The Fall (LeeAnn Fletcher)

Summary

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Anatomy of Murder – "The Fall (LeeAnn Fletcher)"

Release Date: October 7, 2025
Hosts: Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi, Scott Weinberger
Key Voice: Leanne’s cousin, Tricia Cahoon

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Episode Overview

This episode of “Anatomy of Murder” dissects the tragic and layered case of LeeAnn Fletcher, a vibrant mother from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It examines not only her suspicious death in July 2020, but also the dogged fight for justice mounted by her family and the social media campaign that shamed authorities into action. The episode explores the crime scene, the investigation’s missteps, and the courtroom battle that followed, offering a rare inside look at a family’s struggle to have a loved one’s violent death acknowledged as murder.

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Key Discussion Points

1. LeeAnn Fletcher: Her Life and Character

• Tight-knit Community: The Outer Banks, described as safe and friendly, turned out to be the backdrop for this tragedy ([04:17]–[05:13]).
• LeeAnn’s Background: Described as generous, outgoing, and “salt of the earth,” always willing to help others, even at her own expense.
  • “She was like, really outgoing...she would do anything in the world for you and help you in any way possible.” – Tricia ([06:28])
• Personal Struggles: Married her high school sweetheart Justin; suffered the loss of a child, leading to marital strain and eventual separation ([08:16]–[09:05]).
• Slide into Difficult Company: After separation, began drinking more and socializing with people she might otherwise have avoided, including John “Jay” Tolson ([09:39]–[11:07]).

2. The Relationship with John “Jay” Tolson

• Tolson moved in as a houseguest, then became romantically involved with LeeAnn.
• Red flags: Tolson’s dishonesty about his job, suspicions of other romantic entanglements ([11:38]–[12:14]).
• LeeAnn cuts ties, puts his belongings on her porch—setting the stage for the fatal conflict ([12:32]–[12:49]).

3. The Crime and Immediate Aftermath

• Timeline:
  • July 21, 2020: LeeAnn breaks off the relationship.
  • July 22, 9:30am: Tolson calls 911, claiming to have found LeeAnn unresponsive in the bathtub ([13:03]–[13:29]).
• First Response Confusion:
  • LeeAnn was found dry in the bathtub, seriously injured, and with suspicious head trauma not matching a fall ([13:38]–[15:04]).
  • "There's no way that this came from a fall unless she fell from like a 20 story building." – Trauma surgeon (Tricia quoting, [17:05])

4. Family Frustration and Police Inaction

• Police Response: Local police didn’t suspect foul play, treated the scene as a medical emergency, and failed to secure or process the crime scene ([20:09]–[21:21]).
  • "They're like, she fell. She was drunk and she fell. I mean, what do you want us to do? Blame a guy for murder?" – Tricia’s account ([20:59])
• LeeAnn’s family found the house in disarray and, with the help of a police officer, discovered a blood-soaked mattress under a made bed ([25:30]).
  • Still, PD waited for autopsy results before classifying the case as a potential homicide.

5. The Family’s Investigation and Social Media Campaign

• Taking Action:
  • Family hires a retired homicide detective and uses Blue Star Forensic Reagent to uncover extensive evidence of a violent scene cleaning all over the house ([28:35]–[29:13]).
    • "It was just like a Christmas tree lit up. There was just blue everywhere." – Tricia ([28:48])
  • Created a 41-minute video recording documenting the blood evidence ([29:13]–[30:29]).
• Police Reluctance: Despite this evidence, police remained hesitant; family turned to social media and local/national news, rallying public support with #JusticeForLeann ([34:55]–[36:13]).
  • "I had no other option, and I just started going to the news." – Tricia ([35:43])

6. Autopsy Confusion and the Challenge of Cause of Death

• ME’s report noted “complications of blunt force trauma to the head, with hepatic cirrhosis contributing,” leaving the manner of death undetermined, enabling police hesitation ([39:32]–[39:48]).
• Family and doctors pushed back, noting LeeAnn had no prior liver failure. The jaundice was from organ shutdown after being left too long post-injury, not from alcoholism ([41:15]–[41:48]).

7. Establishing a Timeline and Breaking Tolson’s Story

• Witnesses:
  • Coworker overheard Tolson threaten LeeAnn the morning prior ([42:19]).
  • Tolson’s boss says Tolson confessed to a violent altercation soon after calling 911 ([42:41]–[43:07]).
• Phone records reveal Tolson contacted another woman repeatedly during the cleanup period; evidence suggested possible outside help in cleaning up ([44:58]–[46:38]).

8. The Arrest and Prosecution

• Grand Jury and Indictment: In October 2020, Tolson is indicted and flees North Carolina by boat during a storm—captured in Maine after being found intoxicated in a ditch ([47:02]–[50:51]).
  • "He actually was found by a local officer in a ditch, passed out on the side of the road...this guy is literally here in Maine." – Tricia ([49:57])
• Trial Challenges: Evidence collected by the family/private investigator is challenged and partially thrown out due to chain-of-custody breaks ([52:08]–[52:23]).
• Plea Deal: Tolson pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter, sentenced to 56–80 months, credited with three years’ time served; released after less than five years ([52:47]–[54:16]).
  • "When we heard five to seven, it took the breath right out of us." – Tricia ([53:56])

