Listen to the 911 call Lucas Hernandez's stepmom made to report him missing in February

In the February 911 call Emily Glass made to report her 5-year-old stepson missing, she cries and says over and over that she needs to call the boy's father who is working out of town.

A recording of the call was provided Thursday by Sedgwick County Emergency Communications in response to a Kansas Open Records Act request from The Eagle. It had previously been withheld while Wichita police investigated Lucas Hernandez's disappearance and death.

Throughout her 8-minute, 52-second conversation with a Sedgwick County dispatcher on Feb. 17 Glass sobs and sounds frantic. She tells the dispatcher several times she needs to get hold of Jonathan Hernandez, the boy's dad.

"Oh my god! Where’s Lucas? Where’s Lucas?" Glass cries as the dispatcher asks for a description of what the boy looks like and what he's wearing.

"All right. I’m still here, OK? Just keep talking to me," the dispatcher says.

Glass responds: "I need to call his dad! I need to call his dad!"

"I understand, I understand. OK?" the dispatcher says. "I need to get a little bit more information, OK?"

Later Glass repeats her desire to call Lucas' dad. "I need to call him, OK?" she tells the dispatcher. "He needs to know."

A full transcript of Glass' February 911 call appears below. Emergency Communications redacted names and phone numbers of victims and the callers in the recording that was provided to The Eagle.

You can listen to the call here.

The call's release comes a day after autopsy reports for both Glass and Lucas were made public.

Glass' shooting death on June 7 or 8 was ruled a suicide. She shot herself with a rifle two weeks after she led a private investigator to where Lucas' body was hidden beneath debris under a rural Harvey County bridge on May 24. She told the private investigator she found the boy dead after she woke up one day and panicked.

Exactly how Lucas died remains a mystery. His autopsy wasn't able to determine how he died, in part because his body was badly decomposed when it was found.

Glass was arrested after taking the private investigator to the body, but authorities released her from jail because she wasn't charged immediately with any crime.

Lucas' father found her dead about a week later in the same South Edgemoor rental home from which Glass said he'd vanished on Feb. 17. His call to 911 early on June 8 also was released to The Eagle on Thursday.

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Glass: 911, 911.

Dispatcher: 911, what’s the location of your emergency?

Glass: (inaudible) ... my son. My son’s gone. He’s not in the (inaudible). He wasn’t in his (inaudible).

Dispatcher: Where is your son at?

Glass: I don’t know.

Dispatcher: He’s gone?

Glass: Yes, he’s gone!

Dispatcher: When did he leave?

Glass: I don’t know. I don’t know. I just woke up from a long nap and he’s not in his room.

Dispatcher: How old is he?

Glass: (inaudible, sobbing, shouting) ... He’s five.

Dispatcher: Ma’am?

Glass: Oh my god.

Dispatcher: Ma’am, how old is your son?

Glass: He’s five years old.

Dispatcher: Five years old. Did someone take him?

Glass: I don’t know. I don’t know!

Dispatcher: Did he walk off?

Glass: No, I don’t know. I just woke up. I just woke up. (Sobbing.) I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do.

Dispatcher: What address are you at?

Glass: I’m at (sobbing) 655 South Edgemoor. Oh my god. I don’t know what to do.

Dispatcher: Ma’am, go ahead and repeat your location for verification for me, OK?

Glass: It’s 655 South Edgemoor.

Dispatcher: OK. All right.

Glass: Ma’am, I have to — I need to call his father because he’s not in town. He’s at work right now.

Dispatcher: OK, can you stay on the line with me? I need to get some more information. OK?

Glass: (Sobbing and crying)

Dispatcher: Try to stay on the line with me. What is the phone number that you’re calling from?

Glass: It’s (redacted).

Dispatcher: OK. And what is your name?

Glass: My name is (redacted).

Dispatcher: OK, OK. Stay on the line with me. I’ve got some more questions, OK? What is your son’s name?

Glass: It’s Lucas.

Dispatcher: Lucas?

Glass: Lucas.

Dispatcher: And you said he’s five years old?

Glass: Yes, he’s five years old.

Dispatcher: Is he white, black, Hispanic or Asian?

Glass: He is white. He has some Mexican in him but not a lot.

Dispatcher: You said he’s half-Mexican?

Glass: Yes.

Dispatcher: OK. That’s fine. How tall is he?

Glass: I don’t know. He’s about four feet maybe? I don’t know.

Dispatcher: Four feet? OK, that’s fine. Is he thin, medium or heavy build?

Glass: He’s little. He’s very little.

Dispatcher: OK. Do you remember what he was wearing?

