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A boy, a boat, and a birthday party. What should have been a celebration of life ended in a child’s death and a case that took years to surface. 

Join my co-host Pam Hill and me, investigative journalist Mollye Barrows, for “No Lifeguard on Duty,” a conversation about the first case I covered on Gulf Coast Confidential called, “Sink or Swim.” 

In this episode, we discuss the tragic drowning of 12-year-old Dondre Lewis in 2016, a fun-loving Pensacola middle schooler who died swimming off a borrowed yacht during a birthday party for his pastor’s son. 

The boy’s parents thought their son was in good hands only to find out later that no one went after Dondre when he went under and the party continued. 

Find out why it took so long for their story to be told in “No Lifeguard on Duty.”

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