Authorities release 911 calls for service involving Buffalo Grove family killed in murder-suicide

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. - The Village of Buffalo Grove released multiple 911 calls for service involving the family that was killed in a murder-suicide last year.

According to the village, the industry standard for retaining 911 call audio files is 60 to 90 days. The calls released Friday were dated Sept. 6, 2022, Sept. 10, 2022, Sept. 11, 2022, three from Sept. 30, 2022 and one from Oct. 21, 2022.

The calls were made in the weeks leading up to the gruesome discovery of five family members in their home on Nov. 30, 2022. Police say 39-year-old Andrei Kisliak killed his wife, his mother, his two young daughters, the family dog, and then killed himself.

According to the Lake County coroner, all five people died from sharp force injuries.

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Of the seven phone calls released on Friday, four of them were made by Andrei Kisliak while three of them were made by his wife, 36-year-old Vera Kisliak.

Court records show that Andrei and Vera Kisliak were embroiled in legal proceedings at the time of the tragedy. The couple was in the midst of a divorce, and was facing foreclosure.

Included in the audio released by the Village of Buffalo Grove, Vera Kisliak reported the following on Sept. 30, 2022: "I have a situation, I have an order of protection and my ex-husband is not supposed to be in the house, but he’s in the house right now."

Earlier that month, on Sept. 10, Vera Kisliak made a similar call, reporting that her husband was asleep in their home, located in the 2800 block of Acacia Terrace, despite a court-issued order of protection.

Dispatch: "So he’s there and he’s sleeping but per your court order, he’s not allowed to be in the house?"

Vera Kisliak: "He’s not allowed to be in the house, yes."

During that phone call, Vera Kisliak asked if officers could respond to the back door of the house, not the front. A dispatcher then asked, "does he have any weapons, any knives, guns on him?" A question to which Vera Kisliak responded, "yes, yes, yes."

While speaking with the dispatcher on Sept. 10, Vera Kisliak explained that her husband has a gun, but she wasn't sure if it was on him.

She proceeded to say that her husband isn't a threat.

"He’s not dangerous. They can just ask him to get his clothes and just leave the house," said Vera Kisliak.

But, court records show a pattern of domestic-related incidents, including when Vera Kisliak previously reported that her husband threatened to kill her.

During another 911 call released Friday, Vera Kisliak reported that she believed her husband stole her car.

Andrei Kisliak made numerous calls to 911 as well, including one on Sept. 11, 2022 asking officers to have one of his wife’s friends removed from their home.  

"She’s not supposed to have visitors, I need this woman out, she’s sleeping in my daughter’s bed," said Andrei Kisliak during the call.

Another time, Andrei Kisliak requested that officers escort him to the home while he retrieved his wallet and clothes.  

"I’ll wait way outside of the house until the squad cars roll up," said Andrei Kisliak.  

A few weeks before she was killed, Vera Kisliak made what appears to be a fateful decision: she let her estranged husband, who for months had tormented and threatened her, move back into the house.

Lake County court records tell a story of increasingly erratic, menacing behavior by Andrei Kisliak dating back to at least July, when the couple began highly contentious divorce proceedings. Among other instances mentioned in court filings, his wife told the court her husband brought home prostitutes, used drugs heavily, followed her as she took their children to school, stole her car and threatened to kill her "and disfigure her in a way that no one will recognize her."

Then, at a Nov. 1, 2022 hearing, the couple asked a judge to modify a protective order that had barred Andrei Kisliak from the house and from seeing their children without supervision, and let him move back in.

While only seven 911 calls were released, according to reports, police responded to at least 14 domestic-related calls involving the family.

Many of those calls happened in the months leading up to the murders.