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Nancy Grace

Dramatic 911 Calls

Aired December 31, 2010 - 20:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Tonight, shocking 911 calls caught on tape. They are made in the heat of the moment. A crime just takes place, a child discovered missing. But 911 calls serve another purpose, other than just alerting authorities. The 911 calls themselves turn out to be critical investigative tools in solving crimes. Tonight, chilling 911 calls from all across the country.

We start in Satsuma, Florida. A 5-year-old girl tucked into bed, five hours later, she`s gone. Daddy comes home from the night shift to find not a trace of little Haleigh. Last person to see her alive, the baby-sitter- slash stepmother, Misty Croslin. But Croslin waits to call 911. Why?

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911 OPERATOR: 911. What`s your emergency?

MISTY CROSLIN, BABY-SITTER: I just woke up, and our back door was all open, and I can`t find my daughter.

911 OPERATOR: You can`t find what?

CROSLIN: My daughter.

911 OPERATOR: OK, what`s your address?

CROSLIN: Green Lane (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: What`s the numerical?

CROSLIN: Numerical? What`s that?

911 OPERATOR: The number? Green Lane?

CROSLIN: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: OK, when did you last see her?

CROSLIN: We just, like -- you know, it was about 10:00 o`clock. She was sleeping (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: OK. How old is your daughter?

CROSLIN: She`s 5. Hello?

911 OPERATOR: OK. What was she last seen wearing?

RONALD CUMMINGS, HALEIGH`S FATHER: (INAUDIBLE) the middle of the night.

911 OPERATOR: Ma`am?

CROSLIN: She was in her pajamas. We were sleeping.

911 OPERATOR: OK. All right. You said your back door was wide open?

CROSLIN: Yes, with a brick. Like, there was a brick (INAUDIBLE). Like, when I went to sleep, the door was not like that.

911 OPERATOR: OK, the back door...

CROSLIN: It was locked.

911 OPERATOR: Listen to me. Your back door was wide open. What are you talking about a brick?

CROSLIN: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: What is the brick?

CROSLIN: It`s on the (INAUDIBLE) on the stairs. Like, we have a walkway.

911 OPERATOR: And there was a brick laying there?

CROSLIN: Yes. It`s still there.

(CROSSTALK)

CUMMINGS: ... better come on!

911 OPERATOR: We got them coming. Tell him we got them coming.

CROSLIN: They`re coming.

911 OPERATOR: OK, what`s the color of your house, ma`am?

CROSLIN: It`s blue.

911 OPERATOR: It`s blue? OK. What`s -- what does she look like? How tall is she? Give me some description of her.

CROSLIN: She has, like -- like, long hair, curly, like curls...

911 OPERATOR: Long curls. What color?

CROSLIN: She`s white.

911 OPERATOR: OK, what color hair?

CROSLIN: She`s got brown hair.

911 OPERATOR: Brown hair?

CROSLIN: Yes. Oh, my God! (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: OK. How tall is she, about? Or how much does she weigh? Do you know that?

CROSLIN: Huh?

911 OPERATOR: About how tall or how much does she weigh?

CROSLIN: Like, four something. Like -- I don`t know, like -- she`s not that tall.

CUMMINGS: (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: OK. Tell your husband we got them coming, OK?

CROSLIN: OK.

911 OPERATOR: How much does she weigh, do you know?

CROSLIN: Huh?

911 OPERATOR: How much does she weigh?

CROSLIN: Like, 40, 50 pounds, 60 pounds.

911 OPERATOR: Forty to sixty pounds?

CROSLIN: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: What`s her date of birth?

CUMMINGS: Y`all are (EXPLETIVE DELETED) playing games, man! I`m going to (EXPLETIVE DELETED) kill somebody!

911 OPERATOR: OK, well, tell him we understand. We need to get her date of birth.

CROSLIN: What`s her date of birth?

CUMMINGS: (EXPLETIVE DELETED) her birthday! We need to find her! (EXPLETIVE DELETED) her date of birth!

911 OPERATOR: OK, listen to me. I`m getting this information. I`m not the officer driving out there, OK?

CROSLIN: OK.

911 OPERATOR: They`re coming out there to handle that situation. I need to gather all the information from you over the phone. It has nothing to do with me driving out there. The officers are taking care of that, OK? They`re coming out there, OK?

CROSLIN: OK.

911 OPERATOR: OK, I`m going to stay on the phone with you, OK?

CROSLIN: OK.

911 OPERATOR: Until they get there. All right. Hang on. Tell him we got them coming. He needs to try to calm down a little bit, OK? The officers are going to come out there and do what they can. We can`t have him screaming and yelling at the officers whenever they get there, OK?

CUMMINGS: Hello?

911 OPERATOR: OK, sir, let me talk to your wife. Let me get some information from her.

CUMMINGS: (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: OK -- can I talk to her?

CUMMINGS: (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: OK.

