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A murder victim's lost dog becomes the key clue in solving her murder.
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00:18From Snow One, where's your emergency?
00:20There's a fire in our subdivision.
00:23Where they're building the houses?
00:25Yeah.
00:26So you can just smell it in the air?
00:28Now I can see the fire.
00:30It's backed by the tree.
00:36When I responded, as I'm walking up, I'm thinking, is this lightning strike?
00:42Is a homeless person starting a fire back here to keep warm?
00:46As I walk closer to the fire, I start to see a log sitting there kind of propped up.
00:53And then as I get closer, that sort of looks like a leg.
00:58Then as I get even closer, I'm like, that's a human body that's burning.
01:04I need you to get fire, CID, and 04 out here.
01:10This looks like a body that's burning.
01:14Then the smell hits me.
01:19The burning of a body, it never leaves you.
01:24You never forget the odor.
01:26And you cannot unsee what you've seen.
01:30Could this be an accident?
01:32Of course.
01:32Is it one?
01:34Well, that's what we're here to find out.
01:39I spent my career closing murder cases.
01:44But I'm not the only one who answered the call.
01:48It takes a rare breed to solve the unsolvable, to catch a ruthless killer, to find justice for the dead.
01:59That's what it takes to be an American detective.
02:12My name is Marshall Perry.
02:14I'm with the Robinson Police Department.
02:16Been there since 2011.
02:19I'm with the Criminal Investigation Division.
02:27I was dead asleep when the phone rang.
02:30So dispatch called.
02:31They tell me, hey, there's a burning body in a field.
02:33They're just waiting on you.
02:36So this particular case, this was the very first one, where I was lead investigator.
02:41There's a lot more stress when you are the lead, because you want to make sure you're doing things correctly.
02:45So I definitely didn't want to mess it up.
02:48Every detective has a first case.
02:51Every detail will be burned into your psyche for the rest of your days.
02:55It's time to sink or swim.
02:59Once I got en route to the call, a torrential downpour came.
03:05One of the worst storms I've ever driven in.
03:08The weather can contaminate the scene, and we could lose evidence that way.
03:13I was just like, man, are you kidding me?
03:18So I arrive on scene.
03:20They had a pop-up canopy over the crime scene.
03:24Walking up to it, I've never seen anything like this.
03:28I could not tell, male or female.
03:29It was burned so badly.
03:32It looked like it was something out of a Halloween movie.
03:35I had to step back and realize, my God, I mean, this is a real person.
03:44Looking at the body, there was metal rods, metal rings, and different things around.
03:52We just didn't have any clue what they were.
03:55Also, one in particular piece of a square metal.
03:58As far as all this metal frame work, collect all that as well.
04:01It appeared to be metal hardware that looked like they came from maybe a container that the body had been
04:09placed in.
04:10It was very hard to tell what had happened.
04:14So who called it in?
04:16Somebody over here.
04:17One of my counterparts is Detective Whitney Mathis.
04:20Whitney was able to detect some kind of accelerant.
04:23It was quite strong.
04:27It was kind of hard to pin down as to, is it gasoline?
04:30But I was like, I smell a chemical smell for an accelerant.
04:33I don't think this is accidental.
04:35We don't have any ID?
04:37No.
04:39So here is Perry on his first murder case.
04:43It's not only a whodunit, it's a who isn't.
04:47I didn't know what we had.
04:49I just knew that there was a deceased person in a field, and we didn't have any answers at the
04:54time.
04:56So as Perry is being overwhelmed by the circumstances in which he finds himself,
05:01a patrol officer steps up and says there has been a dog here pacing in the area where the body
05:08was discovered.
05:11I was able to see a white labradoodle that was running around the scene, not directly up near the body,
05:18but it was staying very close to the area, barking.
05:23What's up, doggy?
05:25You sure are hanging around here. Is that your person over there?
05:29Corporal Atkins made the assumption, whoever this deceased person is, maybe that's their dog, because it just won't leave.
05:37So our four-legged friend might be the key to this case.
05:41Come here.
05:43I know, it's a rough night puppy. Come here.
05:47No matter how hard we tried, this dog was not going to be caught by any of us.
05:52Hopefully, by morning, animal control will have a better chance of catching in the daylight.
