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A Johnston County man told a 911 operator Monday night that he killed three of his children and a teenage stepson and stored their bodies in the trunk of his car, according to a recording of a 911 call released by the county.
Monday night, Wellington Delano Dickens III, 38, called 911 and allegedly confessed to killing his four children, according to the sheriff’s office. He’s now charged with four counts of murder, court records show. The children killed were ages 6, 9, 10 and 18, according to authorities.
The 911 call lays out gruesome details of how Dickens said he killed the children. The kids were killed one by one over a period of about four months from May to September, authorities said at the press conference Wednesday.
The call begins with a man, identified by officials as Dickens, saying he has a confession. He tells the operator that he murdered some of his children and says he killed one child by accident after hitting her “excessively,” according to recordings release by the county.
He goes on to say that he was on drugs when these killings happened.
“There’s three of them and my stepson. It was my fault,” the man said on the call. “They are in the trunk of my car. In the garage to be specific. I was just out of my mind. Nobody made me do nothing, it was just me. I lost my mind. I was on the drugs, smoking, drinking … everything. I was on mushrooms and stuff. I did coke.”
“I killed my children. It’s a lot to explain, but in a nutshell it’s all my fault,” he said. “It’s bad. I didn’t like to use knives. It started out with me over-disciplining and leaving them out to eat, it’s a lot of stuff,” he said in the recording.
“I’d beat them sometimes. They didn’t want to eat sometimes… I didn’t force them to eat. I did a bunch of little things, just a lot of things. I’m trying to do the right thing,” Dickens said on the call.
When asked if he took any drugs he says he did smoke and have a “sip of champagne.”
The dispatcher asks him why he did this and he states: “It wasn’t up to me,” he said. “God just informed me, it wasn’t me. I got nervous and I didn’t do it when I was supposed to. I was a coward. I was trying to let my children, it was supposed to be me to take those decisions, and it just spiraled.”
It isn’t clear on the call whether he is referring to killing the children or confessing to it.
The sheriff said Dickens’ wife, and the mother of the children, died last year after complications from a miscarriage.
Dickens is being held without bond and has a court appearance scheduled for next month.
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Elizabeth Townsend
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