The 911 Call

[Goody]

Yes, I am hearing something different than what the transcript says.

For instance right here:

00:09:24 COl: ...who...who did...

Right after the operators says "who, who did" Darlie replies "someone"

And right here:

00:29:13 FC: ...oh my God...my babies are dying...
00:30:12 MC: ...(unintelligible)...--Darlie actually says "they're dead"? She says it in a very high voice and questioning, imo

Where the transcript says "unintelligible" I hear Darlie say "they're dead" in the form of a question and her voice is very high. Darin obviously said something to her in response to her saying "my babies are dying" to the operator.

00:35:20 FC: ...(unintelligible) thought he was dead...oh my God...

I hear Darlie say right here "Devon OR he's only seven years old and he's dead, oh my God."

00:39:29 FC: ...I don't even know (unintelligible)

I hear Darlie say "I don't even know who did it Darin" She says that several times.

01:41:21 FC: ...what...what...what...

Right after this "what, what, what, Darlie says "Damon, Damon, Damon". On the second Damon, her voices is short, curt and sounds angry. I think but have been unable to confirm it that she tells Darin that Damon is still alive or is still breathing.

Yes, but she knows she is being taped. She is performing for the dispatcher and the police. I don't expect many clues in that tape unless she really did discover Damon still alive while on the phone. Then she might have blurted something that turned out to be inaudible.

 

[Goody]

I'm a lot more interested in this part:

0:39:29 FC: ...I don't even know (unintelligible)..."who did it Darin"

Why would Darlie think Darin had any idea who'd done this? The thing that I've always noticed about the call is that Darlie is extremely angry at Darin, like she's accusing him, but accusing him of what?

It almost feels like she's angry with him because she thinks he's involved somehow, as if she thinks whoever was there came there because of Darin and stabbed the kids because of something Darin had been involved in.



RstJ

Once again, she is performing. In subtle ways they both point fingers at each other. I suspect that a lot of what they said and did was self serving on both their parts just in case. Better you than me, babe.

 

[cami]

Ok thank you. I don't know why that was driving me nuts, but it was. I just think the part about "who was breathing" or something like that is important in showing her guilt and the "still laying there" is too. Isn't it?
But, you're hearing something else. Not that I doubt you or anything, but didn't Darlie agree to everything in the transcript except for the "frightening/fighting" thing? Should I listen to the tape without reading the transcript?

Yes, listen to the call without the transcript

 

[beesy]

Yes, listen to the call without the transcript

Ok, I did that, thanks. I downloaded it and played it on a loop several dozen times. LOL. In there somewhere I swear I can hear utensils clattering. My husband has put these giant speakers and sound card on our computer and it's so clear. By the way, I think men feel that the size of their speakers reflects their penis size, but that's just my :twocents:
I need to listen to the tape and see if I hear that sound again. I only heard it once. I get sick of listening to it after awhile. That whiny voice, sheese! I heard an ad for a security system today and it started out with "911, what is your emergency". It was funny, my stomach turned over then I realized thank goodness, it's not Darlie again. I need to take a break from the tape, don't ya think?

 

[cami]

Ok, I did that, thanks. I downloaded it and played it on a loop several dozen times. LOL. In there somewhere I swear I can hear utensils clattering. My husband has put these giant speakers and sound card on our computer and it's so clear. By the way, I think men feel that the size of their speakers reflects their penis size, but that's just my :twocents:
I need to listen to the tape and see if I hear that sound again. I only heard it once. I get sick of listening to it after awhile. That whiny voice, sheese! I heard an ad for a security system today and it started out with "911, what is your emergency". It was funny, my stomach turned over then I realized thank goodness, it's not Darlie again. I need to take a break from the tape, don't ya think?

LOL, yeah I'd say so. I can't get over the whiny voice either. When you are playing that tape do you at any point hear Darin crying? I swear I heard it the last time they ran MDR on American Justice on Aande.

 

[lisafremont]

Also, the call from the outset is not made to get help but to set up her story.

 

[Mary456]

LOL, yeah I'd say so. I can't get over the whiny voice either. When you are playing that tape do you at any point hear Darin crying? I swear I heard it the last time they ran MDR on American Justice on Aande.

You probably did, Cami. Karen Neal testified that when Darin came to their door he was screaming and crying, and tears were running down his face. That's just one of the many reasons why I believe Darin didn't have anything to do with the actual murders.

Did he lie his butt off after the fact to protect Darlie? You betcha!

 

[cami]

I'm a lot more interested in this part:

0:39:29 FC: ...I don't even know (unintelligible)..."who did it Darin"

Why would Darlie think Darin had any idea who'd done this? The thing that I've always noticed about the call is that Darlie is extremely angry at Darin, like she's accusing him, but accusing him of what? QUOTE]

No, you've interpretated that incorrectly. Darlie says, "I don't even know who did it Darin" as if she is trying to convince Darin she doesn't know, she's not asking him a question, she's telling him she doesn't know who did it. Then she gets hysterical screaming, "we've got to find out who did this" to Darin while he is screaming at her to get some help.

