Operator: "Suffolk County Police. May I help you?"

Man: "Hah?" Operator: This is Suffolk County Police. May I help you?"

Man: "We have a shooting here. Uh, DeFeo."

Operator: "Sir, what is your name?" Man: "Joey Yeswit."

Operator: "Can you spell that?"

Man: "Yeah. Y-E-S W I T." Operator: "Y-E-S-W. .

Man: "Hah?"

Operator: "Y-E-S . .

Man: "Y-E-S-W-I-T."

Operator: ". . . W-I-T. Your phone number?"

Man: "I don't even know if it's here. There's, uh, I don't have a phone number here."

Operator: "Okay, where you calling from?"

Man: "It's in Amityville. Call up the Amityville Police, and it's right off, uh . . ."

Man: "Ocean Avenue in Amityville."

Operator: "Austin?"

Man:  "Ocean Avenue. What the ... ?"

Operator: "Ocean ... Avenue? Offa where?"

Man: "It's right off Merrick Road. Ocean Avenue."

Operator: "Merrick Poad. What's ... what's the problem, Sir?"

Man: "It's a shooting!"

Operator: "There's a shooting. Anybody hurt?"

Man: "Hah?"

Operator: "Anybody hurt?"

Man: "Yeah, it's uh, uh-everybody's dead."

Operator: "Whattaya mean, everybody's dead?"

Man: "I don't know what happened. Kid come running in the bar. He says everybody in the family was killed, and we came down here."

Operator: "Hold on a second, Sir." (Police Officer now takes over call)

Police Officer: "Hello."

Man: "Hello."

Police Officer: "What's your name?"

Man: "My name is Joe Yeswit."

Police Officer: "George Edwards?"

Man: "Joe Yeswit."

Police Officer: "How do you spell it?"

Man: "What? I just ... How many times do I have to tell you? Y-E-S-W-I-T."

Police Officer: "Where're you at?"

Man: "I'm on Ocean Avenue.

Police Officer: "What number?"

Man: "I don't have a number here. There's no number on the phone. "

Police Officer: "What number on the house?"

Man: "I don't even know that."

Police Officer: "Where're you at? Ocean Avenue and what?"

Man: "In Amityville. Call up the Amityville Police and have someone come down here. They know the family."

Police Officer: "Amityville."

Man: "Yeah. Amityville."

Police Officer: "Okay. Now, tell me what's wrong."

Man: "I don't know. Guy come running in the bar. Guy come running in the bar and said there-his mother and father are shot. We ran down to his house and everybody in the house is shot. I don't know how long, you know. So, uh . . ."

Police Officer: "Uh, what's the add ... what's the address of the house?"

Man: "Uh, hold on. Let me go look up the number. All right. Hold on."

Man: "Hello. Hello?"

Police Officer: "Yes."

Man: "One-twelve Ocean Avenue, Amityville."

Police Officer: "One-what?"

Man: "One-twelve Ocean Avenue, Amityville."

Police Officer: "Is that Amityville or North Amityville?"

Man: "Amityville. Right on ... south of Merrick Road."

Police Officer: "Is it right in the village limits?"

Man: "No, it's uh ... you know where the high school is?"

Police Officer: "Yeah."

Man: "It's in the village limits, yeah."

Police Officer: "Yeah. That's the village hmits, right?"

Man: "Yeah."

Police Officer: "Eh, okay, what's your phone number?"

Man: "I don't even have one. There's no number on the phone. "

Police Officer: "All right, where're you calhng from? Pubhc phone?"

Man: "No, I'm calling right from the house, because I don't see a number on the phone."

Police Officer: "You're at the house itself?"

Man: "Yeah."

Police Officer: "How many bodies are there?"

Man: "I think, uh, I don't know-uh, I think they said four."

Police Officer: "There's four?" (They hadn't found the girls, yet)

Man: "Yeah."

Police Officer: "Alright, you stay right there at the house, and I'll call the Amityville Village P.D., and they'll come down."

Man: "Okay."