Peter Chadwick’s 911 Call
48 Hours profiled the story of Peter and Q.C. Chadwick this past weekend. Peter claims he was taken hostage after a man killed his wife in their home.
In the 911 call, we hear Peter. “My wife’s dead,” he says in the most flat inflection possible.
His wife of 21-years is dead and that is his emotional state? A red flag.
I love how he is clearly thinking when you hear him say, “They took her. They took her.” It’s his thinking that causes me pause here. Less than 20 seconds in this man has two major red flags.
When the 911 operator asks him, “Who took her?” notice the long pause? Flag three. He has to think again! Then he says, “The guy who broke into my house.”
Okay, at this moment for me, this case is no longer a mystery (frown face).
Peter’s 911 call is an epic fail to start off with and only gets worse. He clearly is making up the story as he talks.
“Yeah. We…we…we’ve been driving….ah, in Newport Beach,” says Peter.
“He” ….”I”…..Peter stutters to say something coherent.
“Who is he?” asks the 911 operator. Peter replies finally with a name, “Juan”.
He continues with an absolutely ridiculous story about how he picked up Juan to look at some painting work at the house.
Wait a minute?
That’s HUGE. We have two stories now!
Notice how he can’t say the word “killed” at first either? It takes him time. Often times killers have a hard time saying what they have done.
“They have her body. They say they are going to cut her up,” says Peter.
But they leave you behind to talk about it? Really, Peter?
When asked how he knows she is dead, Peter replies, “She drowned. She drowned.”
But she was “killed” — which is it, Peter? Odd description from a man whose wife was murdered, isn’t it?
Then he throws in that “her body was stiff even.”
The 911 supervisor asks, “Are you on any medication, sir?” to which Peter replies, “not a heavy one.” It’s clear the 911 operator sees the story is absurd to the core!
He even says Juan made him carry out the body — quick thinking. If they find his DNA on her, he explained it!
But Peter slips huge! If you watched 48 Hours, did you catch it?
Lt. Bryan Moore: At some point Peter and Juan separated, Juan continued upstairs, and Peter went down to his office … Peter said within seconds, he heard his wife Q.C. screaming.
Sgt. Ryan Peters: He hears Q.C. scream “Peter, Peter…” and as he runs upstairs he sees Juan strangling Q.C., who’s in the bath, in their master bedroom and he’s drowning her.
What flagged me here that was huge was if you brought Juan to your house to look at a painting project, would you just leave him alone in your house to wander? I would say it’s unlikely.
Furthermore, if Juan went upstairs and Peter heard his wife scream, then how come he talks about her “stiff body”??
The stiff body was a huge eye-opener for me at that moment. People don’t get stiff right away, but Peter DOES have a real memory of her being stiff. That gave me great pause. That statement is the TRUTH.
After Juan killed her, supposedly, Peter was tasked with carrying her body out, and it was quickly, so it should NOT have been stiff.
Peter Chadwick jumped his $1M bail and is one the U.S. Marshal’s most 15 wanted! Do you recognize him?
I hope they apprehend him soon. He needs to be held accountable!