CUMMINGS: How the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) can you let my daughter get stole, (EXPLETIVE DELETED)? Hello?

911 OPERATOR: OK, sir, let me talk to your wife. Let me get some information from her.

CUMMINGS: (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: OK, can I talk to her?

CUMMINGS: (INAUDIBLE)

CROSLIN: Yes?

911 OPERATOR: OK, listen to me. I need you to answer some questions. Does the door look like it was pried open?

CROSLIN: (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: Does it look like you had some sort of -- someone try to enter into your house?

CROSLIN: Hold on.

911 OPERATOR: And another thing. Make sure you and your husband don`t touch the door anymore. Don`t mess with the door or anything.

CUMMINGS: (INAUDIBLE)

CROSLIN: No, it doesn`t.

911 OPERATOR: It doesn`t look like it is?

CROSLIN: No.

911 OPERATOR: OK, now, listen. Tell your husband do not touch...

CUMMINGS: (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: ... anything. Make certain...

CUMMINGS: (INAUDIBLE) sideways.

911 OPERATOR: Because we`re going to try to get a K9 out there, OK?

CROSLIN: OK. She said don`t touch anything because they`re bringing a K9 out here.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

GRACE: Right now, the father of little Haleigh, Ronald Cummings, is with us. Mr. Cummings, you and your family are in so many prayers across the country right now. Please tell us what happened when you got home from work that night. I believe it was around 3:00 AM.

CUMMINGS: Actually, it was about 3:25, 3:27.

GRACE: OK.

CUMMINGS: And I pulled into the yard, and my girlfriend opened the front door, and I already knew something was wrong because she`s not up at this time. She told me -- I said, What are you doing up at this time? She said, Your back door`s wide open and your daughter`s gone.

GRACE: What is her description -- what scenario took place?

CUMMINGS: She got out of bed and went to use the restroom and came back to find that my daughter was not in bed with her.

GRACE: OK, what time did...

CUMMINGS: And the back door was wide open and she was -- and she was gone.

GRACE: Ronald, what time did she put Haleigh to bed?

CUMMINGS: She puts them to bed every night at 8:00 o`clock.

GRACE: At 8:00 o`clock. When she put...

CUMMINGS: And...

GRACE: When she put her to bed at 8:00 o`clock, did she also put to bed the little 4-year-old boy?

CUMMINGS: Yes, she did.

GRACE: OK. What time did she go to bed?

CUMMINGS: Approximately 10:30, 11:00.

GRACE: At 10:30, 11:00. At that time, was little Haleigh in the bed asleep with the brother?

CUMMINGS: Yes.

GRACE: And they all slept together in the same bed, correct?

CASAREZ: Yes.

GRACE: So sometime between 11:00 PM and 3:30 AM, Haleigh goes missing. Now, did she call 911?

CUMMINGS: No, she did not, not until after I was there. She tried to call me, but I was pulling in the driveway. So I asked her how come she was trying to call me, she needed to call 911. So she immediately called them then.

GRACE: And where does the biological mother live, Ronald?

CUMMINGS: In Baker County, in Glenn St. Mary (ph).

GRACE: What is that, about 150 miles away?

CUMMINGS: I would say approximately 90 to 100.

GRACE: Now, have you and your girlfriend both taken a polygraph, right?

CUMMINGS: Yes, I have. Passed it with flying colors. Yes, she has. Passed hers.

GRACE: And you volunteered to do that and you`ve been cooperating with police, right?

CUMMINGS: Yes. Why not? I don`t have anything to hide. I just want my daughter back. Anything that`s going to help them eliminate more people, that`s the best thing.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GRACE: "I just killed my children." She says it to a 911 dispatch like she`s ordering fries at a McDonald`s drive-through, words that send a chill down your spine, calmly, intentionally spoken words by a mom of two. As police race to one of the most disturbing scenes they ever have encountered, one child still alive, hanging onto life by a thread, Debra Janelle (ph) Jeter stays on the line with 911.

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911 OPERATOR: 911 OPERATOR: Hill County 911. What`s your emergency?

DEBRA JETER, ADMITTED TO CAPITAL MURDER: I just killed my children.

911 OPERATOR: Excuse me?

JETER: I just killed my children.

911 OPERATOR: Where are you?

JETER: I`m in the abandoned house on highway 77, right after you go underneath the highway. One of them`s still alive. Hurry.

911 OPERATOR: How -- under what highway? You`re on highway 77 where?

JETER: I`m on highway 77 right after you go under 35, going towards Milford. Need an ambulance out here to save the one that didn`t -- come on. Hurry up.

911 OPERATOR: What`s your name?

JETER: Call them. Have you already called them?

911 OPERATOR: Yes, ma`am, I have.

JETER: OK.

911 OPERATOR: I need your name.

JETER: I won`t say my name.

911 OPERATOR: Hello?

JETER: Hello?

