Overview
- Deputies responding Monday night to a Zebulon home found remains in a car trunk after Wellington Delano Dickens III called 911 and reported killing his children.
- The victims were identified as Leah Dickens, 6; Zoe Dickens, 9; Wellington Dickens, 10; and stepchild Sean Brasfield, 18.
- A 3-year-old boy was discovered alive inside the residence and placed in protective custody.
- Arrest warrants list May 1 as the suspected date of the killings, and officials said the remains appeared to have been in the trunk for a long time.
- Dickens faces four counts of murder as the State Bureau of Investigation and the State Medical Examiner assist the sheriff’s office, with a probable-cause hearing set for Nov. 13.