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Cold Case Files

REOPENED: In The Care Of A Killer

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When a toddler dies under the care of a babysitter, everyone assumes it was the result of a tragic accident. That is until eight years later, when a second child dies in the care of the same babysitter. Read more about this case on the A&E Real Crime Blog: http://aetv.com/realcrime  Apartments.com: To find whatever you’re searching for and more visit apartments.com the place to find a place. Aura: For a limited time visit Aura.com/Trust to sign up for a 14 day free trial and start protecting your loved ones! Progressive: Progressive.com  ZocDoc: Check out Zocdoc.com/CCF and download the Zocdoc app for free! 

Transcript

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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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