[deanmine]

Also known as the."Orient murders" An elderly couple who hired a neighbor to help around the house were surprised to find him stealing. After discovering this, the woman had called 911, and hid the phone, killer then tries to play off the call. When police arrive, he kills himself.

An Orient, Ohio couple has been identified as the victims of a double murder Saturday night on state Route 762 near the state prison complex.

Harry K. Butler, 68, and Eugenia Anderson, 62, were killed in the home they shared at 5386 Fairfield Road about 10 p.m. Saturday, victims of an apparent robbery by a neighbor.

The suspect, Michael S. Melrose, 41, shot himself in front of Pickaway County Sheriff deputies in the back yard of the home as they arrived in response to a 911 call from the residence. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Dr. Michael Geron, assistant county coroner.

When deputies Tracy Andrews and Shad Wright and Sgt. Timothy Carpenter arrived on the scene within minutes of the 911 call, they spotted Melrose leaving the back of the residence with an armful of long guns he appeared to be stealing.

According to Sheriff Robert Radcliff, deputies ordered Melrose to drop the weapons, which he did before pulling a pistol from the back of his waistband and shooting himself.

"Butler was discovered in the front room of the home, bound and wounded but still alive, Radcliff said. He died in the Scioto Township ambulance en route to Mount Carmel West Medical Center in Columbus.

Anderson was discovered dead in a back bedroom of the home, also partially bound and a victim of gunshot wounds.

Investigators said Melrose knew the victims and had performed odd jobs for the couple in the past. He lived just a few houses away from the murder scene."

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Wow!

[whatsup]

''god' 'I heard the moaning of the old people' 'sad>>

[Vanessa12106]

Omfg.... The terror in her voice. It's soooo scary... People feel like 911 automatically makes you safe but it takes only a minute to be taken out... This website makes me realize how very fragile life is. Hug your loved ones today!!!!!

[Vanessa12106]

I was very curious about the details of this call. Did a little google research and found this.

Added the information to the original post -chris

[Azimuth]

Bastard.

[HarleyQuinn]

I couldn't imagine working dispatch and getting a call like that, how terrible...

[J-Money]

Google maps 5386 Fairfield Road Creepy.

[movie_magik9]

It's eerie how calm he sounds while talking to 911 even knowing he'll be dead in a few seconds.

[FunkPumpkin]

Originally Posted by HarleyQuinn ↗

I couldn't imagine working dispatch and getting a call like that, how terrible...

I worked 911 dispatch for a couple years. I worked several J4 calls (fatal/dead bodies), those weren't the worst. There were two calls that really messed with me.

The first was a woman who got carjacked and beaten while driving to the attacker-specified destination. The smart woman threw the car sideways into the middle of the road, grabbed the keys and ran. She called 911 as she was running away from that scene, covered in blood and frantic. I helped to calm her down enough to orient her to her location. (She wasn't from there, but I helped her help me find her.) We got sheriff deputies there ASAP and caught the asshole.

I then proceeded to help guide her back to my deputies (she'd covered almost a mile while escaping... very athletic woman!) She started to get down on herself for allowing it to happen. I myself, being a large man, got robbed at gunpoint in the Atlanta area. It bothered me, because I'm trained, but I walked into an ambush anyway. Just like my defense trainers told me after Atlanta, I told her that the fact that she survived, called in the cops, and got home safely. That means she did the right thing, given the circumstances. That helped me a lot and it helped her too.

The other call was a kid who got a punkin-head beating over a drug deal gone bad. That one bugged me because he sounded like my son. That one stuck in my head for weeks.

I had colleagues who worked worse, like a kid falling through an iced pond and the mother finding him under the ice... or a battered woman being head-shot while on the phone with 911... etc... etc.

And then there was the grandpa killer... saw that asshole every day because our dispatch center had windows into the jail-quad he was housed.

I was proud to be a 911 dispatcher while I did it, but I never want to do it again.