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CONTENTS
For Binky
A T 2:51 ON THE MORNING OF FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1984, the communications center for Jackson County, Oregon, took the following emergency call. All such calls are recorded; the excerpt below was transcribed from a recording. At certain points, the communications center operator (911) is speaking with the caller and, on a separate line, with the Oregon State Police (OSP).
| MALE: | Hello? Hello? The neighbor girl from over on |
| 911: | Address? |
| MALE: | Eleven thirty-two Rossanley Drive. |
| 911: | Uh-huh. |
| MALE: | The neighbor girl from over on Ross Lane is here, and she, she thinks that her brother has beaten her parents with a baseball bat. |
| 911: | Can I talk to her? |
| MALE: | Uh, well, I dont know if she can talk or not or |
| 911: | How old is she? |
| MALE: | Uh, fifteen. Sixteen. |
| 911: | Well, could you tell her this here is the Sheriffs Office and see if maybe I can talk with her? |
| MALE: | Yeah, okay. Hang on just a minute. |
| 911: | We got a sixteen-year-old at a neighbors house says her brother beat her parents with a baseball bat. |
| OSP: | Okay, this is one at the dispatch |
| 911: | Sir? |
| GIRL: | Hello? |
| 911: | Hi. |
| GIRL: | Hi. |
| 911: | Can I help you? Whats the matter? |
| GIRL: | My brother beat my mom and dad and sister to death with a baseball bat. |
| 911: | Whats the address? |
| GIRL: | Fourteen fifty-two Ross Lane. |
| 911: | When did he do this? |
| GIRL: | Uh, I dont know when he did my mom and dad, but he did my sister about thirty minutes ago. |
| 911: | Were you home? |
| GIRL: | I was upstairs in the bed. (Crying) I |
| 911: | Are you sure theyre dead? |
| GIRL: | Im pretty sure they are. I didnt look at them. I couldnt. |
| 911: | Okay. Whats your name? |
| GIRL: | Jody Gilley. |
| 911: | Jody GilleyG-I-L-L-E-Y? |
| GIRL: | Yes. |
| 911: | Okay, Jody, whats your phone number at home? |
| GIRL: | Dont call there. |
| 911: | I wont call there. |
| GIRL: | Seven seven three |
| 911: | Uh-huh. |
| GIRL: | Three three oh eight. |
| 911: | Okay. Whats your middle initial, Jody? |
| GIRL: | L. |
| 911: | And whats the phone number there that youre calling from? |
| GIRL: | Seven seven nine |
| 911: | Uh-huh |
| GIRL: | Three one oh eight. |
| 911: | Whats your brothers name? |
| GIRL: | Billy. |
| 911: | How old is he? |
| GIRL: | Hes eighteen. |
| 911: | Is his the same last name? |
| GIRL: | Yes. |
| 911: | Just a minute. (Inaudible; receiver is covered.) When did he do your parents? Do you know? |
| GIRL: | I dont know. I was just in my bed and my light, my light switch is downstairs and they flipped it on and my brother and sister came up. And he told her to stay there. And then he went down. I didnt, Id just woken up, I didnt know what |
| 911: | Uh-huh. |
| GIRL: | was going on. Then my sister followed him down and I heard her screaming and I heard a pounding (crying). |
| 911: | And did you go down? |
| GIRL: | No. He came up. He had blood all over him and he said they were all dead. |
| 911: | Did he leave? |
| GIRL: | Well, I was afraid and so I just went along with him and he brought me over here, and we, we were over here and he left. |
| 911: | Does he have a car? |
| GIRL: | Hes in my dads Ranchero. |
| 911: | Ranchero. What color? |
| GIRL: | Its blue. |
| 911: | Which way did he go? |
| GIRL: | I think hehe said he was gonna go get a pack of cigarettes and then go home. |
| 911: | Okay. Just a second, Jody. Hang on, okay? |
| GIRL: | Okay. |
| 911: | We got a possible homicide |
| OSP: | Oh boy. |
| 911: | at one four five two Ross Lane. |
| OSP: | Ross Lane? |
| 911: | Want me to tell you what happened. I have a sixteen-year-old girl on the phone and she said she was up sleeping and her brother and sister came upstairs and her brothers eighteen years old, and he told her sister to stay up there and that he was, something was wrong with the parents, and the sister didnt stay up there, she followed him downstairs, and the girl that I have on the phone heard her screaming, and a couple minutes later the boy came up and he had blood all over him and he said they were all deadhis mom, his dad, and the sister. And he had blood all over him. He took her over to the neighbors house. Shes at one one three two Rossanley right now. |
| OSP: | Eleven thirty-two Rossanley? |
| 911: | Uh-huh. She said the brother is in a blue Ranchero and he left and said he was gonna go to the store and then he was gonna go back home. |
| OSP: | Blue Ranchero. |
| 911: | And hes eighteen years old. His name is Billy Gilley. |
| OSP: | Billy |
| 911: | G-I-L-L-E-Y. |
| OSP: | G-I-L-L-E-Y. |
| 911: | Um-huh. |
| OSP: | The parents are downstairs, dead, at this time? |
| 911: | Um-huh. And the sister. Do you want us to get Medford Ambulance to go and stand by somewhere close? |
| OSP: | Yeah, you might. Let me get some patrols going. |
| 911: | Okay. |
| OSP: | Im gonna go ahead and have them contact the scene and then Ill send one over to the |
| 911: | Jody? |
| GIRL: | Yeah? |
| 911: | Okay, we have State Police on the way. I want you to stay right there and Im gonna stay on the phone with you. Okay? |
| GIRL: | Okay. |
| 911: | Just a second. Your brother lives at home with you? |
| GIRL: | Yes. |
| 911: | Okay. Do you know what store he might go to? |
| GIRL: | Hed a probably went to 7-Eleven. |
| 911: | (With receiver covered ) She said hed probably gonna go to 7-Eleven. (With receiver uncovered ) Okay. How long is this been? |
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