The following call took place January 20, 2006
12:37-12:52 p.m. with David Crespi:
Operator: 911 emergency do you need
police, fire or medic?
Crespi: Matthews
Operator: I’m sorry. Do you need police?
Crespi: Matthews
Operator: Matthews police?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: OK, your cell phone is
cutting in and out, but I’m going to transfer you. Just a second.
Second Operator: Police department.
Crespi: Yeah. I just killed my two
daughters.
Operator: You just what?
Crespi: I just killed my two daughters.
Operator: Where are you at sir?
Crespi: I’m at 11233 Creek Point Drive.
Operator: 112
Crespi: 33 Creek Point Drive.
Operator: Creek Side?
Crespi: Creek Point. 11233 Creek Point
Drive in Deerfield Creek.
Operator: Deerfield Creek.
Crespi: Yeah.
Third Operator: Sir, tell me what
happened. OK. How. I mean, what’s going on right now?
Crespi: I just freaked out.
Operator: Are you on medication?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: Are they breathing or
anything now?
Crespi: No
Operator: What did you do to them?
Crespi: I stabbed them.
Operator: You stabbed them?
Crespi: Yeah.
Operator: OK. How many times did you
stab them?
Crespi: I don’t know.
Operator: You don’t know? Is anybody
else in the house with you?
Crespi: No.
Operator: No?
Crespi: My wife just left.
Operator: You wife just left?
Crespi: Yeah.
Operator: OK. Can you talk to medic?
Crespi: Uh, OK.
Operator: Yeah, we got it. Sir can you
talk to medic?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: Please
Operator: What’s your name?
Crespi: My name is David Crespi
Operator: OK…just one second please
Phone rings for transfer
Fourth Operator: What is the address of
your emergency?
Crespi: 11233 Creek Point Drive.
Operator: Can you repeat that so I can
make sure I’ve got it correct?
Crespi: 11233 Creek Point Drive.
Operator: And what’s the problem? Tell
me exactly what happened.
Crespi: There are two dead girls. I
killed them.
Operator: OK. What’s your phone number
sir?
Crespi: 704-xxx-xxx is my cell. Home
phone 704-xxx-xxxx.
Operator to another operator: Police on
the line? Answer, oh yeah.
Operator: Sir what’s your cell phone
number again in case we get disconnected?
Crespi: Cell phone 704-xxx-xxxx.
Operator: OK. Can you tell me what
happened?
Crespi: Ah, I just lost it. Ah.
Operator: OK. Are you with them now
sir?
Crespi: They’re dead. They’re inside.
Operator: OK
Crespi: I’m in the garage
Operator: OK
Crespi: 11233 Creek Point Drive.
Operator: I’ve got that sir. What
happened?
Crespi: Ah, I don’t know.
Operator: You don’t know?
Operator: Who are these girls?
Crespi: They’re my daughters
Operator: Your daughters? OK. How old
are they?
Crespi: Five
Operator: They’re twins?
Crespi: yeah
OK. So we’ve got help started. Can you tell
me what happened? How did you kill them?
Crespi: With a knife
Operator: And you’re sure they’re
deceased?
Crespi: Yeah. Yeah, they’re dead.
Operator: OK.
Operator: Sir, did you have a fight
with your wife? Is this what happened?
Crespi: No
Operator: No? You just couldn’t handle
it anymore?
Crespi: Yeah.
Operator: OK. You said you were not on
any kind of medication right?
Crespi: I’m on a….
Operator: What kind of meds are you on
sir?
Crespi: I’m on (inaudible)
Operator: I’m sorry?
Crespi: I’m on antidepressants.
Operator: You’re on antidepressants?
Crespi: Yeah.
Operator: What kind?
Crespi: Inaudible
Operator: Huh?
Crespi: Prozac and other kinds.
Operator: Have you taken you medicine
today?
Crespi: I don’t remember.
Operator: You don’t remember? Have you
taken anything today?
Crespi: Ah, I don’t remember.
Operator: Keep talking to me because
you sound a little bit tired and stuff and we’re wondering if you
maybe took too much medication.
Crespi: No, this is real.
Operator: I know it’s real. Sir, we’re
all, everybody’s on the way. OK? Alright?
Operator: Sir, are you home by yourself,
I mean, with you and the girls?
Crespi: Yeah.
Operator: OK.
Crespi: My two daughters.
Operator: Are you sure that they’re
dead?
Crespi: They’re dead.
Operator: We can’t try to do CPR or do
anything to help them?
Crespi: No, no I killed them.
Operator: How many times do you think
you stabbed them sir?
Crespi: I don’t know
Operator: You don’t know
Crespi: No
Operator: OK
Operator: You said you wife left?
Crespi: Just to get her hair cut
Operator: Just to what?
Crespi: To get her hair cut
Operator: To go get her hair cut.
Operator: Where is the knife that you
used?
Crespi: Lying beside the girls.
Operator: It’s lying beside the girls?
Operator: Where are you at in the house?
Crespi: I’m outside.
Operator: You’re outside?
Crespi: In the driveway.
Operator: You’re in the driveway?
Operator: You don’t have any other
weapons do you?
Crespi: No
Operator: OK
Operator: Can I get your first name?
Crespi: David
Operator: OK
Crespi: Crespi
Operator: I’m sorry, David what?