9. Aftermath and Reflections

• LeeAnn’s family continues advocating for procedural reforms and greater transparency in investigations.
  • "She will never be forgotten...don't give up and fight and fight. Don't give up." – Tricia ([55:15])
• Episode closes with a reminder of the dangers of domestic violence, and the power—and pain—of loved ones fighting for justice.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On LeeAnn’s Life and Nature:
  • “She was one of those people that if you had as a friend, like, she was like a sister to you, but the bond was like inseparable and she would do anything for you.” – Tricia ([06:28])
• On the Family’s Frustration with Law Enforcement:
  • “I said, you need to call the police and you need to call the police right now.” – Tricia ([17:05])
  • “There was no pictures taken, There was no crime scene taped off. They're still trying to say that she died from a fall in the bathtub.” – Tricia ([26:28])
• On Self-Investigation:
  • "It was just like a Christmas tree lit up. There was just blue everywhere." – Tricia describing the forensic reagent’s revelations ([28:48])
• On Social Media Public Pressure:
  • "I had no other option, and I just started going to the news." – Tricia ([35:43])
• On Tolson’s Arrest:
  • "He was found by a local officer in a ditch, passed out on the side of the road." – Tricia ([49:57])
• On Justice:
  • "There was no way. There was no possible way I was letting her go down like that. There was no way." – Tricia at sentencing ([53:17])
• On Systemic Change:
  • "I think that the most justice for leann was holding not just Jay accountable, but the police department, the mayor, the DA's, and all of them accountable and hoping that with this in the future, that they'll handle other cases differently." – Tricia ([54:40])
• On the Family’s Ongoing Fight:
  • "She will never be forgotten. As long as I can keep her alive, she'll stay alive...don't give up and fight and fight. Don't give up." – Tricia ([55:15])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 03:15–04:17 | Introduction to case and the Outer Banks community | | 05:29–08:16 | LeeAnn’s upbringing, marriage, and life challenges | | 09:39–12:32 | Relationship with Tolson, unraveling trust, and breakup | | 13:03–15:04 | 911 call, first response, and hospital admission | | 17:05–20:09 | Medical examiner doubts and family's first push for investigation | | 21:08–26:08 | First visit to the house, discovery of blood under tidy surfaces | | 28:35–30:29 | Family/private investigator documents blood evidence throughout home | | 35:06–36:13 | Family’s social media campaign and public support growth | | 39:32–41:48 | Challenges with cause of death and autopsy results | | 44:58–46:38 | Phone records revealing post-injury timeline and cleanup | | 47:02–50:51 | Tolson’s flight and arrest in Maine | | 52:08–52:23 | Legal challenge to evidence collected by family/PI | | 53:17–54:16 | Sentencing, family’s reaction, and Tolson’s release | | 55:03–55:35 | Ongoing advocacy and advice for other families in similar situations |

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Concluding Insights

“LeeAnn Fletcher’s case is more than a story about a murder. It is a powerful example of how family determination and public advocacy can force official recognition of a suspicious death and eventually achieve some measure of justice. The episode highlights both systemic failures and the need for empathy, vigilance, and reform in how suspected domestic violence is investigated and prosecuted. As Anna-Sigga notes, it is a tragic story, but also an inspiring testament to family love and unyielding pursuit of the truth.

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I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

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I'm Anna Sega Nicolasi, former New York City Homicide prosecutor and host of Investigation Discovery's True Conviction.

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And this is Anatomy of Murder.

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Life threatening danger does not always come with warning signs. But when it strikes as a result of an accident or the ill will of a bad actor, we hope the people closest to us will not hesitate to come to our aid.

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But there are times when the very folks we expect to show up don't. Maybe clues were there that weren't recognized or perhaps ignored. And in those moments, we realize that help isn't always as certain as we thought.

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Today's story is about a suspicious death and the uncertainty about who, if anyone, is to blame.

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But it is also about the strength and determination of a family and a community who refused to give up on the fight for justice and the fight to hold responsible anyone who stood in the way of the truth.

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My name is Tricia Cahoon and I grew up in a little town called Kilkenny, North Carolina. It's about an hour outside of where I actually currently live now.

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Tricia Cahoon was born and raised in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, which is probably best known for its wide, pristine beaches, laid back lifestyle, and large numbers of seasonal tourists.

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You have the beaches and people are running around barefoot without shirts on. Everybody's on beach time here. It's not like a city life. It's like this is the place that you come to get away from that life. You know, you can walk the beach, it's supposed to be safe, and you just feel like you can leave your doors unlocked, your car is unlocked. You don't have to worry about the crime. It's very low crime here.

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It's also a tight knit community of locals, many of whom, like Tricia's large family, have been here for generations, working as teachers, nurses, contractors and bartenders, serving the throngs of thirsty tourists that descend on the Outer Banks every summer for a taste of fun and sun.

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People go to the same churches, they go to the same schools. They play the ball games and the kids cheer together. They have dance meetings together. Even though there's like over 250,000 people here at a given point in the summer, everybody still knows everybody.

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Trisha's cousin, Leanne Fletcher, grew up not too far away in Kitty Hawk. And from the time they were kids playing at their grandmother's house to their teenage years running around the beach, Leanne and Trish were thick as thieves.

[B]

Leanne was born in 81. I was born in 77, so we were four years apart. But as we got older, like in high school and like right directly out of high school, it was more of like a bond, like a sisterly bond. We did a lot more things together, had a lot of the same friend group, and so we were always with each other, always.

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Growing up, Leann worked at her grandparents service station. And between them, she and Tricia felt like they knew just about everyone and everything that went on in the Outer Banks.

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To hear Trisha describe it, Leann was just a real salt of the earth beach person. Fun, outgoing, and most of all, full of love for her hometown and the people of her community.

