The tragic life of Lacey Fletcher, the woman who melted into the couch

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Lacey Fletcher was on the volleyball team when she is in 9th grade, and she looks like any other healthy teen. But her parents say she is "on the spectrum" and take her out of school and take her home. For the next 20 years, they don't take their daughter to the doctor, they don't do anything with her until she becomes totally non-verbal. For the last 12 years of her life she didn't move from her spot on the couch, she slept in her spot, she ate in her spot, she went to the bathroom in her spot, and it was rarely cleaned. Lacey Fletcher dies at 36, after withstanding years of pain and suffering. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look behind the sofa to answer the questions about the woman who melted into the couch.

Transcript Highlights

00:02:40Talking about melting

00:06:22 Talk about smell of urine, feces, nothing cleaned

00:09:46 Talk about staying in same spot for years

00:12:46 Discussion of healthy and active to dead on the couch

00:15:14 Talk about Lacey Fletcher on the couch 20 years

00:19:25 Discuss bed sores joining with other bed sores

00:23:15 Talk about chronic bone infection

00:27:17 Describing her condition at 36-years-old

00:31:10 Discussion of weight as Lacey Fletcher weighed 96 pounds

00:34:53 Talk about maggots in her body

00:38:56 How did Lacey Fletcher get covid?

00:42:01 Discussion – she is non-verbal, always in pain, and trapped

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