like to put a rush on all on cases,” Davis said. Cleotha Abston-Henderson, accused of kidnapping and killing […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG)– State forensic scientists linked Eliza Fletcher’s accused kidnapper and killer Cleotha Abston-Henderson to a rape that happened in September 2021. What’s even worse is critical evidence in that 2021 case had just been sitting in storage at a state lab for months. The state made the unnerving discovery on September 5, the […]

WARNING: Some of the details in this story could be triggering to rape survivors. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — He was a rapist who targeted women and children in Memphis. Why will he soon walk free after police connected him to more violent attacks? “[Police] didn’t care when they were there that night. It just took me […]

He was a rapist who targeted women and children in Memphis. Why will he soon walk free after police connected him to more violent attacks?

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A recently tested rape kit from a case back on September 21 of 2021 has been connected to the man charged with kidnapping and killing Eliza Fletcher. The DNA match came back the same day Fletcher’s body was found behind an abandoned house in South Memphis. According to Memphis police, a sexual […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee delivered an optimistic view of the Volunteer state and spelled out his $55 billion budget plans for this fiscal year during Monday night’s State of the State address. Gov. Lee called for investing in roads, education, aid to parents and children, and cutting taxes during his State of […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The governor’s office has announced that more forensic positions will be added to the lab that tests rape kits for the Memphis area to help accelerate the process. The governor’s office says the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Jackson lab will have eight more forensics positions, including scientists, technicians, and administrative support. The […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The state crime lab asked for 40 personnel at its crime labs to help process crucial evidence faster, but only got funding for half of that. For years, WREG Investigators have been reporting on issues at the state crime lab in Jackson, where Memphis Police sends its biological evidence to be analyzed […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina prosecutor said Thursday that campaign-related charges won’t be pursued further against Attorney General Josh Stein or his aides, one day after an appeals court ruled the political libel law her office was seeking to enforce is most likely unconstitutional. Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said that the […]