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Tia Hernlen: The 5-Year-Old Who Found Her Parents Murdered
In the early hours of the 28th March 2005, 5-year-old Tia Herneln called 911, saying that she had just found both her parents lying on the floor covered in blood.
Donna, the dispatcher spoke to little Tia and tried to keep her calm and focused, whilst she sent out for someone to go to the house.
When the police finally arrived, to their utmost horror, they found 5-year-old Tia still on the phone with Donna, and her mother Julie dead in the bedroom, lying next to her husband Aeneas, Tia’s father, who was clinging to life.
Who had committed this horrible act? And why had they done it? Was this a robbery gone wrong? Or was this a brutal act of revenge?
The Hernlens
Julie Morgan met lifeguard Aeneas Hernlen on Daytona Beach and they quickly fell in love.
