'You survived, you survived': Listen to 911 call that helped nab Georgia fugitives

A man's voice, out of breath and numb with shock, crackled through the 911 dispatch phone line at 5:22 p.m.

“We’ve had an armed home invasion,” he says. “It’s the two people from Georgia."

“Escapees.”

The Shelbyville, Tenn., man and his wife had just escaped the bonds that held them captive.

For the next three minutes, he delivered a calm and detailed account of the dramatic hostage situation in which the couple was held captive for three hours Thursday. (Later that night  the two escaped Georgia convicts were captured in Rutherford County, Tenn.)

"We need help out here quick," he urges, giving his address. "Hurry."

His wife sobs in the background.

Ricky Dubose and Donnie Rowe had been on the run since Tuesday after killing two guards on a prison transport bus south of Atlanta.

The men forced their way into the Shelbyville home at gunpoint, according to Bedford County Sheriff Austin Swing.

The man describes being held at bay by Dubose and Rowe, who had "high-powered handguns."

The couple then were tied up while the fugitives ate beef stew and pilfered valuables.

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After three hours of terror, the convicts fled in the couple's black Cherokee Trailblazer.

"We were tied up," the husband told the Bedford County dispatcher. "We were all tied up. We just got loose."

In the background, his wife's heavy and heart-wrenching cries can be heard over the phone.

"It's alright," the man says, beckoning his wife nearer to him as he communicates with the 911 dispatcher.

"You survived," he tells her, his voice calm and reassuring. "You survived. You did a good job.

"Come here and let me hold you."

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Assured that the police are on the way, the man hangs up.