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Today we are going to be talking about the murder of a woman named Mandy Rose Reynolds and how her dog may have helped in the investigation. If you've listened to us for a while, you know that we are animal people. So when we heard about this case and that a dog assisted in the investigation, we really wanted to get more details. Now, of course, we're going to talk about Mandy first. And Mandy was born on August 2nd of 1996. She was only 26 years old when she was killed.
Her mother, Carlene Hardy, said that she was a friend to many. She had moved from Idaho to San Marcos, Texas, to be near her best friend. Mandy was also very excited about her future, and she was considering college, so she had a lot of plans. Her stepfather, Ron Hardy, said Mandy was active and generous. She was always eager to help others, and she was very outgoing. Also, she didn't really like staying in one place for too long.
So she was originally from Idaho, but she had lived in Tennessee and Louisiana before she moved to Texas a few months before her death. So she liked to do new things. Yeah. Another thing that I saw that I just wanted to include is Ron was doing an interview, and he was talking about how much Mandy loved her dog, Titan. And he said, quote, spoiled that dog bad. And as he said it, he had this, like, giant smile, and he was kind of chuckling. Yeah. So you knew, like, this girl was about her dog.
Yeah. Her baby. Right. Those two versus the world. Yeah. I loved it. I loved that her family could recognize how much she loved her. Her puppy. Yeah. So her family just loved her so much. And honestly, she seemed like such an amazing person. On her gravestone, it says, quote, our Rosebud once lived on earth as a lovely free spirit. Today, she dances with angels. That's very sweet. Sounds like she was just fantastic and a great dog mom. Because all puppies should be spoiled.
Yes. Yes, they should. So let's talk about what happened to Mandy. On the night of April 5, 2023, Robinson Police responded to a reported brush fire that was near a subdivision on Heston Circle in Robinson, Texas, which was just south of Waco. Amanda called it in and he told 911 that he wasn't sure if it was someone burning brush because they had been building houses nearby or if the brush had been struck by lightning.
So when law enforcement arrived around 10pm they found that a body was on fire. The body was burned beyond recognition. We watched police body cam footage, and the arriving officer recognized what was happening pretty quickly as he approached. And he mentioned later that it kind of looked like logs were burning until he got close and realized it was a leg. So he called it in and he put the fire out with a fire extinguisher.
When another officer arrived, he said that the body was likely female because he could see a bra strap. Now, while all this was happening, there was also rain and hail. I felt really bad for these officers for what they were seeing here, because that's not what they were expecting. So while they were out there, they also saw a white mini Labradoodle frantically barking at the officers. And this whole case is just horrific and sad.
But this next part really got me as I was watching the body cam footage. It just hurt my heart, the whole situation, and just. You'll see why. So the officers were extremely kind to the dog, and they kept calling for him to come, like, closer to them. One officer in the footage could be heard saying, you sure are hanging around here. Is that your person over there? You can tell that that person was likely a dog parent.
Yes. There's only one reason why a dog would be doing this particular type of action. Yes. Ugh. My eyes were watering the whole time watching this. Yeah. It was just watching the dog's mannerisms that got me. But the same officer was later talking to another officer near the police car. So not like at the scene, but kind of. Mm. Off of it. And he starts to say, hey, the way that dog's hanging around, it makes me think. Then he asked someone, hey, does anyone have a chip checker?
Can someone bring a chip checker? Because, like, you know, that he understood it too. Yeah. He also said, quote, is the dog trying to be protective or is it trying to lead us over there? Because it looks like she's trying to lead us over there. So dog people doing good in this world, right? Mm. So they tried to catch the dog, and they were worried, too, that it might walk through the crime scene. So they're really, really trying to get it near them.
The fire at one point had also flared up again. And you can hear one of the officers radioing that he's entering the scene again so that he could put it Out. Unfortunately, they tried so much, but they were unable to catch the dog that night. I believe it ran off at one point. They were able, you know, crime scene cleanup, they. They took the body but couldn't get the dog. The police were able to determine that the body was burned in a large plastic storage container.
They also found a shell casing that was burned inside the container. The following day, after the body had been removed, someone in the area saw the dog sitting in the field where it had been the night before. And that individual contacted Robinson Animal Control, and they were able to catch him this time. Once they were able to check the dog for a chip, they found out that his name was Titan and that he belonged to Mandy Rose Reynolds.
