SocMunky
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http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/dec/07/st-pete-tot-heard-begging-dying-mothers-life/
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/dec/07/st-pete-tot-heard-begging-dying-mothers-life/
ST. PETERSBURG - "Please, Daddy. Please."
Those words, spoken by a 2-year-old girl as her father stabbed her mother to death, were captured verbatim Sept. 3 through a string of coincidences involving her parents' cell phone voice mail, St. Petersburg police say.
Caught on the four-minute, 32-second tape are the final moments of 31-year-old Mariama Williams' life.
She and the girl's father, Ronnie Williams, 42, had been having problems; Ronnie Williams often spent nights at relatives' homes, said Sgt. Mike Kovacsev, head of the homicide squad.
On Sept. 3, just after midnight, Williams returned in a rage to the family home at 3921 Ninth Ave. S., Kovacsev said.
He was being recorded as he approached the front door.
Williams was threatening his wife over his cell phone before she could answer her cell phone inside, so her phone went into voice mail mode, Kovascev said. Williams apparently didn't turn his phone off during the confrontation that ensued.
Williams, a machine shop worker, suspected his wife of cheating on him and spending too much money, Kovacsev said. He had monitored her telephone calls on the Internet and found she repeatedly called another man, the sergeant said.
"I got a trick for you," a man is heard saying on the tape before Williams' wife starts screaming. "I'm trying to work with you, and you do me like that? Now I'm gonna kill your black ***."
Sounds and words often are indecipherable as the confrontation moves through the house.
The initial threats are followed by screams, those of Mariama Williams entreating the attacker to stop, with pleas of "No, No, No," and the sound of a kitchen knife repeatedly slashing flesh. Then comes the voice of Macayla Williams begging. "Please, Daddy. Please."
"I'm dying," Mariama Williams cries. Then: "I love you."
Finally, the cell phone voice mail function offers the caller the option of replaying the message.
An autopsy showed she had been stabbed 27 times.
The knife was left in Mariama Williams' chest. Tampa police arrested Ronnie Williams within a few hours, after he crossed the Hillsborough-Pinellas county line, blood still splattered on his legs and shorts, Kovacsev said.
After he was taken to the St. Petersburg Police Department, Williams asked to speak with Kovacsev because Kovacsev had worked a homicide case involving a cousin of Williams, the sergeant said.
He told Kovacsev he stabbed his wife, the sergeant said, but intimated it was in the heat of passion. He was charged with second-degree murder.
A few days later, Mariama Williams' sister was retrieving her sister's cell phone messages. The eighth message she heard was the audiotape of the slaying, Kovacsev said. The sister gave investigators the tape.
Because of the tape and the autopsy results, the charge against Ronnie Williams was changed to first-degree murder, Kovacsev said.
Kovacsev said the new evidence called into question whether the crime arose from spontaneous emotion, a common element in second-degree murder.