911 OPERATOR: Are you still there?

JETER: Yes, I`m still here.

911 OPERATOR: 77 toward Milford, right after you cross under the bridge. She`s telling me she`s killed her children.

Are you in your car?

JETER: No, I`m not in my car. I`m in the house, walking around. And one of them`s still alive for real. She`s asking to be saved, and I couldn`t handle that. And so (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: She thinks she`s in an abandoned house at that location.

JETER: It`s been a long time. She might already die because she`s bled out a lot and -- hold on. What, baby?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE)

JETER: (INAUDIBLE) She said please tell you to hurry.

911 OPERATOR: OK. We`ve got people en route. Get an ambulance because one of them`s still alive, she said.

Can you tell me what happened? Ma`am? Hello? Ma`am?

JETER: What?

911 OPERATOR: Can you tell me what happened?

JETER: I can`t get the door open.

911 OPERATOR: You can`t get what door open, darlin`?

JETER: The front door so y`all can come in when you all get her. Why won`t it open?

911 OPERATOR: I don`t know.

JETER: Hold on.

911 OPERATOR: Are you on the right-hand side of the road or the left- hand side of the road, sweetie.

JETER: I`m (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: They`re coming. They`re coming. I just want to try to clarify exactly where they are. Can you tell me what happened?

JETER: I don`t want to tell you. I don`t see any lights. They`re not coming.

911 OPERATOR: Well, they`re on their way. My partner`s getting them to you just as quickly as she can.

JETER: OK.

911 OPERATOR: How many children do you have?

JETER: Two.

911 OPERATOR: What?

JETER: Two.

911 OPERATOR: Two?

JETER: One of them is dead. She`s dead dead. But the other one, she wants to be saved, and I`m -- she needs to be saved, and I don`t see any lights. Tell them to get the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out here!

911 OPERATOR: Honey, they`re coning. They`re coming. Do you have any weapons?

JETER: I do. I have a knife.

911 OPERATOR: She has a knife.

JETER: Should I throw it away?

911 OPERATOR: No, ma`am. Just -- just put it -- she`s got a knife.

JETER: She says please hurry.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Tell her we`re on our way. Can you not tell me what your name is?

JETER: (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: What?

JETER: Hold on.

911 OPERATOR: What`s your name, darlin`?

JETER: I`m not telling you my name, and I`m not your darlin`.

911 OPERATOR: How old are your children?

JETER: Hold on. God damn it, hurry up!

911 OPERATOR: They`re coming. They`re on their way. You should be hearing lights and sirens, seeing lights and hearing sirens. You said you just -- you cross under the bridge and it goes to -- on 77, toward Milford. You cross under the bridge to 35, and you`re in an abandoned house. Is that right?

JETER: Yes. Under 35...

911 OPERATOR: Cross under 35...

JETER: ... on 77, the abandoned house up on the hill on the left. Hurry the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) up.

911 OPERATOR: She says she`s in -- she`s in an abandoned house. Yes, in the house on the hill.

Sweetie, do you hear them now? Do you hear those sirens and stuff? Are you there?

JETER: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: Are you still with me?

JETER: I`m still with you.

911 OPERATOR: Hello?

JETER: I`m her. They`re not here.

911 OPERATOR: They`re on their way, sweetheart. They had to come from different parts of the county.

JETER: Hold on (INAUDIBLE) They`re coming! Tell them not to shoot me. I don`t have a gun.

911 OPERATOR: OK. She doesn`t want to get shot because she doesn`t have a gun. When they get there, I want you to lay the knife down. When you get the door open, I want you to lay the knife down so they can see that you don`t have any weapons.

JETER: OK. Tell them to hurry.

911 OPERATOR: They`re hurrying, honey. They`re hurrying.

JETER: Oh, my God. She`s dead. Oh, my God!

911 OPERATOR: How old are the children?

JETER: I`m not telling you. She wants you to (INAUDIBLE) She wants you to hurry. She wants you to...

911 OPERATOR: Honey, they are coming! They`re coming as fast as they can. They`re trying to be sure -- do you see them?

JETER: They`re coming.

911 OPERATOR: Do you see them? Do you see them?

JETER: No. (INAUDIBLE) coming. Hold on. I can`t see. Yes, they`re coming. I see something.

911 OPERATOR: Can you see the lights?

JETER: No. I see something down at the end of the road. I see all right lights, but not -- not fire lights, not police lights.

(CROSSTALK)

911 OPERATOR: She says there -- she can see lights...

JETER: I hear sirens. I hear them.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Do you see them?

JETER: No, I`m not seeing them. (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: OK. You need to...

JETER: There`s people coming up the driveway.

911 OPERATOR: I know. I understand that. I want...

JETER: I`m standing in the driveway with my hands up.

911 OPERATOR: She`s...

JETER: By the house, both hands up except for one because I`m on the phone. They`re coming.

