Victim Made Distress Call During the Rape & Murder Incident

More details are coming out concerning the case of a deranged man who committed rape and murder involving four young students:

POLICE came tragically close to saving an 18-year-old woman forced to her death off an Sydney apartment block balcony after they received a Triple-0 telephone call begging: “You need to help me.”

The distress call, made by one of four victims who were allegedly subjected to an hour-long rape ordeal, was received 25 minutes before the girl died.

But although police went straight to the units at Waterloo they were unable to locate the apartment the call came from.

A Redfern police crew arrived at the building at the corner of McEvoy and Hunter Sts five minutes after the call at 1.20pm on Sunday, October 26.

Triple-0 operators had traced the phone number to the block, but when the officers arrived they found hundreds of apartments and were unable to find the person who had made the call.

They reported they were unable to hear screaming and the dispatcher tried calling the number but reached an answering machine.

The officers left the block at 1.30pm. But just 10 minutes later Triple-0 received a flurry of calls alerting police and ambulance officers that the 18-year-old student had fallen 25m.  [The Daily Telegraph]

I don’t know what the 000 capabilities in Australia are but it seems like they would have the technology to trace the phone call to determine where it came from.