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911 Call Released In Largo Slayings

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By STEPHEN THOMPSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 8, 2008

LARGO - "I think there was a shooting," says the 911 caller.

"What makes you say that?" the dispatcher asks him.

"I heard some shots and someone screaming," he says.

That brief exchange is heard on a 911 call made from the Monterey Lakes apartment complex, the day authorities say Pinellas County schoolteacher Oliver Bernsdorff fatally shot his ex-wife Jennifer Davis, 27, and his ex-wife's new lover, Andrea Pisanello, 53.

The short tape was released Tuesday by Pinellas County Emergency Communications.

Authorities would discover that Bernsdorff had fatally shot the two children he and Davis had together – 4-year-old Olivia Bernsdorff and 2-year-old Magnus Bernsdorff – at the Clearwater house where he had custody of the children. Later that day on Dec. 14, Bernsdorff killed himself in Manatee County.

After the 911 caller gives the street address of the apartment complex where Davis and Pisanello were living together – 7501 Ulmerton Road – he expands on what he heard: "I heard screaming and I heard four or five shots," he said.

As he waits for the county dispatcher to transfer the call to the Largo Police Department, which would soon be investigating the double-homicide at Monterey, the 911 caller is overheard telling someone to stay away from the front window. The caller's identity was not released.

Bernsdorff, 36, and his wife had divorced in August, and he had custody of the children, though she was behind in child support payments. Largo police have said he had told people close to him that if he couldn't have his family together the way it was before the divorce, he would slay the family.

Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336 or spthompson@tampatrib.com.

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