911 OPERATOR: She`s got her hands up except for the fact that the one that she`s on the phone with. She`s out in the yard. She says she`s out in the yard beside the house.

JETER: OK. Good-bye. I see them. They`re out here. Good-bye.

911 OPERATOR: All right. Bye.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

GRACE: Michael, the 911 call is so disturbing, so upsetting, the way she tosses off the words "I killed my children." She`s perfectly, completely in control. And I understand her attack on her two girls -- she was angry because the husband filed for divorce?

MICHAEL BOARD, WOAI NEWSRADIO: Nancy, what`s amazing about this case is this is a woman with borderline personality disorder. She`s been...

GRACE: Did you say borderline?

BOARD: Borderline personality disorder. Plus she...

GRACE: Don`t start with me about borderline personality -- OK, hold on.

BOARD: She`s not been...

GRACE: Bethany Marshall...

BOARD: She`s not been clinically diagnosed.

GRACE: Bethany Marshall, borderline, not clinically diagnosed. She isn`t crazy. She is angry over a divorce and she killed one of her children, tried to kill the other one!

BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST: This is not just about borderline personality disorder. This is a mother who hate, hate, hated her two children. Why? Because they`re cute, because they`re little, because they`re darling, because they had her ex-husband`s attention.

And borderlines -- although this is not attributable to that disorder, they plot and they plan forever. And she probably had on her mind that she wanted to kill them and she made that suicide attempt, remember, two weeks before in front of them. That was her first act of torture, was probably the third or fourth in a long line of acts of torture. And the final act of torture was stabbing them.

Now, when she calls 911, she does that with such an imperious tone because she`s in charge. She feels the little girls had what they got coming, and now she`s going to order up the dispatcher to order up the ambulance because she`s going to tell everybody what`s what and put them in their place. It`s her moment of power and glory. And remember, with homicide, when a person is pleased with what they`ve done, there`s a flattening of emotion after the homicidal act because they`re satisfied with the act.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GRACE: A 10-year-old little girl snatched from her own bedroom in the dark of night. That little girl, Zahra, completely dependent on two hearing aids, only walks with a prosthetic leg after bone cancer, vanishes into thin air. Supposedly last seen 2:30 AM sleeping in her bed. Nobody calls 911 to report Zahra missing until hours later. To top it off, Daddy, Adam Baker, actually laughs on that 911 call, referring to his 10-year-old little girl as "broody," going through puberty. So what really happened?

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911 OPERATOR: Catawba County 911.

ADAM BAKER, ZAHRA`S FATHER: Hi. How you doing?

911 OPERATOR: I`m good.

BAKER: I need police.

911 OPERATOR: Hickory police 911. Where`s your emergency?

BAKER: Yes, my daughter is missing.

911 OPERATOR: I`m sorry?

BAKER: My daughter...

911 OPERATOR: Your daughter`s missing?

BAKER: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: OK. What`s your address?

BAKER: 21 21st Avenue Northwest. The police were out here last night over a fire and a ransom note for my boss`s daughter. I got up a little while ago, and it appears as they took my daughter instead of my boss`s daughter.

911 OPERATOR: I`m not familiar with what happened last night. What happened last night?

BAKER: Last night, we were woken -- my dog woke me up and I had a fire in the back yard. And somebody had poured gas in my company vehicle that I drive to work. They left a ransom note on the company vehicle to my boss, saying they had his daughter and his son was next. And his daughter`s fine. His daughter came with him here last night when I called him. And it appears they may have taken my daughter instead of his daughter.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Do you know who this was?

BAKER: I don`t know who it was.

911 OPERATOR: That may have taken her?

BAKER: No, ma`am.

911 OPERATOR: Do you have any idea why -- why they were threatening to take his daughter?

BAKER: I don`t know.

911 OPERATOR: OK. What`s your name?

BAKER: My name is Adam Baker.

911 OPERATOR: And no one has seen your daughter since 2:30 this morning?

BAKER: No. Like I said, we had all that drama last night, and me and my wife went back to bed. And my daughter`s, I think, coming into puberty, so she`s hitting that broody stage, and we only see her when she comes out when she wants something, and that`s about it.

911 OPERATOR: OK. And did you say that she was handicapped?

BAKER: Yes, ma`am. She has an above-the-knee amputation.

911 OPERATOR: OK, she has one -- one leg?

BAKER: One leg, yes.

911 OPERATOR: That`s partially amputated?

BAKER: Yes. She has a prosthetic leg, which apparently, they`ve taken with them.

911 OPERATOR: Prosthetic leg was taken with her?

BAKER: Yes, ma`am.

911 OPERATOR: OK. And you don`t have any idea at all?

BAKER: No. Like I said, it was all addressed to him, and it was all taken out on him. And I guess they thought he lives in this house.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Did you talk to your boss about it?

