How the 4-day search for a Memphis schoolteacher killed in a violent abduction led investigators to find her body

Shortly after investigators in Memphis, Tennessee, found a body Monday that was later identified as missing schoolteacher Eliza "Liza" Fletcher,

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they discovered a pair of purple running shorts discarded in a trash bag nearby, officials said in a newly released affidavit.

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The shorts matched the description of what Fletcher was last seen wearing when her husband reported her missing Friday after she didn't return home from an early morning jog.

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As investigators were searching for the 34-year-old Monday, they spotted vehicle tracks in high grass near a vacant duplex and smelled the stench of decay before finding the body of an unresponsive woman on the ground,

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the affidavit said. Officials announced Tuesday the body was Fletcher's. She was found about 7.5 miles away from where surveillance video shows she was abducted.

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"To lose someone so young and so vital is a tragedy in and of itself, but to have it happen in this way, with a senseless act of violence,

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it's unimaginable," Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy said Tuesday during a news conference.

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