FL FL - Bilalian (10) & Yvonne (14) Pinkney, Murdered Siblings, Jacksonville, July 4, 1987

[Tiff23fr]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Fourth of July is a time of celebration for many, but for Betty McDuffey it's the anniversary of the worst day of her life. It's a day she lights a candle for her children and prays their murderer is brought to justice.

Around midnight on July 4, 1987, McDuffey says she left her two children Bilalian and Yvonne Pinkney, ages 10 and 14, at their home on Brook Forest Drive in the Gulf Brook neighborhood to play cards with friends in a nearby subdivision.


“I was set up,” McDuffey said. ”I was truly set up.”

She says around 3 a.m., when she returned home, she noticed something.

“I saw the window with the screen ripped,” McDuffey recalled.

She walked in and found both Yvonne and Bilalian dead in separate bedrooms.

Revisiting 1987 cold case murder of Bilalian and Yvonne Pinkney | firstcoastnews.com

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[MadMcGoo]

12 Oct 2021, A4 - The Orlando Sentinel at Newspapers.com

 

[Laughing]

Mother says her children's headstones are missing

 

[MadMcGoo]

Mother says her children's headstones are missing

What?!

 

[Tiff23fr]

Additional Details on how the mother found them in this video interview:

Daughter found in mothers bedroom undressed.

Cold Case: Jacksonville mom still searching for answers 34 years after two of her kids were murdered

 

[Tiff23fr]

Mother says her children's headstones are missing

Oh My.. this is heartbreaking
As I was reading it, it felt like my chest dropped into my stomach

McDuffey said her children's murders have never been solved. Along with that mystery, remains another unanswered question at Restlawn, where they were buried.

McDuffey said when she returned one day to visit her children's graves, nothing was there.

"I went out there and I asked them where my children's grave was, the guy went and stuck something in the ground and said they'd call me back and they never called me," said McDuffey.

McDuffey said that was 10 years ago. Since the cemetery has changed owners numerous times, and every time she tries working with the new owner to figure out where her children's graves are. Every time she gets a run around.

Channel 4 tried to find someone to speak with at the cemetery on Monday afternoon, but no one was available.

 

[MadMcGoo]

Oh My.. this is heartbreaking
As I was reading it, it felt like my chest dropped into my stomach

McDuffey said her children's murders have never been solved. Along with that mystery, remains another unanswered question at Restlawn, where they were buried.

McDuffey said when she returned one day to visit her children's graves, nothing was there.

"I went out there and I asked them where my children's grave was, the guy went and stuck something in the ground and said they'd call me back and they never called me," said McDuffey.

McDuffey said that was 10 years ago. Since the cemetery has changed owners numerous times, and every time she tries working with the new owner to figure out where her children's graves are. Every time she gets a run around.

Channel 4 tried to find someone to speak with at the cemetery on Monday afternoon, but no one was available.

Oh my.

@othram perhaps this case may be of interest to you.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Mother says her children's headstones are missing

How disrespectful!! This place is being mismanaged for years is what it sounds like. Maybe it’s time for the organization to be investigated.

Snip:
Samuel Harris was in the cemetery while Channel 4 crews were looking for McDuffey's children's graves. Harris was also looking for a loved one's grave.

"I'm sickened because she meant a lot to me she meant a lot to me and I can't find her," said Harris.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Oh My.. this is heartbreaking
As I was reading it, it felt like my chest dropped into my stomach

McDuffey said her children's murders have never been solved. Along with that mystery, remains another unanswered question at Restlawn, where they were buried.

McDuffey said when she returned one day to visit her children's graves, nothing was there.

"I went out there and I asked them where my children's grave was, the guy went and stuck something in the ground and said they'd call me back and they never called me," said McDuffey.

McDuffey said that was 10 years ago. Since the cemetery has changed owners numerous times, and every time she tries working with the new owner to figure out where her children's graves are. Every time she gets a run around.

Channel 4 tried to find someone to speak with at the cemetery on Monday afternoon, but no one was available.

I hope they can find something to work with. Mom has her suspicions as to who did this.

Snip:

After resubmitting evidence to a new lab, they’re now hoping for a different outcome.

“That’s what we are in the process of doing, getting with different labs like our fingerprint lab, FDLE. Submitting stuff to them to see what they can get from what we still have,” Warkentien said. “Even from 2013 to what we have today in terms of fingerprint and DNA — hopefully, we can get something.”

 

[Tiff23fr]

5 Jul 1987, Page 8 - Tallahassee Democrat at Newspapers.com

 

[MadMcGoo]

5 Jul 1987, Page 8 - Tallahassee Democrat at Newspapers.com

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Hmm. This isn't quite the story she is giving now.