 

[beesy]

Yes, listen to the call without the transcript

Yesterday I listened to the tape again. I wasn't reading the transcript or watching the mins which I normally do so I know when to pay attention to certain things. Since I wasn't watching, I had no idea when the "Karen/Darin" would be. When I heard her say it, only half listening, there was no question to my ears that she's screaming Darin. For a second I didn't even realize that was the spot. And you know we said calling for Karen really makes no sense. Karen wouldn't have been able to hear her unless Darlie was standing on the Neal's front porch.

 

[accordn2me]

I pictured the scream for Karen to be while Darin was across the street getting her. I would love to know whose blood is on the front door - anyone know? Also, the velocity drop near the front door, whose blood was that?

 

[beesy]

I pictured the scream for Karen to be while Darin was across the street getting her. I would love to know whose blood is on the front door - anyone know? Also, the velocity drop near the front door, whose blood was that?

No, according to both Darin and Darlie, Darin did not leave the house until the officer saw him running either out the front door or from that area, which is more than 3 mins into the call.
She screams "Karen/Darin" at about 2:40 mins into the 911 tape. They say Darin is inside the house then. He doesn't run over to the Neals until after the paramedics arrive, which is way after she screams "Karen/Darin." In fact, she's off the phone by then, about time. Hasn't Goody said the blood on the door is Darlie's?

 

[Goody]

I pictured the scream for Karen to be while Darin was across the street getting her. I would love to know whose blood is on the front door - anyone know? Also, the velocity drop near the front door, whose blood was that?

The blood on the front door knob and floor is Darlie's, according to expert testimony as I recall.

 

[Dani_T]

Hi all,

Tonight I just found an transcript of the 911 call which I had worked up over a year ago now. I had originally posted it on a now defunct board in response to another poster's work on it. I thought I had lost my version when that particular forum (affectionately known as Darlieland!) went belly-up- but apparently not!

So I thought I would post it here just for the sake of it- since I did do a lot of work on it at the time and I would be interested to hear some other people's opinions.

A couple of things to note:

The normal black text is the 911 transcript presented at trial.
The Red text is changes that another poster initially made after going over the call/transcript- I can't even remember who it was now!
The Blue text is comments which that poster made on the changes in red
The Green text is my changes/comments

A lot of the differences I heard are based on how many syllables I heard rather than the specific word itself (because frankly the interference in a lot of places and the fact that most of them are background voices means you don't hear a lot of very clear words anyway).

It is VERY helpful to loop sound bytes from the call. At the time I worked on the transcript I made lots of little sound bytes (which are referred to in my transcript)- none of which I appear to have now I'll keep looking though but just ignore the references in my transcript or splice and loop them yourselves

Mary, Goody, DP- you know what I suddenly remembered? El Jeffe was going take the 911 call to a sound specialist to get it cleaned up. Remember? It was only going to cost a couple of hundred dollars *LOL*. Is he still posting on a board anywhere? Someone should ask him if he did it.

Ok- transcript to follow over a few posts

 

[Dani_T]

0:00:00 911 Operator #1 ...Rowlett 911...what is your
emergency..
00:01:19 Darlie Routier ...somebody came in...they just broke
in...
00:03:27 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am...
00:05:11 Darlie Routier ...they just stabbed me and my
children...
00:07:16 911 Operator #1 ...what...
00:08:05 Darlie Routier ...they just stabbed me and my kids...my little boys...
00:09:24 911 Operator #1 ...who...who did...
00:11:12 Darlie Routier ...my little boy is dying...
00:11:25 RADIO ...(unintelligible) clear...
00:13:07 911 Operator #1 ...hang on ...hang on... hang on
00:15:03 Darlie Routier ...hurry... (unintelligible)...
00:16:01 911 Operator #1 ...stand by for medical emergency
00:18:11 Darlie Routier ...ma'am...
00:18:19 911 Operator #1 ...hang on ma'am...
00:21:26 Darlie Routier ...ma'am...
00:23:00 911 Operator #1 ...unknown medical emergency... 5801 Eagle Drive...
00:24:00 RADIO ...(unintelligible breathe)...:::this is obviously Darin, not a radio:::
I agree this is Darin and not a radio but I can't say I definitely hear 'breathe'. I do hear the first syllable 'bri' but that's about it

00:26:24 Darlie Routier ...ma'am...
00:27:12 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am... I'm trying to get an
ambulance to you... hang on a minute...
00:28:20 RADIO ...(siren)...
00:29:13 Darlie Routier ...oh my God ...my babies are
dying...
00:30:12 Darin Routier ...(unintelligible)...
00:31:09 911 Operator #1 ...what's going on ma'am...
00:32:13 Darlie Routier ...(they're kids)...oh my God...

I hear "they're dead.... oh my god"


00:33:49 RADIO ...(tone - signal broadcast)...
00:34:01 Background Voice DARIN...(unintelligible I want you to get up)...

Again, I hear Darin but I'm not convinced that is what he is saying. I think there is too many syllable in "I want you to get up" for what he says. I sat here for about 5 mins trying to hear what he says and was about to give up when I suddenly hear "he won't stop bleeding" (hewooontstopblidin) with a long sound on the won't and the 'bleeding' either left of with an 'in' or cut out by the tone.


