FayObserver.com - 4 bodies found in Haymount home.
In this undated photo distributed by Lifetouch Church Directories and Portraits, the Maxwell family is pictured. Police said Tuesday that 47-year-old William Maxwell killed his wife, Kathryn, and their children, 17-year-old Connor and 15-year-old Cameron, before turning a gun on himself. Friends say there was some changes in Maxwell's behavior/emotional recently that were concerning some of them. Also it is said that the daughter was found in the closet as if she were hiding.
From the N&O
Earlier Thursday, Fayetteville police released recordings of the two 911 calls from the Maxwell home. In the first call, at 6:38 p.m., a voice is heard quietly moaning before the sound of a gunshot. A 911 operator tries in vain to get someone to speak.
On the second call, apparently made about 80 minutes later at 8:01 p.m., a man who identifies himself as John Fox describes the scene. A woman is heard in the background saying, "I knew it. I knew it."
"We've been trying to contact our daughter, and it appears they are in the kitchen," Fox said. "And we can't get in the house but we can see through the door."
When the operator asks if the people have wounds, Fox says: "Yeah, there's blood all over the place."
Usually in a 911 hangup, particularly when someone is moaning and the is a sound of a gunshot, someone is sent to check it out. In this case it seems no one responded.
6:38 first call, an hour and a half later the in-laws discover the bloody scene and call 911.
This is going to be interesting to follow up.
Posted by: Tre Benson | November 05, 2009 at 05:20 PM