HEAR IT: 911 Operator Berates Drowining Woman

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Debbie Stevens is delivering morning newspapers when her S.U.V. is swept away by floodwaters. She calls 911 but the operator tells her, "This will teach you next time, don’t drive in the water." Emergency personnel arrive over half an hour later. Stevens drown. Joining Nancy Grace to discuss the callous treatment during an emergency situation is Defense Attorney Jason Oshins, Former FBI Special Agent Jeff Cortese, Medical Examiner Dr. Tim Gallagher, and Psychologist Dr Robi Ludwig.

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0:00.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:01.7	I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:04.8	The first time I've ever made a death notification on you after that moment
0:08.6	that I was going to try to be as compassionate as I possibly could.
0:12.0	Because when families are rocked by death,
0:14.9	the only thing they really want are answers.
0:18.1	They ask how, where, it was my job as a death investigator to bring those answers.
0:26.7	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.1	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:43.1	As Deborah Stevens SUV filled with water,
0:46.2	she made a frantic call to 911.
0:48.8	I'm not gonna die. It's all over after my windows. I'm gonna die.
0:53.6	But her desperation didn't seem to make any difference to the dispatcher on the other end of the call.
1:06.2	The Fort Smith Arkansas woman was delivering newspapers.
1:09.8	When she told dispatcher Donna Renault,
1:12.1	she was swept away in flash flood waters. She couldn't swim.
1:23.7	Good thing you've made your mom's daughter.
1:27.0	I don't see how you didn't see it. You had to go right over it.
1:30.7	What an evil woman.
1:33.1	Did you hear the woman?
1:36.0	Hope, by the way, drowned in her car.
1:39.3	And as she's drowning in the water, it's filling up her SUV.
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