Toddler Found Alive In Morgue, 5 Hours After Doc Declared Him Dead
Amy & T.J.
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4.4 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
An unbelievable story out of Arizona, after an emergency room doctor pronounced 1-year-old Vincent Fiordilino dead after he fell into the family pool and was underwater for more than 5 minutes. Police body cam footage shows nurses, the family and even officers question whether the boy was actually dead after they saw breathing and a faint pulse. Police say the doctor “arrogantly” insisted the toddler was deceased, and it wasn’t until more than 5 hours later that a transporter from the medical examiner’s office found the toddler alive in the morgue. As the family prepares to sue the doctor and the hospital, prosecutors are considering filing felony child abuse charges against the parents, who were apparently smoking marijuana when the toddler fell in the pool.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.2 | TJ Holmes here alongside Amy Robach, and it's a story that really we've only seen in movies. |
| 0:13.8 | Somebody goes into a morgue and finds somebody in there with a tow tag but alive. |
| 0:21.8 | But this has happened in real life and a toddler is involved. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to this episode here. |
| 0:29.0 | Robs, this is, I've seen this in a bunch of movies, to be honest with you. |
| 0:33.4 | Robs, I don't know how in God's name this happens. |
| 0:36.3 | We should be grateful that the kid is alive, but how does this happen? |
| 0:39.7 | It's alarming beyond belief. I mean, a one-year-old. And we're talking, it was, I believe, |
| 0:47.1 | when we'll get into the timeline of how this all unfolded, but it was five hours after this little boy was pronounced dead, his body in the morgue. |
| 0:57.0 | Someone from the medical examiner's office coming to pick him up and realizes, holy hell, this |
| 1:04.0 | little baby has a pulse and is breathing. |
| 1:08.0 | And you think a mistake is made, you think how can a mistake like that be made? And then you think about maybe this is some kind of a miracle. Well, they don't think it's that. So let's get into what we're talking about. Robes, this was an incident that happened in February. It happened on Super Bowl Sunday, actually. But it happened in February. We're only getting it now because the police report was just made public. That's correct. We're talking about one-year-old Vincent Lorenzo |
| 1:32.7 | Fior Delino. He was, well, he is at the time he was a one-year-old from Arizona, and yet his parents |
| 1:39.4 | had a Super Bowl party. So you can see, look, we have both, I'm sure, covered tragic events where |
| 1:46.0 | kids go missing, end up drowning, end up in some harm's way because the parents are distracted. |
| 1:51.8 | They're at a party. Everyone thinks someone else is watching the child. They have two other |
| 1:56.9 | young children in the home, but somehow little Vincent goes outside of his family home |
| 2:02.4 | and falls into the pool. And so a 911 call is placed by the family, the desperate family at 5.30 |
| 2:10.4 | p.m. And Vincent is rushed to the hospital. Yes, work is being done on him, according to all reports. |
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