A Central Florida woman is dead after calling 911 repeatedly for help that never arrived.
Her estranged husband is behind bars, and now the community is asking for answers.
Just a few hours before Sarah Rucker's body was found outside the Miami Subs restaurant on State Road 434 in Longwood Monday morning, investigators say she and Dwayne White, Sr., fought outside her Deltona home.
Her first call to 911 came at 1:56AM, where she is heard screaming, then the phone hangs up.
Right away, another 911 hangup call from the same cell phone. Dispatchers call the number back but get no answer. Minutes later, Rucker calls 911 again, this time from another phone and stays on the line with the dispatcher for nearly 15 minutes, repeatedly asking for help.
"I've been talking to you for how long?," she asks. "They're on the way, ma'am," the dispatcher says. During the call, Rucker describes her estranged husband as irrational, jealous and crazy.
She becomes frustrated that deputies haven't gotten to her yet.
"I could be dead right now and you wouldn't even care and they wouldn't even know. He's had enough time to come push my a** down and hit me and I was still on the damn phone with the police."
Sadly, her words rang true. Soon she was dead, murdered after leaving her home.
"Obviously the time frame is unusual that this happened so closely after contacting 911 for help. We still don't know yet and we're trying to determine what possibly could have led her out and out in such a way that she could have made contact or allow herself to be engaged by him," said Lt. James Clark with the Seminole County Sheriff's Office.
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