Madison police spent two weeks pursuing a bogus lead in the investigation into Brittany Zimmermann’s slaying because of bad information from the Dane County 911 center, Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk said Tuesday.
Falk also said the 911 center can’t determine whether a dispatcher hung up on a call from Zimmermann’s cell phone on April 2, the day she was killed, or the caller disconnected it. Center director Joe Norwick last week said the dispatcher hung up the phone after hearing nothing on the line, though Madison police say there were sounds that should have led the operator to dispatch police.
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