So given the way the dog was acting, police suspected that the body was likely Mandy's. But she didn't live there. She lived in San Marcos, Texas. And that was about 125 miles away, which ended up being about two hours. We're going to bring up something that's fucking wild that came about about this chip later in the episode, too. So just tuck chip in your head. But the microchip company sends out alerts via texts and emails to owners when lost dogs are found.
And we also believe that police called the number, linked the tag, and left a message. Authorities reached out to San Marcos police, who then went to Mandy's apartment to look for her. When they arrived on April 7, they found her place to be empty. Like, empty empty. All of her processions were no longer there. Her car, a black Honda Accord, was also missing. Police ended up running her vehicle through a license plate reader database and saw that her car was somewhere in Wichita, Kansas.
So they reached out to Wichita police to look for her car. So on April 7th of 2023, San Marcos Police found all of Mandy's belongings in an abandoned truck several miles from her apartment. Then the next day, on April 8, Wichita officers saw that car that we mentioned earlier and attempted to pull it over, and it turned into a high speed police chase. And when we say high speed, we mean it was over 100 miles per hour. It lasted about 30 minutes.
And the body camera footage is online, and it is stressful. The car ended up crashing into another vehicle, but during the chase, he rammed into multiple police units. Everything else aside, that's just dumb behavior. It is like, what do you think's gonna happen? Yeah. Do you think you're gonna win? Do you think you're gonna get away in the Honda? Yeah. Come on. Then after the crash, the driver of Mandy's Car took off running.
He ran into a nearby grocery store, Dylan's, and he hid on a bottom shelf behind canned food. Now, I will say he clearly planned that. That's not a spur of the moment hiding place. That's like you thought about where you would hide and that's a weird fucking place to decide. I don't know, because it was like that's where they crashed though. So I don't know if he'd like. I mean, being like, I'm gonna hide in a store on a shelf. Oh, not behind the canned food specifically.
I'm just saying, like, that feels like you thought about like, where would I go? What would I do? Ye bizarre. And the, the footage of this too is online. And yeah, my gosh, it's. It's something also, even just the idea of you are a shopper and you look at a shelf, you're picking up a can of beans. Because it's what I buy in terms of canned vegetables and there's a man behind it. They're gonna get hit with that can.
Yeah, I'm not gonna respond well, but anyway, so they had to lock the store down and they surrounded it. I can't even imagine how scary that would be for the people who worked there and people who were shopping there. Because you're just there to pick up your stuff. You don't wet. No, no. And there's police everywhere and sirens and like, it's scary. Yeah. And on the footage you could see employees and shoppers running out.
Law enforcement found the guy after a few minutes and they identified him as Mandy's cousin who was 27 year old Derek Dagnolt. Now, we've heard his last name pronounced several ways, so but we're going to go with Diagno because we're pretty sure that's what it is. They dragged him out of the cans because they literally had to drag him out. And they asked him what he took because he seemed like he was out of it, he was under the influence of something.
They basically had to carry him out of the store. And he went to the hospital and was then interviewed by police. Now, per the affidavit, he told them that he was driving his cousin's car because he had been with her in San Marcos, Texas, and he believed that she had been killed or kidnapped by a drug cartel. He said he also knew that the Wichita Police Department was wanted to talk to him about his girlfriend's death in February and that he had warrants out for his arrest.
He went on to say that he fled because he didn't want to go to jail and he wasn't going to stop as long as the police were chasing him, sir. You don't get a choice in that. Right. They're not going to be like, you know what? This is tough. Right. We'll let him go this time. A little off with a warning. Even though he smashed into our cars, clearly under the influence of substances. But so this, I thought, was just. He blamed the police for all of us. He's banging into police cars.
He's like, well, if you wouldn't have stopped chasing me, I wouldn't have had to do what I had to do to get away, sir. That's not how this works. What? That's not how any of this works. Yeah. So he claimed that he had had methamphetamine, a cell, cash, THC cartridges, and a handgun and ammo in the Honda. It's a packed car. There's a lot happening in there. Yes. When they searched the car on April 11, they found a handgun that matched the caliber of the shell casing they found with Mandy's body.
Daganal was on a felony probation at the time and had an active arrest warrant in Wichita. So then authorities were able to get a surveillance video from a Walmart in San Marcos that was recorded on the morning of April 4th of 2023. In the video, it shows Dagnall buying a large plastic container very similar to where Mandy was found. A shovel and a gas can at self checkout.
