"I can't even believe this is happening."

So said the woman heard on the 9-1-1 call made on the morning of April 12, 2018, and obtained by North Carolina's WNCN-TV.

The voice on the recording belonged to the mother of 43-year-old Steven Pladl, who, according to police, phoned his mom and confessed to killing three people before fatally shooting himself. All of which sounds like a nightmare, but the identity of the victims and the disturbing series of events that led up to the slayings make the story all the more horrifying.