Today on Crime Stories, we traveled to North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

The rescue worker never expected she would have to rescue one of her own dogs from the

foster mother that promised to take care of him.

I saw him in the crate and I don't think there's even words for how devastated I was.

Joining Nancy Grace, legendary animal rights advocate, Penny Douglas Furr.

Chana Young, founder of Fight Like a Champ Animal Advocate Army Rescue, Justine Stenet.

Dr. Daniel Bober, forensic psychiatrist, Joseph Scott Morgan, forensic expert, professor

of forensics and author of Blood Beneath My Feet, and Levi Page, investigative reporter

for Crime Online.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

Starrved and deprived of water for 30 days, pictures illustrate the abuse champ, the

rot-wilder and mastiff mix allegedly endured at the hands of his owner in Lawrence County.

I don't know how someone could actually do that and I strongly feel that some people

just don't deserve animals.

Thirty-year-old Elizabeth James is charged with ill treatment of animals.

After investigators say she intentionally served the dog that belonged to an ex-boyfriend,

all while feeding her own dogs.

After a neighbor made a call to animal control, the dog, later renamed Champ, was brought to

see vets in Colombia in critical condition.

He needed a blood transfusion, he needed some intensive ibifluids and electrolyte management,

he needed just calories and the natural proteins that you need to survive.

On Tuesday, Champ received a visit from the Richland County Sheriff's Department, bringing

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