Frantic 911 Call Tape Released in Georgia Trailer Park Murders

Aug. 31, 2009— -- Police on Monday released a tape of frantic callers telling a 911 dispatcher an entire family was beaten to death in a south Georgia mobile home.

"My whole family is dead," a man identified as Guy Heinze Jr., 22, moans into the phone. Barely coherent, he said he had arrived at the mobile home Saturday morning to find family members dead and bleeding. He adds, "my whole family is dead ... it looks like they've been beaten to death, but I don't know, man."

The chilling 911 tape cast some light on the murky details of Saturday's mass killing at the sleepy New Hope Plantation mobile home park.

Glynn County police and Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials have withheld the cause of death, any possible motive, and all but one of the names of those murdered.

Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said this afternoon that another body had been identified, but declined to name the victim. He added that the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service have joined what has become "a very large-scale search operation occurring as I speak to you."

Doering added that police are hunting at least one suspect, but answered most reporters' questions with a terse "I can't answer that," or "no comment."

Police first learned of the massacre when neighbor Margaret Orlinski made a 911 call Saturday morning, saying Heinze, who was "freaking out," apparently arrived home to that gruesome tableau. "He says everybody is dead."

In the recording, Orlinski coaxes Heinze to the phone. Whimpering, he relays that "my whole family is dead," and rushes back into the trailer.

Later he yells back that the ambulance "better hurry," because his cousin, Michael Toler, a 19 year-old man with Down syndrome, was alive, but "that his face is smashed in."

Neighbors, including the mobile home park's maintenance man, are overheard responding to the commotion.

After taking the phone from Heinze, neighbor Orlinski tells the dispatcher: "I know there's a little baby. ... Shoot, there's a little baby. I don't know if the baby was in there or not."

Doering has yet to divulge the ages of the victims, aside from Toler's, but confirmed "there were no infants among them," and has said they range from teenagers to people in their 40s.

The 911 dispatcher admonishes Heinze not to touch anything. Moments later Orlinski is overheard calling Heinze not to touch anything "doorknobs or anything other that what you already touched… he says they were beat to death."

911 Tapes Released in Ga. Trailer Park Killings

But Heinze returns to the mobile home anyway and apparently finds two survivors. One of them, his cousin Michael Toler, died Sunday.

Police later charged Heinze with drug possession and making false statements to police. He is accused of possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, tampering with evidence, and obstruction of an officer, which is related to making false statements to police.

"We have evidence he lied to us about the investigation and facts about it, and also he tampered with evidence from the crime scene," Doering said on Sunday. He said Heinze is not officially a suspect but police have not ruled him out as one.

"Be aware. Be alert. Don't think it's OK, because it ain't," Doering said. "There's an individual we would like to know about that's not at the scene."

Doering has announced a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.

Seven people were dead and two were critically injured when police arrived on the scene Saturday, but Toler's death brought the death toll to eight, police said.

The police chief said he is "confident" the killer will be caught in what local authorities are calling the worst mass slaying they have ever seen, but warned residents to be on the lookout.

"Everyone needs to be cautious," he said. "I would not rule out anything right now. I wish I could say differently."

Early Saturday, investigators found the nine victims near the center of the New Hope Plantation trailer park. But Sunday, Doering indicated that police know a bit more than they are saying.

"I am absolutely certain 100 percent what happened," Doering said. "Absolutely certain how it happened -- now the question is, who's responsible?"

He ruled out the killings as a murder-suicide, saying none of the victims were suspected of being involved in the murders.

Police searched the mobile home and the area around it for more clues today, and they also searched an area two miles around the trailer and another location 15 miles away, but Doering did not give any details.

Eight Dead at Georgia Trailer Park

On Saturday, Doering said the victims ranged from a young age to "a very old age." Autopsies were under way Sunday on the seven people found dead.

Jimmy Durben, a director at the Glynn County coroner's office, who was at the crime scene, told ABC News affiliate WJXX-TV in Jacksonville, Fla., that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab will determine the cause of death of the seven people, because it was not immediately apparent.

He described the crime as brutal and called it "the worst crime scene I have ever witnessed in my 17-year history in the coroner's office." "It's normally pretty quiet around here," a resident of the trailer park told WJXX-TV. "Everybody gets along ... it's a little disturbing."

Another resident of New Hope, Lisa Vizcaino, told The Associated Press that the mobile home park tends to be quiet. "New Hope isn't rundown or trashy at all," Vizcaino said. "It's the kind of place where you can actually leave your keys in the car and not worry about anything."

She said that once news of the slayings spread around the trailer park, everybody was "pretty much on lockdown."

"Everybody had pretty much stayed in their houses," Vizcaino said. "Normally you would see kids outside."

About 20 detectives have been assigned to the case and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is assisting in the probe, Doering said.

New Hope, the trailer park where the bodies were found, is a 1,100-acre tract in a town just north of Brunswick, a port city about 100 miles north of Jacksonville.