THE CASE OF WELLINGTON DICKENS
Wellington Dickens, a North Carolina man, has lately confessed to killing 4 of his youngsters over a interval of a number of months.
In October 2025, Wellington made a 7 minute 911 name.
Operator
“Okay, sir, what’s your identify?”
Dickens
“Wellington Dickens.”
Operator
“And an excellent telephone quantity?”
Dickens
“What, ma’am?”
Operator
“A superb phone quantity, please?’”
Dickens
*censored*
Operator
“Okay, sir. What’s happening?”
Dickens
“I killed my youngsters. It’s quite a bit to clarify, however in a nutshell, it’s all my fault. I’m not even gone. It’s my fault. It’s unhealthy. I didn’t like, harm them, like on some like, after I say simply killed, like, I didn’t like, use knives or nothing to chop no person or shoot no person, after which I simply began out as me over disciplining, that’s it, and leaving them out to eat… (inaudible). Lots of stuff.”
Operator
“Okay, and sir, how did you do it?”
Dickens
“Beat on them. Generally they didn’t wish to eat. I didn’t drive them to eat. I instructed them that it was a punishment to not eat. I did a bunch of various little issues. Thought I used to be attempting to — it’s a whole lot of issues, and I’m attempting to simply do the best factor. As a result of…”
“I left one thing — I attempted to name a lawyer earlier, however I might have possibly known as much more attorneys. I simply didn’t need — I ought to have simply began calling all of them and simply attempting to, like, attempting to mainly flip — I used to be mainly attempting to show myself in with out it being additional. However like I mentioned, y’all wish to be wish to do additional? That’s why I didn’t know your procedures. And I’m not attempting to inform you what to not do.”
Dickens says he “by accident” brought on the primary dying (6-year-old Leah), who investigators believed was killed in Could by hitting her “excessively.”
Operator
“How outdated had been the kids?”
Dickens
“Properly, the oldest is my stepson, he’s 18. The opposite one is 10…then I’ve a 9-year-old daughter, and I acquired a 5-year-old daughter. I’ve a son right here now on my mattress. I’m not even gonna attempt to make it look…” (inaudible)
Operator
“Okay, sir, who’s with you now?”
Dickens
“Simply me and my son.”
Operator
“Okay, and do you’ve any weapons on you?”
Dickens
“No weapons on me. I shouldn’t have knives right here, however not on me. Like I mentioned, if you’d like me to, I’ll come outdoors in my underwear. I don’t know what ya’ll want me to be — I’m keen to do no matter you want me to do. I by no means had this in my life…” (inaudible).
Operator
“Have you ever been ingesting or doing any medicine?”
Dickens
“I did smoke and I had like a sip of champagne.”
Operator
“You mentioned your identify was Wellington, right?”
Dickens
“Sure, ma’am.”
Operator
“Okay. Now, what made you wish to do that?”
Dickens
“It was actually not it wasn’t as much as me, like I had God simply influenced me, like, that’s it. It wasn’t me as a result of I acquired nervous and I didn’t do it after I was presupposed to, and I used to be being a coward, and I simply was letting, attempting to let my youngsters — what I’m saying? When that was me, I used to be presupposed to make these choices, and it simply spiraled. It simply acquired worse and worse and worse, and I simply can’t take it no extra. I by no means did this earlier than. These things is loopy… I acquired my son.”
Operator
“Okay, sir, there’s a deputy outdoors.”
Dickens
“They outdoors proper now?”
Operator
“Sure, we’ve got a deputy outdoors…Okay, sir, go communicate with the deputy. I’m going to disconnect now.”
After deputies arrived on the house, they smelled an odor that was ‘apparent of decay.’ Sheriff’s Captain Don Pate mentioned the home was not properly stored and there was proof that somebody had tried to wash up against the law scene.
Wellington gave extra particulars in regards to the murders. He mentioned he killed Leah Dickens (5) in Could 2025. He mentioned he had disciplined her and later discovered her lifeless when he went to verify on her.
