Strange Call Leads To Caller 1,200 Miles Away

A strange call from a man to a Penn. medical center telephone operator sparked an intensive search that finally led to the arrest of a man in Texas on multiple charges. The man called the Univ. of Pennsylvania Medical Center to say he had killed two persons, and demanded money to prevent further deaths. Pittsburgh dispatchers tried to trace the call, while tracking down an address the man gave. The address wasn’t located locally, so dispatchers expanded their search to surrounding communities, until the caller’s cellular phone number led to–Texas. The man was demanding that money be sent to a Western Union office on “Forward Street,” and that information led dispatchers to call Newton (Tex.) police. Officers in the tiny town arrived in a residential area–no Westsern Union around–and tracked down…Carl Forward. NPD said Mr. Forward was a local bank fraud suspect. Read the entire account here.