Disabled 19YO Found "Mummified" on Bedroom Floor | Crime Alert 03.11.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Disabled teen found dead on her bedroom floor, remains described as 'mummified.' Dog-nappers stage a fake 'seizure' to make off with two puppies.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Crystal Canales calls 911 reporting her |
| 0:05.9 | disabled 19-year-old daughters not breathing. But when EMTs arrive, cops advised them not to perform |
| 0:12.5 | CPR. Delilah the Lagos found lying in a fetal position on her concrete bedroom floor, malnourished, covered in bed so severe, the bones in her |
| 0:25.5 | arm, shoulder, and leg are visible. Canala says her daughter was up eating just a few hours before |
| 0:32.2 | she called 911. But Delilah's body indicates she laid there for quite some time. |
| 0:38.1 | Cops believed she was dead at least six hours. |
| 0:41.0 | Nancy, there was a visible outline around Delilah's body on the concrete floor, |
| 0:45.4 | and EMT said their remains appeared nearly mummified. |
| 0:48.6 | Delilah was so severely malnourished, first responders did not believe she could be 19 years old. |
| 0:53.9 | Bout Springs, Texas police concluded that any reasonable person would have sought medical care |
| 0:58.3 | for Delilah much sooner, finding her mother Crystal Canales criminally negligent in her death. |
| 1:03.5 | Family members say Canales was struggling with Delilah's care as the teen had become violent |
| 1:07.7 | towards her mother and medical professionals. Officers found both Delilah |
| 1:11.7 | and the home in good condition on a welfare check four years prior. Crystal Canales, 41, now charged |
| 1:17.6 | with one count serious bodily injury to a disabled person. Employees at a Colorado pet store call |
| 1:23.6 | 911 when a customer collapses. In the commotion, another customer lifts the lid on a puppy |
| 1:29.5 | pin and grabs two bulldogs that sell for $4,300 each and makes a break for it. An employee |
| 1:35.2 | dives to tackle the thief who drops the dogs, a second man scoops them up, and both men escape. |
| 1:42.6 | The man having a, quote, seizure makes a miraculous recovery, but employees hold him until |
| 1:48.5 | cops arrive. |
| 1:49.6 | The two remaining dog nappers still on the run, one pup recovered. |
| 1:54.6 | Wow, straight out of 101 Dalmatians. |
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