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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Badly Burned Body ID'd By Hero Dog | Crime Alert 05.16.25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Hero dog would not leave the spot where his owner died, helping to solve her murder. Thieves take odd items from a Tennessee church. 

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0:00.0

You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

0:05.4

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News Now, Robinson, Texas. Surveillance video captures the man walking in Walmart where he buys a large plastic container shovel gas can.

0:16.4

Shortly after, police get reports of a fire. In a field, police find a body inside a plastic tub,

0:24.2

burn beyond recognition. Nearby, a white labradoodle barking. Despite attempts to lead him away,

0:30.7

the dog stays where the body's found the next day, and neighbor reports the dog is still

0:35.1

there. Animal Control scans his microchip, identifying his

0:39.0

owner, Mandy Rose Reynolds. Nancy, that hero dog, Titan, split the case wide open. Once investigators

0:47.4

confirm Mandy's identity with dental records, they run her license plates and find her cars being

0:53.3

driven in Wichita, Kansas.

0:55.6

Derek Dagonow, Mandy's cousin, is found behind the wheel after a futile high-speed chase.

1:01.7

A 380 pistol found in the car matches shell casings found near Mandy's body.

1:07.6

Derek Dagonow now serving life for first-degree murder. Memphis pastor Gregory Harris of

1:13.8

Greater New Hope Baptist Church arrives Sunday morning to chaos. The church's side door torn off,

1:18.9

speakers ripped from the walls, office ransacked, strange thing missing, a toilet, and a box

1:25.2

of crayons. Despite the violation, Harris carries on with services refusing to let the thieves, quote, have the victory.

1:32.5

His message, your actions may bring short-term gain, but they'll haunt you in the end.

1:37.6

Still, no resolution.

1:39.4

More crime and justice news after this.

1:44.2

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news,

1:46.7

Crime Online's John Limley.

1:48.4

In New Mexico, a man who fled from police and fatally shot an officer during a high-speed

1:54.2

chase has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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