BAKER: I`ve just spoken to him, and he told me that he`s going to be here shortly.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GRACE: Twenty-nine days. That`s how long it took tot mom Casey Anthony to report her baby, little Caylee Anthony, missing. Finally, tot mom forced to speak to police after her own mother, Cindy Anthony, makes three 911 calls. We have the 911 calls. Take a listen as Caylee`s own grandmother even admits Casey Anthony`s car smells like there`s a, quote, "dead body" in it. Despite efforts by the defense to have these calls, these 911 calls, excluded from trial, a Florida judge recently rules the calls you`re about to hear will be heard by a jury of 12. Take a listen.

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CINDY ANTHONY, CAYLEE`S GRANDMOTHER: Hi. I`m -- I drove to a police department here on Pershing, but you guys are closed. I need to bring someone in to the police department. Can you tell me where I can -- the closest one I can come into?

911 OPERATOR: What are you trying to accomplish by bringing them to the station?

CINDY ANTHONY: I have a 22-year-old person that has grand theft sitting in my auto with me.

911 OPERATOR: So the 22-year-old person stole something?

CINDY ANTHONY: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: Is this a relative?

CINDY ANTHONY: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: Where did they steal it from?

CINDY ANTHONY: My car and also money.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Is this your son?

CINDY ANTHONY: Daughter.

911 OPERATOR: OK, so your daughter stole money from your car?

CINDY ANTHONY: No, she -- my car was stolen. We`ve retrieved it today. We found out where it was at, retrieved it. I`ve got that. And I`ve got affidavit for my banking account. I want to bring her in. I want to press charges.

911 OPERATOR: OK, where did all of this happen?

CINDY ANTHONY: Oh, it`s been happening.

911 OPERATOR: No, no, but I need to establish a jurisdiction, is what I`m trying to...

CINDY ANTHONY: Oh, I live in -- in Orlando.

911 OPERATOR: Yes, but what address did these thefts occur at?

CINDY ANTHONY: Well, I guess my residence, yes.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

CINDY ANTHONY: I have a 3-year-old that`s been missing for a month.

911 OPERATOR: A 3-year-old?

CINDY ANTHONY: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: Have you reported that?

CINDY ANTHONY: I`m trying to do that now, ma`am.

911 OPERATOR: OK. What did the person do that you need arrested?

CINDY ANTHONY: My daughter.

911 OPERATOR: For what?

CINDY ANTHONY: For stealing an auto and stealing money.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

CINDY ANTHONY: We can`t find my granddaughter. Five foot, one-and-a- half.

911 OPERATOR: Thin, medium or heavy build?

CINDY ANTHONY: Thin.

911 OPERATOR: Color hair?

CINDY ANTHONY: Brown.

911 OPERATOR: What color shirt is she wearing?

CINDY ANTHONY: White.

911 OPERATOR: What color pants?

CINDY ANTHONY: They`re shorts. They`re plaid. They`re, like, pink and teal, and white and black plaid.

911 OPERATOR: Does she have any weapons on her?

CINDY ANTHONY: No.

911 OPERATOR: Is she not telling you where her daughter is?

CINDY ANTHONY: Correct.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

911 OPERATOR: 911. What`s your emergency?

CINDY ANTHONY: I called a little bit ago, the deputy sheriff`s (INAUDIBLE). I found out my granddaughter has been taken! She has been missing for a month. Her mother finally admitted that she`s been missing. Get someone here now!

911 OPERATOR: OK, what is the address that you`re calling from?

CINDY ANTHONY: We`re talking about a 3-year-old little girl! My daughter finally admitted that the baby-sitter stole her. I need to find her.

911 OPERATOR: Your daughter admitted that the baby is where?

CINDY ANTHONY: The baby-sitter took her a month ago, that my daughter`s been looking for her. I told you my daughter`s been missing for a month. I just found her today, but I can`t find my granddaughter! She just admitted to me that she`s been trying to find her herself. There`s something wrong. I found my daughter`s car today, and it smells like there`s been a dead body in the damn car!

911 OPERATOR: OK, what is the 3-year-old`s name?

CINDY ANTHONY: Caylee, C-A-Y-L-E-E, Anthony.

911 OPERATOR: Caylee Anthony?

CINDY ANTHONY: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: How long has she been missing for?

CINDY ANTHONY: I have not seen her since the 7th of June.

911 OPERATOR: What is her date of birth?

CINDY ANTHONY: 8-9-2000 -- oh, God. She`s 3 -- 2005. Caylee`s missing! Caylee`s missing! Casey says Zanny took her a month ago! She`s been missing for a month!

911 OPERATOR: Is your daughter there?

CINDY ANTHONY: I`m on the phone with them!

911 OPERATOR: Is your daughter there?

CINDY ANTHONY: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: Can I speak with her? Do you mind if I speak with her? Thank you.

CINDY ANTHONY: I called them two hours ago, and they haven`t gotten here! Casey finally admitted that Zanny took her a month ago and she`s been try8ing to find her!

