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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 911 call released by Carlsbad police

A Texas man accused of killing his girlfriend near Carlsbad can be heard in a newly released 911 call telling a dispatcher Sunday that his girlfriend disappeared after saying she was leaving with a man she said “treated her right.”

Robert Earley, 33, said he hadn’t seen his girlfriend, Emily Rebecca Lambert, since they parted at a Carlsbad bar, but that he had been up looking for her since early the next morning. He told the dispatcher that she was drunk, dressed in high heels and a “really cute” dress and didn’t have her phone, ID or purse with her.

On Tuesday, Earley led investigators to her nearly naked body, which he told police he dragged from his car after an argument, possibly over another man flirting with her at the bar. Lambert was a first-grade math and science teacher in Garland, Texas.

Earley is facing charges of murder, tampering with evidence and being a fugitive from justice. He is being held in the Eddy County Detention Center, with bail set at $1 million.

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