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She was like, really outgoing. She definitely, you know, was one that didn't take any. Excuse my French, but she would give the shirt off of her back. Like she would do anything in the world for you and help you in any way possible. She was one of those people that if you had as a friend, like, she was like a sister to you, but the bond was like inseparable and she would do anything for you.

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If she had a fault, it was that Leanne could sometimes be over generous. She was someone who loved deeply and without judgment.

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She was always trying to help, like someone that maybe had like a disease of like, addiction or someone that maybe, you know, lost their job and needed extra cash and needed to find a job, she would help with that. So it was like, in all aspects, she was, you know, if, like there was someone that didn't have a lot of money and their child had a birthday coming up, she would literally buy birthday presents, wrap them, and give them anonymously. So like, she didn't want the credit for it. So she wasn't one to take the credit for things like that. That's just the type person she was.

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But as you will hear later in today's episode, that kindness would be taken advantage of. But before we get there, let's get to know a bit more about Leann.

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Leann graduated high school and married her high school sweetheart. They lived in a little house over in Kitty Hawk.

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Leanne's husband Justin was a local contractor, and Leanne, as we said, worked at her family service station.

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Then she baked cakes on the side for like, weddings and birthday parties and things like that. She went hunting with Justin and fishing, and Justin was her true love of her life.

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But early in their marriage, the couple suffered a terrible tragedy. The devastating loss of a son late.

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In Leann's pregnancy that really took a major toll. He died in her arms Basically. So that was really devastating for Justin and Leanne. After that, there was like a strain that was like a bond that was like broken. Something just wasn't there. There was like a wall between them.

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Years later, the couple would welcome another child, a daughter. But their once perfect marriage couldn't seem to get back on track. A fate all too common among couples who experience the trauma of losing a child.

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I don't know, like, Justin and Leigh Ann grew apart, and it put a really bad strain on their relationship.

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Leann and Justin eventually separated, but any hopes that they might reconcile were dashed when Leann later became pregnant.

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I think that it really, really hurt Justin that she ended up pregnant with another man's child, because in his eyes, at the end of the day, at some point they would be back together. And I really believe Leann felt the same way.

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Ultimately, the fighting with Justin coupled with a dispute over custody of her new son and started to take its toll on the 38 year old mom.

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It really took Leanne down like a dark road because she was very motherly. She was all about her children. I mean, she just was that kind of mom, making sure that they had the right vegetables and fruits on their plate and they ate the right foods, they had the right clothes, they were dressed right for the season. There was always controversy, there was always hollering, yelling, tug of war with their son. Leanne started drinking more. It was a real struggle for her. She just started hanging out with, like, just people that she wouldn't normally hang out with or bring into her home.

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And one of those people was a man named John Tolson, who went by the nickname Jay. Their friendship started harmlessly enough over a few beers at an island bar.

[B]

He was crying the blues that him and his girl had broke up, you know, and she kind of like, again, being the nurturing person that she is and caring person that she is, you know, she started talking to him about, you know, like, her problems and what she was going through and conversation kind of started and he was saying that he didn't have a place to live, that his girlfriend had kicked him out, and, you know, she was like, well, you know, if you need a place to stay, I have a three bedroom, two bathroom house and it's in Kitty Hawk. But, you know, you're more than welcome to stay until you can find another place to stay, stay.

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With her children now away for the summer, Leanne had the space, and being the kind person she was, she invited Tolson into her home.

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And Tolson didn't hesitate to take her up on her hospitality, showing up at her front door with a duffel bag of his belongings.

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Leanne explained it to him like, you know, hey, this is just a temporary thing, right?

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But their friendship eventually turned romantic. Nothing more than a nice summer romance for two adults and seeking a little companionship.

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But that innocent summer romance quickly hit a snag as Leanne started to realize that Jay wasn't all he was cracked up to be.

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She started realizing that he wasn't a completely honest person. Like, he told her that he was, like, the head chef of a restaurant and come to find out he was like, the dishwasher there. And then, you know, he told her that he owned a construction company, and he didn't own a construction company. He was actually working for another individual that owned the construction company.

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What was worse, Leann suspected he was hiding something else, too.

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Leanne had the sixth sense that he was seeing someone else. And so she actually put on her Facebook that she was in a relationship with John Tolson, you know, Jay Tolson. So when she did that, it was like it publicized it. Everybody could see her social media. So it was like if he was doing something with another girl that was not aware of Leanne, then it would all come out. That's when the problems really started.

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Leann was never one to put up with the nonsense. So when she learned he was stepping out, she sent him a clear message. He was not welcome back at her home. By depositing his stuff on her front.

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Porch, she knew what was going on. And she told him. She said, you're gonna get your stuff, and you're going to get out of my house.

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That was the afternoon of July 21, 2020.

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Leanne made a couple of posts on Facebook, and then it was like, silence, complete silence. Nobody ever heard anything else from her after that.

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Then at approximately 9:30am on the morning of July 22, a 911 call was made from inside Leanne's home. The caller, Jay, Tulsa 911.

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What's the address of your emergency? 990 Kitty West. Kitty Hawk Road. What's your name? Jay.

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Jay told the dispatcher that he had just found Leanne undressed and unresponsive in the bathtub.

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My friend, she's laying in the tub. She won't wake up. I think she fell last night. I'm not sure. There's blood coming out of her nose, but I can't get her to wake up.

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Firefighters were the first to respond, and they found the scene pretty much as Jay described it. Leanne Was unresponsive in the bathtub. She wasn't wearing anything and bleeding from her nose and mouth. She was still breathing, but barely.

