Dispatcher testifies about 911 call

The young mother died of multiple stab wounds.
By D.A. WILKINSON
VINDICATOR SALEM BUREAU
LISBON -- A dispatcher said she heard a voice on the phone the day Emily Foreman died.
"Just help me," the female voice said.
A male caller in Liverpool Township had called 911, which was answered by Marilyn Wickline at the Columbiana County Sheriff's Office.
Wickline testified Tuesday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court that a man called at 3:57 p.m. Aug. 23, 2006.
The man said he needed an ambulance, and then the call was disconnected.
County Prosecutor Robert Herron asked Wickline about the tone of the woman's voice.
"It sounded more like a plea," Wickline said.
The woman's voice wasn't picked up on the recording system at the county jail.
"Perhaps it was not loud enough to be heard on the recording," she said.
But authorities believe Foreman, 21, was stabbed to death at 916 Anderson Blvd., in Liverpool Township that day. The victim's mother owned the house.
Andrew G. Irwin, 25, of East Liverpool, is on trial on a charge of murder.
Multiple stab wounds
Court records state that Foreman was stabbed multiple times in the head, neck, body, arms and legs. She died from stab wounds that punctured her lungs.
Her 3-year-old daughter was not at home at the time. Police have said Irwin and Foreman were acquaintances, and Irwin was not the father of Foreman's child.
Joan Cooper, Foreman's aunt, testified she had driven past the house on Anderson Boulevard shortly before 4 p.m. the day of the slaying. She said she saw a tall white man whom she did not know.
Police Chief Charles Burgess of Liverpool Township went to the house, and then took Irwin to the East Liverpool City Jail. Irwin declined to make a statement and he asked for a lawyer.
But Irwin told authorities that his mother had thrown him out of her house in East Liverpool. Irwin said he had been staying with friends or camping out.
Police have said the slaying may have been tied to drugs.
Court records said that while Irwin was being photographed by police, he showed Burgess track marks on his left arm and said, "That's where I shoot up heroin."
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