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🗓️ 13 June 2024
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0:00.0 | At the Freedom Church of Christ Cemetery in Lane Creek, Missouri, there's a gravestone with three names written neatly in a row. |
0:14.0 | At the top is the family name, Blankenship. |
0:17.6 | Underneath on one side, Sandra Lynn, mother. |
0:20.9 | And on the other, Billy Dion Jr. father. Both of those names are followed by a |
0:26.7 | birthday but not a date of death. In the middle etched in the marble, is the name Billy Dion 3rd, followed by the birthday, |
0:38.4 | October 23rd, 1988, and the date of death, November 16, 1990. |
0:47.0 | He was just two years old when he died. |
0:50.0 | From A&E, this is cold case files. Sandra, Billy's mother, will never forget the last time she saw her little boy. |
1:11.0 | It was November 15th, 1990. She gotten herself and two small children ready for the day. |
1:16.0 | She was going to work and Billy and a sister were going to their babysitter's house. |
1:20.0 | When they arrived, Sandy took the kids inside the house to see their babysitter. |
1:25.8 | Her name was Tawny Gunter. |
1:27.5 | She was 28 at the time. |
1:29.7 | Here's Sandy Blankenship, Billy's mother. |
1:32.4 | I remember him looking at me that morning with he was about ready to start |
1:39.2 | crying and Tani was holding him so I could get out the door and I wanted to turn around and go back and I didn't. |
1:48.0 | She drove the rest of the way to work and started her day the same as any other day. But it wasn't a typical day. |
1:55.0 | During lunch, Sandy's co-worker and friend told her that she needed to get to the Wandsburg Hospital. |
2:01.0 | Little Billy had fallen down some stairs. |
2:04.0 | Billy's parents rushed to the hospital and made it just in time to see the doctors preparing to airlift Billy to the children's hospital in Kansas City. |
2:12.0 | Billy was unconscious. He hospital in Kansas City. Billy was unconscious. |
2:14.0 | He was in critical condition. |
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