00:35:20 Darlie Routier ...(oh...he's 7 years old and he's dead)...oh my God...
00:39:08 Darin Routier ...unintelligible(breathe)...

Again- can't hear breathe... sounds more like "push" or "bush" to me. But I don't think it is a big issue...

00:39:29 Darlie Routier ...I don't even know (who did it)...
00:40:22 911 Operator #1 ...attention 901 unknown medical
emergency 5801...
00:42:23 Darin Routier ...(unintelligible)...
00:43:15 Darlie Routier ...I don't even know
(who did it Darin)...
00:44:04 911 Operator #1 ...Eagle Drive ...Box 238 ...cross street Linda Vista and Willowbrook ...attention 901 medial emergency...
00:49:28 Darlie Routier ...who would do this...
00:50:10 Darin Routier ...(unintelligible...just get something)...

"Just... just get somebody"


00:51:15 Darlie Routier ...(who would do this...who would do it)
00:51:19 911 Operator #1 ...may be possible stabbing ...5801
Eagle Drive ...Box 238 ...cross street Linda Vista and Willowbrook...
00:55:06 Darlie Routier ...oh my God ...(who would do this)...
00:57:17 911 Operator #1 ...time out 2:32...
00:58:26 Darlie Routier ...oh my God...
00:58:28 911 Operator #1 ...stamp me a card Clint...
XX:XX:XX SOUND ...stamping the card apparently...
01:01:02 911 Operator #1 ...80...
01:01:16 RADIO ...(unintelligible)...
01:02:13 Darlie Routier ...oh my God...
01:03:05 RADIO ...(unintelligible)...
01:04:07 911 Operator #1 ...need units going towards 5801
Eagle Drive ...5801 Eagle Drive
01:04:07 Darlie Routier ...oh my God ...my baby's deadI saw them Darin...

I don't hear "I saw them Darin" at all. It seems pretty clear to me "my babies/baby's dead"

01:07:08 Darlie Routier ...Damon ...hold on honey...
She is saying something different but can't for the life of me make out what it is!! Here's the file guys- try looping it. She's obviously addressing Darin or the boys because her voice is much more 'background' than when she is speaking into the phone.

01:08:11 Darin Routier ...(unintelligible)...
01:08:22 911 Operator #1 ...hysterical female on the
phone...
01:10:03 Darlie Routier ...(hold on)...
01:10:10 Darin Routier ...(unintelligible oh my God)...
01:10:26 911 Operator #1 ...says her child has been stabbed

01:11:28 Darlie Routier ...I saw them Darin:::this is not what is being said here, I meant to change it and forgot...I will have to go listen again, so, I did have to edit this post to correct that!:::
01:12:21 Darin Routier ...oh my God ...(unintelligible)...can you get in here...

Ok... this is a really difficult part.... both Darlie at 1:11 and Darin at 1:12

I don't here "I saw them Darin" but I think I hear "I saw them..." and then what sounds like "do it" but if it is more like 'juit'. Any ideas? The "I" at the beginning is underneath the end of the operators "stabbed".

As for Darin - I hear "Oh my God blake kim in here" (which of course makes no sense- the blake part that is!!!). I definitely don't hear "can you get in here". The word "blake" might be a contraction of two other words (I originally thought 'how they'd come in here" but it still doesn't fit that blake sound). Did he have a nickname for Darlie that sounds like "blake"???? As in "Darlie c'm in here"?

Anyway, here is two files. One is the normal tempo and one is significantly slowed down.

01:14:10 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am ...I need you to calm down and talk to me...
01:14:24 RADIO ...(unintelligible)...
01:16:25 Darlie Routier ...ok...
01:16:26 SOUND ...(unintelligible)...
01:17:12 911 Operator #1 ...twice Clint...
01:18:26 Darlie Routier ...didn't you get my address...
01:20:19 911 Operator #1 ...5801 Eagle...
01:22:00 Darlie Routier ...yes ...we need help... :::listen to the 'sounds' in the background, what y‘all reckon that sounds like?! I have an idea, but, I‘m not a “sound” expert either.:::

Hmmmm only sound I hear is a click - which I don't think it is terrible unusual on this call.... but I may be missing something- what do you hear????


01:22:03 RADIO ...(unintelligible..) will be enroute code...

"will be enroute too"
01:24:20 Darlie Routier ...Darin ...I don't know who it was...
01:24:23 911 Operator #1 ...2:33 code...
01:26:15 Darlie Routier ...we got to find out who it was...
01:27:12 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am...
XX:XX:XX Darin ...breathe...

Again, I can't make out what he is saying here beyond the first syllable which sounds like an exclaimation of breath going out.