And the container that he bought, the only way that I can describe it is that it was one of those heavy duty storage containers. And typically, the ones that I see, like when I go to Home Depot or Lowe's, is like the black and yellow thick storage containers. Oh, yeah, yeah. They're the Costco ones. Yeah. But this one was black and blue. Another video shows him leaving the store in Mandy's car. And you can clearly see Titan sticking his head out the window.
When the autopsy was done on Mandy's body, the medical examiner was able to confirm Mandy's identity with dental records. They were also able to determine that she died from a gunshot wound to the head. And they also recovered a bullet from her body. Also to note, she was identified later in April after Dagnal was already caught. So, like, it was a little bit after that.
The Texas Department of Public Safety crime lab confirmed that the bullet found in Mandy's body and the shell casings were both fired by a handgun that was found in the car. Dagnall was ultimately extradited to McLennan County Jail from Kansas. And I just thought this part, next part was interesting. But under the terms of the extradition warrant, his case had to be resolved within 180 days. So his trial ended up happening November 4th in Waco's 19th state district court.
And according to that same warrant, if the case had not been resolved within 180 days, it would have been dismissed. That could have had something to do with his right to a speedy trial. It could have happened because administratively they had other warrants out for his arrest. So you've got a warrant out for your arrest until you're arrested, you aren't charged. Then you get arrested, you have your arraignment, you're told what the charges are.
So once that arraignment happens, the clock starts. It's like we're ticking. Everything needs to be done in a certain period of time. I would imagine that they were like, you can't delay your case and it affect his right to a speedy trial in these other cases. Well, that's what my guess would be. Right. So he had several things going. Right. He already had the warrant. He just went on a high speed chase. And then now we're seeing that he bought things that were used to dispose of Mandy's body.
Yeah. So, you know, not a great person. Now let's, let's talk about that background a little bit. This is not the first time that he's gotten in trouble. Surprise, surprise. In Kansas, there were charges for aggravated burglary, attempted aggravated robbery and aggravated assault. Use of a deadly weapon. He was already a multiple time convicted felon. Nine to be exact. He had been in prison in Kansas for the offenses we just mentioned. And he had also shot another person as a juvenile.
Yeah, a lot. A lot. He also had convictions for methamphetamine possession. And it seems like there may have been more serious offenses throughout his life, starting from when he was a teenager. He's also listed on the Kansas Bureau of Investigations site as a violent offender. And just to paint a picture of the site, it looks like a site that you typically see like registered sex offenders, but this is a registered offender website. That is interesting. It is.
We don't like, we don't have something like that here that I've seen, but it includes sex offenders, violent and drug offenders, and just any violent offense that they could have, which I thought was interesting. I will tell you that Maryland doesn't have it that clear, but we do have Maryland judiciary case search where you can just type in anybody's name and it will show you everything. It'll show you if they've gotten pulled over. It'll show you if they're in any civil litigation.
They'll tell you if there's any criminal charges. Interesting. You can, like, do a lot with criminal case searches, but this one's particularly user friendly. It is. It is very user friendly. So when you pull up his, like, profile for it, it names some of his Kansas offenses, his addresses, like, where he's been, vehicle information, and tattoos. And one that just, like. It just made me so mad to see is apparently he had a tattoo that says family on his right forearm. Get fucked. It just.
It made me so upset. As it should. The motive for Mandy's murder is ultimately unknown, but many theorize that it was for money. Now, there are some other theories, one of which is that perhaps she had found out about another crime. But we'll talk more about that later. According to Mandy's mother, Dagonault had reached out to Mandy under false pretenses, and that led to Mandy driving to Kansas to bring him back to Texas for a brief visit.
So he had somehow persuaded Mandy to go pick him up about a month before the murder, and she had allowed him to stay with her. So she's being kind to her cousin, and then this is what fucking happens. Yes. There's no information as to, like, exactly why he did it or what was the reason that she went to go get him. There was a GoFundMe that was set up by Mandy's mom, Carlene, to help pay for the family to travel to Texas to attend the court proceedings.
And again, we've talked about this in other cases, too. Like, we recently talked about it with Sam Norquist's family that when the family doesn't live in the same state, it's expensive. Like, you have to travel, you have to get lodgings. You're off of work. So it's expensive. It is. And that fucking sucks. You're already grieving and dealing with this horrible thing, and they're being a fiscal burden on top of. It just fucking sucks. Yeah, but.