Zoe Dickens (9) was killed in August 2025. Wellington mentioned that Zoe started to make feedback about Leah’s dying so he taped her mouth shut. He mentioned when he subsequent went to verify on her, she was lifeless.
The following baby to die was Wellington Dickens Jr (10). Authorities consider he handed in August or early September and that he died from malnutrition.
The ultimate baby to die was Wellington’s stepson, Sean Brasfield (18). Sean was blind in a single eye and had cerebral palsy. It’s believed that Sean handed in September 2025. He additionally died from malnutrition.
Sean’s organic father spoke to The Information and Observer about discovering his son’s dying and mentioned “I used to be in complete shock. He was an incredible child.”
Sean’s mom Stephanie had divorced his father a few years in the past. “She was an excellent girl,” he mentioned. After Sean’s mom began relationship Wellington, the brand new household minimize off Sean’s father and different members of the family, not letting the daddy see or communicate with Sean, the daddy mentioned. They stopped searching for providers for Sean, mentioned the daddy, whose medical insurance had paid for Sean’s remedy. Wellington and Stephanie married in August 2015, based on members of the family’ social media posts.
Stephanie died on April 21, 2024. She was about three months pregnant and died from issues of a miscarriage. She had been bleeding the evening earlier than, however didn’t search medical care, the sheriff mentioned.
Stephanie’s obituary lists her youngsters:
Stephanie is survived by her husband, Wellington Delano Dickens, III, whom she married in August of 2015; her 5 stunning youngsters, Sean, Wellington (DJ), Zoe, Leah and Jonah; her mom, Angela Meashey and step-father Kenneth Meashey; father, Ernest Ray Jones; brother, Warren Bethea Jones; mother-in-law, Sheila Dickens; Grand mother-in-law, Carrie Williams; brothers-in-law, Jeremy Dickens and Isaiah Dickens and quite a few different loving members of the family and buddies.
Police found the stays of the kids in a bag within the trunk of a automobile that was parked within the house’s storage.
5 warrants had been issued which allowed deputies to go looking Wellington’s house at 101 Springtooth Drive.
They sought clothes, weapons, blood, human stays and different proof, the warrants state. Additionally they sought to go looking the yard, a neighboring property, two of Wellington’s social media accounts and his Amazon account historical past, the warrants state. A few of the objects deputies collected included an urn with Stephanie Dickens’ ashes, images, paperwork, and a automobile.
Wellington would additionally later inform deputies that he and Stephanie had a fifth baby that had died. Wellington mentioned he buried one-month-old Riley within the woods behind his home, wrapped in paper or plastic materials, the warrant states. Riley’s dying was by no means reported to medical or regulation enforcement officers, the warrants say. And members of the family mentioned they by no means noticed Riley after the child was born.
Police searched the yard of the house and a neighboring property, however didn’t discover the child’s stays.
Peggy Inserra’s yard butts up in opposition to the woods the place Wellington mentioned he buried the toddler.
“It’s horrible. It’s very unhappy and really upsetting and really distressing that the view from my home is wanting into woods the place he supposedly buried that baby,” she instructed ABC11. “Anyone could be any individual we don’t suppose they’re.”
She mentioned she acquired up lately and noticed cadaver canines within the woods.
“Yeah, that is smart as a result of it’s in all probability about two years in the past. So I imply, it’s not like he snapped at some point. That is one thing that progressively went on,” she mentioned.
Investigators famous a ‘hasty paint job’ within the house – they mentioned there was recent paint on the partitions and baseboards. Additionally they discovered a lately used curler and paint tray within the storage.
“With the knowledge that’s identified with how the kids had been killed, that is thought of to be uncommon,” one of many search warrants states, with out going into extra element.
Wellington positioned an order on Amazon on Sept. 3, for white “Zinnser Covers Up Stain Sealing Paint,” the warrants state.
Sheriff Captain Pate mentioned he believed the household was “very secluded” and that prolonged household weren’t allowed to go to the kids.