01:28:04 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am listen ...listen to me...
01:29:27 Darlie Routier ...yes ...yes ...(unintelligible)...
01:30:23 RADIO ...(unintelligible) I'm clear ...do you need anything... [color:red..full clear...you need ?Veranga?[/color] :::they are saying Vranna, I saw that name somewhere, I cannot for the life of me remember where---who is he?:::

I hear "It's all clear - do you need aracet?"- which might be 'it's all clear do you need a rankin'" (as in ranking officer???). I hear the 'a ra..." very clearly

01:32:08 Darin Routier ...(unintelligible)...
01:32:20 Darlie Routier ...oh my God...
01:34:00 911 Operator #1 ...(unintelligible)...
01:34:22 911 Operator #1 ...do you take the radio Clint...
01:35:23 911 Operator #2 ...yes...
01:36:12 Darlie Routier ...oh my God...
01:36:25 911 Operator #1 ...I...ma'am...
01:38:03 Darlie Routier ...yes...
01:38:17 911 Operator #1 ...I need you to ...
01:38:23 RADIO ... (all units) start that way
(all units) ... will revise...
01:39:28 911 Operator #1 ...I need you to talk to me...
01:41:21 Darlie Routier ...what ...what ...what...
01:44:25 RADIO ...(unintelligible)...
01:44:28 Darlie Routier ...my babies are dead
(Damon, Damon, Damon)... :::listen to the 'sound' in the background, very disturbing to say the least:::

Hmmmm you know what I hear? At the very beginning of this clip- very soft- I hear a "mamma" right before Darlie says "My babies and dead"- and then suddenly says "Damon! Damon, Damon"

But you know what I also hear very clearly after she says "Damon" the final time - "I thought that you were gone already" - with the 'gone' being slightly drawn out. I think this is attributed as "do you want honey...hold on" at 01:48:03 but it sounds nothing like that. Here is a clip of that part and here is a clip of the whole phrase starting with the "Mamma" (listen very carefully and loop it) and finishing with "already"


01:46:20 RADIO ...go ahead and (all units) start that way 4 will advise it's a siren code...will revise :::itsa sigh-rene code:::
01:47:10 Darlie Routier ...(unintelligible)...
01:48:03 Darlie Routier ...(unintelligible) do you want
honey ...hold on (unintelligible)...

See comment above
01:49:17 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am ...I can't understand you...
01:50:21 Darlie Routier ...yes...
01:51:18 911 Operator #1 ...you're going to have to slow down ...calm down ...and talk to me...
01:52:19 Darlie Routier ...I'm talking to my babies ...they're dying...
01:55:03 911 Operator #1 ...what is going on...
01:56:29 Darlie Routier ...somebody came in while I was sleeping ...me and my little boys were sleeping
downstairs...

 

[Dani_T]

02:02:00 RADIO ...(9015) I'll (I will) be clear...
02:02:20 Darlie Routier ...some man ...came in ...(:::it may be some man came in, but, it sounds more like this to me:::....and then, and then) stabbed my
babies ...stabbed me ...I woke up ...I was frightened/fightin' ...they ran out through the garage ...threw the knife down ...my babies are dying ...they're dead ...oh my God... :::I clearly hear 'threw the knife down'..however, I'm not so sure about the fighting/frightening thing though...one minute it does sound like she COULD be saying FIGHTIN', but, the next time I hear it, it sounds like she COULD be saying frightened...as in FRY-ENDT...(she is NOT saying frightening..and I think she tried to make herself clear in her testimony about this, but, they made a big ordeal out of her saying she tought she could have said "frightening". Freightened/freightening, what difference does it make really?

I looped that over and over again and also changed my mind (although I heard "frightenin'" rather than "frightened" since she finishes with a soft m or n sound rather than a 'd'. But I think I've concluded it was "fightinim" (as in fighting him). I also hear what Dickey transcribed rather than "and then and then". Also with "threw the knife down" I can't hear whether she says "threw the knife down" or "threw the knife there"



02:14:23 911 Operator #1 ...ok ...stay on the phone with me...
02:16:11 Darin Routier ...(unintelligible) :::I don't hear anything here:::

I don't really either. There is some faint background noise but I think I would attribute that just to the tape.

02:17:06 Darlie Routier ...oh my God...
02:17:29 911 Operator #1 ...what happened (unintelligible[color:redwas that[/color]) dispatch 901...
02:20:15 Darlie Routier ...hold on honey ...hold on...
02:22:01 911 Operator #1 ...(unintelligible) who was on (unintelligible)...
02:22:26 911 Operator #2 ...it was (unintelligible) the white phone...
02:23:08 Darlie Routier ...hold on...
02:25:26 911 Operator #2 ...they were wondering when we need to dispatch ...so I sent a double team...
02:25:28 Darlie Routier ...oh my God ...oh my God...
02:28:08 911 Operator #1 ...ok ...thanks...
02:28:21 Darlie Routier ...oh my God...
02:29:20 SOUND ...(unintelligible)... :::hmmm...it's a sound, he doesn't have a clue what it is or COULD be, but, felt the need to transcribe it anyway. For what???:::
02:30:01 Darlie Routier ...oh my God...
02:30:20 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am...
02:31:06 RADIO ...(unintelligible)...
02:31:14 911 Operator #1 ...who's there with you...
02:32:15 Darlie Routier ...Karen...
02:33:15 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am...
02:34:06 Darlie Routier ...what...
02:38:11 911 Operator #1 ...is there anybody in the house ...besides you and your children...
02:38:11 Darlie Routier ...no ...my husband he just ran downstairs ...he's
helping me...but they're dying ...oh my God ...they're dead...
02:43:24 911 Operator #1 ...ok ...ok ...how many little boys
...is it two boys...
02:46:06 Darin Routier ...(unintelligible)... :::this is a RADIO or Clint...haven't been able to 'decipher' it yet though, but, I'm trying...it's NOT Darin though:::

Yep - I agree it is not Darin... when we hear Darin he sounds very far away and is not sounding at all calm. This is a background voice talking quite calmly to someone else. I THINK they are saying "that address out on Eagle" (quickly) but can't be sure.

