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Serial Rapist Tommy Lee Sailor Caught in the Midst of a Chilling 911 Call
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 12:38 pm
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Operator Ve'Etta Bess kept quiet, knowing something was wrong, but not wanting to let the assailant know she was listening in. She could hear a woman pleading with a man.
"Oh, my God. ... Let me go home. Let me go home. Please, God, let me go home."
The woman had met Sailor earlier in the night at Tillie's bar, where they partied all night before ending up at his house. Sailor had previous convictions for robbery, assault on a cop, and sexual battery -- though it's doubtful the woman knew any of this.
"I think you're going to hurt me," the woman cried in a 911 tape obtained by the St. Petersburg Times, which has an excellent story on the incident. "I just want to go home to my baby girl."
Bess tried to locate the call using software that narrows in on a signal. It doesn't always work. Sometimes it's so accurate it can pin-point the call to a specific block. Sometimes it can't do any better than large swath of city.
But this time she was in luck. The signal came from the home of Sailor, who'd managed to break his ankle bracelet to go partying that night.
Bess listened as cops sped toward the house. "I'm a serial rapist," she could hear Sailor tell the woman. "I'm a serial killer. I don't care about going back to prison."
"I just want to go home," the woman told him.
"After I do what I gotta do."
"What do you have to do? What!?"
"I gotta have sex with you."
"No, you don't have to do that. You don't even know me."
At some point Sailor discovered the phone on the floor, noticing that his victim had called 911. He spoke into the phone, asking if he was on the line to 911, but Bess didn't respond. Then Sailor told the woman that he'd kill her."Well, maybe they're going to kill you," she responded.
Moments later, Bess heard police busting into the home. Sailor managed to escape out a window, but he was later arrested. He's now charged with false imprisonment and sexual battery with a deadly weapon for using a screwdriver to threaten the woman.
Tags: Florida
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