911 OPERATOR: Ma`am? Ma`am?

CINDY ANTHONY: Casey, they want to talk to you.

CASEY ANTHONY, CAYLEE`S MOTHER: (INAUDIBLE) talk to me for?

CINDY ANTHONY: Answer the questions.

911 OPERATOR: Hello?

CASEY ANTHONY: Hello?

911 OPERATOR: Yes.

CASEY ANTHONY: Hi.

911 OPERATOR: Well, can you tell me what`s going on a little bit?

CASEY ANTHONY: I`m sorry?

911 OPERATOR: Can you tell me a little bit what`s going on?

CASEY ANTHONY: My daughter`s been missing for the last 31 days.

911 OPERATOR: And you know who has her?

CASEY ANTHONY: I know who has her. I`ve tried to contact her. I actually received a phone call today, now from a number that is no longer in service. I did get to speak to my daughter for about a moment, about a minute.

911 OPERATOR: OK, did you guys call and report a vehicle stolen?

CASEY ANTHONY: Yes, my mom did.

911 OPERATOR: OK. So is it a vehicle stolen, too?

CASEY ANTHONY: No. This was my vehicle.

911 OPERATOR: What vehicle was stolen?

CASEY ANTHONY: It`s a `98 Pontiac Sunfire.

911 OPERATOR: OK, I have deputies on the way to you right now for that, but now your 3-year-old daughter is missing. Caylee Anthony?

CASEY ANTHONY: Yes, Caylee Marie Anthony.

911 OPERATOR: White female?

CASEY ANTHONY: Yes, white female.

911 OPERATOR: Three years old -- 8-9-2005 is her date of birth?

CASEY ANTHONY: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: And you last saw her a month ago?

CASEY ANTHONY: Thirty-one days. It`s been 31 days.

911 OPERATOR: Who has her? Do you have a name?

CASEY ANTHONY: Her name is Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez.

911 OPERATOR: Who is that, baby-sitter?

CASEY ANTHONY: She`s been my nanny for about a year-and-a-half, almost two years.

911 OPERATOR: Why are you calling now? Why didn`t you call 31 days ago?

CASEY ANTHONY: I`ve been looking for her and just gone through other resources to try to find her, which was stupid.

911 OPERATOR: Can you -- can you give me the name of the nanny again, like, spell it out for me?

CASEY ANTHONY: Zenaida -- Z-E-N-A-I-D-A...

911 OPERATOR: Last name?

CASEY ANTHONY: Fernandez...

911 OPERATOR: Fernandez.

CASEY ANTHONY: ... hyphen Gonzalez.

CINDY ANTHONY: I think the officers are here.

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911 OPERATOR: Hello?

CASEY ANTHONY: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: Hi. Can you tell me what`s going on a little bit?

CASEY ANTHONY: I`m sorry?

911 OPERATOR: Can you tell me a little bit what`s going on?

CASEY ANTHONY: My daughter`s been missing for the last 31 days.

911 OPERATOR: And you know who has her?

CASEY ANTHONY: I know who has her. I`ve tried to contact her. I actually received a phone call today, now from a number that is no longer in service. I did get to speak to my daughter for about a moment, about a minute.

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GRACE: Out to you, Mike Brooks, former fed with the FBI. Repeatedly, Casey`s mother, the grandmother, keeps telling me that there was nothing wrong, that she was in touch with her daughter throughout those five months, that she was just out bonding with her daughter. But that 911 call reveals a completely different story.

The grandmother`s been going on and on and on, saying there was an old pizza in the car and that`s what the dogs hit on, cadaver dogs, trained to hit on nothing but human remains. And here we have her saying that day -- it was the 14th, July 14, she`s telling police, My car smells like there`s been a dead body in the car.

MIKE BROOKS, FORMER D.C. POLICE, HLN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Tell you what, Nancy. She has given a number of stories to both you, to Headline "PRIME NEWS," to all different people. You know, it doesn`t add up. Her daughter`s not being truthful. You know, the other day, when I was on "PRIME NEWS," she was talking about another person that knows where she is.

You know, she`s making up so many stories! And Nancy, also, you know, with the whole airport thing, to shoot that down, you can also look on a manifest to find out if there`s an adult and a child. And also here in Atlanta, they have almost 400 cameras in Hartsfield International Airport. You know, and the whole thing with her mother, Casey, on this 911 call, she contradicts herself, Nancy. She said, quote, "I actually received a phone call today from a number that is no longer in service. I did get to speak to my daughter for about a moment, but for a minute. "

OK, she got a call today, but now the number`s no longer in service? That doesn`t make sense to me, Nancy.

GRACE: No, it makes no sense whatsoever. And Mike Brooks, having been a cop for as long as you have been, the very first thing the police would do is try to track down that number that the mother, Casey, says she received a call from and actually spoke to her little girl. They can determine was it a cell phone, was it a land line?

BROOKS: Sure.

