By Matt DeFour
Wisconsin State Journal
DANE COUNTY, Wis. — The 911 operator who answered the call from Brittany Zimmermann’s cell phone told her supervisor she heard background noise and voices, but the “scream” on the audio recording “didn’t register as a scream.”
The details, revealed Thursday in a 911 center report that has been released in pieces since May, are the first acknowledgement by the county that a scream could be heard on the Zimmermann 911 call that came in at about the time she was being killed in her West Doty Street apartment on April 2.
The existence of sounds of a scream and a background struggle were first revealed to the public in a search warrant the Wisconsin State Journal obtained last week after law enforcement officials unintentionally allowed a seal to expire.
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