Someone used Nichol Leila Olsen’s cellphone to call 911 four times within two minutes late on the night before she and her two daughters were found shot to death at her boyfriend’s home outside San Antonio two years ago, phone records show.
They were the last calls made from Olsen’s phone, according to a page from her phone bill obtained by the San Antonio Express-News. None resulted in a conversation, though a 911 operator tried to return one of the calls, Sheriff Javier Salazar confirmed.
The apparent attempt to communicate with emergency dispatchers - whoever made it - only deepens the mystery surrounding the final hours of Olsen and the two girls in the $1 million house in the Anaqua Springs Ranch subdivision in northwestern Bexar County.
Olsen, 37, a San Antonio hairstylist, was found fatally shot with her daughters, Alexa Denice Montez, 16, and London Sophia Bribiescas, 10, the following morning in an upstairs hallway.
Olsen’s boyfriend, Charles Edward Wheeler, then 31, called 911 to report finding their bodies about 9 a.m. on Jan. 10, 2019. Wheeler told investigators he’d left the residence the previous night following an argument with Olsen and went to stay with his parents.
The Bexar County medical examiner’s office declared Olsen’s death a suicide and her daughters’ deaths as homicides. A handgun was found near Olsen’s body.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office still is investigating after its detectives reached an initial conclusion late last year that agreed with the medical examiner’s findings, Salazar has said. No charges have been filed.
Wheeler had nothing to do with the deaths, his attorneys have said, and they repeatedly have called on the sheriff to publicly clear their client’s name after Salazar described him as a “person of interest” early on.
The slain children’s fathers recently filed separate lawsuits accusing Wheeler of failing to protect the children by negligently leaving a loaded handgun unsecured in a bedside table on a night that Olsen was displaying “erratic” behavior.
Wheeler, an oil and gas businessman and former rodeo competitor, since has sold the house and moved to Austin. He repeatedly has declined to comment and has requested privacy.
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Salazar said he doesn’t think any of the four 911 calls from Olsen’s cellphone connected with an operator.
“I don’t believe there was ever any that went through to the point where we could have answered and established communications,” he said this week.
But a 911 operator tried returning a call to Olsen’s phone and couldn’t reach anyone, the sheriff noted.
No officers responded to the 911 calls, Salazar said, because the cellphone caller or callers didn’t stay on the line long enough for emergency officials to determine its location.
Salazar received a final report on the case, but reassigned it to another detective, directing him to review each of those 911 calls, among other unanswered questions.
Olsen’s phone bill shows her cellphone made four 911 calls in rapid succession late Jan. 9, 2019 — one at 11:10 p.m., two at 11:11 p.m. and the final one at 11:12 p.m.
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“We believe that those calls were coming from the residence,” Salazar said. “We believe that based upon the fact that her phone was found there. But … it could have been anybody making those calls.”
Salazar said he doesn’t know if the 911 caller had poor cellphone reception or kept hanging up, or if someone was preventing the calls from being made.
“Any of these are possible,” the sheriff said. “And the frustrating part for me is, we might never know the answer.”
Just before the 911 calls, someone used Olsen’s phone to call Wheeler’s mother, Cindy Wheeler of Fredericksburg, on her cellphone at 11:08 p.m., the phone bill shows. The bill marked it as lasting one minute, as it did the 911 calls, the minimum time the company lists for any call.
The sheriff said he doesn’t know if Cindy Wheeler answered that phone call or received a voice message. Therese Huntzinger, an attorney who represents Charles Wheeler, also couldn’t say if his mother answered or missed the call or if the caller left a message.
Two hours before that, starting at 9:04 p.m., Olsen and 10-year-old London spoke by phone with the child’s father, Hector Bribiescas, for 18 minutes.
In an interview with the Express-News a year ago, Bribiescas recalled both his daughter and Olsen sounded normal when he talked to them that night. They discussed London’s singing, whether she should audition for the America’s Got Talent TV show and possibly enrolling her in voice lessons.
“There was no indication that would be it,” Hector Bribiescas said of their final conversation.
That call ended at 9:22 p.m.
Olsen’s phone bill also shows she exchanged at least six phone calls earlier that day with a friend, Debbie Fox. They had been planning to take their daughters to the America’s Got Talent auditions two days later. But Olsen called Fox for the last time at 6:45 p.m. and abruptly canceled those plans.
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Olsen had been excited about London’s singing audition and planned for her older sister Alexa to accompany them, Fox said. But Olsen’s voice and attitude had changed by the time of that final call, which lasted five minutes — she sounded “very frantic” and confused, but Fox said she couldn’t discern why.
Olsen sounded rattled and bounced from one topic to another, Fox said. She told Fox that she and her daughters were going to skip the auditions. She said she planned to enroll the girls in voice lessons, mentioned wanting to enroll Alexa in a different school and letting her join a youth group.
Olsen asked if Fox’s daughter, who was Alexa’s best friend, might want to be part of that group, Fox said. Olsen also mentioned she wanted to try attending services at Cross Mountain Church and asked Fox to go with her.
“She was all over the place,” Fox said in an interview in 2019. “She got really strange that evening.”
Olsen apologized for canceling their audition plans. When the phone call ended, Fox said, “she didn’t say ‘I have to go.’ She just said — it was basically like ‘I’ll talk to you later.’”
Fox was disturbed by the phone call and felt something was wrong. She wanted to call Olsen back, but said her husband advised against it.
Throughout their friendship, Olsen never discussed her relationship with Wheeler. The women’s conversations centered on their children, Fox said.
Olsen always focused on how she could do better for her children and how she wanted her daughters to be surrounded by good influences, Fox said. “She would text me, ‘I love your daughter. She’s good for Alexa,’” Fox recalled.
And Fox never has been able to fathom the idea of Olsen hurting her daughters.
“Does that sound like a mother that would take her children’s lives?” Fox said this week. “She wanted the best for them.”
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