911 Transcript Of The Call Reporting The Death Of Hanna Mack

Here is a transcript of a 17-minute-long 911 call made to the Navarro County Sheriff’s Department on the morning of the 10th of September, 2007 – The morning that Hanna Mack was found dead, hanging on a rope from the rafters of the family’s detached garage.

Was the call made by Kevin Wayne Anders?

Caller: Are you still there, ma’am?

911 operator: Navarro County 911

Caller: Ma’am?

Caller: I’m at 17000

Caller: Hello?

911 operator: Ma’am your phone’s cutting in and out on me, where are you at?

Caller: Northwest County Road 2135, OK, you got that?

Caller: My sister’s __ we got up

Caller: Are you there, ma’am?

911 operator: I’m here, your phone’s cutting in and out on me, I still haven’t gotten your address.

Caller: (screaming in background) Hanna, Hanna, Hanna, Hanna

Caller: Ma’am, can you hear me? Do you know where I’m at?

911 operator: Give me your address one more time.

Caller: 1700 NWCR –35, you … right now.

Caller: Please, ma’am, help me. Ma’am.

911 operator: You’re at NW CR 3105?

Caller: 3135

911 operator: 3135?

Caller: Yes, ma’am

911 operator: All right, what’s the house number?

Caller: I can’t hear you, ma’am, ma’am?

911 operator: Yes, ma’am. Just give me the house number one more time.

Caller: Are you there?

911 operator: Yes, ma’am

Caller: OK, what’s the…

911 operator: What’s your house number there?

Caller: … garage

Caller: (wails in background)

Caller: Please help. Police are you there?

911 operator: I’m here, give me the house number one more time.

Caller: It’s 17000, where the … is.

911 operator: 17000?

Caller: I cannot hear this lady. I cannot hear you.

911 operator: Are you needing an officer or an ambulance?

Caller: I need an officer and an ambulance.

911 operator: An officer and an ambulance?

Caller: Huh?

911 operator: Are you needing an officer or an ambulance?

Caller: I need an officer …

Caller: Please, … I can’t… are you there, ma’am?

Caller: Ma’am, are you there? Please help me

(Dispatching: 17000 NW 3135, 911 call, very bad cell phone connection. Not sure exactly what’s situation)

Caller: (in background) Why?

Caller: Stay there.

Caller: Please help me, ma’am.

911 operator: I have an officer on the way, can you tell me what’s going on?

Caller: I have no idea. Me and my wife got up this morning, OK? Actually, my wife got up this morning, and she went to get the kids up for school and I noticed our kid, our baby was gone, OK? The six-year-old, she wasn’t in the house.

911 operator: All right.

Caller: She come and got me and said the baby’s not, my baby’s not in the house, so I got up and come in here and started looking around… Come out to the barn… and she’s hanging… in the … rafters with no pants on. I need help ma’am. Please, get somebody here.

911 operator: All right, we’ve got them on their way to you, OK?

Caller: What?

911 operator: What, ma’am?

Caller: Please help us, please.

(Static)

Caller: No, ma’am, no, ma’am.

(Unclear)

Caller: …Everybody’s in danger.

Caller: We’re not staying here no more.

Caller: No, my God, where will we go?

(Crying)

Caller: Why do this? Who would do this?

Caller: That boy up the road…. I’m telling you, this … stop.

Caller: You said he was mad yesterday when he left the house.

Caller: … was he mad?

Caller: Do we need to tell the cops?

(unclear)

Caller: Why did you make us go to bed up there?

(unclear)

Caller: She said she was scared last night…

Caller: Dana, I’m going to ask you for a favor, baby.

Caller: … don’t you tell?

Caller: I can’t, because it’s very important for what’s happened…

Caller: (Unclear, jumbled)

Caller: I don’t want her up there…

Caller: Someone done… our baby.

Caller: (Jumbled.)

Caller: Why, why, why, why? (crying)

Caller: I want her down.

Caller: DNA… on that baby.

Caller: Already touched her leg.

Caller: Can’t somebody get her down?

Caller: (Jumbled.)

Caller: Did you lock the door?

Caller: Yes, we locked the door.

Caller: Why did he do it?… fricking idiot… calm down… here somewhere

Caller: No, I don’t want them to go nowhere.

911 operator: Ma’am?

911 operator: Hello?

Caller: Call the… grandma…. the bus…

Caller: Don’t let her go. Please don’t let her go.

Caller: … homework…

Caller: Kimberly, don’t leave me.

Caller: I’m not ready. I’m not going to school. I can’t go to school. I’m not ready. I can’t go to school without Hanna.

Caller: Nobody’s going to leave this house.

(crying)

911 operator: Ma’am?

(Jumbled, as many people talk at once, crying)

Caller: I can’t live a life without Hanna.

(Jumbled)

Caller: I know one thing, we’re really going to have to try…

Caller: … kill herself?…

(In the background, the operator talks with the officers, describes the callers as “pretty hysterical.”)

Caller: I know she’s there… Hanna.

Caller: (screams) Hanna, Hanna

Caller: … fault…

Caller: I can’t go to school until Hanna… I …. speak to her again… she’s not gone.

911 operator: Hello?

Caller: … Is she gone? I don’t know, I want her back.

Caller: I don’t care if … killed or not, I just want her back.

Caller: I love her so much I want her back.

At this point, the line goes dead, then another call comes into the 911 center, believed to be from Dana Mack:

Caller: Please make them hurry.

911 operator: Is she breathing?

Caller: No.

911 operator: We’ve got them enroute, OK? OK? Are you going to go back to the house?

Caller: Just make them hurry, yes.

911 operator: OK, what does your house look like?

Caller: It’s a big…

Recording ends