Dispatcher Takes Colleague’s Murder Confession

When a Lorain County (Ohio) sheriff’s dispatcher answered the 911 line, she had no idea it would be a sheriff’s corrections officer confessing that he had just murdered his wife. Dispatcher Joy Sanchez fielded the call and kept William Dembie talking, called for an ambulance and notified deputies without breaking stride, despite the emotional nature of the incident. Dembie told Sanchez that he had “beheaded” his wife, although later deputies said that was untrue—she had been stabbed several times and was dead when they arrived. During a call to request an ambulance just seconds after hearing Dembie’s confession, Sanchez told the EMS dispatcher why she was breathing hard. “Sorry, it’s one of our COs. I know him personally,” Sanchez said. Read more about the incident here, and listen (mp3) to the 911 call here.