Billings Murder: 911 Calls Released

Florida Murder Click here to listen to the 911 calls made by Byrd and Melanie Billings' neighbor and one of their daughters.

by WKRG Staff

Published: Thu, August 27, 2009 - 4:43 pm CST Last Updated: Thu, August 27, 2009 - 4:59 pm CST

911 Call #1
Dispatcher: Whats going on?

Neighbor: The mom and dad, I live next door and the daughter
came over and said the mother and father been shot
and they’re dead........

Dispatcher: She, She said they been shot?

Neighbor: Yeah.

Dispatcher: Hold on.

Neighbor: I gotta go get the kids, there's kids in the house.

Dispatcher: Where's she at?

Neighbor: They're in the bedroom, ma'am, they're dead.....Please come.

Dispatcher: Ma'am, I'm trying to get someone there, you said the mother and father both had been shot?

Neighbor: YES!

Dispatcher: O.K., I'm going to get someone there, I'm trying to get some information.....What is your name?

Neighbor: This is......

Dispatcher: I'm sorry? They're supposed to be signal seven, both of them she is saying. Ma'am whats your last name?
Ma'am, Ma'am, I'll get somebody on the way, o.k., they're already on the way I'm just trying to get some
information. Whats your first name?

Neighbor: I gotta go find the kids, the kids are ......

Dispatcher: How old are the kids?......

Neighbor: Ages from four years......

Dispatcher: How many kids are supposed to be in the house?

Neighbor: Please help! Ma'am, I gotta go be with these children, but I don't know...

Dispatcher: Ma'am, I don't want you to be in any danger, o.k.?

Neighbor: Ma'am, Ma'am I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Please come.

Dispatcher: Ma'am, Ma'am, I need you to take a deep breathe for me, o.k. You there? Hello?
She hung up on me. She said she's gonna go in and find the kids.

Neighbor: Ma'am?

Dispatcher: Ma'am, You there?

Neighbor: Yes.

Dispatcher: I thought you hung up. I didn't know...... O.k. I've got several officers on the way to you.

Neighbor: Hurry.

Dispatcher: I need to know how many kids are supposed to be in the house?

Neighbor: It's nine children.

Dispatcher: It's how many children? Ma'am your phone's cutting out. Ma'am?

911 Call #2
Dispatcher: Sherrif's 911 this is Jeff.

Billings' Daughter: Hi, I need someone to got out to my parents house, I was on the phone with my sister and trying to get in touch with them
and she said they were on the bathroom floor and there's nobody there, um, she said they were dead and I don't know
what she is talking about.

Dispatcher: What's the address? And what's your name ma'am? And your phone number? And whats her name?

Billings' Daughter: Melanie and Bud Billings.

Dispatcher: And you said Billings?

Billings' Daughter: Billings, B-i-l-l-i-n-g-s.

Dispatcher: O.k., and you said they're down in the bathroom?

Billings' Daughter: Yes, that's what she said, I kept telling her to take her the phone, and she said I can't, she's on the floor and she's dead.
I didn't know what she's talking about and we have a neighbor and I told her to over and get the neighbor....

Dispatcher: Can you hold on a second ma'am?

Billings' Daughter: O.K.

Dispatcher: Three eighty. I'm on the phone with the other part. Ten-four. It's gonna be a possible thirty two victim.
We have two callers on the phone. ...The caller advised that her sister advised her that there were two subjects down
on the bathroom floor, possibly Melanie and Bud, not twenty six on whats going on but were on the phone with another
complaintant.

Billings' Daughter: Did somebody else call?

Dispatcher: Can you be enroute to back? Ten-four, car seventy twenty six? Ten- four. O.K. Ma'am.

Billings' Daughter: Uh, huh.

Dispatcher: O.K.

Billings' Daughter: Did somebody else call?

Dispatcher: Yes Ma'am, were on the phone with somebody else, hold on one second. Ten-four, Car seventy twenty six.
Can somebody else talk to this 911.

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