Murderer Calls 911
Alexanderia Trebelcock
Colorado Technical University

Author Note
This paper was prepared for CJUS448, Criminal Investigation, taught by Jeffrey Beck.

Murder, Manslaughter, and Homicide
Murder is defined, by Merriam-Webster, is the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought, and generally it’s premeditated. Murder usually happens between people who know each other, most often it is family or people who are intimate. Manslaughter is the unlawful killing without malice or intent. Homicides are considered accidental killings. There are times when murderers feel the need, or just simply because they want to, to call in the crime to the police.
Zackery Mailloux
Zackery Mailloux, a 21-year old man, lived in Bangor, Maine. He lived in an apartment with his girlfriend, Brooke Locke. On November 18, 2013 he called 911 told the dispatcher that he had “lost it and strangled my ex-girlfriend.” The dispatcher asked Mailloux what happened.
“Mailloux responded, “Ah… pretty much lost it, I guess you could say and I strangled her.” “Are you sure she’s dead?” the dispatcher asks. “I am positive,” Mailloux says during the call, which came into the Bangor Emergency Dispatch Center at 2:57 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, according to the transcript.” He was arrested shortly after the call and charged with murder in the death of Brooke Locke. He was indicted by the Penobscot County grand jury on November 27, and he was charged with kidnapping, gross sexual assault, and intentional or knowing murder. Mailloux called 911 from his cellphone. He admitted to the dispatcher that he used a necktie to strangle her. He also said that the reason he killed her was because she was unfaithful and that she was seeing other people. He was suspicious for a while, “Everything has led up to it and I found out through her phone and … her finally