06:02So as in all homicides, you must follow the trail where the evidence leads you.
06:09Perry attends the autopsy of the remains.
06:12This is a thermal injury that's pretty extensive.
06:17But the organs on the inside actually can be quite well preserved and give us an idea on exactly what
06:23happened before a fire.
06:26Dr. Arbo was able to confirm that it was a female due to ovaries.
06:32He was also able to determine inside the lungs there was no soot.
06:36If you're alive, you're breathing in that soot as you're burning, and it would deposit in your lungs.
06:42And that tells me that the person was not alive at the time of the fire.
06:50So if the fire didn't kill her, then what did?
06:53That's when a .380 caliber slug is found in her neck.
06:58Perry knows what that means.
07:01Dr. Arbo let me know that, hey, this wasn't a natural cause. He said, no, this is a homicide.
07:09Further, the doctor says that the flesh that remains was already decomposing, which means the body was shot, and then
07:18sometime later, it is ignited.
07:22The big thing he wanted us to know was, how can we identify this person?
07:28The coroner discovers dental work in her mouth, which means there may be a means to identify her, because its
07:35dental work is unique.
07:37There's nothing that we can just type in a magical computer and say, hey, this belongs to this person.
07:41You have to already know who that person is, and then pull their records to confirm that this is, in
07:47fact, that individual.
07:50What else can we do to speed up this process?
07:54That's when good news arrives.
07:58Very early the next morning, they had Animal Control back out there looking for that dog, and they found the
08:05dog.
08:07So Animal Control was able to do a chip check, and it came back to an individual by the name
08:13of Mandy Rose Reynolds with a telephone number and address attached to it.
08:17The home address for Mandy Reynolds is from San Marcos, Texas, which is two hours south of Waco.
08:25The dog's name is Titan, described as a Labradoodle White.
08:29So the first thing we do is try to contact that number that's in the chip.
08:36We notify them, the Robinson Police Department has your dog.
08:41Harry doesn't know if that message is ever going to reach Mandy, because Mandy could be in the morgue, but
08:46Mandy could be somewhere else as well.
08:51Once I got the information that, you know, the chip came back to Mandy Rose Reynolds, I immediately began to
08:56look her up on all social media platforms.
08:58I did find a Facebook, and she fit the statute of the person size.
09:06She was a very small statute female.
09:11Later that day, he gets a phone call.
09:15This is Detective Perry.
09:18Hi, I just got a message saying you guys found my dog.
09:22Something's not right.
09:23I'm staring at this Facebook of this very small, petite female.
09:28And I get this individual calling that doesn't sound like a female.
09:32What was your name? I apologize.
09:35My name is Mandy.
09:36It was a shock.
09:37I did not expect that voice to come out of this individual.
09:41As a matter of fact, it sounds like a gentleman trying to disguise his voice as one.
09:44Where are you right now?
09:46I'm in San Marcos.
09:48You don't sound right at all.
09:50What the hell is going on here?
09:57Detective Perry gets this phone call from the owner of the dog asking for her dog back.
10:03But it sounds very fishy.
10:05Man, I've just been stressing about Titan and, you know, we paid a lot of money for him.
10:12Now, it's 2023, so I wanted to be respectful and obviously figure out who this individual is and why they're
10:19saying they're Mandy.
10:20And it just doesn't fit.
10:21Detective Perry was confused by that, and so he started doing what any good detective would do.
10:27He starts asking questions.
10:30Okay, where does the dog belong?
10:32Sam Marcos, and he just ran off.
10:36From where?
10:37From Waco.
10:39Well, I was on my way to Wichita.
10:41How long ago was this that he's been out?
10:44This would have been around one in the morning.
10:48The difficulty with that statement is, Titan was discovered at the crime stand at 9 p.m., four hours earlier.
10:56None of that computes.
10:58When the hair on the back of your neck stands up, follow your gut instinct.
11:01And it was one of those moments, it was almost like, okay, who am I talking to here?
11:07Perry begins to wonder if he's talking to the killer.
11:11So during the phone call, I was trying to get information, and then it became the anger of, hey, I
11:17feel like I'm being interrogated.
11:18I cannot waste my whole day speaking to you.
11:22You know what? I'll just come to the pound. Goodbye.