So Kathleen also describes the series of phone calls she received, with the first being the titan was found then from law enforcement agencies and then a coroner. She ended the GoFundMe page saying, Our family is very grateful for any donations received. Please forward Mandy's story to all you know from our hearts. Thank you. I would think that the first call about Titan being found, there had to be this feeling in the pit of her stomach, like, that's not my daughter. What Happened.
Yeah. If my dog was missing and someone called my mom to be like, hey, the owner of this dog needs to come get her, she'd be like, something is wrong. Right. Right. And first, why would they not know that that dog was missing if that's your baby? Mm. Yeah. The world would know if one of my dogs was missing. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So we're gonna get into the trial. We also want to mention we were just talking about Titan. He was present at the trial, was very loving to everyone.
I am so sure that that was at least a little bit of comfort that her family could have is having him there. Yeah. On November 7th of 2024, Derek was sentenced to life in prison after a jury convicted him of Mandy's murder. It took them just 35 fucking minutes to deliberate. That's pretty quick. That's pretty quick. And it means that it was super clear. Yeah. Now, the trial, though, itself was four days, and we're going to talk about a few things that were notable that happened during the trial.
Mandy's father testified that she had fears about Dagonalt and that she had shared those fears with him. Her father also had urged her to cut ties with Dagonalt for safety reasons. He's a relative. Like, you know the dangerous shit he's gotten into, you're like, you know, he. He's not safe. Even though you're a relative, you're still not safe.
Yeah. It's so hard to imagine just how hard and heavy that would be, knowing that she was worried about her cousin, and he was probably, like, saying all the right things to manipulate her. And her dad was doing his best to try to get her to see the danger of the situation, but sometimes you just can't convince people it's such a horrific fucking outcome. Yes. Yeah. And, like, her dad was also saying all the right things. Right. To keep her safe and going. Cut ties like, let's take some.
Make some distance between them, and he still got this outcome, and it just breaks my heart for him. Yeah. The medical examiner also testified that a bullet fragment and shell casings that were found near Mandy's body matched the caliber of the pistol that had belonged to her grandmother. And it was the same gun that was recovered from Mandy's car when Dagonel was called. It's believed that Dagonel shot her, put her body into that storage container, drove to Robinson, then set her body on fire.
But authorities aren't sure, and they really can't determine where exactly Mandy was killed, but they think it may have happened in her own home. So sad. Yeah. And I. I do want to note, too, that this. I. I think they're deliberating for 35 minutes is because how much evidence they were able to have for this case. Yeah, it's pretty cut and dry. They're like, look what he did. He did this the day before. Like, come on. There's more to this, too. There's more evidence.
So Robinson police detective Whitney Mathis testified about tracking Mandy's cell phone by using multiple cell towers and locations. She basically provided that Dagnall was in possession of Mandy's phone, Titan, her car, and the gun after Mandy was murdered. Also, she confirmed that Mandy's phone pinged in the area of the San Marcos Walmart when he bought the supplies on April 4th. And then it was at a Lowe's in San Marcos about 45 minutes later.
The next day, it showed her phone on Interstate 35 around 6:25pm with additional pings going northbound until it eventually pinged where Mandy's body was ultimately discovered. And it pinged there around 9:05pm Also, there's ring footage from the subdivision, and it showed a black car matching Mandy's Honda drive by at 9:07. So, like, it's pretty accurate where her phone was. Yeah, the witness of the fire saw it around 9:20pm like, that's when he initially started seeing it.
So after this, the phone pinged, returning southbound, and it stopped near a Walgreens in South Austin for about an hour around 11:13pm There was a Walgreens receipt found in Mandy's car with the timestamp of 11:37. They're just confirming everything. Everything. And I. I love that you can pinpoint it so accurately now, because we saw it with, like, the Valo case, too. Yeah. How they found the kids, essentially. So just wild.
The phone arrived back in San Marcos around 12:28am and that would have been on April 6th. Strangely, the phone last pinged at a tower near Hillsborough. The following day, near a Cricket Wireless store, authorities found a receipt for a prepaid cell phone in Mandy's car. And this was really strange to me. Evidence showed that the phone was paid with a card belonging to Dagnolt's brother. Mandy's phone was never recovered either. Interesting.
