Runners finish abducted, murdered jogger’s route in memory of Eliza Fletcher | USA TODAY

In the wake of Eliza Fletcher's abduction and murder during her routine morning run, thousands of runners rally to finish Fletcher's run.

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24 comments

    1. My friends dad died from a heart attack on his regular running route. His running club also “finished his route” as a memorial run

  1. A very small portion of a certain race in America commits the overwhelming majority of senseless violence. Very sad this poor woman like so many others are on the receiving side of this.

  2. I ran 2 and a half miles today in her honor. I am underage and wasnt able to go run at 4am with my communitay but I did run for her in her honor.

  3. Everyone look up Sydney Sutherland, age 25, Arkansas nurse, 2021. A mother of 2 murdered out on her daily jog. He hit her his vehicle & abducted & murdered her. What are women going to do folks? We can’t even jog!

  4. I get the gesture but it’s still kinda dumb and creepy to do this I’m sorry especially people who don’t know her but whatever

    1. It doesn’t matter if you know the person…what difference does it make.?Maybe these horrible crimes brought people together as a collective…It’s to help the spirit of both E,liza,her family and all the other people who have fallen pray to evil….Our world is in a very twisted place.

  5. The only thing wrong with this is that when females are murdered from any other ethnicity other than a white female, no one decides to have these types of dedications and memorials for them. As the collective Humanity of the human race we all have to get to the point that we care about everybody just as much as we care about our own.

  6. I don’t even want to think about what the hell he did to her once he got her inside his vehicle. Cuz all we know is she ended up dead. And that itself is bad enough. RIP miss Eliza. My heart is especially broken for your little children. Words can’t express the heartbreak.

  7. This is a nice tribute I send my condolences 💐 and thoughts and prayers to her family. However, my concern is that people in Memphis are dying every week do to violent crimes( shootings, abductions, robberies etc). As Memphis for years has been consecutively ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the country. So all manner of violent crime happening in Memphis should not be shocking, as the data shows that most people who live in Memphis are likely to be a victim of violent crime. But there has been no walk or run or even public tributes for even 90% of the victims of these violent crimes. I used to live in Memphis and I saw our news report violent crime deaths almost daily, but I rarely saw any public tributes for the victims. I hate that this happened to her, but the other people who lost their lives in Memphis this week alone due to violent crimes are barely being mentioned. Just as a reminder the four people who died at the hands of that lunatic shooting people on Facebook live this week mattered just as much. Young girls who are also going about their lives jogging or walking to school or work are being abducted all over the country to support sex trafficking crimes yet the extent their family members get is a couple of amber alerts, and promises from law enforcement they are working on finding their missing family member, with the grieving family members having to check in each week to ask how the case is going. I am just trying to understand what is making this death so much more tragic than the other ones to the point that the nation is in an uproar why was the nation not in an uproar for everyone else. Her life mattered and my condolences goes out to her family. But in a city like Memphis this kind of violent crime is a normal weekly occurrence, it’s just that this one is getting national attention, which is unfortunate for the other victims who died in similar incidents where they where barely mentioned.

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