Six weeks before she was shot to death, a fearful Mary Gingles called the Broward Sheriff’s Office to report how her estranged husband had left a suspicious backpack in her garage that she would later discover contained duct tape, plastic restraints and ”items that he would need to murder me.”
While the couple’s 4-year-old daughter Seraphine can be heard in the background calling “Mommy,” Mary nervously told the BSO operator, “I don’t know what to do. I’m at a loss. Obviously the current court order is not doing anything,” according to the recording of the Dec. 29 call obtained by the Herald.
Mary, 34, who obtained a restraining order against her husband, Nathan Gingles, 43, the next day, was shot to death on Feb. 16 along with her father and a neighbor in a quiet Tamarac neighborhood. Nathan, an Army vet, has been charged in the murders. BSO says its divers fished out of a nearby lake the semiautomatic handgun and silencer he allegedly used in the murders. He has pleaded not guilty.
The recordings of two calls obtained by the Herald reveal Mary’s fearful state but show her determination to document her husband’s behavior…