Now, this next part is what we referred to when we first brought up that Titan had a chip and that the company sends out the alerts, you know, when a lost dog is found. Detective Marshall Perry testified during the trial, and he had spent about four hours at the crime scene the night that Mandy's body was discovered the following morning. He was at his desk when he got a very fucking weird call. Yeah. This phone call was played at the trial, and we were able to listen to it.
It's a little lengthy, and there ended up being a couple calls. So we're going to summarize a lot of it, but it's bizarre. So the caller opens up with, hi, my name's Mandy Reynolds, and I got a message that you guys found my dog. We want to note that the voice definitely does not sound like what you think Mandy should sound like. The caller seemed to sound like a man to me. Their voice was significantly deeper. I would also just say the cadence of speech sounded like a man. Yes, I agree.
It sounded like he was trying to raise his voice up a little bit. Yeah, it sounded suspicious. As the detective was on the call, a crime scene tech named Kayla Williams was also in the room with Perry. They were both looking at Mandy's Facebook page and immediately did not believe the voice that they were talking to matched who they were looking at. As they were looking at the Facebook page, the pictures began to disappear, and then the page was deactivated.
Perry was also a little bit suspicious of the caller. By a little bit, I mean, a lot, by the way. So he began asking a lot of questions. Most the caller ended up getting right. The call is redacted a little bit. So some of the info is coming from what was heard and reported on during the trial, and some of the questions were likely answered between multiple calls. One thing we noticed was that the caller called Titan a poodle retriever mix.
But a labradoodle is a lab poodle mix, and you don't get that wrong. No, a dog owner wouldn't get their dog wrong. I'm just being so real. Labradoodle people are not going to get a labradoodle wrong. That's true. That's true. And they're also simply not going to call them a mix. That's a labradoodle. No, no. So the caller in this story said that she was on her way to Wichita, Kansas, from San Marcos when she stopped at the rest area near Robinson and Waco.
And that's when Titan jumped out and ran off. Perry asked if it was a gas station or a truck stop and asked them to describe it, and the caller responded that they really couldn't, and it was just your average gas station. Okay, I'm gonna be real with you. You're telling me my baby jumps out of the car, I'm gonna Search that entire place. I'm gonna remember every single detail, and it's gonna stay in my brain like a steel trap. I'll be able to tell you what color the doors were.
Yes, I'm gonna know that place. Exactly. Exactly. So as Perry's asking more questions, the caller started to get a little bit like, oh, you're asking a lot of questions, considering I'm just calling to pick up my dog. Yes, but. So Perry was like, I'm just trying to see how far the dog went.
And the caller stated it was about 1am on April 6, and the detective knew that this had to be a lie because the authorities had seen Titan at the crime scene at 10pm the caller asked what time they found Titan, and Perry was quick to say they ran the chip this morning. Yeah. The caller also said they had looked for Titan for a couple hours, but they just had to keep continuing on their trip. No, I don't. No, I don't. Do I have to go to the hospital? Nope. I'm going to keep looking for my dog.
The caller then went on to say that they were on their way to Wichita to see their boyfriend's sick grandmother. Perry continued to ask more and more specific questions, and the caller eventually got agitated and hung up. Perry tried to confirm, so your name is Mandy Rose Reynolds. And the caller says, sure. It was so weird. Yeah, it was unnerving because you're like, well, you're lying. Yes. Yes. Even the way that they introduce themselves, like, all of it.
Even the beginning of the call, they're saying they're calling to get their dog back, but it doesn't feel like they're calling to get their dog back. I don't know how else to describe it other than that. Right. So Perry goes on to confirm the details. And that's when the caller gets pissed and says, what is this interrogation about? That's my dog. You guys have. Let's get that straight, Detective, before saying, I'll just come to the pound. Goodbye. So fucking weird. It is so fucking weird.
Also, dude, you're talking to a detective about your dog that went missing. Why? I would have been like, why the. Am I talking to the police? Yeah. Would have been the first thing I said. Right. Oh, they have dog detectives now? I would love that. Every time a dog goes missing. Yeah. You're gonna tell me they're gonna find its owner. But police don't even have time to do police work. Right. They can't even help missing people, let alone missing dogs. We understand that.
Anyway, all I'm saying is that the person who called, perhaps not that bright. Right. Exactly. Now, less than an hour later, Perry calls them back, and he's like, hey, we might have gotten off on the wrong foot. And he lets that person know that Titan was found near a crime scene of a deceased person, and that's why he was asking so many questions.
