A 911 call from Merritt Island, Florida, revealed every parent’s nightmare — a two-month-old baby, cold and unresponsive in his bassinet. But what started as a mysterious infant death soon pointed to something far darker. As investigators pieced together text messages between the parents, Belle and Donovan Winter, medical reports, and interviews, the story that emerged would expose exhaustion, anger, and fatal neglect behind closed doors.

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