Sentenced: Recluse Daughter Dies On Parents’ Living Room Sofa With Severe Sores and Maggot-Filled Hair

[Sugar Cookie]

The coroner called to examine Lacey Fletcher after her body was found “melted” in a waste-filled crater in her family’s couch has “never seen a homicide like this” — and is still disturbed by what he saw.

Fletcher, 36, was found covered in urine and feces and “fused” to the maggot-ridden couch at her parents’ East Feliciana, La., home in January 2022 — and this week, Sheila and Clay Fletcher pleaded no contest to manslaughter over her horrifying death.

“I’ve seen every kind of death there is. I’ve never seen a homicide like this. I have never seen a human being literally tortured and allowed to die while she is alive,” Dr. Ewell Bickham told NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield Thursday.

“I’ve never seen that (in) my life. … Lacey did not decompose. She rotted in her own body, in that hole, in that sewer, in the couch.”

Prosecutors said Fletcher had lain there, wasting away and in great suffering, for about 12 years and blamed her parents for the neglect. She weighed 100 pounds at the time of her death.

Bickham told NewsNation he was still trying to process the awful scene he witnessed — and was horrified by the smell in the house before he even got to Fletcher’s body.

“When I walked in, the house smelled of a stench of, it smelled like a sewer, or septic tank and also a smell of death,” he said. “I’ve never smelled that in my life. I’ve dealt with decomposed bodies. I’ve dealt with all sorts of death, degradation, whatever, never experienced this in all of my career.”

“It still bothers me today. Like I said, I’ve seen every kind of death there is. I’ve seen elderly people die of natural causes. I’ve seen suicides, homicides, I’ve seen everything there is.”

Bickham said there was no evidence that Fletcher was being fed except for a small bag of hard candy nearby. He said her stomach contained both yellow foam from the couch and feces.

“So you take it from there,” he said.

Bickham also told NewsNation that he did not believe Sheila and Clay Fletcher lived with their daughter in the house.

“I don’t believe they were living in the home,” he said. “You could not live in the house. Nobody could stand the stench, to be honest with you. I think there was something adjacent.”

Coroner ‘never’ saw ‘homicide’ scene like Lacey Fletcher, woman found ‘melted’ to couch: ‘It still bothers me today’

“I’ve never seen that (in) my life. … Lacey did not decompose. She rotted in her own body, in that hole, in that sewer, in the couch.”

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[Ella Mayo]

They "loved her to death" says their defense attorney:

Parents of emaciated woman found 'melted' into couch plead no contest to manslaughter

EAST FELICIANA PARISH, La. (TCD) -- A married couple pleaded no contest to manslaughter this week two years after their 36-year-old daughter was found "melted" into their couch, deceased, and covered in feces.

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[Turd Fergusen]

Parents of Lacey Fletcher who ‘melted’ into couch after not moving for more than a decade sentenced to 20 years in prison​

The parents of a badly neglected Louisiana woman found “melted” into a maggot-infested couch were each sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday after pleading no contest to manslaughter last month.

“We respect the judge’s decision. If you had a horse that was in the stall behind your house, and you go back there and the flesh is just gone from its body, and you can see bones exposed… You wouldn’t even treat your animal like that,” West Feliciana District Attorney Sam D’Aquilla todl The Post following the sentencing.

The Fletchers insisted on their innocence, asserting that Lacey was of “sound mind” while suffering from a severe case of Asperger’s Syndrome and social anxiety that first flared in her youth.

Parents of Lacey Fletcher who ‘melted’ into couch after not moving for more than a decade sentenced to 20 years in prison

Sheila and Clay Fletcher, of East Feliciana, were arrested in January 2022 after their 36-year-old daughter, Lacey Fletcher, was discovered dead in a fetid crater in the family’s sofa.

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[Crazy Cat Lady]

I hope they both die in prison. They gave their daughter a death sentence, now it’s their turn.