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‘No, Debbie!’: Chilling 911 call captures gasping & pleading as daughter slashes parents to death with knife inside their home: Police

‘No, Debbie!’: Chilling 911 call captures gasping & pleading as daughter slashes parents to death with knife inside their home: Police

by June 11, 2019 1,662 Shares Tweet

An Illinois woman is behind bars after police say she planned out, then killed her own parents inside their Arlington Heights home on Saturday.

ABC 7 reports that 43-year-old Deborah Jane Martin is accused of murdering her parents, 71-year-old Anne Martin and her husband, 72-year-old David Martin. The incident took place inside the elderly couple’s home off of South Derbyshire Lane.

According to court testimony on Monday afternoon, Anne called 911 at around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday. The woman was apparently gasping for air and pleading for her daughter to stop.

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“The 911 audio captures the defendant’s mother gasping for air and moaning. Within seconds of dispatch answering, sounds of movement are heard followed by the mother of the defendant gasping and pleading, ‘No Debbie,'” Lorna Amado-Chevlin with the Cook County State Attorney’s Office said.

Martin, who lived in the home with her parents, went to dinner with them Friday night, then abruptly left early and waited for them to arrive home. Later, as her father sat on a recliner, she allegedly approached him with a knife and slashed his throat. She stabbed mother at least seven times. Both victims made efforts to escape, police said.

By the time police arrived, both victims were dead.

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