Hospital worker helps nab murder suspect who staged killing as bear attack to steal victim’s identity: Cops

Nicholas Wayne Hamlett (Monroe County Sheriff

Nicholas Wayne Hamlett (Monroe County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee).

“I was running from a bear,” a 911 caller said, muffled, after an apparent fall at a waterfall. But authorities say he was actually a murderer staging a fatal fall. Yes, authorities found a body. It wasn’t him.

You can hear the audio below. In it, a 911 dispatcher from Polk County, Tennessee, transferred a call to her Monroe County counterpart on Oct. 18. Authorities have said that a hiker going by the name Brandon Andre claimed to have fallen off a cliff. In truth, investigators, say the caller was actually Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, 45.

The audio below shows pictures of Hamlett that deputies released during the search for him.

 

In this audio, the Polk County dispatcher told her counterpart, “He’s got two percent left on his cellphone. He fell off the cliff at some waterfalls. He fell on his head. He’s hurt pretty bad, said he can’t lift his legs.”

The Monroe County dispatcher ended up asking the caller (allegedly Hamlett) for more detail about his location.

“I’m at the waterfall,” he said in the audio.

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