The following is a transcript that I typed up while listening to the tape of Meredith Fisher's 911 call of November 3, 2006 at approximately 1:30 pm. Meredith reportedly entered her sister's home, 5108 Birchleaf Drive in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the request of her brother-in-law, who asked her to retrieve some documents for him. This is not an official transcript.
DISPATCHER: 911 State your emergency
MEREDITH: I need an ambulance. It’s an emergency.
DISPATCHER: What address are you at Ma’am?
MEREDITH: Um Birchleaf…5108 Birchleaf Road
DISPATCHER: Okay and your phone number?
MEREDITH: Oh my God
DISPATCHER: Ma’am, what’s your phone number in case I lose you
MEREDITH: Um…(deleted)…hang on. Let me look at the phone. (deleted)
DISPATCHER: Alright, what’s the problem. Tell me exactly what happened.
MEREDITH: Um…I…I…I think my sister’s dead.
DISPATCHER: Okay, tell me what happened, ma’am.
MEREDITH: I have no idea. Oh my God.
DISPATCHER: Alright stay on the phone with me please.
MEREDITH: Um.
DISPATCHER: What’s your name?
MEREDITH: Meredith Fisher
DISPATCHER: Alright, Meredith.
MEREDITH: And this is the Young address. Oh my God.
DISPATCHER: Meredith, listen to me please.
MEREDITH: Yeah.
DISPATCHER: Are you with the patient now?
MEREDITH: Yes and her daughter. And…she’s…
DISPATCHER: Okay, how old is the patient?
MEREDITH: …and there’s blood everywhere. She’s 28…29
DISPATCHER: 28?
MEREDITH: Should I try to move her?
DISPATCHER: Listen to me, ma’am.
MEREDITH: Yes sir.
DISPATCHER: I’m gonna tell you what to do, but you need to calm down so we can help her. You said there’s blood everywhere?
MEREDITH: Yes.
DISPATCHER: Alright. Is she conscious?
MEREDITH: N..., I don’t think so. Should I try to help her?
DISPATCHER: Listen to me, ma’am.
MEREDITH: I’m listening.
DISPATCHER: Is she breathing?
MEREDITH: I don’t think so.
DISPATCHER: Have you checked?
MEREDITH: Michelle? [pause] She’s cold.
DISPATCHER: Okay. Listen to me. Did you see what happened?
MEREDITH: I don’t know. Cassidy, come here, sweetie. I’m here with her daughter.
DISPATCHER: Okay.
MEREDITH: There's...there's like blood footprints all over the house from her daugther...like her daughter's little footprints.
DISPATCHER: Okay, listen to me. What's your first name?
MEREDITH: Meredith
DISPATCHER: Alright, Meredith...
MEREDITH: Yes sir.
DISPATCHER: Did you see what happened?
MEREDITH: I..I..I just came here on a fluke. I usually, you know, don't come here during the day.
DISPATCHER: Okay.
MEREDITH: She shouldn't be home. She should be at work. Like...
DISPATCHER: Okay, listen to me.
MEREDITH: Yes sir.
MEREDITH: I...I...[inaudible] right now.
DISPATCHER: Did you say...Can you tell me why she looks dead...looks like she's dead?
MEREDITH: I don't know. I have no idea. There's blood all over the place.
DISPATCHER: Okay, did you say she's cold?
MEREDITH: Sh..uh yes.
DISPATCHER: Okay.
MEREDITH: Yes.
DISPATCHER: Alright, stay on the phone.
MEREDITH: Okay
CASSIDY: [inaudible] there's blood. Can you see my...[inaudible]...get a washcloth into my...[inaudible]...?
MEREDITH: Yes, sweetie.
CASSIDY: [inaudible]
MEREDITH: Sweetie, do you know what happened to Mommy?
CASSIDY: Uhn-uh
MEREDITH: Did she fall?
CASSIDY: Um...um...she gotta boo...She got boo-boos everywhere and...and...she got…
DISPATCHER: Alright, do you think she's beyond any help?
MEREDITH: I don’t know. Honestly, um…
DISPATCHER: You don’t know? Alright
MEREDITH: I’m normally very good under pressure.
DISPATCHER: Okay, we’re gonna tell you what to do then. Okay?
MEREDITH: Yes, sir.
DISPATCHER: Are you right by her now?
MEREDITH: I...I’m keeping her daughter out of there.
DISPATCHER: Okay. Alright, so you’re not with her?
MEREDITH: I’m right outside the bedroom.
DISPATCHER: Can you get her daughter secured s…Can you carry the phone to where she’s at?
MEREDITH: Yes.
DISPATCHER: Alright. Can you secure her daughter?
MEREDITH: Cassidy, sweetie, can you stay in your room for two seconds, okay?
CASSIDY: Okay.
MEREDITH: Okay, can you close the door for two seconds and I’ll be right back in here, okay, sweetie?
CASSIDY: [inaudible]
MEREDITH: Okay.
DISPATCHER: Meredith.
MEREDITH: Okay, yes sir.
DISPATCHER: Okay. You got a cordless phone?
MEREDITH: Yes.
DISPATCHER: Alright.