“They simply stayed inside,” based on Captain Pate. “The neighbors mentioned they by no means noticed them come outdoors, they usually had been homeschooled, so that they had been simply confined to the home.”
After the murders, extra details about Wellington’s prison historical past was launched. He had no arrests for violent offenses in his prison historical past. He had a 2015 misdemeanor baby abuse cost that was dismissed and a 2016 resisting a public officer cost.
He’s been charged 5 occasions with rushing and driving with a revoked license and was arrested or cited greater than a dozen occasions from 2014 to 2017, based on public data.
It was additionally revealed that when Zoe was born in 2016, docs had been satisfied she had jaundice. Wellington refused medical take care of the child because of ‘spiritual and non secular beliefs.’
After a failed try by Wake County Little one Welfare staff in 2016 to verify on Zoe on the Dickenses’ house, they returned with two Raleigh law enforcement officials. He didn’t permit them into the house. The altercation led to Wellington’s arrest on Oct. 31, 2016 on a cost of contempt, based on courtroom data. He was launched from jail after his spouse took Zoe to a county well being clinic, based on his criticism.
Wellington has been charged with 4 counts of homicide. He has been transferred out of Johnston County Jail to Central Jail in Raleigh for his security.
THE DEAN FIELD CASE
Dean Area allegedly killed his three youngsters August (7), Hugo (5), and Goldie Area (1) earlier than taking his personal life on Saturday November 15, 2025.
Dean and his spouse Chelsey operated a transport enterprise known as Aster Transport and Mechanical Providers. Dean arrange the corporate in 2018. In accordance with his on-line bio, he had expertise as a heavy diesel mechanic and had spent six years as workshop foreman at a “main truck workshop” in Palmerston North the place he oversaw a crew of ten mechanics.
Neighbors have spoken in regards to the household and mentioned that they might usually see the kids driving their bikes and scooters at their house in Sanson, New Zealand.
This can be a very small nation city – the inhabitants of the agricultural settlement of Sanson, New Zealand, was estimated to be 680 as of June 2025.
Neighbor Alan Parker mentioned “Issues appeared to be going properly for them. They spent a heap of cash renovating, he’s been portray for the final six months.”
“We noticed the children,” an area retailer proprietor mentioned. “The eldest boy got here in and he was so type. I might give him a lolly and he would ask for 2 for his brother and sister. It’s so very unhappy.”
At round 2.30pm on November 15, authorities had been known as to a home hearth in Sanson. A member of the general public had noticed flames coming from a house as they had been driving previous.
The witness mentioned he noticed two law enforcement officials with “huge weapons” operating in the direction of the home.
The law enforcement officials had been wearing black with masks on.
After the fireplace was extinguished, police found our bodies of two of the kids on Sunday November 16. It’s believed that Dean’s physique was additionally discovered round that point.
Manawatu space commander Inspector Ross Grantham mentioned household had been current to bless the 2 youngsters’s our bodies with karakia once they had been faraway from the scene on Sunday night.
He mentioned police had been finishing a “meticulous and “thorough” scene examination on the property.
“This tragedy has shocked not solely the area people, but additionally many individuals throughout the nation,” he mentioned.
“Our investigators stay decided to search out solutions to as many questions as we will.”
Information company ‘Stuff’ reported that it was believed police had been investigating whether or not the fireplace was intentionally lit. They’ve mentioned they’re not searching for anybody else in relation to it.
In accordance with that report, Dean and the mom of the kids, Chelsey, had been within the means of a separation.
Considered one of our Instagram followers is native to the city and we had been despatched this message:
“She instructed him she was leaving and taking the children. He despatched her into city and shot the children and himself as the home was burning down.
A fundraiser for Chelsey has raised over $300k.
We’re reaching out with heavy hearts to assist our cherished pal Chelsey, who’s enduring a devastating loss past measure.
Our pricey pal has suffered the sudden, insufferable lack of her three beloved youngsters, her angels: August, Hugo, and Goldie. They had been the sunshine and love of her life, and her whole world has been shattered.
