MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Lakesha Thompson
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What triggered the investigation into Lakeisha Thompson’s death?
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Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And today's story starts with a question. If someone dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, how many inconsistencies would it take before you start questioning what really happened? One, two, more? What if responding officers called out those inconsistencies while on the scene? Well, that's what happened here. And yet three years later, a family is still desperately asking questions that law enforcement don't seem to want to answer. This is the story of Lakeisha Thompson.
Andrea Fluker is woken up from a dead sleep by her phone on May 24th, 2023. Now, when she looks at the screen, she sees it's 4 a.m. Spam calls don't usually come in at this
hour.
Plus, it's an Atlanta area code where she knows that her mom is visiting her new fiancé. So she picks up. And sure enough, on the other end is her mom's brand new fiancé, Nathan Fitton. Andrea doesn't like Nathan. Doesn't like that her mom, Lakeisha Thompson, is engaged to him. Because the little that she's gotten to know about him through their hot and cold relationship over the last couple of years, she doesn't like. Like the few times that Nathan would text or call Andrea, it felt like he was trying to stir up drama. He would accuse her mom, Lakeisha, of seeing other men and then make Andrea this like middleman between him and her mom. And sometimes they would even call her in the middle of their arguments.
And somehow Nathan would seem to twist things to make it seem like Andrea was the problem, too. I mean, he recently told Andrea that she was blowing up his life and he had a ring. He was going to propose to her mom. But because of her now, that's not going to happen. Like clearly to make her feel bad.
Well, and clearly a lie since they're obviously engaged now.
Yeah, something that none of Lakeisha's four children were excited about when they announced it. Like they just got engaged like three days before all of this. They saw through Nathan. Bro was toxic. Like just a couple of days before Lakeisha flew to Atlanta, Andrea got a call from her sister saying that her mom was on the phone with Nathan and he said that he was going to kill himself. And then he went totally silent on the phone. Lakeisha thought that he had taken his own life right then and there. Obviously, he didn't. Obviously, we like see this behavior is toxic. But like what could her kids do? Their mom is a grown woman. So middle of the night call from Nathan. Andrea is probably like rolling her eyes as he launches right into the drama as expected.
He tells her that Lakeisha stormed out of his house. I guess they'd been drinking. They started arguing. They even called off their engagement. And now he doesn't know where she went. And Andrea is like, OK, like, hold on. You let my mom just like walk off alone in the middle of the night in a city that she's not familiar with? Because Lakeisha was living in Michigan at this time where Andrea is. She doesn't know Atlanta. So she's like, go out and get her. But then all of a sudden Nathan changes his tune. He's like, listen, I'm trying to find her phone. She lost it. Can you call her phone for me? And Andrea, who has a young baby at home and her last day of phlebotomy class in a couple of hours, is like, what do you mean?
Why are you calling me to call her? Use your phone. Yeah, the one you have in your hand. Exactly. Like, why do you need me to do that? Why are you calling me at all?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What triggered the investigation into Lakeisha Thompson’s death?
0:01–8:25
2
How did Andrea Fluker first learn that her mother had died?
8:25–16:40
3
Why did the family question the self‑inflicted gunshot ruling?
16:40–23:55
4
What did the gunshot‑residue (GSR) tests reveal about Nathan and Lakeisha?
23:55–31:21
5
How did the private investigator uncover missing evidence and camera footage?
31:21–38:09
6
What led the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to change the manner of death to “undetermined”?
38:09–46:57
7
Why did law enforcement ultimately decide not to reopen the case?
46:57–52:59
8
What can listeners do if they have information about Lakeisha Thompson or Nathan Fitton?
52:59–54:46