Now, the caller sounds stunned, but then says that they've really been stressing about Titan and that they paid a lot of money for him, and that was, like, the biggest red flag, right? Like, mm, mm. No concerned dog parent would ever mention that they paid a lot of money for their missing dog. The first questions out of their mouth would be, how's the dog? Is he okay? Where is he? When can I get him?
That also is just so at odds with who Mandy was that it doesn't even feel like this caller was trying to pretend. Yes. That they were Mandy. They were just like, I don't have to. That's a lot of fucking audacity. That also points out to me that their plan was probably to sell Titan. Yeah. Maybe Titan wouldn't get back in the. Car or tried to bite them, which would have been very smart. I hope so. I hope Titan bit them. I hope Titan fucking took a bite at a crime.
So Perry tries to confirm details again, and the caller sounds a little distraught and says that they don't know some of the details. Perry does a great job digging for information, though. I will give that to him. And he stayed calm the entire time, even though he knew that the caller was, like, blatantly lying to him.
The caller then says something about not being able to spend the whole day speaking to Perry and that they'll just go to get Titan and they don't want to be interrogated when their puppy ran off. No. Ultimately, the call ends with the person claiming to be Mandy saying something like, they will have their attorney call them because Perry informed them that Titan was on a police hold, and either way, they can't come get him. He's on the hold. Mm. Surprisingly, an attorney never called.
Authorities used a license plate reading system known as FLOCK to trace Mandy's car to Aquarena Springs Drive in San Marcos at the time of the call. The photo of the car shows heavy rain, and when the call was played in court, Ryan Calvert, one of the prosecutors, pointed out the rhythmic squeaking sound of the car's windshield wipers. So he's like, he's calling from the car. It's raining out. Do you hear it?
Perry said during the trial that he is convinced that it was Dagnalt who was pretending to be Mandy. And like, to me, that makes sense. Like, when you look at his picture, you're like, that's the voice I was hearing. Yeah. I just don't even know what his plan was, though. Yeah. Was he going to say, I'm gonna send my cousin to go pick up my dog? Yeah. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. That would have been weird too. Yeah. Yeah. So the sending was also wild.
Dagnaut ended up yelling at Mandy's brother and had to be escorted out. And this was during Manny's brother's victim's impact statement. Daganal kept interrupting him and even accused him of a crime. Then he even talked back to the judge. This guy has audacity. For days. Yes. Then a fight broke out between the Daggernaut family and the Reynolds family. And remember, they're all family, but just because you're a Reynolds doesn't mean that you're necessarily related to a Dagonal.
But anywho, one of the things that, like we were thinking about when we were researching was how difficult it would be for an intra family violence in this way where this is your sibling's kid who did this to your baby. That's. That's fucking hard. You lose your kids bad enough, but it's somebody in your family that did it. Yeah, right. Well, that and every family member had tie in that courtroom, at least had ties to both people for, you know, different reasons.
They were both their family members and both of them are now gone, essentially. Yeah. So Dagonalt's brother in law, M.K. herzberg, ended up trying to hit someone on the Reynolds side of the family. And he was taken away in handcuffs. He was then released 30 minutes later and no charges were filed. Dagnotte also made a very bizarre statement to a reporter. So he's being led to jail. And he told a reporter that he wanted to make a statement, and he reiterated that his cousin had committed a crime.
And then the reporter asked, well, what about you? And his response was, I guess I'm just a murderer. What? What? During the punishment phase, the jury learned that Dagnault had been in trouble many times in his life. So everything we talked about earlier also, generally you can't bring up all of the crimes that a person has committed forever in their life in a trial unless that person is like, I couldn't have done this. I'm a good person.
Once you start bringing in who you are as a person, then they can do it. But not before then. Yeah. And the prosecutor, even, I think, in a lot of the interviews said something along the lines of, even if we hadn't brought this up, he would've gotten the same sentence like we had so much evidence. Yeah. Additionally, In March of 2024, he also received a combined 111 month sentence in Kansas for multiple charges.
So 52 months for attempting to elude police, aggravated battery and criminal possession of a weapon by a felon after the high speed chase. So remember his hiding behind the cans? 52 months for that. Then he received 17 months for theft linked to him stealing two chainsaws, a vacuum cleaner, a toolkit, and a trash can from Lowe's in Derby. What? Why? What an assortment. What do you need two chainsaws for?
