James Henslee 911 call

Police released James Henslee’s 911 call. In the call, James tells police that he called home on his break and continued calling for 40 minutes before he left to go home to find out if his wife was okay because she didn’t answer.

Read moreI find this tidbit interesting. How many people have called home to a loved one who didn’t answer? Do you often panic and leave work within 40 minutes? Most people will typically wait a couple of hours or call neighbors. I find James time period of concern quite short.

There had to be other days where she was doing something where she couldn’t hear the phone ring and didn’t answer. One plausible scenario is that she went to get the dog off the chain and started talking to a neighbor. That could easily happen, couldn’t it? Why did he rush home this day?

In this interview with WNDU, James says, ““My first initial thought, someone she knows must have stopped by and she must have gone to town or something real quick and she figured she’d be back because she knows I’m home by lunch.”  

He doesn’t think about that until after he comes home? Obviously, from that statement, he believed Amy left the house at times when he was at work, so why the concern so instant on this day?  Why couldn’t he wait until lunch time? 

In the 911 call, I am surprised James doesn’t stress to the dispatcher that Amy has been missing for 6 and a half hours when he calls. This is notable. Most people would say, hey look, I’ve looked everywhere. I’ve called all of her friends, I’ve driven to town. I’ve waited 6 hours! Something is wrong. Instead when the dispatcher says call her friends, the first time he says, “Alright…” The second time he tells dispatchers that Amy doesn’t associate with many people.  There are two oddities here.

First, James doesn’t tell the dispatcher that he drove down to town to look for Amy.  Why?  This is notable. In his WNDU interview, he said, “I took a cruise up town and still nothing and that’s when I came back and she still wasn’t here and I was starting to get a little worried.” 

Second, James says his wife didn’t “associate with many people” to the dispatcher in the 911 call, yet in this interview he told us how outgoing and well liked Amy was.   He said, “Everybody loved me and my wife.”

You can’t have it both ways…

Listen to how James inflects his voice when he says, “I don’t know if she left with somebody….”   I find his inflection odd…It’s a hot spot for me.

When the dispatcher says, “Does she have a cell phone you can try calling her on?” James says “No”.  Why doesn’t he say to the police, and oh yeah, she left her purse?  Did he not know it at this point, or did he discover that right away?  I’d be curious to ask family if they knew at that point because that is critical information for the police. If she doesn’t have her purse, she likely won’t have much money to go or do anything, which if James is worried about her, I think he’d want to share this, if he knew at this point.

Essentially, he should be saying, “Don’t tell me to go look for her — I already did!”  But we don’t hear this from James, ironically.

In this video, James just said something that really flags me.  His wife has been missing for three days. The reporter asks James why he wants to take a polygraph and he says, “To rule me out and to get the person…or to find out whatever happened to the wife and the mother of my kids.”

To get “the person”?  How did he know that a person was involved?  How come that was his first conclusion when he knew she left the house, locked the door and took her coat–which all seems voluntary.

Right now, there are many red flags in James’ behavior that need further investigation in my eyes… He is not being forthright with people, but what he is hiding, it could be a multitude of things.