By Stacia Glenn
The News Tribune
A Graham woman allegedly drugged by a mother-daughter team trying to kidnap her newborn baby almost immediately suspected she’d been poisoned.
“I’m telling you, something’s wrong with me,” Elysia Miller told dispatchers in a 911 call. “I don’t feel good.”
The call, which lasted 7 minutes and 35 seconds, was released Tuesday by the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department after the mother-daughter team were charged with second-degree assault and second-degree kidnapping for the Feb. 7 incident.
Toxicology results have not come back, but officials believe Miller was given GHB, the date rape drug.
Miller’s boyfriend first called for help and told the dispatcher Miller was sick.
“Not sure if it’s an allergic reaction or if there was possibly something in the food somebody gave her,” he said.
Miller interrupted him and took the phone, explaining that her arms, legs and face went numb, her breathing was “jacked up” and she’d vomited five times.
She said her kids’ photographer gave her wine and cupcakes, which made her feel funny.
“They kept asking if I was getting tired or not,” Miller said. “Something’s wrong with me.”
She said it’s possible it was an allergic reaction to something in the baked good, but she’d never reacted to anything like that before.
At first, Miller declined to have police respond to her home and just asked for paramedics.
“I just need to figure out what’s wrong with me,” she told the dispatcher.
After describing how the photographer, later identified as 38-year-old Juliette Parker, took her house keys and car keys, she agreed to speak with police and file a report.
The fire dispatcher then transferred Miller to a police dispatcher because of the “suspicious nature” of the incident.
Miller told the story again, about how her kids’ photographer gave her a cupcake that made her sick, and how her keys went missing but Parker claimed she took them by accident.
When the dispatcher asked if Miller thought there were drugs in the cupcake, she said, “I think there was… It’s not adding up.”
She then violently vomited for more than a minute, trying to answer the dispatcher’s questions about Parker and asking her boyfriend for towels.
The dispatcher eventually told her they should get off the phone because Miller was unable to answer questions.
A week later, Parker and her 16-year-old daughter were arrested. Both pleaded not guilty Tuesday and were ordered held.
Parker is jailed in lieu of $150,000 bail. Her daughter remains at Remann Hall Juvenile Detention Center.
Miller said she’s traumatized and now sleeps with a knife under her pillow. She also keeps a knife, machete and pepper spray close because she fears for the safety of her children.
Sheriff’s deputies later installed new locks and bars on the windows of Miller’s home in hopes of making her feel safer. They also kept a patrol car outside until Parker was in custody.