Within the midst of this unimaginable grief, she additionally misplaced her house and all the things she owned. She is dealing with the toughest journey doable, stripped of her bodily safety whereas navigating the deepest emotional ache.
Giving the Reward of Solitude and Security-
We’re not sure of the entitlement to say insurance coverage right now.
We’re coming collectively to create a security internet for her. Our objective is to offer her with the house and safety wanted to grieve in solitude, with out the added stress of economic damage.
We can’t mend her damaged coronary heart, however we will wrap her in neighborhood assist. Please be a part of us in providing this reward of peace and sensible assist throughout her darkest time.
Dean’s household have spoken to the media about their shock. His brother Mark mentioned “From our viewpoint, till he was 36 years outdated he had been nothing however a loving father… he was only a damaged man.”
The mom of the kids, Chelsey, has launched a heartbreaking assertion:
August, Hugo and Goldie had been taken from me and all those that love them in probably the most horrible of circumstances, however I are not looking for their deaths to outline the essential, stunning lives that they lived.
My infants had been my absolute world. I’ve been a stay-at-home Mum since I had Hugo in 2020. Earlier than that, I used to be an early childhood instructor and August got here to work with me day-after-day, and I’m so glad I acquired this time with my darlings. I loved a lot high quality time with them; journeys to gymnastics, music teams, playgroups and play dates with buddies. We had a lot enjoyable collectively and lots of holidays away. I’ll without end cherish all these particular recollections.
Not solely did I lose my youngsters and my house that day, however I additionally misplaced our beloved miniature schnauzer, Marlo, who would have been six this Christmas. She was the kids’s finest pal, and one among Goldie’s first phrases was canine.
I additionally had a stillborn daughter, Iris, who would have been 9 this 12 months. I’ve misplaced her ashes, pictures and all her particular keepsakes. I do know my darlings shall be reunited with their huge sister.
This incident has left me heartbroken and devastated. My youngsters didn’t deserve this.
I wish to acknowledge the primary responders who responded to the incident and have helped me since. Their assist has been so appreciated.
Lastly, I wish to prolong my honest because of the various hundreds of individuals round New Zealand who’ve been so beneficiant throughout this tough time. I’ve felt the aroha of these round me, in my neighborhood and across the nation. This assist has given me the energy to hold on in honour of the brief lives my youngsters lived and the impressions they left on so many individuals’s hearts
August would have turned eight subsequent Thursday and was wanting ahead to his birthday celebration at Timezone with 5 of his finest buddies. He was such a contented, type and outgoing boy. He cherished sport, particularly soccer, he was a large Messi fan. I had been planning on taking him to a Wellington Phoenix sport quickly. He cherished going to the inventory automobiles, fishing on the seaside and taking part in along with his finest pal Levi. August was a incredible huge brother and he cherished his siblings, particularly his child sister. He preferred to get her off the bed within the morning, he would make her bottles and feed her. He cherished his brother Hugo they usually had been at all times glued on the hip, both wrestling or taking part in outdoors making huts, digging within the sandpit or taking part in on the trampoline.
Hugo was such a Mama’s boy. He was so type, considerate and thoughtful, he would at all times come and inform me “Mum I acquired Goldie’s nappy and wipes prepared for you, Mum I put your bag by the automobile for you”. He cherished dinosaurs and Scorching Wheels. He began faculty in the beginning of Time period 2 and was taking it in his stride. He had begun to learn so confidently, he was studying to depend so proudly and he cherished writing tales. Hugo cherished going to the seaside fishing additionally and driving his bike. He had simply loved his first pet day at college the place he took his lamb Nigel and he gained an award for care and a spotlight. He cherished his little sister Goldie too and was such a doting huge brother.
