In one of the most infamous 911 calls, Debra Jeter calmly informed the dispatcher, “I just killed my children.” I just killed my children.”
When the dispatcher asked for her name, she briefly lost her composure despite being completely composed. Debra said that one of her children was still alive and that the other was “pleading to be saved.”
What Happened During Debra Jeter’s 911 Call?
Debra Jeter can be heard pleading for the operator to send an ambulance right away to the abandoned house in Hill County where she committed the attack with a knife that left her younger daughter dead and her elder daughter critically injured on a 911 dispatch audio that was made public on Wednesday.
Debra Jeter, 33, expressed her regret to her remaining daughter and her estranged husband before being transferred to a state prison unit on Tuesday in Hillsboro.
Debra Jeter had previously pleaded guilty to capital murder and attempted capital murder in connection with an assault that left one of her daughters dead and the other critically injured.
Jeter continued: “While I’m wandering the house, I notice that one of them is still alive. She is pleading for help, and I was unable to handle it.
Debra, a licensed nurse, requested an ambulance from the dispatcher rather than tending to her daughter. Kiersten, Debra’s oldest child, was told that “they’re coming.”
As she was defending her sister, Kiersten was stabbed in the back. Debra slit Kelsey’s neck, leaving her to die miserably in the bathtub of the abandoned home.
Debra went back to Kiersten and slashed her across the neck, cutting an important artery and her airway.
As she was defending her sister, Kiersten was stabbed in the back. Debra slit Kelsey’s neck, leaving her to die miserably in the bathtub of the abandoned home.
Debra went back to Kiersten and slashed her across the neck, cutting an important artery and her airway. (Wacotrib, source)
Jeter was transferred to a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison facility in Gatesville on Thursday after receiving a life without parole sentence on Tuesday in exchange for accepting a plea deal that spared her the possibility of the death penalty and spared her surviving daughter the trauma of having to testify.
Kiersten was shielded from testifying in court by the plea agreement because she might get a death sentence.
Sources claim that Debra Jeter began by stabbing Kiersten. Kiersten urged her sister to go while she fought with her mother.
Even with her awful wounds, she was conscious and pleaded with her mother for assistance. Debra Jeter reported the incident to the police three hours after picking up her children, claiming, “I just murdered my kids.”
Despite the fact that Debra Jeter, a nursing student, needed care herself, she neglected to look after her daughter.
Debra Jeter, on the other hand, walked around the empty house and begged the ambulance to come right away, stating that her daughter, who had survived, was “pleading to be saved, and she couldn’t stomach it.”
She went on to say that she was unarmed and that she didn’t want the police to shoot her.
Debra justified her heinous actions by claiming that she was “heartbroken” by the divorce and custody battle.
Lester Lee Jeter, Debra’s ex-husband, said she “believed that if she felt that way, we must all feel that way, and she wanted to end all of our miseries.”
Debra Jeter entered into a plea deal on May 27, 2010, and she pleaded guilty to capital murder and attempted capital murder. After that, she received a life sentence with no chance of parole.
Is Survivor Daughter Kiersten Jeter Still In Hillsboro, Texas?
Kiersten Jeter has shied away from speaking to the media ever since the incident in her childhood. She recalls the horrifying specifics of the tragedy that took place 12 years ago with great clarity.
She is currently between the ages of 24 and 25.
After being discovered in the bedroom of the Debra-Jeter abandoned home, Kiersten was transported to the hospital for an urgent operation.
Debra rationalized her heinous behavior by claiming that she was “heartbroken” by her divorce and custody battle for her children.
Debra Jeter’s husband and other family members
Lester Lee Jeter was the name of her husband. Lester filed for divorce from his wife Debra in May 2009 for an undisclosed cause.
Debra Jeter’s daughters Kelsey, 12, and Kiersten, 13, were 12 and 13 at the time of the murder. She and her husband’s mental health were deteriorating as a result of their marital issues.
Criminal conduct was the root of this. Debra kills her own daughter while the other daughter lives.
She attempted suicide on May 21, 2009, the day after Mother’s Day, while she was at home with her two young daughters. Unable to bear the thought of losing both her husband and her children, she tried to take her own life.
When Lee saw Debra struggle for the first time, he became concerned enough to ask for a restraining order against her out of concern for the well-being of their kids.
Less than a day after Debra attempted suicide and less than three weeks after the restraining order was lifted, the courts approved Debra’s unsupervised visitation.
