Frantic family members of the Utah mom who killed her daughter and herself in a Las Vegas hotel room repeatedly called 911 trying to locate them, haunting dispatch logs reveal.
The distressed kin of Tawnia McGeehan, 38, and her 11-year-old daughter, Addi Smith, called authorities several times Sunday afternoon to check if they were at the Rio Hotel and Casino, where they were staying while attending a cheer competition, according to a report by 8 News Now.
“I need someone there looking in that room,” a family member begged on one call Sunday afternoon.
“There was a room check done around 3 o’clock,” another family member said on a different call to a Utah dispatcher.
“We really don’t know where to start with all of this. They drove down for a cheerleading competition, and we believe they checked in because there was a room number assigned.”
The dispatchers informed the family that cops were at the hotel and said they couldn’t provide additional information over the 911 call.
McGeehan and her daughter were reported missing after they failed to show up for the Utah Xtreme Cheer competition — the event that brought them to Sin City. The duo hadn’t been seen since Friday, when they were spotted at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino.
After they were reported missing, cops went to the hotel at 10:45 a.m. and contacted hotel security before knocking on their room numerous times to no avail, authorities said at a press conference Sunday.
Then, at 2:30 p.m., security, still failing to find the pair, decided to go inside the room where they found the two dead, cops said.
At roughly the same time, 911 calls started pouring in from concerned family, following up on their earlier missing persons report.
Police have said they believe the duo was killed Saturday night. A note was left at the scene, but officials haven’t released it to the public.
Records from McGeehan’s custody battle with ex-Brad Smith show they bitterly fought for nine years over child support and their shared custody of Addi.
There was a period in 2021 when a court took custody away from McGeehan, finding she committed domestic abuse in front of Addi and that she showed questionable parenting judgment.
But by four years later, in 2024, a custody order split custody equally between McGeehan and Smith while giving McGeehan first say over major life decisions for Addi.