Blair Myhand is a police chief in Apex, North Carolina.

It's a suburb of Raleigh Durham, 42,000 people, upper middle class.

Myhand says that policing Apex is like policing Mayberry, the town from the Andy Griffiths

show.

Nine o'clock at night, people are in their houses with their families and they're going

to bed and sometimes we roll the sidewalks up at midnight.

It's a very low crime community.

I think we've had two homicides ever in this town.

On summer night, Apex 911 got an unusually disturbing call.

And a warning here, this episode contains graphic language and descriptions of violence.

You know, a person had claimed to have killed several people and was holding a woman hostage

in the house.

The caller gave the dispatcher his name and his address.

It was one of those ones that make you, you know, as a police officer think, you know,

this is serious.

You know, we went into action very quickly that night going into action meant deploying

the SWAT team.

Yes, the town of Apex has a SWAT team part time, but nonetheless about a dozen cops, semi-automatic

weapons, helmets, riot shields.

My hand was among them.

They drove to the house.

At the end of a call the sack, we have the house completely surrounded by police officers.

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