11:26Click.
11:27Well, we hung up, didn't we?
11:30Mandy, or whoever you are, because you ain't Mandy.
11:35I looked at my other counterparts, and I'm like, what just happened?
11:41Significantly, the caller came in through Mandy's cell phone number.
11:46Either that caller was Mandy Rose Reynolds, or that caller had Mandy Rose Reynolds' cell phone.
11:54In my head, this is going, okay, well, I can track that.
11:57I'm going to start typing warrants to figure out where the cell phone is at, and we're going to kind
12:03of go from there.
12:05The only way to resolve these facts in Perry's mind is to either find Mandy Reynolds alive and talk to
12:11her,
12:12or confirm that Mandy is the dead girl in his mort.
12:17Mandy's known last address is in San Marcos, Texas, which is two hours south from Robinson, Texas.
12:24So he calls the San Marcos Police Department and asks them to do a welfare check.
12:33Detective Davidson and myself went over to the apartment complex where she lived.
12:38They went looking for Mandy Reynolds.
12:42And instead, the person they found was a woman they identified as Diana Raya.
12:47Detective Davidson of the San Marcos Police Department.
12:50I opened the door, and there are two officers there.
12:55I had no idea what it was about.
12:59We're here on a welfare check for a person who needs to be associated to this apartment.
13:03Mandy?
13:05And they start asking me if Mandy lived there.
13:08It's like, no, but I'm her best friend.
13:13Like, she lives down the street.
13:15Have you talked to her in the last two or three days?
13:18The last time I talked to her was Sunday.
13:21At this point, we're trying to figure out how much information to tell Diana.
13:25We don't want to tip off that there's a dead body.
13:28The only reason that we're here on the welfare check is because his dog got down.
13:32And they filled me in that they found her dog, that he was chipped to my apartment.
13:37I was a little upset because when it came to Mandy and Titan, Mandy was never out of his line
13:45of sight.
13:46I am the manager of this property.
13:49Diana explained that she had moved Mandy to a different apartment within the complex, and she took over Mandy's apartment.
13:55They asked if I knew where Mandy lived and if I could take them over there.
13:59As we're walking, I'm like texting her.
14:03Like, I'm headed over.
14:05Are you asleep? Are you awake?
14:07She went and told us that Mandy's not answering anything.
14:14They opened the door to Mandy's apartment.
14:17Police department.
14:19And they're absolutely shocked at what they see.
14:24This is strange.
14:25The apartment, it's completely empty.
14:28There's nothing there.
14:29And then that's when I started to kind of panic.
14:35She was staying last time I talked to her.
14:38I tried calling her and I went straight to voicemail.
14:41Based off of everything we're seeing here, there's a lot of red flags.
14:44And I definitely think that Mandy's probably going to be the victim in this case.
14:49I hope she's okay.
14:54So, it's a mystery.
14:56Who would kill someone and then steal all their furniture?
15:00So, we went back in with some of our crime scene investigators.
15:04And we got no positive affirmation that there was blood inside of this apartment.
15:09When I found out the apartment was emptied, it brought up a curiosity of, I wonder why.
15:19So, Perry is still focused on trying to put sense to all this when he gets a phone call from
15:26the coroner's office.
15:28He stated that they have now positively identified the subject on scene as Mandy Rose Reynolds by dental records.
15:37And so, whoever that caller was, they were lying about claiming to be Mandy Rose Reynolds.
15:47Identifying the remains as the best part of this.
15:51And now it's time to perform the worst part.
15:55Notification of who survives.
15:58When I contacted, you know, her family, I gave them the worst news they've ever received in their life.
16:05I told everybody that I'm going to do everything in my power to give them answers that they so much
16:10need.
16:13When I first met her, we were both in Idaho.
16:18And, oh my goodness, she was like opposite of me.
16:22She was very loud, very vocal.
16:27She just took over the whole room.
16:32Mandy was definitely a free spirit.
16:35She always wanted to see what was out there.
16:39I always think back to having fun being silly and gossiping about boys and life and work.
16:49That's how I want to remember her.
16:56Perry asked the parents, is she involved with anyone?
17:00So she dated a fellow named John, her boyfriend, in Idaho.