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The firefighters go in first, and the firefighters find her leaned up against the side of the tub, and she's dry. She's not wet. Her hair's a little damp, but she's basically completely dry. So they drag her out of the bathtub to get her from flat on the floor to be able to start helping her with her respirations. And then the paramedics get there after the firefighters. As soon as they pull her out of the tub, then the paramedics go in.

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But immediately the paramedics realized that Leanne's injuries were much more severe than what they might have expected from just an accidental fall in the tube.

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They said that this is more than a fault. Like, there's something not right here. She was very jaundice. Her head was extremely swollen, but there was no visible blood or trauma. There was, like, a few, like, bruises and, like, some scratches, but her head was the main thing. They just. Her head was huge, and they were like, this is not good. This is not good. So they immediately called medflight.

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Leanne was airlifted to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia and admitted to the icu, where she was placed on a ventilator. A shunt was inserted in her skull to relieve the dangerous pressure from the swelling of her brain.

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They contact her mother. Her mother in return contacted me. And I get this call that, hey, Leanne's in the hospital and she's on a ventilator. And I'm like, what? She's on a ventilator. My first thoughts are like, Covid. She got Covid. Because there is Covid. So I call Marianne. I'm like, what in the world's going on? And then she proceeds to tell me that Leanne was found at the. The house. Supposedly found at the house by Jay. And he called 911 and said that she fell and that she was drunk. And I was like, where did she fall from?

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The roof.

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How was. She has this severe of a head injury, and she fell in the bathtub. She said, I don't know, Tricia. Something's fishy. I don't know.

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Leanne's family rushed to her bedside, hoping for the best, but fearing the worst.

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She didn't even look like her. They had shaved her head. And then she's intubated, so she's got, you know, the tube coming out of her mouth, and then she's got all these other lines you know that in a critical care setting that you would have she's really super jaundice and she's like swollen.

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To Tricia, who was a registered nurse, Leanne appeared to have signs of not one but multiple injuries. Injuries that looked a lot like she had been physically assaulted.

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I went up there and I took pictures. I was not supposed to do that, but I did it anyways. I took pictures. On her wrist, she had bruises. On her face, she has bruises.

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The emergency room doctors had been told Leanne had fallen and hit her head. But when the trauma surgeon examined her, he too had his doubts.

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The head surgeon, trauma surgeon at Norfolk was like, there's no way that this came from a fall unless she fell from like a 20 story building. This was not a fall from the bathtub. I said, you need to call the police and you need to call the police right now.

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With Leanne when she was in the hospital laying there like, is she going to survive? Is she not going to survive? What are the odds? And being able to deal with that emotionally and going through that day to day, that's hard. It's really hard.

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For three days, Leanne clung to life on a ventilator while her family grappled with a horrible possibility that her injury was was not from an accidental fall, but rather that someone had intentionally hurt her.

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On July 25, Leann's family made the devastating decision to remove her from life support just three days shy of her 39th birthday.

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Patricia says there were still so many questions surrounding Leanne's death, questions that they believe were not being answered when the family contacted police.

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According to Tricia Leeann's family was told that her death was not being investigated as suspicious. She says that according to Kitty Hawk pd, they had talked to Jay Tolson at the scene and that they were satisfied from what they saw that Leann's death was likely the result of a tragic accident.

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They're like, she fell. She was drunk and she fell. I mean, what do you want us to do? Blame a guy for murder? That was kind of their attitude.

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Which also meant that the initial police response meant may have treated the scene as a medical emergency, not a crime scene. Leanne's home had not been sealed. No photographs were taken, no evidence collected.

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This is insane. Where is this guy? Where is this Jay? How do we get up with this guy? Like, do they even have a phone number for him? Do we even know where he's even at?

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Much of the family's pain and frustration immediately following Leanne's death was directed at the local police chief, who they believed should be treating Leann's boyfriend Jay as a possible homicide suspect.

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So I'm freaking out. I'm like, you need to call him and have that taped off, and he needs to bring him in, he needs to interview him. Like, this is bad. This is really, really bad.

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Tricia and Leann's mother rushed back towards Leanne's home in Kitty Hawk. And on the way, they called the local police chief to Demand answers. It did not go well.

[B]

Family member mode, mama mode, nurse mode, like every mode possible, kicked in. Marianne, her mother starts screaming. I mean, like, hysterically, like, I had to get off the road.

[C]

Anasega. In this situation, families have every right to question law enforcement, how they're handling a case. You know, they're public servants who are tasked with investigating events surrounding a death to confirm or not whether foul play may be a factor. I don't think anyone will dispute that. Right. Some agencies handle it better than others. And when a breakdown occurs between investigators and a family, it benefits nobody. And I'll also say this. There were some obvious red flags that foul play may be involved in the death of Leanne, and the family wanted answers. And I could clearly understand Leanne's family feeling like investigators just let them down. I can completely understand that.

[A]

And, you know, look, I've definitely seen it both ways. I've seen it that families were reacting justifiably or other times that they were, you know, reading the room in a way that. That really wasn't necessarily fair to the police. Right. But, you know, here, obviously, if what the family's seeing is that they're not even looking at the possibility that it's a homicide. Well, obviously, based on some of the red flags, as you just put it, Scott, they should at least be doing that. Too early to say right now, you know, where it's going to turn out. But again, this is coming from Tricia's perspective, but we can clearly see why it was that the family was very, very upset.

[B]

So we drive from Norfolk straight to the house. We get there, and we don't want to touch anything. When we went to the door, I said, you have to be. Don't touch anything. Like, open the door and just don't touch anything. And we start looking, and the house is, like, in total disarray.

