#326: Woman Melted Into The Couch For 12 Years - Tragic Case of Lacey Fletcher

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Dr. Bickham was the coroner for the small town of Slaughter. For the past few decades, he had looked death in the face - that was what the job required, and he was good at it. Until January 3, 2022. He was called out to the small white suburban house with the well manicured lawn - he could tell someone had died there judging by the smell. He walked into the living room and there in the center was a couch. The living room was organized and tidy even, except this couch was at the center covered in feces. The smell was stinging his eyes. He walked closer, and he saw - melted, into the couch the body of a young woman. She was unclothed, maggots in her hair, rotting flesh eaten off her bones, and she was sitting there with her eyes and mouth open. She had been sitting on this very couch, alive, for the past 12 years. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.2	Batabing, butaboo.
0:29.6	Lacey Fletcher could probably hear them packing for their New Year's trip.
0:34.0	They're going to celebrate ringing in 2022 by going out of town and leaving Lacey to rot by herself.
0:41.0	It's hard to say if Lacey felt relief in that moment knowing that they're going to be gone,
0:45.8	or if she felt fear, because what if they don't leave her food?
0:48.9	Would she just starve to death?
0:50.7	What if they didn't leave her water?
0:52.4	You can go longer without food but not water right just a few days? What if they don't even come back? What would happen to her then? All she could really do in that moment is sit in that chair and watch them leave. I mean what other choice
1:04.6	does she have? She's trapped, unable to leave her prison, unable to see the
1:09.8	sun. Lacey can't walk outside. She can't talk to her friends anymore, go to school, she's not even able to walk into the kitchen to grab food whenever her stomach rumbles.
1:19.0	We don't know if she even knew what day it was, or if she could hear the New York City fireworks. Would she work it out from the fireworks that it's
1:26.2	2022 now or would the loud noises just terrify her? We don't know any of this for certain. We just know that Lacey Fletcher was a prisoner of the couch.
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