Man calmly calls to report he shot dead his wife, stepson and mother-in-law

A man made a chillingly calm call to police to report that he shot and killed his wife, stepson and mother-in-law.

Patrick Waite, 77, dialed 911 on Thursday to confess to the triple killing inside his home in Haubstadt, Indiana.

‘I shot them all. I’m certainly not proud of that fact,’ said Waite, according to a sworn affidavit filed by the Gibson County Sheriff’s Office on Monday.

‘I’m as guilty as guilty can be.’

Waite told dispatchers that he had argued with his wife about who would have ownership of his home, and that it devolved into violence around 8.30pm.

He also admitted to shooting a fourth family member, who was taken in critical condition at a hospital in Evansville.

Waite said he would be waiting for police in front of his garage.

He then told dispatchers that he had to get off the line ‘so he could call his children and tell them what he did’, a detective wrote in the affidavit obtained by the Evansville Courier & Press.

Officers arrived at Waite’s home on the 12900 block of South Scottsdale Drive eight minutes after he hung up the phone and arrested him without incident.

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