PORTLAND, Maine—A frantic 911 call to report at least one person had been fatally shot led law enforcement to discover four bodies at a home in Maine and eventually to arrest a man who fired at vehicles on a nearby highway before confessing to police that he was behind the killings.
According to heavily redacted transcripts from 30 emergency calls that the Maine Department of Public Safety provided to The Associated Press on Friday, the first sign of trouble on April 18 came with a call at 9:18 a.m. The dispatcher tells one of the voices on the phone not go back inside the property in rural Bowdoin, but to return to a vehicle and wait for police to arrive. Dispatch asks about a bullet hole in a vehicle and how many people live at the house.
