Killer of stay-at-home mom whose death led to 911 reform is executed
USA TODAY
Twenty-one-year-old Denise Amber Lee was abducted from her Florida home in broad daylight in 2008. If it weren't for a botched 911 call, she may have survived the ordeal.
Florida has executed a death row inmate for the rape and murder of a stay-at-home mom whose death exposed the vulnerabilities of the 911 system nationwide and led to reform within the industry.
Michael King, 54, was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, March 17, for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee. King abducted the married mother of two young sons from her home in broad daylight on Jan. 17, 2008, less than an hour before Lee's husband returned from work.
Lee may have survived the ordeal if not for the 911 dispatchers who failed her.
A driver who heard Lee screaming for her life and saw her struggling in the backseat of King's car called 911 and stayed on the line for nine minutes, giving dispatchers real-time updates on Lee's location as police swarmed the region looking for her. But through a series of mistakes and apparent incompetence, the dispatchers never got the information to police who were seconds away.
Within a few hours of the call, King took Lee to a wooded area, fatally shot her in the face and left her body in a shallow grave.
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