17:04He did briefly move to San Marcos before Mandy died and actually stayed with Mandy there at the apartment complex.
17:16So the question now is, why did John move out?
17:19And why is Mandy dead shortly after that?
17:28Of course, any name that's given, you have to look at as a potential suspect because you don't know what's
17:33going on.
17:35What if John becomes enraged and he kills her?
17:39Could that work?
17:41Oh yeah, that could work.
17:42So now the effort is, where is John?
17:47We need to chat.
17:52At this point of this investigation, we have determined that John went to visit Mandy Reynolds, his on-again, off
17:59-again girlfriend in Texas, and then she's found dead.
18:07We have to find out what's going on.
18:13Detective Perry speaks with John.
18:16John is polite, cooperative, said yes, and went to visit her to make certain she was okay.
18:22I returned to Idaho, she remained in Texas.
18:26But everybody says that.
18:28No one is responsible for anything when they talk to the police.
18:33They are as innocent as the driven snow.
18:36We know that on either April 3rd or April 4th of 2023, Mandy was killed.
18:44The only question Perry needs to resolve, where was John on the date of occurrence of this crime?
18:54He lived at a state, and everybody around that I spoke to confirmed that he was never around.
19:00That individual was no longer in the San Marcos area at the time Mandy disappeared.
19:04But John is able to provide another lead.
19:08When he returned to Idaho, Mandy texted him about some guy named Derek saying that she was afraid of him.
19:18So it's something to pursue.
19:20We have a new player.
19:24She never really went into specifics of why she was afraid of him or what was going on.
19:33I need to figure out who this is.
19:36Picture it like a bloodhound.
19:38You start getting a trail and you just keep following and following and following it.
19:41That's what I did.
19:42So now, Detective Perry turns to Diana, Mandy's best friend.
19:49The information I got from Diana was that Derek is Mandy's cousin.
19:59At roughly three weeks prior to the incident, Mandy and her cousin had been in communication with each other.
20:06She knew who he was because they were Facebook friends, but she never mentioned him.
20:13And then Mandy told me like, hey, I had my cousin Derek reach out to me.
20:25Mandy had recently moved to San Marcos and was lonely.
20:28Diana had a job.
20:30Diana had a boyfriend.
20:31And so Mandy wanted some family around.
20:35And next thing you know, she drives to Kansas, picks up Derek and brings him back down to live with
20:41her in San Marcos.
20:44Derek was a white male with brown hair.
20:48He had tattoos on his arms and was wearing a medical walking boot on one of his legs.
20:56When I was around him, he was very quiet.
21:01Like, he wasn't super talkative.
21:08But Diana goes on to report to Perry that there's something about Derek that Mandy doesn't like.
21:18She had seen that Derek had cashed up a lot of her money to his friends.
21:28And she confronted him and she kicked him out.
21:33Mandy told me that she dropped him off at the bus station.
21:42Diana then said that Mandy's vehicle is usually parked in the apartment complex, typically in one spot.
21:47And that vehicle was gone.
21:49As the lead investigator, this rang bells everywhere.
21:55Perry is thinking back to the strange phone call he'd received, trying to convince him they are, in fact, Mandy
22:02Reynolds.
22:03What was your name? I apologize.
22:05My name is Mandy Reynolds.
22:09What does it mean?
22:10Well, it means he has the phone.
22:12And whoever that someone else is, probably is driving around in Mandy's gray Honda.
22:18And it begins to occur to Detective Perry that that someone is Derek.
22:31So at that time, search warrants were run to get more information on that cell phone and cell phone location.
22:39Detective Mathis, he was able to locate from different pings where Mandy's phone would travel.
22:49Mandy's cell phone was in San Marcos.
22:51I pinged it at her apartment.
22:53And then I start seeing her cell phone kind of travel into this district and area where I have commercial
22:58buildings.
22:59Mandy's phone traveled in San Marcos near a Walmart.
23:04And then it shows Mandy's cell phone traveling northbound to the city limits of Robinson, Texas, leading to the crime
23:12scene where Mandy was eventually found.
23:16This looks like a body that's burning.
23:19After her body is dumped, I watch her cell phone travel again on the next day, going back up the
23:25I-35 corridor.
23:27And that's where I lose track of it.
