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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Father Kidnaps, Kills Tot After Breakup with Girlfriend | Crime Alert 03.19.25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Father forces his ex-girlfriend to watch while he strangles their 2-year-old daughter after kidnapping her from daycare. Woman goes berserk over cold pizza pick up!

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. It's life behind bars for a Texas man who killed his two-year-old daughter during a police chase, all while FaceTiming the live video to the girl's mother. D'ontre Flanagan, 26, picks his daughter up from daycare, then confronts the mother, Kirsten Watson at work. He accuses her of talking to another man,

0:22.9

strikes her, takes her phone, and flees with the daughter Zavaya. Nancy, that's when Flanagan

0:27.9

face-timed Watson with Zavaya sitting in his lap. Flanagan's hand is around her throat,

0:32.9

keeping the little girl from breathing. Flanagan repeatedly shouts, this is what you made me do, while Watson

0:38.3

begs him to stop. The chase ends when Flanagan crashes into two cars. When cops move in,

0:43.6

they find Flanagan used a blunt object to hit Zavaya in the head and smash Zavaya's head

0:48.6

against a blunt object. The little girl is rushed to a hospital, but pronounced dead upon

0:53.2

arrival.

0:57.4

Watson called police several times in the days leading up to the murder,

1:00.3

worried Flanagan would become violent after their breakup.

1:03.5

A jury convicts Flanagan of capital murder.

1:07.0

Watson vows to keep Zavius' memory alive.

1:13.1

Ricky Holly wants a late-night snack and decides on Domino's Pizza. Ready to dig in,

1:20.0

Holly goes into a rage when she discovers the pizza is uncut and cold. She gets in the car and drives to the closest St. Petersburg, Florida Domino's to berate employees. When they

1:25.6

refuse to replace the pizza, she throws the pizza at them and rips their phone

1:30.9

off the wall.

1:32.1

Well, police are called.

1:33.5

Ricky Holly, 22, spends the night in jail for criminal mischief.

1:36.8

Bet she won't find dominoes on the commissary menu.

1:39.6

More crime and justice news after this.

1:43.9

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online's John Limley.

1:47.8

We begin in Georgia as a Fulton County judge has ruled that statements made by Robert Aaron Long,

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