Crime & Safety

LISTEN: Bergen Woman Called 911 On Boyfriend Several Times Before Murder-Suicide: Report

Annette Torres reported her boyfriend's "manic" behavior to authorities several times before they were found dead inside their home.

Annette Torres made three calls to 911 in the more than two years before her death regarding the situation with her live-in boyfriend, Mark Morris.

Torres, 36, told a dispatcher in April 2015 that Morris, had been “doing drugs all night, NJ.com reported. The Bergenfield Police Department released the 911 tapes to the website following an OPRA request it filed.

“I need someone removed from my neighbor’s house,” Torres told 911 from her neighbor’s house. Torres called 911 from that house and then 911 called the house back. “We’re having a verbal altercation. He’s not supposed to be in the house,” Torres said.

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“I want him checked into the hospital. He looks terrible,” Torres said.

In a December 2015 call, Torres said that she did not know “what he’s going to do because he’s destroyed the house already.” She said Morris was on by-polar medication and that Morris had been “manic all weekend.”

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She said the police were aware of his behavior.

It was three months after the last call that police said Morris shot and killed Torres shooting himself in the head.

The couple’s 11-year-old child found his parents’ bodies in the house. The child told a neighbor that the couple was not breathing. The neighbor called 911, police said.

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Annette Torres and Mark Morris Courtesy of law enforcement

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