02:46:25 Darlie Routier ...there's two of 'em ...there's
two...
02:48:18 RADIO ...what's the cross street on that (address out on Eagle)
02:50:15 Darlie Routier ...oh my God ...who would do this...
02:53:13 911 Operator #1 ...(ok) listen to me
...calm down ...(calm)...
02:53:21 Darlie Routier ...I feel really bad ...I think I'm
dying...
02:55:06 RADIO ...228...
02:56:06 911 Operator #1 ...go ahead...
02:58:12 RADIO ...(what's the) address again (on that hysterical female out on Eagle)...
02:59:12 RADIO ...(unintelligible)...
02:59:22 Darlie Routier ...when are they going to be here...
03:00:22 911 Operator #1 ...5801 Eagle Drive ...5801 Eagle Drive...
03:03:28 Darlie Routier ...when are they going to be here...
03:03:29 911 Operator #1 ...it's gonna be a stabbing... ::IOW..it's not merely a 'hysterical female', it is a stabbing and she is 'clarifying this' for whoever that is asking for the cross street on 'that hysterical female out on Eagle'...they (whoever it is) aren't asking for the address on that STABBING out on Eagle, maybe they didn't hear her say earlier...'hysterical female on the phone says her child has been stabbed'::
03:05:20 Darlie Routier ...when are they going to be here...
03:06:20 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am ...they're on their way...
03:08:00 RADIO ...(received..to advise)...
03:08:08 Darlie Routier ...(Devon, Devon)...oh my God...

The first word here COULD be Devon (or it may even by Damon - in fact it sounds more like Dammit than anything else to me) but the second word is definitely not - it finishes on an 'er' not an 'on' and sounds like 'neeever'

03:11:14 911 Operator #1 ...2:35...
03:12:05 Darlie Routier ...who would do this ...who would do this...
03:13:09 Darin Routier ...(unintelligible)...
03:14:26 911 Operator #1 ...(sounds of typing on computer keyboard)...
03:16:08 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am ...how old are your boys...
03:18:20 Darlie Routier ...what...
03:19:03 911 Operator #1 ...how old are your boys...
03:20:04 RADIO ...(unintelligible)...
03:20:21 911 Operator #1 ...no...
03:21:01 Darlie Routier ...seven and six...
03:22:17 911 Operator #1 ...ok...
03:23:08 Darlie Routier ...oh my God ...oh my God ...oh ...he's dead...
03:29:02 911 Operator #1 ...calm down ...can you...
03:29:03 Darlie Routier ...oh God...no...no...oh my God...
03:30:27 SOUND ...(dog barking)... :::I think Dickey is the only one that hears a dog barking myself:::

I don't hear a dog barking either

03:35:02 911 Operator #1 ...is your name Darlie...
03:36:11 Darlie Routier ...yes...
03:36:26 911 Operator #1 ...this is her...
03:37:09 911 Operator #1 ...is your husband's name Darin...
03:38:22 Darlie Routier ...yes ...please hurry ...God they're taking forever...
03:41:20 911 Operator #1 ...there's nobody in your house ...there was ...was...
03:44:05 911 Operator #1 ...you don't know who did this...
03.44.15 SOUND ....(door slam)....:::I wonder why Dickey didn't transcribe ANY sound here...even if he couldn't identify it (just as he does 2 other times). I personally think a door slam here is rather significant myself...I mean, he DID hear a dog barking that was upstairs after all:::

I don't hear a door slam - the only sound I hear at this point sounds like a mechanical kerklunk of some description.

03:45:19 Police Officer ...look for a rag...

I definitely heard him say "look for" but Darlie speaks over him before he finishes his last word so I personally wouldn't claim it was rag (but I wouldn't claim it wasn't either!!!)


03:46:11 Darlie Routier ...they killed our babies...
03:48:03 Police Officer ...lay down ok...just sit down
...(unintelligible ::did you get a/do you have:: description)...unintelligible :::you have to listen closely...you can really only hear the word description, the 'did you get' is just an assumption on my part, I'm just saying it is something to that effect apparently because you can hear the word description. He also says something after that, but, I can't make it out.:::)...


I don't hear this at all - in fact I am not at all sure I hear the officer's voice period. At this point the officer should be closer to Darlie (and hence the phone) than when he made his first comment yet the voice I hear sounds more like the operator speaking to someone in her room- starting right after Darlie finishes "babies". I can hear some sort of sound which almost sounds like a mechanical whispering kind of sound. Do you have a sound byte of that so I can listen?

