Police captain: Dotson reported hearing voices
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Capt. Robert Edler
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(CNN) -- Carlton Dotson, who has been charged with murder in the disappearance of Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy, is being held without bail in Chestertown, Maryland, after fighting extradition to Waco, Texas. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper spoke with Chestertown Police Capt. Robert Edler about Dotson.
COOPER: Tell us what happened this weekend. Your office received a call from Carlton Dotson?
EDLER: Yes, Anderson, it was Sunday evening about quarter to five, a 911 center here in Kent County received a call from Mr. Dotson. He was requesting medical assistance at that time. Two of our units and one Kent County deputy responded to Mr. Dotson, and subsequently transported him to the Kent & Queen Anne's Hospital for treatment.
COOPER: You said he was asking for medical assistance. Did he give any details of what the medical problem was?
EDLER: At the time, he said he was hearing voices and needed to speak to somebody.
COOPER: I understand you were at the hospital as well. How did he appear to you?
EDLER: Yes, I was in the hospital with Mr. Dotson [Monday] morning for two or three hours, and he appeared fine to me. He was calm, he wasn't agitated, wasn't very talkative, but nothing out of the ordinary.
COOPER: And then at some point he asked to speak to the FBI, is that correct?
EDLER: Yes. That would have been sometime after 10 or 10:30. I was relieved, and he made the request to speak to somebody from the FBI. We made those arrangements, and he spoke to whatever agent he was taken to.
COOPER: To your knowledge, did he confess to being involved in the disappearance of Patrick Dennehy?
EDLER: Not to my knowledge. I was not privy to any of the information during he course of the interview with the FBI. [I] believe there was a detective from [the] Waco authorities with the FBI as well, but I was not privy to any of that information.