23:34We knew that Mandy drove a Honda. We knew the license plate from that vehicle.
23:39Detective Tennant immediately made use of a system called Flock, which is an automated license plate reader throughout the United
23:49States.
23:50If that Honda passed through one of those cameras, there's going to be a record of it.
23:54You can run, but you can't hide.
24:01While Detective Perry is waiting for a response, Perry goes back to the fact that the cell phone went to
24:07Walmart.
24:10Walmart probably has more cameras than a casino has. Perry contacts Walmart security to get the tapes for the dates
24:19in question.
24:20At this time, we look through all the video from Walmart, and I got him in Mandy's car.
24:31It's him, Derek, with her medical boot on his foot.
24:37And while he was in the parking lot of the Walmart, Titan, Mandy's dog, stuck his head out the window.
24:46So Perry sees him walk through the doors.
24:49He reviews the internal security tapes, and it's even better.
24:57Surveillance Derek is seen going into the Walmart and getting a shovel, a gas can, and a large blue and
25:05black tool tote.
25:06It's a very heavy plastic container, and it's got metal clasps that lock it shut.
25:12But the particular storage container only had one metal clasp to secure the lid.
25:22The other metal clasp was missing.
25:27And that matched up identically with the metal hardware that was later found at the crime scene.
25:36What is this massive tote bin, you ask?
25:39What it is is Mandy's coffin.
25:45Detective Perry is closing in on Mandy's cousin, Derek, as his killer.
25:51Police learned that Derek Dagonal had been in trouble for literally his entire life.
25:57He had committed crimes as a juvenile in prison for burglary.
26:04And so he was, in effect, a career criminal.
26:12But the question now is, where is he?
26:17Investigators used the flock system to figure out where the last place Mandy Rose Reynolds' black Honda Accord was seen.
26:27And that turned out to be in Wichita, Kansas.
26:34When I heard that the vehicle was in Wichita, that's when I had dispatched Sendebolo to Kansas City, Wichita, to
26:39say,
26:39hey, please be on the lookout for this particular vehicle.
26:42They wanted us to try to stop the car, identify the people in it, and seize the car to process
26:48later for evidence of the homicide they were working.
26:54And then our patrol officers had seen this car pop up in an area in northwest Wichita.
27:01And I get a call from an officer from Wichita.
27:06And he notified me that they were about to pull behind the vehicle.
27:09And he said he'll call me back after they stop and identify.
27:12It was like a kid waiting on a Christmas gift to open.
27:1845 minutes to an hour later, I pick up the phone and immediately, what did you get us into?
27:25He said, man, as soon as we got behind this car, before we could even turn the lights on, it
27:31booked.
27:41He floors the gas in that Honda, and he is off.
27:45Hit it!
27:49That pursuit escalated and very quickly reached speeds way over 100 miles an hour.
27:55It was blown through intersections.
27:56Don't watch.
27:58Watch.
28:01It was weaving in and out of traffic.
28:04Go around, go around.
28:08This idiot driving this Honda Accord thinks he is a stuntman and car driver of the highest order.
28:15And he is going to outrun an entire police department.
28:19Stay in this left lane.
28:20He's cutting around up here.
28:23They lose sight of him a couple times.
28:25They find him again.
28:28Slow down so you can take the curve.
28:31Get up there with him.
28:34You're going to be white knuckling the steering wheel.
28:36This is a chase.
28:38He's running.
28:40He's not going to stop.
28:41And he continues to run and run and run until his luck runs out.
28:47He's wrecked at 13.
28:49And he rams the car in an intersection.
28:56But the chase still wasn't over.
29:02The driver got out and ran on foot.
29:08Towards a nearby Dillon's grocery store.
29:11There he is.
29:12There he is.
29:14Lock the Dillons down.
29:19This chase will continue until it is resolved.
29:23This is not a traffic ticket.
29:24This is a murder.
29:26Get in your car!
29:28Come out!
29:29Come out!
29:33They chase him into the store.
29:361829, 1829, come in.
29:401829, go ahead.
29:41They lose sight of him.
29:44Where'd he go?
29:44I say they turn to the back.
29:48It's the ultimate nightmare.
29:50He could take hostages.
29:52He could shoot people.
29:54He went down aisle seven.
29:56He's easily recognizable.
