Move Over Veronica Mars, 8-Year-Old Online Sleuth Reunites Siblings After 65 Years
LatestAn 8-year-old kid who probably knows more about computers than all of us combined times ten, helped his neighbor find his older sister via Facebook. Watch out Veronica Mars, there’s a new teen girl detective in town. And he’s a boy. And he’s eight.
Sixty-five years ago in Chicago, Betty Billadeau and her brother, Clifford Boyson, were placed in separate foster homes. They hadn’t seen each other since 1948 until Boyson, who now lives in Iowa, asked his 8-year-old neighbor, Eddie Hanzlin, to look for his long lost sis’ online. Which was very smart, considering my 7-year-old niece can pull up a One Direction video on YouTube faster than I can type “You”.