THIS is the harrowing moment a daughter’s “visceral” screams were captured in a 999 call after her parents were poisoned to death.
Pregnant Ellie Baxter discovered mum Carol and Stephen dead in the conservatory at their home in Mersea Island, Essex.
PAStephen and Carol Baxter were murdered in their own home[/caption]
PALuke D’Wit poisoned the couple and re-wrote their will[/caption]
The millionaire couple had been poisoned with powerful opioid painkiller fentanyl by handyman Luke D’Wit, who re-wrote their will “in order to profit from their deaths”.
A new documentary on Discovery+, 999 Murderer Calling, has now explored the gruesome murder.
In a harrowing 999 call, Ellie can be heard screaming in a “visceral” way after finding her mum and dad slumped in the conservatory.
D’Wit then takes the phone off her and calmly begins speaking to police as she continues shouting in the background.
The killer even tells the operator: “So I need to come outside. It’s their daughter you can hear.
“She’s devastated.”
D’Wit then claims “I’m a friend” as he explains how both Carol and Stephen are “just both cold”.
The killer, who was described as “very calm and plausible”, told the operator he was the last person to see Carol and Stephen alive.
He later claims in bodycam footage how he “literally ran from home” to the couple’s house after learning they were dead and “smashed the back doors in”.
ITV journalist Hannah Pettifer tells the show: “I’ve heard that phone call now countless times and it doesn’t get any easier listening to it.
“It just goes through you, you know you, you sense her agony, her, her pain.
“It’s proper anguish, raw human emotion that you know it can’t leave you. You can’t not be affected.”
D’Wit wormed his way in with Stephen and Carol, who ran bath and shower mat firm Cazsplash, using a “web of deception and manipulation”.
He crafted 20 alter-egos to control the couple – including posing as a theatre producer called Jenny and a doctor from the States.
Chilling footage showed the killer, who claimed to be like an “adopted son” to the couple, leaving the home after killing Carol and Stephen.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how he had set up a camera using the iHeart home security app to watch the couple die.
Police were able to recover cached images, which showed Stephen, 61, and wife Carol, 64, slumped in their armchairs in a conservatory.
CCTV also showed D’Wit checking his phones as he went round to the couple’s home on the night they died.
The court was told this was to make sure they were “incapacitated” before he went inside to clear up cups that contained the drug.
Greedy D’Wit also wrote a new will to benefit from the pair’s cash and jewellery.
PAD’Wit could be seen leaving the couple’s home after poisoning them[/caption]
Daughter Ellie found her parents slumped in the conservatory
PAD’Wit told officers Carol would get confused by her medication to cover his tracks[/caption]
It included terms that “our dear friend Luke D’Wit is to be the person of significant control” for Cazsplash.
Their bodies were discovered in a conservatory on April 9 last year when daughter Ellie popped round.
In a harrowing victim impact statement read at D’Wit’s sentencing, she told how she found her parents “stiff, stone cold, blue and leaking from their mouths” in their home.
She said she never knew “emotional pain could physically hurt so much”.
Ellie also described stroking her mum’s hair and kissing both her parent’s heads after the tragic discovery,
She added: “It was like my insides were on fire. I screamed and screamed but nothing I done was helping.
“I pleaded for them to wake up. I begged them. But of course they could not wake. The next time I saw mum and dad they were in body bags.”
Although there was no obvious cause of death, tests revealed Stephen and Carol had been poisoned by a drug called fentanyl.
When he was arrested, D’Wit was found to have what was left of his grandfather’s fentanyl patches with some packets already opened.
PADaughter Ellie with her brother Harry[/caption]
PAThe faked will D’Wit wrote in his favour[/caption]
The court was told four empty patches from the same batch were found in the Baxter home.
Officers also discovered some of Carol’s jewellery, as well as her bank card and unopened letters addressed to her.
It was later revealed D’Wit had been controlling the trusting couple using his alter egos.
He had created a fake support group for people suffering from the same thyroid condition as Carol.
D’Wit also used false persona “Dr Andrea Bowen” to give harmful medical advice to the mum.
Police found he had been poisoning Carol for at least two years – giving her near-lethal doses of antihistamines and spiking pills with metal tacks.
D’Wit had tricked his way into the family’s life when he was hired to create a website for their business in 2013.
He played with their emotions by claiming he had bone marrow cancer, which was later found to be a lie.
The monster was jailed for life with a minimum of 37 years in March after being convicted of murder.
999 Murderer Calling, available to stream on discovery+
PACarol and Stephen were hoodwinked by D’Wit[/caption]
Essex PoliceAfter his arrest, officers found the killer had created alter egos to dupe the couple[/caption]
East Anglia News ServiceThe couple’s home in Mersea Island in Essex[/caption]