Goldie was my particular little woman I had waited so lengthy for. I’m so glad I by no means spent a day or evening away from her in her brief life. She had simply gotten her prime two tooth and was pulling herself as much as standing and trying to coast round furnishings. Her first phrases had been ‘Hello’ and ‘canine’, she even mentioned ‘Marlo’ the canine’s identify earlier than she mentioned Mum. She cherished going to music group each Tuesday, she loved the drums and dancing to music. She was the happiest little woman and such a cruisy child. She cherished to have huge snuggly cuddles and her brothers had been the most effective issues on the earth to her. She adopted them round the home entering into their Lego and toys. She cherished going into the boy’s faculty each morning and afternoon and she or he had a large fan membership with the youthful women there.
Manawatū Space Commander Inspector Ross Grantham has supplied the latest replace within the case.
“The scene examination on the property has been accomplished and this was handed again to household on Thursday morning,” he mentioned.
“Police’s investigation into the deadly incident is ongoing and it’ll take time for us to get solutions for the household,” he mentioned.
“We wish to acknowledge the neighborhood for his or her outpouring of assist for the household, as they arrive to phrases with this tragedy.
“I might additionally prefer to thank the various police workers who’ve labored tirelessly during the last week and proceed to work on this tough investigation.”
THE RYAN EAGON CASE
This case occurred in Tiffin, Ohio on November 19, 2025. Police launched this assertion:
**UPDATED PRESS RELEASE**
Murder–Suicide Investigation Replace (Huss Road)
November 20, 2025
On November 19, 2025, at roughly 6:24 PM, officers of the Tiffin Police Division had been dispatched to the 100 block of Huss Road for a report of pictures fired and screaming. Upon arrival, officers positioned a number of people affected by obvious gunshot wounds.
The investigation decided that the incident occurred throughout an effort by the mom of two youngsters to take away belongings from the residence following ongoing home points within the house. Preparations had been made with Dustin Willey (age 29), the daddy of her oldest baby, to help her in transferring out whereas her husband, Ryan Eagon (age 42), was believed to be figuring out of city.
Proof signifies that the mom and Dustin had been contained in the residence gathering remaining objects whereas the kids, ages 7 years and seven months, had been outdoors close to a automobile. After listening to the 7-year-old cry out, they went to verify on him and noticed Ryan Eagon within the driveway.
In accordance with witness statements and bodily proof, Ryan instantly chased Dustin, pushing previous the mom and firing a number of pictures. Ryan then turned the gun on the kids, fatally capturing each earlier than directing further gunfire at Dustin. Ryan Eagon subsequently took his personal life with a single gunshot wound.
The mom reported that she carried the injured youngsters again inside the house previous to regulation enforcement’s arrival. Legislation enforcement and Tiffin Fireplace and Rescue rendered help on the scene and transported Dustin Willey to Tiffin Mercy Hospital, the place he later succumbed to his accidents. The 7-month-old toddler and Ryan Eagon had been pronounced deceased on the residence, whereas the 7-year-old baby was transported to the hospital and later handed away from his accidents.
No officers discharged their firearms, and no regulation enforcement personnel had been injured.
The mom of the kids was current in the course of the incident and was the person who reported the emergency. In accordance with Marsy’s Legislation and its protections for crime victims, the Tiffin Police Division is not going to be releasing her identify or any further figuring out info. We ask all media retailers and members of the general public to respect her privateness throughout this unthinkably tough time.
This incident stays an lively investigation by the Tiffin Police Division with help from the Ohio Bureau of Felony Investigation, and the Seneca County Coroner’s Workplace. Autopsies are pending.
The Tiffin Police Division acknowledges the profound emotional influence this tragedy has had on the households concerned, first responders, medical workers, faculties, and the broader neighborhood. Assets for grief assist and counseling are being coordinated for anybody affected.
Additional updates shall be launched as applicable. Right now, no further figuring out info relating to the minor youngsters shall be supplied.
Chief David Pauly
SOURCE LIST
https://www.newsobserver.com/information/native/article312963095.html
https://www.newsobserver.com/information/native/crime/article312722669.html
https://www.hudsonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/stephanie-jones-dickens
https://www.newsobserver.com/information/native/crime/article312723432.html