 

[Dani_T]

03:51:11 911 Operator #1 ...(sounds of typing on computer
keyboard)...
03:52:13 Darlie Routier (unintelligible)...no ...he ran out ...uh ...they
ran out in the garage ...I was sleeping...
03:54:09 911 Operator #1 ...(unintelligible)... :::there's no op here..ui or otherwise

Can't make out what is being said here

03:56:19 Darlie Routier ...my babies are over here already cut oh my God...

"My babies... oh oh oh (sobbing) my god
can I (unintelligible we get)… :::she didn't 'finish' what she was going to say...but, who knows what it COULD have been::

03:59:29 Darin Routier ...(he's already dead)...:::you really have to be able to listen to this 'looped' to hear this and be able to 'bring it up'...it is there though. If you have CEP, I could send the .sel file with only this part 'cut out' if anyone wants it. I don't know if GoldWave does that or not.:::

Yep I think I agree with you here- if you loop it it certainly does sound like "He's already dead"


04:01:28 Darlie Routier ...(oh he's dead, oh he's dead)...
04:03:01 RADIO ...(unintelligible uh, sir, step back over here)... :::"uh suh, stepback ova hea"...think strong southern drawlllll (or someone with a pretty significant speech impediment lol). Who is this? It's DEFINITELY not Waddell OR Darin:::

I hear "10-4" instead of uh sir and I think the rest IS "step back over here". However, I am firmly convinced this is not someone in the house. The reason being two fold
1) 10-4 indicates a radio call of some description
2) If you listen to the part where he says "10-4" there is a lot of static which is charactertistic of the radio calls captured on the tape.
3) Listen to this clip- the first section is a part from earlier in the call by Clint (which we can postively identify as him) and the second is 'step back over here'). I'm fairly sure it is the same person ie. Clint. This conclusion is further justified by this next clip which is from further on in the call - the phrase "she's passed that now" which you have grouped as the Southern Drawl with "step back over here and "I ain'tchor boy"- compared with again the same clip we can positively identify as Clint. Again, I think the voices are the same. There does seem to be a slight difference between the clip about "the white phone" and the other two bytes but in the "white phone" bite he is speaking directly to Janice whereas in the other two he is speaking through the radio.

04:05:02 Darlie Routier ...ya'll look out in the garage ...look out in the garage ...they left a knife ...laying on...
04:08:21 RADIO ...(I ain't your boy).... :::I ain'chor boy--anyone from the south will know what I mean:::


[color=greenHmmmm not convinced. I personally can't hear it well enough to make out what he says. I can hear the part I think you are referring to - but he seems to continue on with his sentence with at least another syllable after the 'boy' sound. Do you have a better quality wav of that part?[/color]


04:09:19 911 Operator #1 ...there's a knife ...don't touch anything...
04:11:18 Darlie Routier ...I already touched it and picked it up...
04:12:05 RADIO ...10-4...
04:15:20 911 Operator #1 ...who's out there ...is anybody out there...
04:16:07 Police Officer...(unintelligible)...
04:17:06 Darlie Routier ...I don't know ...I was sleeping...:::she doesn't say sleeping here, again, she doesn't finish what she was saying:::
04:18:14 911 Operator #1 ...ok ma'am ...listen ...there's a police officer at your front door
...is your front door unlocked...
04:22:11 RADIO ...(she's passed that now)... :::that southern drawl::: [/color]

I agree that the first part sounds like"she's passed that" but the final word has two syllables rather than one, It almost sounds like "dabit". Ooooh! Wait! How about "She's passed that David" (pronunced "dah-vid rather that Day-vid)"... as in David Waddell. Listen yourselves - what do you think??



04:22:15 Darlie Routier ...yes ma'am ...but where's the ambulance...
04:24:21 911 Operator #1 ...ok...
04:24:23 Darlie Routier ...they're barely breathing...
04:26:17 Darlie Routier ...if they don't get it here they're
gonna be dead ...oh my God they're (unintelligible dead) ...hurry ...please hurry...
04:31:13 911 Operator #1 ...ok ...they're ...they're...
04:32:18 Police Officer ...what about you... :::listen to the voice here and at 4.35, this is Darin...OR...the 4.35 is a police officer as well...the voice is the same is what I'm getting at:::
04:33:06 911 Operator #1 ...is 82 out on Eagle...
04:34:18 Darlie Routier ...huh...
04:35:12 Darin Routier ...(they can't get away like this...they ran ..unintelligible)

I agree that the 4:35 is saying "they can't get away like this" but doubt it is "they ran" as it seems like it is just one word (perhaps cut off in mid sentence by Darlie or blocked out by what Darlie says next). I wondered if it was "can they?" but it sounds more of a deliberate one word - perhaps "ran". IMO both 04:32:18 and 04:35:12 is Darin rather than Waddell. You can listen to both of the bytes together here.

