911 call for Marino: 'I don't think he's OK'
The Dane County 911 Center on Friday released the recording of the phone call it received Jan. 28 following the stabbing and eventual death of Joel Marino.
In the tapes, a female caller said her boss found a body in an alley at 707 S. Park St. near Marino's home, a short distance away from St. Mary's Hospital.
"There's a man unconscious in the alley. My boss just found him," the caller tells the dispatcher. "He's just laying in the snow."
The dispatcher urges the caller to investigate more thoroughly.
"It looks like he took a tumble. His glasses are off, and there's blood all over," says the caller. "I don't think he's OK."
The dispatcher urges the woman to turn the body over to check his vital signs. After a struggle, Marino is turned on his back.
"Oh, there's a lot of blood. It looks like he's really hurt. He's very, very limp, very purple," the caller said.
"Can you feel or hear any breathing?" asks the dispatcher.
"No, I can't," she responded.
The dispatcher gives the woman instructions on how to perform CPR.
"I'm freaking out," the caller says.
"Someone needs to do this now," says the dispatcher. "Is it going to be you or someone else?"
The caller proceeds with CPR while another woman begins talking to the dispatcher.
"When she tried to do a compression, more blood comes out," the second woman said. "He seems to have some wound in his chest or something."
The dispatcher asks the caller to put the man on his side, and clean his mouth out. As the EMT's arrive, the call ends.
Marino did not survive and the killer is presumably still at-large.
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Neighbors pay respects to Joel Marino outside his home on West Shore Drive in this file photo.
