Daughter’s ‘visceral’ screams captured in haunting 999 call after evil fentanyl killer poisoned her millionaire parents
Police were able to recover cached images, which showed Stephen, 61, and wife Carol, 64, slumped in their armchairs in a conservatory.He later claims in bodycam footage how he “literally ran from home” to the couple’s house after learning they were dead and “smashed the back doors in”.


Greedy D’Wit also wrote a new will to benefit from the pair’s cash and jewellery.The court was told this was to make sure they were “incapacitated” before he went inside to clear up cups that contained the drug.She said she never knew “emotional pain could physically hurt so much”.The killer, who was described as “very calm and plausible”, told the operator he was the last person to see Carol and Stephen alive.
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He crafted 20 alter-egos to control the couple – including posing as a theatre producer called Jenny and a doctor from the States.”She’s devastated.”A new documentary on Discovery+, 999 Murderer Calling, looks at the gruesome murder.”It’s proper anguish, raw human emotion that you know it can’t leave you. You can’t not be affected.”
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THIS is the harrowing moment a daughter’s “visceral” screams were captured in a 999 call after her parents were poisoned.She added: “It was like my insides were on fire. I screamed and screamed but nothing I done was helping.
“It just goes through you, you sense her agony, her pain.Their bodies were discovered on April 9 last year when daughter Ellie popped round.Pregnant Ellie Baxter discovered mum Carol and dad Stephen dead in the conservatory of their home in Mersea Island, Essex.It included terms that “our dear friend Luke D’Wit is to be the person of significant control” for Cazsplash.D’Wit wormed his way in with Stephen and Carol, who ran bath and shower mat firm Cazsplash, using a “web of deception and manipulation”.The killer even tells the operator: “So I need to come outside. It’s their daughter you can hear.D’Wit had tricked his way into the family’s life when he was hired to create a website for their business in 2013.He had created a fake support group for people suffering from the same thyroid condition as Carol.Police found he had been poisoning Carol for at least two years – giving her near-lethal doses of antihistamines and spiking pills with metal tacks.The court was told four empty patches from the same batch were found in the Baxter home.D’Wit also used false persona “Dr Andrea Bowen” to give harmful medical advice to the mum.



Officers also discovered some of Carol’s jewellery, as well as her bank card and unopened letters addressed to her.Chilling footage showed the killer, who claimed to be like an “adopted son” to the couple, leaving the home after killing Carol and Stephen.In a harrowing 999 call, Ellie can be heard screaming in a “visceral” way after finding her mum and dad slumped in the conservatory.He played with their emotions by claiming he had bone marrow cancer, which was later found to be a lie.Chelmsford Crown Court heard how he had set up a camera using the iHeart home security app to watch the couple die.”I pleaded for them to wake up. I begged them. But of course they could not wake. The next time I saw mum and dad they were in body bags.”CCTV also showed D’Wit checking his phones as he went round to the couple’s home on the night they died.The monster was jailed for life with a minimum of 37 years in March after being convicted of murder.In a harrowing victim impact statement read at D’Wit’s sentencing, she told how she found her parents “stiff, stone cold, blue and leaking from their mouths”.


ITV journalist Hannah Pettifer tells the show: “I’ve heard that phone call now countless times and it doesn’t get any easier listening to it.Ellie also described stroking her mum’s hair and kissing both her parent’s heads after the tragic discovery.When he was arrested, D’Wit was found to have what was left of his grandfather’s fentanyl patches with some packets already opened.Although there was no obvious cause of death, tests revealed Stephen and Carol had been poisoned with fentanyl.The millionaire couple had been poisoned with powerful opioid painkiller fentanyl by handyman Luke D’Wit, who re-wrote their will “in order to profit from their deaths”.It was later revealed D’Wit had been controlling the trusting couple using his alter egos.D’Wit then takes the phone off her and calmly begins speaking to police as she continues shouting in the background.
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D’Wit then says “I’m a friend” as he explains how both Carol and Stephen are “just both cold”.
- 999 Murderer Calling, available to stream on discovery+