GRACE: They can get the location immediately. For Pete`s sake, you can get that off Yahoo!, for Pete`s sake. And now we`re hearing she has no idea where the woman has gone, took police to the wrong location where the woman allegedly lived. And they`ve actually found -- police found Zenaida Hernandez-Gonzalez (SIC) and she says, I`ve never met them in my life.

BROOKS: Exactly. She`s been -- she has not told one thing that`s been -- that hasn`t been a lie to police. And you know, her mother, if her mother has information, too, Nancy, she can also be charged with obstruction of justice if she had some information.

You know, and this whole thing about the pizza -- I don`t care if you`ve got pizza with sausage, pepperoni and limburger cheese on it, it`s not going to smell like decomposing flesh. I know that smell. It`s a smell that you never forget.

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GRACE: Numerous 911 calls pour in to local police on an erratic DUI driver. Not from fellow drivers or police, oh, no. The 911 calls are from inside the car, placed by a frantic 8-year-old trying to save his 5-year- old little sister from Mommy`s drunk driving.

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911 OPERATOR: 911. How may I help you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello. My -- my mom -- we were driving home from a friend`s house, and my mom`s kind of going delusional and I don`t know what to do. She`s not taking me home.

911 OPERATOR: Your mom did what? What`s going on with your mom?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My mom -- I think she`s delusional because she doesn`t know where she`s going anymore!

911 OPERATOR: She doesn`t know where she`s going?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. I don`t know where we are. I think we`re in a (INAUDIBLE) but (INAUDIBLE) like a business. I don`t know where we are.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Is your mom able to talk to me?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. I think she`ll hang up on you.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Why do you think that?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because I think that she`s -- we were at a restaurant, and she had some drinks. I don`t know if the drinks are affecting her or something.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Is she in the car with you right now?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Is she awake?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Just stay on the phone, OK? You can`t see a business around you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I can`t. We`re driving down a road. She`s yelling at me, telling me to give you the -- to give me the phone to you -- to give her the phone.

911 OPERATOR: OK, let me talk to her.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here she is.

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911 OPERATOR: OK. How can I help you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi. I just called and my mom hung up on you guys.

911 OPERATOR: You called about your mom? Is that what you said?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think she`s delusional. We were driving home from a friend`s house and she got us lost, and now I don`t know if she knows where she`s going.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Well, is she -- does she know that you`re calling?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

911 OPERATOR: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But I don`t want to give her the hone because she will totally hang up on you. I know she will. I know she will.

911 OPERATOR: Why?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because I don`t know what`s going on with her. She had some drinks at a restaurant, and I think those are affecting her. And I don`t think she knows what`s going on.

911 OPERATOR: How old are you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m 8 years old, and my sister is 5 years old and she`s in the car with me.

911 OPERATOR: OK. And your mom can`t hear you calling?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She knows I`m on the phone. She`s jabbing me, telling me to give her the -- give -- I don`t know what to do right now!

911 OPERATOR: OK. Well, is there any way that you can find out where you are?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don`t know. No, there`s not. She`s jabbing me now!

911 OPERATOR: Jabbing you with what?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) with her hands!

Now it says highway 99.

911 OPERATOR: OK. So you`re on highway 99 right now?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And it says South Portland on one of these street signs. There`s a 5. I don`t want you to hang up on them, Mom! Can you help me?

911 OPERATOR: Yes. I`m going to stay on the phone with you until we can make sure, OK? I need you to just make sure that you do not give the phone to your mom, OK?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Now, what I need you to tell me is, are you on highway 99 or are you on I-5?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It doesn`t look like we`re on a highway or (INAUDIBLE) at all. (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: OK. You need to just settle down here, OK? I need you to answer my question. Do you know what street you`re on at all?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I don`t know.

911 OPERATOR: OK, do you know...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s pulling over! She`s going to take the phone from me.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Tell me where you`re pulling over.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It says Fire (INAUDIBLE) 36 (INAUDIBLE) Street Station.

911 OPERATOR: You`re at 76th Street station?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It says Fire (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: OK...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... Street Station.

911 OPERATOR: All I`m hearing is "station." Where are you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s taking the phone from me!

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello?

911 OPERATOR: Hi. This is 911. Who`s this? Hello?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello?

911 OPERATOR: What`s your name?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Don`t worry about it.

911 OPERATOR: Ma`am, can I talk to your son? Hello?

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GRACE: Out to Dave Wilkins with KXRO radio. Dave, did I just hear that correctly? The mom allegedly bit the little boy, 8 years old? What is that, 2nd grade?

DAVE WILKINS, KXRO RADIO (via telephone): That is -- that`s correct, Nancy. She`s also been charged with fourth degree assault in connection with that. The charges include driving under the influence of alcohol, of course, fourth degree assault for biting her son, and two counts of reckless endangerment. And at her first court appearance on Monday, she pleaded not guilty to all of those things.

