A 13-year-old cold case solved, giving one family some long-awaited answers
and last updated 2021-05-14 22:55:33-04
WACO, TEXAS â It was a normal day in May 2008 for Lenda Port.
She spent most of her night bowling with friends, however, when she came home and went to sleep she was awoken by her phone ringing multiple times.
âShe goes, it s Bree, and I said, âWell, where is she?ââ Port said, remembering the night her sister called her. âShe kind of hesitated and she said, âShe s gone.â I said, no⦠and I just screamed.â
Her sister was calling to tell her that her daughter, Bree Breichner, was struck by a hit-and-run driver and died by I-35 in Bruceville Eddy.
But apparently there was a lot of Netflix-watching going on â especially in Bell County.
Births have dropped dramatically across the United States, according to an Associated Press report, and the decrease locally is much steeper.
Births in the U.S. during December 2020 and in January and February 2021 â nine months or more after the spring 2020 shutdowns â were down 8 percent compared with the same months a year earlier.
Bell County, however, saw a much sharper decline.
According to numbers supplied by County Clerk Shelley Coston and the Temple City Secretaryâs office, births in Bell County plunged 14.3 percent during the same time frame.