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Originally Posted by RiverRat
If I recall correctly......and I do........there was NO leak of information regarding the 991 call until it was handed over to Alex Hunter's office - and it was for that very reason why the BPD did not want to reveal the info to the DA.
And - I hate to even go there - but I heard it too. And it was not a reenactment. It was pure Patsy and the same conversation and tone of voice that is on the 911 version we have. This was before I hit the forums so 98-99 would be the time frame.
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What I heard on Geraldo was ONLY the enhanced 911 portion of the tape. He didn't play the entire call. When Wood got the original 911 call aired years later, I was shocked because it had been a long time, but I could NOT remember Patsy's breathless voice, or the operator's. I was about to post that I must have been wrong all those years...until ol' gutter candy posted at CS the portion of the Bonita Papers that Spade sent her, with the whole enhanced tape saga. That's when I realized that in fact, what I had heard WAS REAL and IT WAS NOT THE WHOLE TAPE, with Patsy panting and the dispatcher questioning her, but only the enhanced part, which would have dropped out Patsy and the dispatcher's voices to turn up the volume on the background ones. So my memory was true to the separate, enhanced tape played on Geraldo.
You see, it was so long ago, and when I heard the enhanced tape on the show, I really didn't think that much about it. As I've said many times, I wasn't online, I was just a true crime reader and interested in the JB case, like everyone else, wondering when they'd solve it and arrest the killer. Not one person in my world was remotely interested in this topic, so I never talked to anyone about it. Nada. So I think it must have been that one afternoon that I heard the commercials for Geraldo's show, saying he was going to play the tape as an exclusive. I watched Geraldo for the OJ trial. I watched him for the Clinton scandal. I watched him every night for the segments I was interested in. So that night, they played the enhanced tape first, I believe I remember. The whole segment lasted maybe 10 minutes. The "translation" was put up on the bottom of the screen as the tape was played a few times. Geraldo said he couldn't tell what they were saying, and his guests were rather bland and agreed. I also agreed. There were two voices I could hear, but what they said I could get the rhythm and tone, hear the change in inflection, pitch, etc., but not the words. So they ended that segment and went on to something else and I wasn't interested and turned it.
Now, 911 calls are released all the time on TV. It was interesting because of the questions about the crime and the enhanced tape. But honestly, I really had no idea how precious that airing was. Never once did it occur to me that I had heard something unique that would vanish and become so disputed, not to mention, get insulted for stating I heard it.
But it was so blah that I just didn't give it another thought at the time. I probably expected the whole original 911 tape to be played soon, because that's what happens all the time. LE releases them. No big deal. But no, I don't remember being surprised it wasn't played again on other shows, or that the original 911 call didn't come out quickely, because I truly didn't even think about this case everyday back then. It was just something I followed when I heard about it on TV or read articles about it in major mags like Newsweek and Vanity Fair, which I had a subscription to both. In those days, I was even above BUYING tabs. My dad got the NE by subscription, so sometimes when I went to visit him, I'd read anything on the case in them, but I was truly a hypocrite about it and felt very guilty for reading such "garbage." Thought Dad was a bit gullible for reading that trash mag. hahaha Before he died, I ended up hauling his old mags back to my house to read whatever I could find on the case. Oh, he'd have a laugh at me now, wouldn't he?
