Police come 48 minutes after college student's battle for her life caught on 911 tape

Slain student called 911; no one came in time

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College student's battle for her life caught on 911 tape
Police did not respond to her call for help for 48 minutes
Brittany Zimmerman's fiance found her body
Police suspect she was attacked by a stranger and are eyeing vagrants
By Rupa Mikkilineni
Nancy Grace Producer


NEW YORK (CNN) -- Brittany Zimmerman, a 21-year-old college student who wanted to be a doctor, called 911 as she was being attacked by a stranger, police say.

But the police did not come for 48 minutes. By that time, Zimmerman was dead. Her fiance found her body.
Although the dispatcher claimed later to have heard nothing, the 911 tape captured screams, gasps and what sounds like a struggle, according to the court documents.
Spring was in the air when college student Zimmerman returned April 2 from classes at the University of Wisconsin to the off-campus apartment she shared with her fiance, Jordan Gonnering.
He was out when she arrived home. He discovered her body when he returned.
Zimmerman had been stabbed multiple times in her chest, near her heart. She'd also been beaten and strangled, according to warrants released recently.

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