ZEBULON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Johnston County authorities on Wednesday released the 911 call that Wellington Dickens III made on Monday night. In the call, Dickens tells the Telecommunicator that he he killed his four children.

At one point during the call, Dickens says God influenced him to do it. The children are believed to have been killed over a four-month period between May to September , according to Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell.

When deputies went to the home, they discovered several bodies in the trunk of a vehicle inside the garage of the Zebulon home. Dickens also told deputies that his three-year-old son was alive inside the house.

Who were the children?

Leah Dickens, 6 was killed in May 2025

Zoe Dickens, 9, was killed August 2025

Wellington Dickens, 10, was ki

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