MEREDITH: Stay right there, sweetie. Okay.
DISPATCHER: Alright, is…I want you to…is she laying on her back?
MEREDITH: No, she’s laying on her stomach.
DISPATCHER: She’s on her stomach? She’s face down?
MEREDITH: Yes.
DISPATCHER: Alright, can you…can you get her on her back?
MEREDITH: [deep breath] okay…oh my God. Michelle? I don’t think so. She’s so heavy.
DISPATCHER: Alright, see if you can get her on her back.
MEREDITH: I just really think she’s dead.
DISPATCHER: Pardon?
MEREDITH: I really think she’s dead.
DISPATCHER: Okay. Are you certain?
MEREDITH: Hang on. Casssidy, sweetie, please go in your room. Okay, honey?
MEREDITH: I um…I um…I’m pretty sure.
DISPATCHER: You are?
MEREDITH: I…I don’t know…I don’t know. I’m…
DISPATCHER: Okay, we need to make sure.
MEREDITH: Okay.
DISPATCHER: Can you get her on her back for me?
MEREDITH: She’s kind of…twisted in a way that I can’t do that.
DISPATCHER: You can’t roll her over.
MEREDITH: Not…not easily.
DISPATCHER: You’re gonna have to try.
MEREDITH: Hang on…let me…I’m trying to see if I can get her pulse.
DISPATCHER: We gotta try to do CPR if we can get her on her back, Meredith.
MEREDITH: No, she’s ice cold.
DISPATCHER: She’s cold?
MEREDITH: Yeah.
DISPATCHER: Okay, alright.
MEREDITH: And her body is stiff.
DISPATCHER: Okay, then don’t try. If she’s cold then just…
MEREDITH: Oh my God, I (inaudible)…
DISPATCHER: …there’s probably nothing much you can do.
MEREDITH: Should I not touch anything?
DISPATCHER: Alright, try not to touch anything more than you did. Was anything out of place or unusual when you came in?
MEREDITH: This place does not look like what it normally looks like.
DISPATCHER: Okay, what’d it…
MEREDITH: There’s blood in the bed.
DISPATCHER: Okay, alright. Try not to touch anything else, okay?
MEREDITH: Okay, I just moved a pillow.
DISPATCHER: Alright. Just leave everything exactly where it is then.
MEREDITH: Okay…okay.
DISPATCHER: Do you see anything else?
MEREDITH: Um…
DISPATCHER: Do you see anything else that looks unusual?
MEREDITH: No. Cassidy, was anybody here? The dog was freaking out when I got here. Was anybody here, sweetie?
CASSIDY: [inaudible]
DISPATCHER: Alright, Meredith…
MEREDITH: Yes, sir.
DISPATCHER: Alright, I’m gonna…I’m gonna get the sheriff’s department to pick up on the line with us.
MEREDITH: Okay.
DISPATCHER: ‘Cause they’re gonna need to talk to you about what you’re seeing. Okay?
MEREDITH: Okay.
DISPATCHER: Now, I’m gonna brief them on what’s happened, and you just stay on the line.
MEREDITH: Okay.
DISPATCHER: What’s your last name, Meredith?
MEREDITH: Fisher.
DISPATCHER: Fisher?
MEREDITH: Her last name is Young.
DISPATCHER: Are you her relative?
MEREDITH: I’m her only sister.
DISPATCHER: Okay. Alright, Meredith. Stay with me just a minute, okay?
MEREDITH: Okay.
CASSIDY: [inaudible]
[series of clicks and tones]
CASSIDY: [inaudible]
MEREDITH: Okay.
[ring-tone]
CASSIDY: [inaudible] { some people believe they hear the words, “Daddy did it.”}
MEREDITH: Okay.
CASSIDY: [inaudible]
[ring-tone]
[ring-tone]
DEPUTY: Sheriff’s office. What is your emergency?
DISPATCHER: Hey, this is uh Brent.
DEPUTY: Uh-huh?
DISPATCHER: Look, I’ve got a lady named Meredith Fisher on the line from this address.
DEPUTY: Okay.
DISPATCHER: We’ve got E-medicine en route to Birchleaf.
DEPUTY: Okay.
DISPATCHER: And she…she’s in there with her sister. Um, she’s gonna tell you about what she’s seen, and it’s apparent it might be a Code 7 and there may be…there is evidence of trauma.
DEPUTY: We got deputies already en route.
DISPATCHER: Okay, but you need to talk to her. I’m gonna let her talk to you.
DEPUTY: I will. Thanks.
DISPATCHER: She’s on the line with you.
DEPUTY: Okay.
DISPATCHER: Meredith, go ahead.
DEPUTY: Meredith?
MEREDITH: I’m also here with [tape ends]
I still get shivers when discussing this 911 call. I could hear Meredith's voice in my head as I read your transcript. Cassidy's too.
ReplyDeleteDaddy DID do it.
Thanks for taking the time to do that.
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Somewhere along the line I started using "alright" in certain situations. Geez, I learn something new everyday.
SP is looking good to me now. He asked Amy to pick up the fruit basket, but not to find her sister's dead body.
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