Statement Analysis of 911 Call: Clare Shelswell Here is an example of an innocent caller; yet we see characteristics that can mimic guilty callers. This is why context is so important. The caller is a medical professional and mother who is giving immediate help, and is asking for help, to help. The victim is a 5 year old, Clare, who's stepfather, Peter James Wilson, slit her throat to "discipline" her. It is horrific reading. Vancouver Sun:
The importance of obtaining and analyzing the 911/999 calls made by individuals during homicides, alleged suicides, alleged accidental deaths, alleged abduction, kidnappings and thefts Etc. Do the callers words indicate innocence, and NO involvement of the crime, or do they indicate deception, guilt or guilty knowledge of the crime being reported?:
Statement Analysis Gets To The Truth.
911 operator: What’s going on ma’am
Wilson (screaming): Oh my God, my baby, you need to send an ambulance right now
911 operator: You need to tell me what’s happening and calm down
Wilson: My daughter’s throat has just been cut. I need you to come right now! I can’t stop the bleeding.
Here we have the caller asking for help, specifically, but it is not a red flag because the caller is specifically seeking help to help the victim.
Follow the pronouns: "my baby" is now "my daughter" while the throat is cut. Note the ownership of both. Note the maternal instinct of the former.
911 operator: OK, what’s the address?
Wilson: I don’t know… by Cushman Lake.
911 operator: North, south of Seattle Lake?
Wilson: I don’t know! I don’t know where!
911 operator: Ma’am, you need to calm down and give me an address, or we can’t come.
Wilson: North Cushman Lake- she’s bleeding so much, I can’t stop it. Oh, my God! Oh, my God…Oh my God, my baby.”
911 operator: Keep pressure on that cut now, keep pressure on it, please.
Wilson: “I can’t stop it, please, you have to come right now.”
911 operator: “Ma’am, we’re getting people en route right now, OK? … Hang on. We’re dispatching the fire department right now.”
Wilson: (panting) “You have to come now, please.”
The begging of a mother to save the life of her child.
911 operator: “Ma’am, they are. Please keep pressure on that wound. Don’t take anything off of it.”
Wilson: ( crying) “You have to come now, please. Oh, my God, please. I don’t think she’s breathing…Please, please, please….
Wilson (panting): Please, please, please, God….
911 operator: How’s she doing ma’am?
Wilson: She’s barely breathing, she’s barely breathing.
911 operator: Ok get her on the floor, on her back
Wilson: She is on her back, but I’ve got her head up, the cut is on her throat…you have to hurry up please, you need to come now
Constant begging is the expected.Impatience noted.
911 operator: They are on their way ma’am, I dispatched them out.
Wilson:You need to send the police too
The urgency has precluded a further explanation at this time. The concentration is upon the victim.
911 operator: They are getting there ma’am
Wilson: She’s breathing but it’s really, really ragged and infrequent
911 operator: Is she changing color?
.Wilson: She’s really pale, I’m cradling her
911 operator: Ok I want you to keep pressure on that wound, whatever you do, don’t take the rag off, if it gets soaked through, put another on top of that…
Wilson: Ok I started on that
911 operator: Ok keep doing that, we have people en route now..either monitor her breathing very closely, if she stops breathing I need to know right away…is she conscious and alert?
Wilson: No she is unconscious, not alert of anything. Respiratory rate is 4 to 6 a minute
This is the first time medical language of expertise enters in. The subject is mother and now professional, but in both suits, she is seeking to save her daughter.
911 operator: Does anyone there know CPR in case she stops breathing?
Wilson: I’m a nurse but the gash on her throat is so big there’s no way it would work. I don’t know if [bleeding] is under control
911 operator: “How did this happen?”
Wilson: “My husband took a knife to her throat.”
911 operator: “Your husb- purposely?”
Wilson: “Yes.”
Note no further explanation. The focus is saving her daughter's life. After uttering such terrible odds, the mother continues her focus upon her child, who's life is slipping from her.
911 operator: “We need law enforcement on that call. Where is he now?”
Wilson: “He’s here, but he’s away from her. This is what I said you need to send police too…I haven’t really examined the wound, she’s still breathing…hang in there baby, hang in there.
911 operator: What’s going on with her right now?
Wilson: Her respiratory rate seems to have improved a little bit. She’s still pale, but conforming with the rest of the colour of her body
911 operator: What did you say her respiration was?
Wilson: Approximately 8 a minute now.
911 operator: “Does he still have the weapon, ma’am?”
Wilson: “No, he does not.”
911 operator: “OK, where is the weapon?”
Wilson: “It’s on the floor in the kitchen – where I am, not where he is.”
911 operator: “OK, where is he in the house?”
Wilson: “He’s sitting in the next room, but he’s pretty docile right now.”
911 operator: “OK, why is he so docile?”
Wilson: “Probably because he’s in shock over what he just did.”
911 operator: how’s she doing now?
Wilson: Breathing is becoming faster, but definitely more shallow. You need to move right now.
911 operator: They are ma’am
Wilson: ETA?
The anxiety continues to be on help for her daughter's life.
Wilson: I can’t give you an ETA, ma’am. Stand by.