[A]

According to Tricia, Leann's house was littered with trash and dirty dishes, which was totally out of character for Leann, who was known to keep a tidy home.

[B]

There was, like, beer cans and, like, paper bags filled with, like. Like, she was recycling beer cans. And there's, like, dishes all in the sink, and there's, like, little sections that are, like, really clean. Like the sofa, the cushions are off the sofa and they're, like, propped up against, like, the coffee table. There was just things that weren't matching up, weren't adding up.

[C]

However, there were no immediate signs of violence, no broken furniture, no signs of a break in, and no visible blood, not even in the bathroom. Where Jay had supposedly found her unconscious and bleeding.

[B]

When you walked in there and you looked it, literally, you could not see anything that looked abnormal to the naked eye, as far as blood splatter or any kind of blood. Like the bathtub was dry, There was no blood, no nothing. Like zero.

[A]

Which just didn't seem possible if what Jay had told the 911 operator and the police was true.

[B]

On the 911 call, he made the comment that she had blood coming out of her nose. And so I'm like, where's the blood?

[C]

Why?

[B]

Why is there no blood? There was trauma and she fell and hit her head to the point of this extent of an injury. Where is the blood?

[C]

By this time, Trisha and Leanne's mom had been joined by a Kitty Hawk police officer. And so far, they had found little to indicate that the house was indeed a scene of a crime. Then they entered the bedroom and the.

[B]

Bed'S made, completely made, like perfect. Marianne told him she was like, pulling back the bedspread and he pulled the bedspread and there was like no sheet and the bed was completely covered in blood. And that's when they were like, ooh, literally there's like a moment of silence. He told her, get out of the bedroom, get out of the house.

[A]

A short time later, a blood soaked shirt was discovered under Leanne's bed.

[B]

I mean, it was literally a cream colored blouse that was red. I mean, like Kool Aid red.

[C]

But despite this shocking discovery of what they can only assume is a large amount of Leanne's blood, according to Tricia, the Kitty Hawk PD was still hesitant to jump to any conclusions. They were determined to wait for an autopsy and the ME's exam to give an official cause of death.

[B]

There was no pictures taken, There was no crime scene taped off. They're still trying to say that she died from a fall in the bathtub.

[A]

And so, frustrated by what they perceived as police inaction, Leanne's family retained a private investigator to document the condition of the home and preserve potential evidence.

[C]

And some of you may be thinking, is this really a good idea? You know, there is a lot of risk of potentially contaminating evidence or breaking the chain of custody of evidence, which is very, very important in the prosecution of a case. If we get to that point, and I'm sure Ana Seeka, you may have an opinion about that.

[A]

To your point, Scott, it's like you never know where it's going to lead, which is why you have to always assume you're going to need it. In that pristine condition, you're going to need to worry about things like chain of custody. So you can already see where things are getting, you know, potentially at least a bit dicey right here. But, you know, obviously we can understand or imagine how frustrated this family was and how determined they were just to figure out what happened. Right. You know, timing, as you know, Scott, is obviously critical. You know, if Leanne was murdered, they just can't afford to sit idly by. So they, on their own said, hey, we have to hire this private investigator as our best option because they just, they didn't know what else to do.

[B]

He was retired homicide detective. His number one thing was, is, like, getting down here as fast as he could because he said the scene being processed evidence and like, what condition is Jay in? Like, does he have any scrapes, bruises and all this is like major that needs to be done, like, immediately. Like, that should have already have been done. Have the police collected any evidence from the hospital? Has her nails been clipped? Has this been done? Has anybody asked for a rape kit to been done? Like, he's starting to go through all these things, and my mind is like, this guy did this and he's going to get by with it.

[C]

So. On July 31, more than a week after Leanne's death, Leanne's family decided to take the investigation into their own hands. What they found would completely change their understanding of what had happened to Leanne. On that fateful night, Tricia and the.

[A]

Investigator entered Leanne's home. Only this time, they came with a secret weapon, a chemical agent called Blue Star Forensic Reagent. It had the power to reveal what police had apparently not yet found.

[B]

So when our investigator came in and sprayed the house and flipped the lights off, it was just like a Christmas tree lit up. There was just blue everywhere. There was light. Without light, there's not even words to describe what that house looked like when he turned those lights off after he sprayed.

[C]

They used a video camera to document their discovery of blood evidence in multiple rooms, on dozens of surfaces, creating a 41 minute recording that showed handprints, blood smears, and spatter patterns throughout the house. Now we have that audio for you. Listen for yourself.

[B]

This is the kitchen.

[C]

A significant amount of blood was found.

[B]

In a weird shape here on the floor.

[C]

Blood was found found on the couch. On the floor in front of the couch.

[B]

Blood was found on both sides of this cushion as well as blood was found in the fireplace in the bathroom. You could see the smears where they had tried to clean up and on the mirror and the walls of the shower and the floor. In the kitchen, significant amount of blood was found on the wall on the side of the sink. A significant amount of blood was found.

[C]

On the behind the handles as well.

[B]

As in a portion of the tub. It was everywhere. The bed, the walls, in the bedroom, the nightstand, the doors. There was smears going down the hallway.

[A]

According to Tricia, it was like a scene out of a horror movie. Clearly, a violent assault had occurred all over the house, and she could only imagine the violence that could have left blood spatter on not just the floors, but. But the walls and even the ceiling.

[B]

How was she even still alive with that amount of blood loss? How was she even still breathing?