GRACE: Dave Wilkins is with us from KXRO radio. Dave, take it from the top. What happened?

WILKINS: Well, according to the Clark County sheriff`s office, Saturday evening about 5:30, 911 dispatchers there got a tip that a Nissan four-door sedan was driving erratically. And less than five minutes later, the 8-year-old made the call that you just heard.

He was telling the dispatchers that his mom was acting strange and he was scared by the way she was driving. He added that his 5-year-old sister was in the car. The mother, apparently, at some point in the call, took the phone away from the boy, told the dispatchers not to worry and hung up. But the little guy was persistent and called back. And during the course of the two calls, the boy was able to describe passing landmarks to the dispatchers. He was also interrupted by the mother several times.

Then around 15 minutes after his first call, the mother, who was later identified as 33-year-old Paulette Spears, pulled into a county fire station complaining of an undisclosed medical problem. The deputies arrived less than a minute later. They had tracked the car with a combination of GPS tracking on the cell phone and also by using the descriptions of the landmarks the 8-year-old gave.

At the fire station, Ms. Spears refused a breath test, but the deputies on the scene described her as smelling of alcohol, having bloodshot eyes, blank stare, and also say that at the fire station, she apparently admitted to having had some beer. She was arrested, as I said, charged with DUI, the fourth degree assault and the reckless endangerment. Those charges are gross misdemeanors. They carry a maximum penalty of one year in jail.

The kids were placed with their father, who was apparently out of town on business at the time of the incident. And apparently, Ms. Spears has a prior conviction for DUI in Cowletts (ph) County, a neighboring county, in 2003. Bail was set at $10,000.

District court judge there, Vernon Schreiber (ph), has signed a no contact order between her and her children, so she can`t see them or talk to them or even write them. And the judge added that if Ms. Spears does post bail, he`s going to order that she undergo random drug and alcohol screening.

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GRACE: We`ve heard shocking 911 calls caught on tape. But as we`ve learned, those 911 calls serve another purpose other than just alerting authorities. The calls themselves can be a critical investigative tool in solving the crimes.

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911 OPERATOR: Catawba County 911.

BAKER: Hi. How are you doing?

911 OPERATOR: I`m good.

BAKER: I need police.

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911 OPERATOR: Hill County 911. What`s your emergency?

JETER: I just killed my children.

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911 OPERATOR: 911, what`s your emergency?

CINDY ANTHONY: I called a little bit ago, the deputy sheriff. I found out my granddaughter has been taken. She has been missing for a month.

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911 OPERATOR: OK, sir, let me talk to your wife. Let me get some information from her.

CUMMINGS: (INAUDIBLE)

911 OPERATOR: OK. Can I talk to her? OK.

CUMMINGS: (EXPLETIVE DELETED) can you let my daughter get stole, (EXPLETIVE DELETED)

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911 OPERATOR: What`s going on with your mom?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My mom, she`s delusional. She doesn`t know where she`s going anymore.

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911 OPERATOR: You said she has one leg?

BAKER: One leg, yes.

911 OPERATOR: That`s partially amputated?

BAKER: Yes, She has a prosthetic leg, which apparently, they`ve taken with her.

911 OPERATOR: Prosthetic leg was taken with her?

BAKER: Yes, ma`am.

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CINDY ANTHONY: There`s something wrong. I found my daughter`s car today, and it smells like there`s been a dead body in the damn car.

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911 OPERATOR: Excuse me?

JETER: I just killed my children.

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911 OPERATOR: Where are you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s jabbing me now.

911 OPERATOR: Jabbing you with what?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With her hands.

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CUMMINGS: If I find whoever has my daughter before you all do, I`m killing them. I don`t care. I`ll spend the rest of my life in prison. I`m telling you. You can put it on record, and I don`t care.

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GRACE: Let`s stop and remember Marine Lance Corporal Nathan Deyarmin, Jr., 22, Talent (ph), Ohio, killed Iraq, awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, loved working on cars and trucks, painting, riding four-wheelers, hunting, remembered for always making friends and family laugh, and helping those in need. Had it all -- looks, personality, heart and knowledge. Leaves behind parents Daniel (ph) and Barbara (ph), sister Erica (ph), brother-in-law Jason (ph), niece Jocelyn (ph), nephew Nathan, grandparents Barbara and Ed. Nathan Deyarmin, Jr., American hero.

And tonight, a special thank you to Ms. Leonor Lozata (ph), El Paso, Texas, for the beautiful framed cross-stitch of the twins. It looked like an oil painting. In fact, so beautiful, I gave it to my husband as a Christmas gift. That`s why I couldn`t thank you before, because it would blow the Christmas surprise.

Thanks to our guests, but especially you for being with us. And as we ring in another new year, our wish to you for health and happiness, to both you and those you love. Happy new year. Everyone, I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 o`clock sharp Eastern. Until then, good night.

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