Wilson talking to another person in the room (“Is she breathing? Yeah. Can you see the wound..can somebody stay out front, get Arthur out front?) 911 operator: Ok ma’am, is there someone there with you? Mmhmm
911 operator: Is there any way they can get him out of the house Probably, why? 911 operator: Because we don’t need him the house
Ok, the only complication with that is if we do that there might be a second
911 operator: If you don’t think that’s safe to try and get him out of the house I don’t want you to do that, i’m just giving you some ideas.
Wilson: “She is not breathing.”
911 operator: “OK, then you’re going to get her some air then. Is there anybody else there who can hold that bandage on while you tilt the head back and give her CPR?” Wilson: “Yeah, but I’m going to have to keep the phone down.”
911 operator: “OK, just keep it as close to you as you can, and let me know what’s going on.”
Here is the part where the it gets confusing…it seems that another woman is now talking on the phone with the 911 operator while the mother is helping the daughter, but can’t confirm who this woman is. It does not look like she’s breathing
911 operator: So dad is in the other room?
Yeah…the air is just coming right through her throat
911 operator: ok, stand by, I will talk to my unit
Wilson (in background): Oh my God, they have to hurry now!
911 operator: What happened when you tried to attempt CPR?
It sounds like the air is going right through her throat…I can’t feel her chest rising (crying in the background)
Wilson (in the background): Nothing is getting into her chest when I breathe through her mouth, it’s all exiting in the gash in her throat! She is not breathing, she is not breathing, hurry up! Goddamnit! You have to hurry!
911 operator: Ma’am we are getting there as fast as we can, please try to get some air into her. Is there someone helping you? Continue with the CPR, Sarah
911 operator: Can you feel a pulse, a heartbeat, anything?
No
Wilson (in the background): Her chest is not rising at all, the gash in her throat is too big, they have to hurry up!
911 operator: They are coming as fast as they can
Wilson (in the background): Give me another rag, oh my God, my baby..
911 operator: Are you guys the owner of the property?
No we’re renting the cabin for the weekend
911 operator: What started this tonight?
I don’t even know, I was gone, I just got back here
Wilson (in the background): Please, they have to hurry!
911 operator: Ma’am do you feel comfortable moving her out of the house at all? I don’t think that’s a good idea
Wilson (in the background): There’s no difference, she’s dying!
911 operator: Is the dad still in the house? Yes 911 operator: What is he doing? Sitting on the floor 911 operator: Is her alert at all? Wilson (in the background): It’s not him, you need to get the ambulance here for her!
Note the focus of her concern is for her daughter. For her husband, she wants police.
911 Operator: Ma’am
Yes?
911 operator: Can you get her outside? If you can get her outside away from dad, we have a better chance of aid coming in without law enforcement
That’s not important, that’s not relevant
911 operator: Ma’am can you get her outside?
There’s no point in that
911 operator: Why is that?
He’s not doing anything, he’s just sitting on the floor
she is zoned so much upon her daughter that she has fearlessness towards the killer. This is maternal instinct in the rawest element.
Wilson (in the background): Where are the paramedics?
911 operator: I can’t make my units come in without law enforcement being there There’s nobody here
911 operator: We need to do something to try and save her If he leaves, can you come in?
911 operator: Yes
{Speaking to dad): Can you leave? (To operator): He’s leaving
Why did she ask, and not order him out? This may have been wisdom in action: do not poke a dangerous animal.
911 operator: Tell him to get as far as he can but stay in the area (She repeats the instruction)
911 operator: Is there vehicle he can go sit in? Is he out of the house?
Yes
911 operator: Someone needs to tell me where dad went now
He went to other side of property, he’s sitting outside
911 operator: How far away?
He’s literally non-coherent
911 operator: I know, please answer my question. How far away from the house is he? The next lot over…Ok listen to me she has not been breathing for approximately 10 minutes at this point, if the paramedics don’t get there stat she is not going to survive. How far out are they?
911 operator: I’ve advised paramedics Dad is out of the house. Does he have any weapons on him? No he has nothing.
911 operator: Ok, stand by…What’s going on with her now?
She’s dead. We’re doing cpr but she’s effectively dead unless they’re here now.
911 operator: Are you there ma’am?
Yes
911 operator: Are you doing CPR and chest compressions?
She’s just doing CPR can’t do chest compressions while she’s doing CPR Wilson (in the background): How far out are they?
911 operator: Can you give me description of male?
5’8”, 250 pounds, brown hair, shorts and a polo shirt, I can’t tell from here, I really wasn’t paying attention
911 Operator: You were not there when this started?
I was not there, no one witnessed it
911 operator: Is the Dad still on the other property?
Yes.
Wilson (in the background): We can deal with legal ratifications later! Can we please not have this be about a homicide
Sarah, the mom, is doing CPR
911 operator: How many people are in the house?
Two of us, Clare and two people upstairs
911 operator: What are the people upstairs doing?
There’s another daughter, she is upstairs with my sister-in-law, trying to keep her away from this scene 911 Operator: how old is the daughter?
Clare is 5, maybe 6
911 operator: Is that the one with injury? Yes..(says to Dad): They want you to stay where you are 911 operator: How old is victim?
Clare is 5
Note "is" present tense
911 operator: Who’s there, ma’am? The paramedics and police (Sobbing in the background)
911 Operator: Alright ma’am, i’m going to let you go now
Analysis by Peter Hyatt.
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