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ST. FRANCISVILLE - West Feliciana Parish Hospital receives 150 to 200 emergency calls a month. It's emergency room sees 6,000 people a year. If its doors were to close, 200 emergency phone calls would go unanswered, about 6,000 patients unseen. That's the importance of a rural hospital.
After the sad death of Lacey Fletcher — an 'autistic' woman left to rot away on her family's sofa for 12 years — friends and neighbors reveal their shock.
The parents of a woman who died after she "melted" to her couch were booked into prison Tuesday after pleading no contest to charges of manslaughter.
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.
Dr. Ewell Bickham had been responsible for examining the body of Fletcher, right, after she was found fused to the couch in the home she shared with her parents.