The 911 calls made seconds prior to the death of Trayvon Martin are some of they key pieces of evidence in the case.
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In the last 45 seconds of the frantic 911 call by an unidentified resident, there is a faint voice and a distant yell from the caller’s end of the line before she reports “there’s just someone screaming outside.”
Seconds later the shot that ends Trayvon’s life is heard and all screaming ends.
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Much debate has surrounded who exactly was the voice screaming on the tapes, some parties saying Zimmerman and others citing it as Trayvon.
Legal experts say the recording could be enormously important or disastrous for either side, depending on what a jury determines it can hear.
Two analysis worked on the 911 call in attempt to identify voices, and both came to very different conclusions.
First Conclusion:
One of those experts is Alan R. Reich, and his answer is that he is certain he can hear a young man he concludes is Martin pleading for his life, from the start of the 45-second recording until the end.
“I’m begging you,” he hears the younger of the two men yell as the recording begins.
Twenty-six seconds later: “Help me.”
In the last second before the gunshot: a high-pitched “Stop!”
Second Conclusion:
Another way to consider the 45-second recording is the way James J. Ryan considers it.
Ryan is the retired head of the FBI forensic audio, video and image analysis unit. He said even the best audio forensic expert in the world using the most sophisticated equipment available would have a difficult time determining much at all from a recording of such degraded quality.
“I think it’s hard to scientifically say anything definitive with audio like this,” Ryan said. “. . .One person will come up with one scenario, one speech, one sentence, and some other well-meaning person, trying hard, unbiased in a controlled environment with headphones, will come up with another one.”
Check out the very informative article over at Washington Post to listen to enhanced versions of the 911 calls.