Glass: (inaudible) ... Uh, he was wearing black sweats and a green shirt with a bear on it. (Crying) Oh my god! Where’s Lucas? Where’s Lucas?

Dispatcher: All right. I’m still here, OK? Just keep talking to me.

Glass: I need to call his dad. I need to call his dad.

Dispatcher: I understand, I understand. OK? I need to get a little bit more information, OK? When was the last time you saw him?

Glass: Around like 3 o’clock?

Dispatcher: OK. And you’re at – he was at home?

Glass: Yes, ma’am.

Dispatcher: OK. All right. And what color is his hair?

Glass: It’s brown.

Dispatcher: Short or long?

Glass: It’s short.

Dispatcher: Was he wearing anything else? A hat or anything?

Glass: And he had, um, he had white socks on, and he had a pull up on because we were taking a nap, so.

Dispatcher: What do you mean, a pull up?

Glass: Uh, a pull up. Um, for nighttime, you know?

Dispatcher: OK. What color was that?

Glass: White and blue?

Dispatcher: White and blue?

Glass: He has brown eyes and really, really long eyelashes.

Dispatcher: OK, OK.

Glass: And um, I don’t know (inaudible) ...

Dispatcher: Just hang in there, OK?

Glass: (Crying)

Dispatcher: Is he the only one missing?

Glass: Yes.

Dispatcher: OK. Did you see any suspicious people in the area?

Glass: Um, no. (inaudible) ... There were some like people hanging around the corner of my house, but I don’t (inaudible) ...

Dispatcher: So there were some suspicious people on the corner?

Glass: (Inaudible) ... I don’t know. I don’t think they (inaudible) ... anything to do with it. But (inaudible) ... I’m scared. Where is he?

Dispatcher: OK. Was he taking a nap with you?

Glass: (Inaudible) ... in his room. I put a movie on for him and I took a shower really quick and he was asleep when I went and checked back on him, and so me and his little sister took a nap in my room. (Sobbing)

Dispatcher: OK. So you went to check on him and then you went to go take a nap. And he’s not there anymore, correct?

Glass: (Inaudible, sobbing)

Dispatcher: OK, it’s OK. Do you know if he left with anything else? Was there any pets missing or anything?

Glass: We don’t have any pets. And his shoes are here and his coat is here.

Dispatcher: His shoes and coat are in there?

Glass: Yes, ma’am.

Dispatcher: OK.

Glass: (Sobbing) Oh my god.

Dispatcher: Has he ever wandered off before?

Glass: No. No, (inaudible) ... He not here. (sobbing, inaudible)

Dispatcher: OK, OK. OK.

Glass: I need to (inaudible) ...

Dispatcher: Where have you looked at all? Have you looked in the house at all?

Glass: I looked all around the house. And I went to the neighbor’s and I asked and they said, ‘No.’ And that’s why I called you. Because I don’t know (inaudible) ... kids next door. I don’t know.

Dispatcher: OK. OK. Does he have a bicycle or anything?

Glass: He does, but it’s here.

Dispatcher: It is there.

Glass: And he (inaudible, sobbing) ...

Dispatcher: All of his toys are there?

Glass: Yes, ma’am. (Sobbing) Oh my god. (Baby sounds in background) I’m here, I know.

Dispatcher: Now, do you know, is he on any medications or anything?

Glass: Yes, He’s on Zofran right now because he’s been, he’s had the flu. And he’s (inaudible) ... so he’s on that. (sobbing)

Dispatcher: OK.

Glass: (Sobbing) Oh my god.

Dispatcher: Where’s your husband at right now?

Glass: He’s in, he’s (inaudible) ... . He works out of state.

Dispatcher: He’s in Garden State?

Glass: No, he works out of state. He’s in Texas.

Dispatcher: Oh, he’s in Texas, OK.

Glass: I need to call him, OK? He needs to know.

Dispatcher: One second for me, OK? All right? We have people en route to you, OK? They’re looking for him, OK?

Glass: (sobbing)

Dispatcher: Anyone else in the house?

Glass: It’s just me and my daughter.

Dispatcher: OK. How old is your daughter?

Glass: She’s a year old. (Baby noises in background) I know, I know. (inaudible)

Dispatcher: Do you see PD out there at all?

Glass: Yes, they’re here.

Dispatcher: They’re there?

Glass: Yes.

Dispatcher: OK, go ahead and talk to them, OK? Call us back if anything changes. OK?

Glass: (Inaudible) ... I got to call him right now.

This story was originally published June 28, 2018 at 6:29 PM.