VICTORIA - When Sgt. Chris Horsley arrived at an Oak Bay house last September after a 911 dispatcher reported a particularly alarming distress call, he already sensed something had gone terribly wrong for the people inside.

"Mr. Lee has done something bad," Horsley said in a police audio recording played for members of a coroner's jury on Wednesday.

Horsley was just arriving to the address of the house where the 911 call was made.

A dispatcher had told police the call "made my skin crawl."

A woman had called, crying and screaming in Korean as she tried to dictate her address.

Then the woman screamed hysterically before the line went dead.

The dispatcher was recounting the call to police in a tape recording played for jurors.

The inquest heard the dispatcher redialled the home and a man answered and said there had been a dispute. He told the dispatcher to send an ambulance and the fire department.

Operators tried more than a dozen more times to re-establish telephone contact with the home, but could only get an answering machine.

As police were being sent to the home, emergency dispatchers relayed information that the home had a history of police calls involving complaints of domestic abuse, arson, weapons and assaults.

Sunny Park, her six-year-old son, Christian, and her parents, Kum Lea Chun and Moon Kyu Park, were found stabbed to death in the Oak Bay home on Sept. 4, 2007.

Her husband, Peter Lee, 38, was also found dead and the coroner's service concluded he stabbed his family before killing himself.

The police recordings were part of a written and audio timeline compiled for jurors by Victoria Police Det. Michelle Robertson, who testified she amalgamated all the communication between the three Victoria-area police departments who responded to the 911 call.

The timeline graphically shows how the emergency responders' communications went from grim to grisly as police talked to each other on radios about what they were finding at the house.

Robertson said the timeline, if stretched out on a table, would be about 15 metres long.

The emergency call came in to Victoria Police at 3:06 a.m., and was rerouted to Saanich Police who handle emergencies for Oak Bay.

The inquest has heard the Victoria area is supervised by numerous police departments and overlap is an issue at times.

Two Oak Bay police officers arrived at the house at 3:13 a.m., eight minutes after the call, but didn't enter, preferring to wait for backup.

According to the timeline, the Oak Bay officers approached the home's door at 3:17 a.m., hearing no noise outside or from inside. At 3:22 a.m., one of the officer's radioed that he'd found a broken window at the rear of the home and could see a body.

"It looks like they're injured," the officer said in the audio recording.

Meanwhile, Saanich officer Horsley was moments away from the home.

He called for the canine unit and a police check of the licence plate of a grey Audi station wagon parked in the driveway came back as registered to Lee.

At 3:32 a.m., Horsley reported finding a broken window and two wet, muddy footprints on a bed sheet under the window indicating somebody has entered the home.

He then found two bodies.

"We have two down. We need the (ambulance) in."

Horsley also reported the officers had discovered a barricaded room. He said he couldn't get the door open and it appeared to have something to do with the 911 call.

"Look at the amount of blood on this door," Horsley said on the tape. "I'd say we've got someone inside."

"It just reeks of propane," he said, as he managed to get the door open a crack.

"It's not looking good."

At 3:51 a.m., Horsley is heard briefing acting staff Sgt. Colleen Kerr about the crime scene. Kerr is at Saanich Police headquarters.

At the time, police didn't know that there were three more bodies in the home and Horsley told Kerr he believed Lee was upstairs in the master bedroom suite.

Kerr asked him if he knows what kind of weapons were used in the attack.

"Knives of some sort," said Horsley.

Horsley said he wasn't sure if the two bodies police had already found were dead, but when Kerr asked "What's your gut feeling?," Horsley responded: "My gut feeling is they're deceased."

Kerr asked him if he could check the bodies for vital signs or get an ambulance paramedic inside the house, but the inquest heard the paramedics wouldn't go into the home until it was deemed safe.

At the time of the incident, Lee was out on bail on charges of attempting to hurt his wife in a car accident last July.

A videotape shown to jurors earlier showed Park tell police she feared her husband and note that he has threatened to kill her and her family if she continued with plans to divorce him.

The inquest also heard videotaped evidence taken by police hours after the accident where Sunny Park tells police she fears her husband and he has threatened to kill her and her family if she continues with plans to divorce him.

Victoria Police opposed Lee's release on bail, but an officer testified breaches of his bail conditions after the July 31 crash were not enough to revoke his bail and put him in jail.

A Crown official testified Lee was released on bail despite his wife's fears about him because he had no prior criminal record and was not considered a substantial risk to reoffend.

Hours after police found the murder scene, Lee was scheduled to appear at the Victoria courthouse to review bail issues stemming from the car crash.