why are there 2 open line, hangup calls from 1223 Forest home road in montezuma the evening of the 18th and then again on the 19th? this property is owned by a cell phone company and appears to be a commercial building with a pond behind. who would be calling 911 and the sheriff from this location? could it have been Mollie? was this checked out?
Open line / hang up calls from closed businesses are shockingly common, just as they are from vacant/unoccupied residences.
Fax lines fritzing out (fax lines are still more common than I think most think also), business phone lines that do weird things in response to incoming calls when they are closed, etc. are just some of the reasons I've heard behind them. And sometimes it's just a fluke issue with how phones get set at night, etc.
I hear many dozens dispatched a night in my larger city, and because PD has to respond to hang up 911 calls it can become
a huge issue when you have "repeat offender" businesses - just like alarm calls that are known false alarm frequent fliers also (we had a Rubios and a Costco that would go off sometimes 6+ times a night!)
Sometimes they are known places that a Sgt or supervisor will allow them to "clear" without responding because they've documented such an egregious chain of incidents in a small window, but 95% of the time at least especially in our city, a sarge will say they have to respond to the first 2-5 (varying by business and length of history of the issue) a night and then they'll just 10-22 the rest of the calls there if resources are tied up elsewhere.
We get "This is the 20-3o something-th call of this nature to this business in the past ___ days" more than you'd think - and that's excluding the ones that are 'just' numbers along those lines in a matter of months...
All that to say, unfortunately I don't find that unusual or very noteworthy having regularly listened to scanner traffic in multiple cities (beyond just my own) of varying sizes/compositions from about 7 pm - 5 am overnight for years and years now.