Slaying suspect heard sobbing in 911 call

Neighbor details search for victim

By Tonya Root - troot@thesunnews.com

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Sherry Engel and Timmy Rogers

• AUDIO: Murder suspect hysterical on 911 call

A Carolina Forest woman charged in the killing of her husband sounded hysterical the night she went to a neighbor's home to report her husband missing, according to a 911 emergency dispatch call released Thursday.

On the recording Sherry G. Engel can be heard sobbing in the background of the April 22 call as her neighbor tells a dispatcher about looking for Frederick N. Engel, 53, near the mailboxes of the couple's home in the Berkshire Forest community near Carolina Forest.

"My neighbor just knocked on my door and her husband is missing. We went down to where the mailboxes are at and there's blood and his glasses are there," Tommy Rickerson, the neighbor, said in the call. "The trail leads toward the bushes. We didn't go look in there."

Sherry Engel and Timmy Rogers, 41, of Leitchfield, Ky., are each charged with murder in Frederick Engel's death. They were returned to Horry County Thursday after their arrests Monday in Breckinridge County, Ky.

Engel and Rogers are being held at J. Reuben Long Detention Center pending a June bond hearing, said 15th Judicial Circuit Solicitor Greg Hembree.

In the 911 call, Rickerson asked for an ambulance for Sherry Engel because he and his wife could not calm her down.

"She's going to need something. I don't know what to do," Rickerson said. "She's hysterical. It's hard getting anything out of her."

Rickerson also told dispatchers they went to the mailboxes to look for Frederick Engel because Sherry Engel noticed the keys to the mailbox were missing.

The dispatcher asked if Frederick Engel's wallet was missing, but Rickerson said that Sherry Engel had it.

Rickerson also told the dispatcher in the 12:45 a.m. call that Sherry Engel said she last saw her husband about 9:50 p.m. when they had pizza together at their home.

Sherry Engel spent several hours at Conway Medical Center that night after learning of her husband's death, police said.

Frederick Engel's body was found by bloodhounds in the woods about 100 yards from his home in the Berkshire Forest community, police said.

The Engels had been married for three years.

Rogers and Sherry Engel had a relationship, Horry County Police Lt. Jamie DeBari has said.

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