[C]

According to the retired homicide detective, the pattern of evidence told a horrifying story. It appeared that Leanne had been attacked in the kitchen and then moved from room to room before being left in the bathtub.

[A]

It also appeared, now assuming this was a crime, that the perpetrator spent considerable time cleaning up the scene, trying to remove any visible blood from the kitchen, the bathroom, the hallway, even the living room sofa.

[B]

That was just mind boggling that there was actually that much blood. And to me, how long did he spend and who did he have in here to help him clean this up?

[C]

To both the former homicide detectives and Leanne's family, this was clear evidence that Leanne had been murdered, that whoever killed her had stayed to clean the scene, and whoever it was might not have acted alone.

[A]

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[C]

And whoever killed her not only took the time to stage her injuries as an accident, but spent hours meticulously cleaning the crime scene, all while Leanne was still dying in the bathtub.

[A]

Which begs the question, was Leanne still conscious and aware the entire time her attacker was cleaning up around her? Was she a witness to the attempted cover up of her own murder?

[B]

Did she know what was going on? Could she hear the commotion of like, the cleanup and like him saying, do I get rid of her? What was he saying that she could hear?

[C]

As you'd expect, Land's family went straight to local police with the evidence that they had found. But they were left frustrated with what they saw as a lack of urgency from law enforcement.

[B]

We're still active, actively trying to get them involved, to really understand that this is there has been a crime here.

[A]

And look, maybe local police felt that hiring the private investigator was overstepping or that could potentially be problematic if there would end up being a case, you know, maybe that you are still waiting for autopsy results. But for whatever reason, Leanne's family was not having any luck making their case that Leanne had been murdered and that her killer was still at large, or at least not getting the quick results they were hoping for.

[B]

The investigator had been in the house, had called Kitty Hawk Police Department, tried to get them on board. They were not even returning his calls. Like he called several times and they never returned our private investigators call. He said, we're just going to have to take this into our own hands.

[C]

And so that's exactly what they did. Leanne's family turned to social media to share Leanne's story and to air their grievances against local law enforcement.

[B]

I went on there as, this is what's happened, this is what's going on, and the police aren't doing anything. Kind of like a cry for help. On social media, the family also shared.

[A]

The video footage taken from Leanne's house showing the blood stained bedding, the blood spattered walls, and other potential evidence that had not been collected by police in the immediate aftermath of Leanne's so called accident.

[C]

The family says the public's response, especially in the Outer Banks community, was immediate and overwhelming, with many people who knew Leanne rallying to her family's demands for justice.

[B]

Then my private investigator, who was also a former homicide detective, says to me, are they doing anything right now? I said, no. He said, then you have no other option. And that's how I looked at it. I had no other option, and I just started going to the news.

[A]

The story soon gained national attention, with concerned citizens and domestic violence advocates rallying around Leanne's case. The hashtag JusticeForLeann was soon trending all across the country.

[B]

Then the DA calls us, and he's like, we need to have a meeting. We sure do, don't we?

[C]

According to Tricia, things were said in the room that alluded to some troubled history between the family and law enforcement that perhaps they believe was now factoring into the divide.

[A]

And also then, feeling they were still getting nowhere, the family decided to again appeal to the public. And they say that at that point, the case went viral. So, Scott, here, look, I mean, there's obviously so much that you can unpack here, but I think the obvious question, too, is about creating a public campaign, right? I mean, is it a public pressure campaign? And I think Trisha would tell you, like, absolutely, yes. Like, that was their motivation, because whether it was they felt they weren't getting any investigation or the investigation wasn't fast enough. And again, you know, law enforcement did put out statements that they had been investigating the case, but that it wasn't happening in the timeline that the family was happy with. But Tricia says it wasn't happening at all. But look, public pressure campaigns or public campaigns can be helpful sometimes to highlight cases that are otherwise potentially at least being ignored. But they also can cause, you know, other factors or other. I'm trying to think of, like, the right words here, but factors that could be problematic later if the case isn't allowed to take its natural course. You can look at it both ways.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, they're well within their rights to air their grievances, whether it's on the steps of the police department or on social media. I mean, that's within their rights. But also you have to think about when they start giving information out that may have been given to them, whether through their private investigator, things that you may want to hold close to the vest if your investigators to determine that if you get somebody in custody and start questioning them about certain things, they may be giving relevant information out that you may not, as an investigator, want out there. So there's both sides of the story. But certainly it's clear how this family feels. Anasega. I mean, there's no doubt about it. They feel they weren't getting the attention that they felt like they deserved. So it's a difficult pull and push here or Push and pull, however you want to put it. But certainly what's most important is I think both parties wanted the investigation to move as quickly as it could, but one was being more careful, and the other was just being out there to get the word out. And also Anasega, as part of the information posted on social media, they viewed Jay Tolson as their prime suspect. And remember the Outer Banks, It's a small community. And with Leanne's story on everyone's lips, Tolson himself being named, he was feeling the pressure.

[B]

People are literally shunning him, asking him, like, what happened and what did you do to her? And he's like, basically hiding out.

[A]

In the face of growing public pressure, the District Attorney's office announced they were coordinating with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation to investigate Leigh Anson suspicious death.

[B]

At this point, the DA finally said, we're going to get the FBI involved. We're going to let them come in.

[C]

But there was still the issue of the autopsy. Investigators had stated that they needed to wait for the ME's official cause of death before Leanne's death could be determined whether it was an accident or an actual crime.

[A]

But unfortunately, that report, it just further complicated things because it listed Leanne's cause of death as complications of blunt force trauma to the head, with hepatic cirrhosis contributing. And the manner of death remained undetermined.