29:58He can't blend in with a medical boot on his foot.
30:02They're going to methodically search this store.
30:05Where'd he go?
30:07Did you see him?
30:09And then you just start the process of going up and down each aisle.
30:14When you corner a killer, you should remember he's already killed once.
30:19After that, it's just numbers.
30:21Come out!
30:22He is the most dangerous person in this building at that moment.
30:26So they are keyed up to the max.
30:28And their shoulder weapons are at their ready.
30:31Where is he?
30:33Can you see him before he sees you?
30:36They see a weapon, they're going to drop him like a bad habit.
30:44They're looking, searching cautiously.
30:47Where are you, you son of a bitch?
30:51You're back into that high stress, very, very focused situation.
30:56One officer sees cans on the floor.
31:01They realize that there is a man inside the shoving unit.
31:20He was not being real responsive and they had to pull him off the shelves.
31:26They get him handcuffed.
31:27Pull him out.
31:30Let's get EMS inside for the suspect.
31:35The officer was on the phone with me.
31:38He said, but good news, we got him.
31:40And his name was identified as Derek Dagnault.
31:44After Derek Dagnault was arrested, police conducted a search of Mandy's car.
31:50That car contained a gas can that Derek Dagnault purchased at the Walmart.
31:57Most importantly, that car contained a firearm.
32:01It was a .380 semi-automatic pistol.
32:05He's coming too.
32:07There we go.
32:08We're all good.
32:12So I gave Detective Chisholm a quick backstory of what we had.
32:16So he definitely wasn't going into the interview blind.
32:20Hey, Derek. Detective Chisholm is Sergeant Hardy.
32:24When we enter the room, Derek's sitting in a wheelchair and he's very subdued.
32:29Where'd you get the car?
32:31The car was my cousin's, Mandy.
32:34Steal the car from her?
32:36I took the car and it wasn't my choice.
32:40Derek says, gone down to Texas with Mandy.
32:43When he got to Texas, he found out she was stealing drugs for the cartel.
32:49Mandy, was he deemed in debt with the cartel?
32:53And I didn't know that, right?
32:56Mandy, was the cartel 15,000 for a year?
32:59That's what Flying Squirrel said?
33:02Derek named the cartel members' names as Ralphie, who had a glass eyeball,
33:07and the other as Flying Squirrel.
33:09This ended up being the names from a children's book.
33:12Have you ever seen this book?
33:16No.
33:17No, I've never seen the adventures of Ralph, the superhero Flying Squirrel.
33:24This again speaks to his lack of native intelligence.
33:27But I'm not a blackhead like Derek is, so I wouldn't know.
33:31Derek says Ralph and Flying Squirrel offered to pay him $500 to dig a grave for them.
33:37Until I figured out this was my grave.
33:40And that's when, as Derek turned around, they shot him in the chest twice with a handgun.
33:46Take two to my chest move.
33:47Right.
33:48But they don't know that I got a bulletproof vest on.
33:51An odd choice of fashion, but nonetheless, he says that's what he's doing.
33:55He was not actually killed by the gunfire, and he played dead.
34:01You know, they think I'm laying down there flat, but I'm not.
34:04And I'm like, how far crazy is this story?
34:08So, I get out of the grave, and I go home at Mandy's apartment.
34:15She was there when? When you got back?
34:17No, no, no, no.
34:18He says the place has been cleared out.
34:20No furniture, no anything.
34:22That's the terrible thing about assassins.
34:25There are also furniture movers in their spare time.
34:28Anything else? Look out of police.
34:30Mandy's gun was sitting right on the floor.
34:32What kind of gun?
34:34It was a 380.
34:37He doesn't see Mandy, but he knows that Mandy's been kidnapped.
34:41Like, this is my friend, my cousin. I love her.
34:44And I could just tell, like, something wasn't right.
34:48I took Mandy's gun.
34:50Because I might have to kill these motherf*****.
34:52And, uh, I love her.
34:54He's just wanting to get away from the cartel.
34:57And then he gets caught from Ritchita.
35:00Derek is suffering from diarrhea of the mouth.
35:04He is making things up as he goes along.
35:07And it's an absolutely preposterous story.
35:10It's just as silly as any kind of children's book written.
