She attends the Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge for treatment, and tells Detective Ron Boucher she was raped. The following month, she has sex with the same dude, and again tells Boucher she was raped. Finally, she fesses up.
In early May 2004 or more likely some time prior, Melissa Frederick tells the same detective she was raped by two men. Later, she admits she had traded sex for drugs.
On May 13, she pleads guilty to the amended charge of solicitation to file a false police report. She is sentenced to 11 months and 29 days behind bars, all but 60 days of it suspended. She is on probation for the remainder.
According to NewsBank, the report below is by staff writer Beverly Majors. Information was also extracted from other sources, see below.
Information is sketchy, but although physically attractive, Frederick was a lost soul.
On December 9, 2004, The Oak Ridger reported her as a transient, wanted by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department for violation of probation, presumably the probation alluded to above.
On November 23, 2003, the same newspaper had reported her arrest for failure to appear in court.
On August 21, 2006, the same newspaper reported her arrest on warrant for violation of probation and contempt of court.
Melissa Diane Frederick died February 24, 2010. She was just 33 years old. She appears to have been a mother of three.
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