Eerie last pic of Eliza Fletcher kidnapped while running just miles from Memphis store where mom & kid taken days before
CHILLING footage revealed a missing jogger's last movements before she was kidnapped just miles from the scene of another abduction - and her car has now been towed from her home, reports say.
The haunting surveillance footage captured teacher Eliza Fletcher, 34, jogging, moments before she was bundled into a dark SUV in Tennessee by a suspect who is still at large.
Fletcher, a millionaire heiress to a hardware fortune, was jogging when a man reportedly approached her at 4.20am near Central Avenue and Zach Curlin Street, witnesses told Memphis police.
Less than 24 hours after her disappearance, Memphis cops were seen towing her family car from the home as well as labeling a pair of garden shears and a computer as evidence, reported
A large police presence was at the Fletcher home for most of the day and at Overton Park, which is not far from the home she shares with her husband, Richard "Richie" Fletcher III, and their two children.
The tweeted an updated appeal for information on the suspect's car, which they described as "a dark-colored GMC Terrain."
Earlier, cops had received reports that there was a brief struggle before the unknown man forced her into a dark-colored SUV.
Police shared of the suspect's car and said it may have been heading west on Central Avenue.
Fletcher's smashed phone and water bottle were mysteriously discovered outside a house owned by the university as cops search for any information that could lead to her recovery.
Meanwhile, the eerie surveillance footage captured a final image of Fletcher before her tragic disappearance, wearing purple jogging shorts and a pink top.
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Fletcher has been described as a white female who stands at five feet six inches tall. She weighs 137lbs and has brown hair and green eyes.
"We don't know what's going on, but everybody is desperately looking for her and the police here are on it," Fletcher's friend Hart Robinson told .
"You can see there is a lot of activity, so if you know anything or saw anything early this morning, we just ask that you come forward. We want to find her."
The FBI and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are among the agencies assisting in the search for Fletcher.
Cops are asking anyone who may have relevant information or surveillance footage to come forward at this time.
Hutchison School, an all-girls private institution, asked for prayers regarding the horror situation on . The institution confirmed Fletcher was a teacher at St Mary's Episcopal School.
Second Presbyterian Church also an urgent call to prayer and identified her as a member.
The teacher's chilling abduction occurred just a few miles away from a Target parking lot where a mom and her baby were kidnapped while putting groceries into their car.
The woman and her one-year-old child were snatched by two men in Memphis, Tennessee on August 31.
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One man, who was armed, got out of a car and demanded the woman give him cash, reported.
Cops revealed that mom, who didn’t have any money on her, told the man to take her wallet and cards.
She gave the man the PIN belonging to one of her cards, according to police.
The mom was ordered to get into the car and the man allegedly snatched the toddler out of the shopping cart.
Cops revealed that they were driven to a Regions bank which is located less than three minutes away from the Target store.
Around $800 worth of cash was withdrawn from the ATM.
The woman and her child were then driven back to the Target parking lot and released, but the suspects kept her wallet.
VICTIMS LEFT 'SHAKEN'
Her husband has been left “shaken” following the kidnapping.
His wife and child are “still processing” what happened, WREG reporter Shay Simon said.
Shoppers were left shocked following the horror incident.
Regular Target shopper Laura Parsons told WREG: “A one-year-old… that’s not good.
“It makes me want to be aware of my surroundings and lock my doors and possibly carry mace.”
The suspects are still on the run and cops have released surveillance footage as part of their probe.
It is unclear whether these two events are related at this time.
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The U.S. Sun has reached out to Memphis police for comment and did not receive a response at the time of publication.
