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On Dope Row Part 1 Of 3
When the phone rang at 11:30 a.m. and it was not her fiance, Sharon Weidenfeld figured he had been caught. They had spent days in long, painful conversations in which he swore to her that one more high was all he wanted. "I told him over the weekend he was an addict," she says quietly, "and there is only one way an addict can say for sure he's getting high for the last time - you die."
As a veteran Maryland private investigator, Weidenfeld had cracked dozens of cases from lost family heirlooms to serial killers, but in the case of her 31-year-old fiance, Donald Wade Blankenship Jr., she felt helpless. She listened hard that weekend, attempting to guide him away from focusing on the addiction while he begged her for understanding.
Then the call came. "Have you heard anything?," Blankenship's friend asked sadly. "They just took Donnie out of here. They're taking him to Laurel Regional Hospital. His heart isn't beating."
"He must have OD'd!" Weidenfeld said, breaking down. She rushed to the nearby hospital in time to catch the Anne Arundel County, Md., paramedics who had brought him in. "How is he?" she demanded as crisply as she could. They claimed they didn't know. "That's when I knew he was gone," she says. A few minutes later, a compassionate doctor held Weidenfeld's hand in a private room. "I know he's not alive," she blurted.
"He didn't make it," the doctor quietly replied.
"I fell down to the floor," recalls Weidenfeld. "I was hyperventilating, I was just heartbroken. It didn't seem like it could be real."
Blankenship's heart...»»