04:36:28 911 Operator #2 ...(unintelligible ...don't know...unintelligible)... :::as in..."I don't know if 82 is out on Eagle". I say that BECAUSE Janice asks Waddell himself...only, she ask him if he's OUT...NOT, "are you out on Eagle"...there's a difference! I think it's a pretty safe assumption to make that the officer she was referring to at 4.18 was NOT Waddell strictly based on her comments alone, but, that assumption is also reinforced by the fact that Walling himself says he didn't think the operator knew Waddell was there...THIS is when she didn't know Waddell was there..so, why would she tell Darlie an officer was at her door any sooner than this IF she hadn't heard from anyone saying they were there? I know, I'm getting way off track! Sorry!:::
04:37:08 Darlie Routier ...we're at Eagle ...5801 Eagle ...my God and hurry...
04:41:03 RADIO...(unintelligible I know)...

Clint again I think

04:41:22 911 Operator #1 ...82 ...are you out...
04:42:25 Police Officer ...nothing's there's nothing gone Mrs. Routier...

I don't here the "there's"- see other comment a few seconds down

04:44:10 Darlie Routier ...oh my God ...oh my God ...why would they do this...
04:48:03 RADIO ...(unintelligible) to advise
(unintelligible) 200...

I don't hear advise at all - I hear r "I believe there were gonna be about 200" OR "I believe we're gonna need about 200"


04:50:18 Police Officer...(unintelligible) the problem Mrs. Routier... :::listen to these 2 together (the 4.48 and 4.50)...it is the same person, it can't be both, and it's clearly NOT Waddell. I personally think whoever this is, doesn't know how to pronounce their last name, it sounds like they are saying "Row-cher":::

As for the voices at 4:42, & 4:50 I agree that they are the same person but I do not agree that they are not Waddell - I actually believe they pronounce Routier the same way- it is just that the first one they are farther away and sound more distant and are close in the next. The "Rou" part is soft and the "tier" part is "tee-air". I also don't think he is saying "the problem"- I think he is repeating "nothing gone"

04:50:21 911 Operator #1 ...what'd he say...
04:51:29 Darlie Routier ...why would they do this...
04:53:08 Darlie Routier ...ok I'm (gonna)...:::again, she doesn't finish what she is saying here either:::
04:54:07 911 Operator #1 ...ok ...listen ma'am ...need to
...need to let the officers in the front door ...ok...
04:59:11 Darlie Routier ...what...
05:00:04 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am..
05:00:22 Darlie Routier ...what ...what...
05:01:15 911 Operator #1 ...need to let the police officers in the front door...
05:04:21 Darlie Routier ...(unintelligible yes) his knife was laying over there and I already picked it up...
05:08:19 911 Operator #1 ...ok ...it's alright ...it's ok...
05:09:20 Darlie Routier ...God ...I bet if we could have gotten the prints maybe ...maybe...
05:13:18 Police Officer ...(unintelligible)...
05:14:18 RADIO ...82 ...we'll be (unintelligible ...we need crime scene...) :::CLEAR as a bell..and that's ALL he says:::

Actually I DON'T think this is Waddell - This is someone else coming in over the radio and they are saying "eiiiighty two we'll get crime scene on/in it)". You can listen here. Again- it is Clint (Mr Southern Drawl )


05:17:12 Darlie Routier ...ok it'll be ...ok it'll be...
05:18:08 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am ...hang on ...hang on a second...
05:19:09 Darlie Routier ...somebody who...did it
05:20:19 911 Operator #1 ...82 ...10-9...
X:XX:XX Darlie Routier ...intentionally walked in here and did it Darin...
:::focus your attention immediately after 10-9 and Darlie says Darin, you will hear the following "radio", only, it's obviously NOT a 'radio':::

What bugs me about this -despite the obvious rebuke in her voice- is that I don't hear Darin saying anything to her before this point and I'm wondering what made her say what she did...

05:21:23 RADIO ...(unintelligible ...sleeping...)...

It's way too clear to be anyone in the Routier home- I think it has to be Clint or someone coming through on the radio. I don't agree it is necessarily 'sleeping'. Looping it sounds like it could be 'leave it'.

05:22:28 911 Operator #1 OPERATOR #2 (CLINT not Janice) ...received...

I don't hear this at all... in fact I think this here is actually the 'sleeping' you refer to. There is no way that there are two voices in that split second between Darlie says "Darin" and then says "there's nothing touched". I'm not sure it is received though either unless the first part of the word has been cut off by Darlie. There is however someone coming in in the middle of Darlie's sentence to Darin which you can just hear a fraction of which may be 'received'.

05:23:05 Darlie Routier ...there's nothing touched...
05:24:12 911 Operator #1 ...ok ma'am...
05:25:13 Darlie Routier ...there's nothing touched...
05:26:20 RADIO ...(unintelligible ...ma'am ...we need you to step over here)

I got very similar- "maam you're gonna need to step over there" and from what I can tell it matches Waddell's voice when he says "look for a..."