35:14Let me tell you like this, boss.
35:16I didn't kill nobody in Texas.
35:19And I'm not into riding around with dead bodies going from.
35:22That's your family.
35:23And that's how you react.
35:25That tells me maybe you don't have sympathy.
35:28Or any empathy for what happened.
35:30It was a very interesting comment.
35:32Very dark.
35:33As we get towards the end of the interview, I think he starts to realize that he's not as much
35:38in control as he thinks he is.
35:40And he'll actually ask for as an attorney.
35:44When I heard Derek speak, I knew immediately.
35:46That's who I talked to on the phone.
35:49My name is Mandy.
35:50You guys found my dog?
35:52Everything came full circle.
35:54And it was just an a-ha moment.
35:57Like, we got him.
36:02He's bought and paid for in this case.
36:05Hopefully, he will lack the new tattoos he receives in prison because he's going to have a lifetime to select
36:11some.
36:13Derek never admits killing Mandy.
36:16But based on the reconstruction of those events, it's pretty obvious what probably did happen.
36:22Derek was stealing money from her.
36:25And then Mandy Reynolds said, all right, that's it. You got to go.
36:32But he had no place to move on to.
36:40He returns to the apartment.
36:44He is aware that Mandy has a handgun.
36:51He recovers the gun and checks it and it's loaded.
36:59He likely forced her into a car at gunpoint.
37:07Drove her to a remote location.
37:11And shot her execution style.
37:22And now the question becomes how to cover that up.
37:26I think Derek panicked.
37:28It was one of those moments of, oh, my God.
37:30I have a body to just try to hide.
37:33I think what potentially went through his mind was, let's unload her entire apartment into a Penske truck.
37:39Just to make it look like she's gone.
37:43That's stage one of the plan.
37:44Well, we'll just make people think she moved.
37:48Later in the investigation, a Penske truck was located with all of her belongings.
37:53He then went to Walmart.
37:54He bought that shovel.
37:56That was his first plan.
37:57To say, I'm going to dig a hole and barrier in a field.
38:00The hole was located by San Marcos Police Department.
38:03You can tell somebody did that with a shovel.
38:05Well, he realized that Texas dirt is pretty hard and it's really hard to do wearing a medical boot.
38:09So then he had to go to plan B.
38:11Stuff Mandy in a tote with all the evidence.
38:26And let her on fire.
38:36The dog is in the car, the dog gets out of the car, but the dog won't leave.
38:41He is loyal to Mandy.
38:45Derek realized, I got to get out of there.
38:48So I definitely think Titan was cut loose at that time.
38:52Detective Titan, as I call him, solved the case.
38:55And that's the truth.
38:56Because if it wasn't for Titan, I don't know where we would be today.
39:05Derek Dagenault was tried and convicted with the crime of murder.
39:13The jury sentenced him to the maximum possible sentence of life.
39:22This investigation would not be without the joint effort of everybody that was involved.
39:28And they nailed it.
39:29They hit home runs.
39:31And as the lead investigator, I am proud.
39:34We made one hell of a team that put the bad guy away.
39:40Come on, Titan.
39:42Titan is with me.
39:45So it's just nice to be able to come home and just have like this little bundle of fur.
39:55Just so happy.
39:58And then it makes me happy.
40:04Because I feel like he's a representation of her.
40:10It's not mine.
40:13Titan was able to resolve the murder of his master by his love and devotion.
40:20And not leaving Mandy Reynolds behind.
40:23There's a reason they're called man's best friend.
40:27And this case proves it.
40:35There is a predator in their midst.
40:37This looks like a body that's burning.
40:39Who enjoys the sport of killing.
40:44She said, I just feel like I'm being watched.
40:49What happened to us was terrible.
40:53But what happened to him was catastrophic.
41:01He had threatened me that if I speak to this woman again, you're out of the house.
41:05All behavior you willfully engage in has consequences.
41:09You're caught. You're involved.
41:11Three things I'm done for today.
41:13We, the homicide detectives of the world, are the consequences.
41:16I'm telling you that you're lying to me and I'm calling you on it.
41:19And we're going to crush you.
41:22You make any move or you will be killed!
41:24Maybe.
41:24Maybe.
41:25Maybe.
41:28See you later when we stalling.
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