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after hearing teresa strasser on the adam carolla show this morning explaining this horrible news,
this story will haunt me
-those dispatchers need to go hang themselves *imo-

Murdered woman’s husband: 911 botched call
Emergency dispatchers did not pass along exact location of suspect’s car

By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 7:00 a.m. PT, Fri., April. 11, 2008

Nathan Lee knows a day will come when he will have to tell his two young sons what happened to their mother. He’ll tell them about how she was kidnapped, tied up and thrown in the back of a car, managed to call police and got another motorist to call 911 with the exact location of the car transporting her to a brutal death.

And then Lee will have to tell the boys, 2 and 8 months, that the 911 operators didn’t pass on vital information to patrol officers, possibly erasing their mom’s last hope at being rescued. It’s a heartrending task he doesn’t want anybody else to have to face.

“Someday I’m going to have to tell our little boys, who have very few memories, if any, of their amazingly courageous and brave mommy. I will have to tell them that she died needlessly,” Lee told NBC News.

“I want to make sure that somebody else doesn’t have to tell their kids that their mom could have been saved if the proper training was put in place. That’s what my goal is,” Lee told TODAY’s Matt Lauer from Venice, Fla., on Friday.

Lee and his attorney, Thomas Marryott, have announced their intention to file a lawsuit against the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Department in Florida claiming that the 911 call center’s alleged negligence contributed to his wife’s death. The aim isn’t to get money, he said, but to mandate standardized training for all 911 operators.

“The ultimate goal is that some changes need to be made and light has to be brought to this issue, not just on a local level but I think on a national level,” he told Lauer.

Denise Amber Lee was kidnapped at about 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 17, from her home in North Port, Fla. At 6:14, she managed to use her kidnapper’s cell phone to call 911 and leave an open connection that allowed the Charlotte County Sheriff to know about the kidnapping. At 6:23 another 911 call from a witness reported a woman who might have been kidnapped in a dark green Camaro.

With police on the lookout for the car, another motorist saw a woman screaming and kicking and beating on the windows of a dark-colored Camaro on I-75. She called 911 at 6:30 and gave dispatchers an exact location of the vehicle and its direction of travel, but for a critical half-hour they “forgot” to pass the information along.

By 9 p.m., the driver of the Camaro, 36-year-old unemployed plumber Michael King, was in custody and a ring and hair that Denise Lee had left in the back seat connected him to the kidnapping. But by then, the 21-year-old wife and mother of two was lying in a shallow grave, stripped of her clothes and dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Her body was recovered two days later.

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That's terrible.

There was something on Canadian tv about 911 calls and how they are unreliable sometimes. People were put on hold because operators weren't available and some people died as a result.

i would hate to know someone died, under the care of someone elses hands (those people that you grew up and learned trust and to call when "you need help" 911)
to me that would be the worst way to die, knowing you could of been saved.

those emergency dispatchers that have 0 training and got suspended for 1-3 months max needs to change.
why out of all things we dont have any training for EMERGENCY dispatchers? >O

that is so horrible, I feel so horribly for her young boys and husband. you would think that standardized training for 911 operators would be mandatory everywhere. such a shame

They are just now holding trial for this incident... after this long (1yr and 6 months)? wow... they are just now giving him (Michael King) a trial. if you'd like to watch it. its on "IN SESSION" TRUTV channel 51 for basic cable. Its on every day as far as i know.

Apparently, they are focusing on charging the man with kidnap and murder... but not rape...
The trial just started not long ago, they are now bringing out witness's and testifying witness's of the 911 calls. Which they are playing those calls as well.

I hope the prosecution comes to a close soon and the jury announce with a GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY
If found guilty on all counts, he will receive the death penalty. People like that sick man... deserve to die under the needle.

I'm confused. what the fuck does adam corolla have to do with any of this?

The people told the story on his show.

This is worse than the Police Officer 911 dispatcher that kept hanging up on the girl just because she was swearing because her dad was having a stroke. And he wouldn't send an ambulance. So the girl went to the police station herself and the guy had her arrested for swearing.

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I'm confused. what the fuck does adam corolla have to do with any of this?
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what the fuck does fuck have to do with a rhetorical question? <3

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what the fuck does fuck have to do with a rhetorical question? <3
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for real? exactly what the fuck are you talking about?

fuck that
did you see the dateline (one of those shows)
about the girl who was a 21year old mom of two, kidnapped by some fat fuck
there were basically calls coming in up the ass,
the best tip was from a woman who was like THE GUY IS DRIVING NEXT TO ME RIGHT NOW AND A GIRL IS SCREAMING AND POUNDING ON THE WINDOW, SHOULD I FOLLOW HIM? operator is obviously busy talking to someone else in the background, by the time she replies he's gone. lady gave exact location of his car. GUESS WHAT? NOBODY DISPATCHED THAT CALL... the girl was found dead with a hole in her head shortly after.
way to go "law enforcement"

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way to go "law enforcement"
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ONE person fucks up and now it's EVERYONE's fault?

well, the dispatch lady was repeating what the woman on the phone was saying to another person in the room. Hence the background chatter. So it is everyones fault.

yours too.

Not to worry - I should have noted - Jamie and Adam will appear on the LAST DAY during closing ceremonies...so you will be done with your GWR attempt at that time