Crespi: David Crespi
Operator: Is there anybody we can get
to help or try to do CPR?
Crespi: They’re dead.
Operator: How long ago did this happen?
Crespi: 15 minutes ago.
Operator: Well there might be some
time; we still might be able to help them.
Crespi: … They’re dead.
Operator: … children are real resilient
we might be able to help them.
Crespi: No I killed them.
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Operator: Sir what do you have on?
What color shirt do you have on?
Crespi: I have a green shirt.
Operator: A green shirt? OK. And what
color pants?
Crespi:
Operator: OK, how old are you?
Crespi: 45
Operator: 45? OK.
Operator: And you’re still walking
around in the driveway now?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: OK.
Operator: Is there a way David we can
get in touch with your wife? Does she have a cell phone?
Crespi: Ah
Operator: Where did she go get her hair
cut at?
Crespi: Ah, her cell phone is 704-xxx-xxxx
Operator: What’s her name?
Crespi: Kim
Operator: Kim? Ok. And you all didn’t
have a fight or anything? She just left to go get her hair cut?
Crespi: We didn’t.
Operator: OK. Alright. What’s your
last name sir?
Crespi: Crespi C-R-E-S-P-I
Operator: Crespit?
Crespi: Crespi C-R-E-S-P-I
Operator: OK. Alright. Just hang on
sir. You should
Operator: Do you hear anyone coming yet
sir?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: OK.
Operator: The paramedics are right
around the corner, but they’re not going to come in until police
get there. OK.
Crespi: OK
Operator: They’re going to wait on
police. Police are right around the corner staging.
Operator: OK. Sir I need you, you’re
going to need to be calm when the police officers get there. OK.
If you’d like to why don’t you just sit down right in the driveway
right where you are. Just sit down on the ground. Make sure that
they can see your hands. Make sure everything is visible. OK.
You have no weapons on you right?
Crespi: I have no weapons.
Operator: No weapons on you? OK
Operator: Just hold on sir, we’re going
to get some help for you.
Operator: You still with me?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: OK
Crespi: I’m still with you.
Operator: OK
Crespi: moans
Operator: David, how long ago did your
wife leave?
Crespi: She left at 12:15
Operator: At 12:15?
Operator: Where did you say that the
girls are at inside sir?
Crespi: One is on the kitchen floor and
one is in the master bathroom
Operator: One’s in the kitchen and
one’s in the bathroom? OK
Operator: Is your house a one level or
a two story?
Crespi: Three
Operator: Three stories?
Crespi: Yeah.
Operator: OK is the kitchen on the
first floor?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: And the bathroom, where is
the second girl at? What bathroom?
Crespi: She’s on the second floor.
Operator: On the second floor?
Crespi: Yeah.
Operator: OK. Do you see any police
officers yet sir?
Crespi: No
Operator: Sir?
Crespi: No
Operator: Not yet?
Operator: How you feeling right now?
Crespi: I cut my finger.
Operator: You cut your finger?
Crespi: Yes
Operator: Did you do it on purpose or
accidentally?
Crespi: I think accidentally
Operator: You haven’t hurt yourself in
any other way?
Crespi: No
Operator: Do you feel like you want to
hurt yourself sir?
Crespi: Moans
Operator: I know you have talked to me
thing long, ok
Operator: David are you sure there’s
nothing we can do to try and help the girls?
Crespi: No, no, no, nothing you can do.
Operator: There’s nothing we can do for
the girls?
Crespi: No, no, no, no
Operator: You’re still sitting in the
driveway right?
Crespi: No
Operator: You’re walking?
Crespi: (inaudible)
Operator: What a minute. Where are you
walking at now?
Crespi: To the driveway
Operator: To the driveway?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: Where were you at?
Crespi: I’m in the driveway.
Operator: You’re in the driveway.
Crespi: In the garage.
Operator: In the garage? You want to
go out of the garage and just sit down in the driveway?
Operator: Can you sit down on the curb
by your mailbox?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: Just come out of the garage
OK?
Operator: Sit out on the curb where
they can see you.
Operator: That’s going to be better for
everybody. OK.
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: Are you walking outside now?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: Ok. You’re outside. You can
see the open air?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: You going to sit down in the
driveway for us please?
Crespi: I don’t want to sit down. I
want to stand.
Operator: You want to stand up?
Operator: David it would probably be
better if you sat down. OK?
Crespi: (inaudible)
Operator: Sit down and put your hands
out where they can see them.
Operator: Yeah. It will be less of a
hostile move if you sit down. OK?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: There’s less chance of you
getting hurt if you do that ok?
Operator: How long have you been on
your medication?
Crespi: I don’t know. A week or so.
Operator: Is it a new medicine?
Operator: What kind of problems were
you having for you to go on this medication?
Crespi: Not sleeping
Operator: Huh?
Crespi: Not sleeping
Operator: I can’t hear you David.
Crespi: I’m not sleeping
Operator: You’re not sleeping. Is that
what the problem was?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: And you were depressed? OK
Operator: Do you work?
Crespi: Yeah, I work.
Operator: Where do you work?
Crespi: I work at Wachovia.
Operator: Wachovia?
Crespi: The cops are here
Operator: The cops are there, OK sit
right now. You’re going to sit on the ground for us please?
Crespi: Yeah
Operator: You’re sitting down? David?
David?
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