[C]

Which likely sounds pretty confusing, as it did for Leanne's family. So let's unpack it for a little bit. At the center of the uncertainty about the manner of death was the fact that Leanne's body at the time of being transported to the hospital, appeared jaundiced, a condition that the skin appears to be yellow as a result of a liver failure.

[A]

Now, when talking about adults, the most commonly known cause of jaundice is cirrhosis, a liver disease caused by long term alcohol abuse, which was a detail that Tricia says the police seemed stuck on.

[B]

They were trying to say that that's what caused her death, was her alcoholism, that she was dying from liver failure. And then she fell and that's why she bled out.

[C]

But according to Trisher, while Leann did drink alcohol, she showed no signs of liver failure. In the weeks leading up to her.

[B]

Death, Leanne was seen by a physician and actually had a procedure scheduled for cataract surgery and had had a knee procedure six months prior to that and had labs done and had no signs of any hepatic failure, no signs of jaundice. The week that she died, she was Scheduled for cataract surgery. One of the first signs of jaundice, where you mainly see is in the eyes. The white of your eye will actually start giving a hint of yellow. And she had none of that. Zero.

[A]

But according to Leanne's doctor, there was another possible reason why Leanne's skin had appeared jaundiced from eptic failure. After sustaining her fatal head injury, she had been left to die, possibly for much longer than even Tricia had imagined.

[B]

The trauma surgeon said this did not just happen in the last 12 hours. This takes time for this amount of swelling with this injury. The jaundice was from her organs starting to actually shut down because she had laid there for so long.

[C]

So just how long did Leanne lie in the bathtub with a fatal head injury? Was it a couple of hours, as Tolson had claimed, or was it much longer? It was critical to establish a timeline of her movements on that day and his.

[A]

And one way to do that was with the help of witnesses, starting with a co worker of Tolson's who claimed he had overheard Tolson on the phone with Leanne the morning of July 21, more than 24 hours before Tolson's call to 911.

[B]

This guy comes to us after and reaches out to me on social media and heard the threats and heard him threatening Leanne, saying he was gonna go home and beat her ass.

[C]

But the most damning witness account came from Tolson's boss, who claimed he had spoken to him just hours after Tolson had called 911.

[B]

Jay had went to his boss and said that him and Leanne had gotten into a fight, and it got out of hand. He was very emotional and he was crying, and his boss actually left the job site with him and said, what do you mean? And he's like, it got out of control. She's in the hospital. This was after he had called 911. He actually went to work and told his boss.

[A]

Tolson's boss at the time suspected that there had been a violent domestic dispute.

[B]

He was like, I mean, like, how bad is it? He's like, it's pretty bad.

[C]

All of this, of course, contradicted what Tolson had told both the 911 operator and first responders who arrived at the scene.

[B]

He calls 911 and basically in just the short minutes of the 911 call, he basically tells them three or four different stories that she was really drunk last night. He thinks she took some pills, she fell in the kitchen, then she fell in the bathroom in the tub. She had been sick. I mean, there was like multiple stories just on the 911 call.

[A]

But Leanne's family and a growing circle of friends and concerned citizens were convinced they knew the real story, that Tolson must have returned to Leanne's house, found his belongings on the porch, and confronted Leanne with violence.

[C]

The blood evidence that showed up after spraying the house with the chemical reagent showed that the attack likely started in the kitchen, where his attack caused blood to pool on the floor and spatter on the walls, ceiling, and even the sofa.

[A]

Now, again, presuming it's Tolson, that he would have then likely dragged her body upstairs to stage the fall in the bathroom by undressing her and putting her unconscious body in the tub.

[C]

Now, it's hard to know just when the attack took place, but what we do know is that he waited until after 9am to dial 91 1. So what did he do for the hours that Leanne was fighting for her life? Trisha believes he called for help to clean the house and destroy the evidence of the murder.

[A]

So then who did he call? According to Tricia, phone record records subpoenaed by SBI show he called who she says was his other girlfriend.

[B]

So he actually called her the night prior. He called her on 7 21, late night, like between 9:30 and midnight, and basically called her that entire night and that entire next morning until she responded around 4:30 in the morning. She responds to his phone calls and his text messages, and he's telling her that him and Leanne got into a fight and that Leanne was unconscious and that she hadn't woke up from the fight and that he didn't know what to do. And now she says that she told him, I don't know why you're calling me. You should be calling 91 1. Why? I'm not a doctor.

[C]

So did those phone records suggest that Tolson had succeeded in convincing her to help him cover up the crime? Well, Tricia thinks So.

[B]

So from 4:30 in the morning until like 9:30, there was no communication between these two individuals. Like, it went from blowing the phone up to like dead silence. And what was Jay doing from 4:30 in the morning until 9:30 when he called 91 1? So what was going on in those five hours? We all know later that the house had been cleaned up. All the blood was cleaned up. There was clothes washed, there was fans going in the house directed towards the sofa where they sofa had been scrubbed. There is blood splattered everywhere that you can't See visible naked to the eye because it had been cleaned up.

[A]

Armed with the phone records and the growing circumstantial evidence that Tolson had indeed lied to police, the case was presented to a grand jury in October 26, 2020. That grand jury returned an indictment and a warrant was issued for Tolson's arrest.

[C]

But there was just one problem. Tolson had been tipped off about the indictment and he was now on the run.

[B]

A phone call from an individual that said, jay's skipping town. He's got on a boat and he's heading towards Maine and he's heading towards Canada. He knew he was being indicted. Someone had told him, you're going down for this crime.

