Nearly 3 years after she was abducted, raped and killed, the State Attorney's Office releases the 911 calls that started the Cherish Perrywinkle saga.
That audio features Rayne Perrywinkle - Cherish's mother - moments after the 8-year-old girl disappeared from the Walmart on Lem Turner Road in June 2013.
"I'm at Walmart and my Cherish has been taken," Rayne says in the call. "Taken by a stranger. I can't find her."
Rayne told the dispatcher she had a feeling that the man who took Cherish - later identified as Donald Smith - would do something bad to her daughter.
"I don't understand why he would leave right now unless he was going to rape her and kill her," Rayne added. "I'm wasting my time standing here."
In the call, Rayne claims she had met Smith at a Dollar General store earlier that day and he offered to buy clothes for her and her kids with a Walmart gift card she had in his white van.
"The only reason I went with him because he said his wife was going to be there," Rayne noted. "I told him I don't take rides with strangers."
She also expressed regret during the nearly 10-minute call over accepting Smith's offer, especially after she said Cherish left with him to go get food.
"I should've told him no," Rayne told the dispatcher.
Cherish's body was found by authorities the next day.
Also released by the SAO was another 911 call from a man who says he was with Smith around the time Cherish vanished.
Smith remains behind bars at Duval County Jail and should face a judge in a few weeks.
A Jacksonville Sheriff's Office internal investigation turned up protocol errors made by officers in the initial response to the 911 call, including not notifying the media fast enough.