I sure would like to know what happened to this man.
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has obtained a voicemail that is important in the case of a missing Mounds View man.
The voicemail is disturbing and difficult to understand. It’s also the last time 32-year-old Henry McCabe was heard from.
Those who know McCabe shared the recording in the hope that whoever knows what happened will come forward.
There are two minutes of bizarre noises, including growls and moans. There’s very little actual talking.
Authorities confirm the middle-of-the-night call came from McCabe’s cell phone. It was placed on Labor Day, Sept. 7, at 2:28 a.m.
McCabe’s worried wife, Kareen McCabe, heard the message.
“His and my cell phone connected,” she said.
Minnesota Community Policing Services is a non-profit agency and acts as a go-between with police and the Liberian community. The organization’s leader, David Singleton, is trying to help the McCabe family make sense of the recording.
“The growls turn into high pitch moans, like he’s moaning in pain,” Singleton said.
The tortured grunts suddenly stop and silence follows. Then someone, either Henry or another person, says, “Stop it.”
“I try to picture where he was, what it might’ve been like, what circumstances would’ve made him sound like that,” Kareen McCabe said.
The voicemail is in stark contrast to other articulate recordings of McCabe, who’s a state auditor, and often speaks at events.
The message is one piece of evidence Mounds View police are reviewing.
The police chief told KSTP’s Beth McDonough that even the FBI is analyzing the recording and voices for clues. The chief said the investigation took deputies to Rice Creek Park Tuesday, which borders New Brighton, Mounds View and Fridley—all areas where McCabe was reported seen or a cell phone ping placed him. Ramsey County Water Patrol also conducted a search, but came up empty.
Investigators are waiting to get more information from the cell phones of more than one person. The Mounds View police chief said the investigation could go in a number of directions.