[C]

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[A]

On October 26, 2020, a major storm was hitting the Outer Banks, and the suspect in the murder of Leanne Fletcher was in the wind.

[C]

But this was the Outer Banks, and as she told us, nothing happened here without Trisher finding out about it.

[B]

He gets Jay on a boat during a storm. So my SBI agent is like, there's no way that he's on a boat and he's heading to Bunker, Maine, because, like, there's a freaking storm. Trisha, I said he's on a boat on the way to Maine. I'm telling you, he is going. So he calls me and he's like, we're on it. We're gonna find him. Don't freak out. I could tell in my agent's voice that he is gone and he is missing. He is gone.

[A]

After this huge campaign to finally get justice for Leanne's murder, it's hard to imagine what Leanne's family must have been going through. The man you always suspected was her Killer was now potentially about to get away.

[C]

The guy got on a boat in the middle of a storm and sailed to Maine. I mean, that is completely like something out of a movie. Ana Sika.

[A]

And with that, you've also heard the saying, the long arm of the law. Well, the same can be said of social media, because even in Maine, Tolson could not outrun his notoriety.

[B]

He actually was found by a local officer in a ditch, passed out on the side of the road. And someone called and said, hey, there's this guy that's apparently intoxicated and he's in a ditch. So they go pick him up, and they start by his name and his date of birth. And the police there are smart enough something's fishy about this situation, and that police department starts doing their job and looks on social media and they're like, this is the guy that committed this murder that publicized all over social media all the way to the uk and this guy is literally here in Maine. This is crazy. And so they contact our sheriff's department, and the sheriff's department contacts the sbi, and it's like, hey, your guy's in Maine.

[C]

Tricia remembers getting the call from an SBI agent.

[B]

Within 16 hours, I get a phone call, call, and he said, I cannot tell you where I'm at and what's going on, but that I have Jay and I'm about to get on a plane.

[A]

After what had turned into a grueling saga for Leanne's family, law enforcement had finally made an arrest. Jay Tolson was charged with second degree murder of Leanne Fletcher.

[C]

Tolson was extradited to North Carolina and held at the Dare County Detention center on a million dollar bond.

[B]

They did indict him, they did charge him with second degree murder.

[A]

After numerous delays, Tolson's trial began in late August of 2023, more than three years after Leanne's murder.

[C]

It was important to Leann's family that not only was the cause of death blunt force trauma, but that Leanne's apparent liver failure was not a result of alcoholism, but the direct result of being left to die.

[B]

And the Emmy has our back on it. She's like, that's true. This is 100%. This is something that was brought up when the me actually was on the stand was, could this happen to someone that laid there for multiple hours and their organs started shutting down? And she said, absolutely.

[A]

But despite what seemed like overwhelming evidence, the prosecution still faced hurdles. Most importantly, defense was claims that Leanne's family's decision to hire a private investigator and collect evidence on their own had tainted the crime scene and the chain of custody.

[C]

And in fact, the judge threw out some of the evidence collected at Leanne's home for that very reason.

[B]

All the stuff that our private investigators had collected, like the sheets and the bedding and the recordings of the interviews. And that's why they talked us into asking for him to take a plea deal.

[A]

On August 31, 2023, four days into the trial and after two days of testimony, Tolson pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

[C]

At the sentencing hearing, Leanne's cousin Tricia gave an emotional statement condemning Tolson's decision to delay calling 911 and his attempt to clean up the crime scene. She told the court that had he sought immediate help, leann might have survived, but instead, he robbed her children of their mother.

[B]

She was a good person. She would not harm a fly. And the fact that someone was going to go without punishment and Leanne basically was not going to have justice, and she was just going to be another statistic. There was no way. There was no possible way I was letting her go down like that. There was no way.

[A]

The court acknowledged the pain of the family, but accepted Tolson's plea in part to avoid further trauma from an extended trial. In the end, the judge sentenced Tolson to 56 to 80 months in prison.

[B]

They said he'll probably get 20 to 25 years. When we heard five to seven, it took the breath right out of us.

[C]

Tolson was credited with nearly three years of time already served. He was released in May of 2025.

[B]

He spent exactly four years and eight months to the day.

[A]

No charges were ever filed against anyone else.

[C]

This case was about a woman, a mother of two, who was brutally attacked and left to die in her own home. But this was also about one family's quest for justice and their fight against what seemed like impossible odds.

[B]

I think that the most justice for leann was holding not just Jay accountable, but the police department, the mayor, the DA's, and all of them accountable and hoping that with this in the future, that they'll handle other cases differently.

[A]

But the fight for justice, it goes on. Even after the trial, leann's family has remained active in raising awareness and advocating for procedural reform in investigative practices.

[B]

She will never be forgotten. Gotten as long as I can keep her alive, she'll stay alive. And just know that if this happens, ever happens to your family member, that it is a war. It is a war and it's a process. But don't give up and fight and fight. Don't give up.

[C]

Leanne's story is a tragic reminder of how domestic violence can escalate quickly, especially when the victim tries to end a relationship. Leanne Fletcher was a devoted mother, a caring friend and a generous soul who opened her home and her heart to someone in need, and he repaid that kindness with violence.

[A]

Her story also reminds us that every life matters, every victim deserves justice, and about the unwavering love of family. To make sure the truth comes to light, tune in next week for another new episode of Anatomy of Murder.

[C]

Anatomy of Murder is an audio Chuck.

[A]

Original, produced and created by Weinberger Media and Frasetti Media.

[C]

Ashley Flowers is executive producer.

[A]

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