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Appeal filed in toddler's salt poisoning death

Web Posted: 06/14/2008 11:22 PM CDT

By John MacCormack
Express-News

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Of the last terrible hours of Andrew Burd's short life, a few bare facts are undisputed.

On Oct. 2, 2006, after the 4-year-old became ill with chills and vomiting, he was taken by Larry and Hannah Overton, who were in the process of adopting him, to an urgent-care clinic near their home in Corpus Christi.

With his condition rapidly worsening, he was transferred first to one hospital and then another. But Andrew never regained consciousness. It was later determined he had died of salt poisoning.

Hannah Overton told doctors and police Andrew got sick after she gave him a mild mixture of water and Cajun seasonings in his sippy cup when he insisted on more food after a full dinner.

But others soon saw a darker picture, and here the story lines split. Where one side saw a tragic and bizarre accidental death, the other saw harsh discipline, child abuse and murder.

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