Father makes chilling confession about infant after 4 other children found dead outside North Carolina home

A North Carolina begetter who called 911 to confess to sidesplitting 4 of his children and hiding their remains successful a car trunk astatine his location adjacent Zebulon besides allegedly told investigators helium buried a 5th kid down the house, according to a report.

Court records amusement Wellington Delano Dickens III, 38, has been charged with 4 counts of first-degree execution aft instrumentality enforcement officials said helium admitted to sidesplitting his children implicit respective months.

The Johnston County Sheriff’s Office posted connected societal media that deputies responded to Dickens’ location conscionable aft 10 p.m. connected Oct. 27 aft helium told a 911 dispatcher that 4 of his children were dormant and that their bodies were successful a car parked wrong his garage. 

Deputies recovered Dickens astatine the location on with his 3-year-old son, who was live and unharmed.

When deputies searched the garage, they discovered what appeared to beryllium quality remains wrong the trunk of a vehicle. Investigators said the remains had apt been determination for immoderate time.

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Mugshot of Wellington Delano Dickens III, 38, who authorities accidental admitted to sidesplitting his children implicit respective months earlier his Oct. 27 arrest. (Johnston County Sheriff's Office)

In a 911 telephone signaling obtained by WRAL-TV, a antheral who identified himself arsenic Wellington Dickens gave the home’s code and allegedly told the dispatcher helium had killed his children.

During the call, Dickens reportedly told the dispatcher, "It’s a batch to explain, but successful a nutshell, it’s astir apt my fault. It’s bad. It started retired arsenic maine over-disciplining – that’s it."

Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell said during a quality league precocious past period that investigators judge the deaths were dispersed retired implicit respective months, opening successful May and ending successful September.

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Law enforcement vehicles artifact the roadworthy to Wellington Delano Dickens III’s home, wherever remains were recovered aft Dickens told authorities helium had killed 4 of his children, Oct. 28, successful Zebulon, N.C. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Bizzell said helium didn’t yet cognize wherefore Dickens killed the children, "but arsenic the sheriff, arsenic a begetter and arsenic a grandfather, I tin basal present and accidental there’s nary crushed for a begetter to execution his children."

Authorities said Dickens’ wife, Stephanie Rae Jones Dickens, died successful April 2024 from complications of a miscarriage. Investigators judge the killings occurred betwixt May and September of this year.

Neighbors described the household arsenic reclusive and said the children were homeschooled. Deputies said the location had been visited antecedently erstwhile Stephanie Dickens died, but her decease was determined to beryllium from earthy causes aft she refused aesculapian treatment.

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Law enforcement vehicles artifact the roadworthy to Wellington Delano Dickens III’s home, wherever remains were recovered aft Dickens told authorities helium had killed 4 of his children, successful Zebulon, N.C.  (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

"The neighbors said they ne'er saw them travel outside, and they were homeschooled, truthful they were conscionable confined to the house," sheriff’s Capt. Don Pate said.

In tribunal documents obtained by NBC News, Dickens allegedly confessed to burying a 5th kid successful the woods down his home. Dickens allegedly told investigators his infant’s wellness had declined earlier helium wrapped the babe successful integrative oregon insubstantial and buried the kid down the house.

Officials said the decease was ne'er reported, and relatives told investigators they hadn’t seen the babe since Dickens moved. The infant’s remains person not been found, according to NBC News.

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"This lawsuit has affected each deputy, each investigator, and each archetypal responder who went to that house," Bizzell said. "It’s thing you don’t ever forget."

Details astir however the children died person not been released, but officials said the authorities aesculapian examiner’s bureau continues to analyse the remains and find their causes of death. Authorities besides said the hunt for the 5th kid volition resume erstwhile upwind conditions improve, according to tribunal documents obtained by NBC News.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.