Kentucky State Police are investigating the death of a 38-year-old woman found stabbed 11 times in a Floyd County home earlier this month, but Amber Spradlin’s death has brought close scrutiny to the way 911 calls are handled in the county and the city of Prestonburg. Spradlin’s family says that someone called 911 from the …
A dispatcher told Moab, Utah, police officers that a 911 caller saw Brian Laundrie hitting Gabby Petito before the officers pulled over their van in mid-August. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the report filed by the officers and body cam footage both show that police believed Petito struck Laundrie during an argument, and ultimately classified the …
A 911 dispatcher in Arkansas who berated a woman, as she drowned in August, was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recently-completed internal review. The Fort Smith Police Department and Fire Department’s investigation likely means former Fort Smith dispatcher Donna Reneau will not face charges. Debbie Stevens, 47, who was trapped as floodwaters surrounded her …
Two Florida 911 dispatchers have been fired and their supervisor is awaiting discipline after a shooting was logged as a “suspicious incident” – resulting in a 30 minute delay in sending an officer to the scene – and the supervisor was found to be watching Netflix while on duty, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported …
Volusia County, Florida, deputies responding to a 911 call from a terrified 12-year-old girl found her mother unconscious from a heroin overdose, with their car parked on the grass beside Interstate 4, the sheriff’s office said Friday. Two other children, a 7-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy, were also in the minivan Thursday night with …
A Georgia woman made a frantic 911 call last week after a stranger crept into her home. Although she was frightened, she ended up scaring the alleged burglar more when she started firing shots at him. 9News reports that that the elderly homeowner, 79, called 911 on February 12 after she heard someone trying to …
A California news station has obtained audio of the 911 placed by a white woman who sought police intervention after seeing two black men using a charcoal grill at Lake Merritt in late April. In the 911 call obtained by KTVU, a dispatcher can be heard asking the caller, who identified herself as Jennifer Schulte—but the Internet …
A former 911 operator in Houston, Texas, who hung up on countless people seeking help learned her fate this week. Crenshanda Williams, 44, was found guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls Wednesday and was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months probation. For a year and a half, Williams took calls at …
Two decades after Lyle and Eric Menendez murdered their parents in the California home, the eldest brother opened up about the infamous 911 call, in which he sobbed uncontrollably as he told an operator his parents were killed. In an interview with NBC News’ Keith Morrison, which appears on Dateline on Friday night, Lyle explained that …
Almost a year after California woman Sherri Papini was abducted while out on a jog, authorities released her husband’s full 911 call, made shortly after he found her headphones and cellphone. “I found her phone. It’s got, like, hair ripped out of it, like in the headphones, so I’m totally freaking out thinking somebody, like, …
During a court hearing on Monday, an Ohio judge slammed a man who passed out in a car in March, apparently high on heroin, while his 9-year-old daughter frantically called 911 from the vehicle. WLWT5 reports that Charles Dove, 45, pleaded “no contest” to child endangering after getting high on heroin earlier this year and passing …
The Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office released a 911 call of the man who shot three teenagers who tried to break into his home on Monday afternoon. Police said that Zach Peters, 23, shot the three teen boys after they attempted to break into his home through a glass door near the back entrance. Peters told the 911 …
