⚖️ The official police assessment.
The voice sounds like a child.
📸 Officer statement documentation / case reference #PL-221
🎧 Original recording
⚖️ The official police assessment.
The voice sounds like a child.
⚖️ Alan Tait's assessment.
Date of analysis:
19th March 2026
Analyst:
Alan Tait
Software used:
Audacity 3.7.5, Raven lite
File name:
“thebabiesdie.wav”
Duration: 3.2 seconds
(isolated vocal phrase)
Audio analysis was conducted on a recording of a female-sounding voice thought to be uttering the phrase "why Gareth (or perhaps Gary) why, the babies die."
The objective was to determine the number of words/syllables and to assess whether the voice is that of an adult female or a child.
Based on spectrographic analysis, the voice exhibits a fundamental frequency (pitch) of approximately 374 Hz, consistent with extreme emotional distress.
Crucially, the vocal tract resonances (formants) peak at 1491 Hz, which is anatomically consistent with an adult female and inconsistent with a young child.
The original stereo track was mixed down to mono to eliminate phase issues and consolidate vocal energy.
Analysis was conducted using Audacity's spectrogram and plot spectrum tools.
Frequency display was set to mel scale for optimal speech resolution.
The plot spectrum FFT size was set to 8192 for high precision.
A visual inspection of the waveform and spectrogram reveals 11 distinct phonetic segments corresponding to the utterance:
Segment breakdown:
Segments 1 to 2 “Why”
Segments 3 to 5 “Gareth”
Segment 06 “Why”
Segment 07 “The”
Segment 08 “Ba-”
(first syllable of babies)
Segment 09 “-bies”
Segments 10 to 11 “Die”
✅ Possible syllable match:
“why Gareth why the babies die".
Two dominant frequency peaks were identified using the plot spectrum tool:
Peak 1 (Strongest): 748 Hz at -21 dB
Peak 2 (Second strongest): 1491 Hz at -32 dB
The relationship between the peaks (1491 Hz is approximately double 748 Hz) identifies them as the second harmonic (H2) and fourth harmonic (H4).
Calculated fundamental frequency (F0): 748 Hz ÷ 2 = 374 Hz.
This pitch is elevated, which is expected in a state of distress, but remains within the physiological capability of an adult female.
Vocal tract length (formants):
The peak at 1491 Hz represents a harmonic amplified by the vocal tract's natural resonance (a formant).
Adult female range: second formant (F2) typically resides between 1,400 Hz and 2,200 Hz.
Child range: second formant typically resides above 2,800 Hz.
The resonance peak at 1491 Hz falls squarely within the adult female range and is too low to be produced by the smaller vocal tract of a young child.
1. Fundamental frequency 374 Hz → consistent with adult female in distress.
2. Formant frequency 1491 Hz → anatomically consistent with adult female; inconsistent with child.
3. Harmonic structure (4th harmonic strongest) → indicates vocal tract resonance tuned to lower frequencies (adult).
Determination:
The voice on the recording is that of an adult female.
📢 Thoughts to consider:
That recording could have been formally analysed by law enforcement via accredited laboratories.
The police could have spoken with the two women who made that recording.
To date, we have posted five documented references to death on our website.
🎧 The five references to death
🎧 Short extracts of screams recorded
🎧 A scream was recorded between gunshots.
🎧 The name Gareth is also heard in this recording.
All our evidence remains preserved and available for independent review.