05:28:00 Darlie Routier ...oh my God...
05:29:08 Police Officer (::r Darin::: ...(what ...unintelligible)...
05:29:23 RADIO ...received...
05:31:19 RADIO ...(unintelligible ...look at the jewelry )…:::this is VERY hard to hear, you have to listen VERY CAREFULLY (and you may have to turn the bass down a bit), this is why the 'looping' comes in handy if you have something that will do that:::

Jewellery is way too long for it to be what is said there. The final word of that phrase is only one syllable - even if you don't prounounce (jew-ree) it properly it is still 2 syllables. What that phrase sounds like is "lit/lick the grill" which makes no sense of course but it is definitely not "look at the jewellery)

05:33:25 911 Operator #1 ...ma'am ...is the police officer there...
05:35:14 Darlie Routier ...yes (unintelligible)...
05:35:23 911 Operator #1 ...ok ...go talk to him ...ok...
DARLIE ROUTIER ...(unintelligible)...
?????????? ... I doubt that it was (unintelligible)... :::although it sounds to me like her or her's:::
911 OPERATOR #1 ...yes, that's ok...go talk to him
05:38:03 RADIO ...(unintelligible ...they were right there ...all of 'em were)... :::this is VERY CLEAR as well:::

yep I hear that too - sounds like Clint again

 

[cami]

As for Darin - I hear "Oh my God blake kim in here" (which of course makes no sense- the blake part that is!!!). I definitely don't hear "can you get in here". The word "blake" might be a contraction of two other words (I originally thought 'how they'd come in here" but it still doesn't fit that blake sound). Did he have a nickname for Darlie that sounds like "blake"???? As in "Darlie c'm in here"?

I hear Darin say right here" He or they can't make it if they don't get here" So I am not sure if he says "they" or "he" but I think it could be 'he' meaning Devon.

04:17:06 Darlie Routier ...I don't know ...I was sleeping...:::she doesn't say sleeping here, again, she doesn't finish what she was saying:::

Yeah I think Darlie does say "i was sleeping" I hear it.

Hmmmm you know what I hear? At the very beginning of this clip- very soft- I hear a "mamma" right before Darlie says "My babies and dead"- and then suddenly says "Damon! Damon, Damon"

Her voice really disturbs me when she says Damon, Damon, Damon. She is not hysterical that's for sure, more angry than anything. I wish someone else could hear it. Maybe I'm nuts!!!

02:02:00 RADIO ...(9015) I'll (I will) be clear...
02:02:20 Darlie Routier ...some man ...came in ...::it may be some man came in, but, it sounds more like this to me:::....and then, and then) stabbed my
babies ...stabbed me ...I woke up ...I was frightened/fightin' ...they ran out through the garage ...threw the knife down ...my babies are dying ...they're dead ...oh my God... :::I clearly hear 'threw the knife down'..however, I'm not so sure about the fighting/frightening thing though...one minute it does sound like she COULD be saying FIGHTIN', but, the next time I hear it, it sounds like she COULD be saying frightened...as in FRY-ENDT...(she is NOT saying frightening..and I think she tried to make herself clear in her testimony about this, but, they made a big ordeal out of her saying she tought she could have said "frightening". Freightened/freightening, what difference does it make really?

I looped that over and over again and also changed my mind (although I heard "frightenin'" rather than "frightened" since she finishes with a soft m or n sound rather than a 'd'. But I think I've concluded it was "fightinim" (as in fighting him). I also hear what Dickey transcribed rather than "and then and then". Also with "threw the knife down" I can't hear whether she says "threw the knife down" or "threw the knife there"

I definitely hear Darlie say " I woke up I was fighting him" but with her accent she cuts off the "g" in fighting and the "h" in him so it sounds like "fightin im" . Just as she calls the operator "m" as in "yes m" for "yes maam" when she replies to her.

I also hear Darlie say, "he ran out through the garage, threw the knife down" plain as day. That was my one big argument with Jeff who refuses to acknowledge she said it as it's incriminating to her.

 

[beesy]

Dani thanks for posting that. It's really creepy. What background sounds are ya'll hearing in there? Do you hear utensils clattering? I really think I do.:waitasec:

 

[Dani_T]

I also hear Darlie say, "he ran out through the garage, threw the knife down" plain as day. That was my one big argument with Jeff who refuses to acknowledge she said it as it's incriminating to her.

Yeah - LOL. Remember 'ree in the pee'

LOL

 

[Mary456]

Mary, Goody, DP- you know what I suddenly remembered? El Jeffe was going take the 911 call to a sound specialist to get it cleaned up. Remember? It was only going to cost a couple of hundred dollars *LOL*. Is he still posting on a board anywhere? Someone should ask him if he did it.

I'll never forget that discussion, it was so hilarious! Jeff said, "Ok, I've had enough of this. I contacted a real professional forensic audiologist and asked for a quote." Next thing ya know, he's passing the hat to fund his little adventure, and the Darlies were lining up to send money. Remember Obsidian, Dani? She planned to send him $150!! And Sissy and Reasonable Doubt...I'm telling you, they were falling all over each other to brown nose their grand poobah.

Well, that was in April of 2004. A year and a half later, and we still haven't heard anything. Jeff was a man of many words, but very little action, lol! I've heard he's disappeared from the Darlie message boards...there's speculation he uttered too many "canards" and choked to death :boohoo: