collect call

I picked up the phone and there was the recorded voice again, saying it was a collect call from Marcus Johnson.

Two days after his wife disappeared, Durst made several collect calls from the New Jersey towns of Barnegat and Beach Haven, according to phone records admitted at trial.

“Halfway Home” combines case studies with memoir, focusing on Miller’s brother, whose collect calls, arbitrary parole officer and efforts to remain free bedevil the author and his middle-class family.

He would pick up to hear a woman’s voice, asking if Mr. Warner would accept a collect call from San Quentin State Prison, in California.

The family has spent over $250,000 on attorneys’ fees and over $80,000 on long-distance international collect calls over the past few decades, but it’s not money they want back.