Then another three and a half years was added for a 20, 21 methamphetamine possession charges. And his life sentence requires him to serve at least 30 years before he's eligible for parole, which hopefully he never gets fucking paroled, because I think he just needs to just stay locked away. Away from everyone. Yeah. He's where he. He should be. Yes. So there's another just terrible crime that he might be linked to as well.
Friends and family of a woman named Shenoah Hansell suspect that Dagnalt may have been involved with her death as well. Now, she died on March 1st of 2023. Reminder, Mandy was murdered just a little over a month later on April 5th of 2023. As of now, Dagnolt has not been charged in connection with her case. But on one of the local news posts, we saw people who may have known Chenoa mention that her and Dagnalt were dating and that he said some awful things to her before she passed.
Someone else also mentioned that he was aggressive and threatened her. Another said that she told people if something happened to her, it was him. He does not seem like a person who I would rule out in any way whatsoever. Right. And I did see a few other comments, too, that said they suspect that maybe Mandy found out about Chenoa and that's why he killed her.
Yeah. Again, we can't confirm who knew who if it's all factual, but interesting that he mentioned that someone wanted to question him about his girlfriend's death. I believe he said February. She died March 1. But maybe it was a late night, you know, in February. And why would that be relevant to bring up in terms of why you were evading police? I'm not a believer in just because you ran. You're guilty, right? In this situation, it Was true.
But he's listing all of the things that he's done and, like, things that he was in trouble for. Yes. And he lists his girlfriend as part of that. Exactly. So Lindsay and I were very interested in what happened to Chenoa because there's not really much out there. There's very lovely things that her friends and family have said about her in, like, her obituary and just what a great person she was. But unfortunately, they still don't have any closure on this case.
We have requested some documents from the local government, and we'll be looking into it a little bit more. If we find something, we'll bring it up in our True Crime Digest. But interesting. He could be linked to another potential murder. Yeah. So let's bring it back to Mandy's case. When you look into the case, most articles show you this adorable picture of both the prosecutors, Ryan Calver and Alyssa Killen. The investigator, Keith Koons.
And they're all three crouching down with Titan for this picture. Like, you know, the four of them got justice for her and her family. Yeah. And just, I don't know, the love that a dog can show for humans is incredible. And he helped them to solve her murder so much quicker than they likely would have otherwise without him. Yeah. And Alyssa Killen said, quote, titan was key to investigating this case.
She didn't have any ties to the area, so there really would be no reason to think that she would have ended up here. And just from what we've seen, too, Dagnall also had no ties to that area. So putting both of them there would have been difficult. We're not sure why he brought her body there. The only thing that we saw is it was kind of an open space, and it was on the way to Wichita. Yeah. So it was just, I think, out of convenience for him. We do want to end this with some good news, though.
Titan was adopted by Mandy's best friend, and from some of the sources we've seen, he's doing great. I'm glad that he is well loved and doing okay. Thinking about Titan and Mandy, I think about it often with my dogs, but, like, some of the best relationships we have in our lives are with creatures that don't even speak the same language, you know? Yeah. So just give your pup some extra love this week for Mandy. I would also like to request that you give your cat some extra love.
Yeah. Yeah. That's just because she was a dog person. For all animals. Yes. I will request cats as well. I think she would have liked that, too. Between Titan helping to identify his person and how it seems like multiple police departments in multiple jurisdictions and states were able to work together quickly. We're just so glad that Dagnal was found and detained fairly quickly.
Like, in this case, usually we're like, ugh, this jurisdiction should have talked with this one and they should have done this. This seemed like it was flawlessly. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm just happy for that. We also hope that friends and family of Shenoah are able to get the justice and closure that they deserve in the future as well. Yeah, we. We know that law enforcement can do good work. We just like that to do it for everybody.
Even when they maybe make judgments about that person or X, Y, Z. There's a. There's many reasons why conclusions might not be reached, why justice might not be received. And when you know it can happen, it makes it even more frustrating when it doesn't. Because you're like, it's not that you can't. Yeah. It's that you're. You won't. Right. Right. You're not dedicating time to certain people for silly things.
Yeah. And so if there's any cases that you're aware of that you think need some more exposure, they need a little bit more pressure in the world. Let us know. We'd love to cover them again. Love your babies. Human and Furious or scales. We'll include them. Why not? Feathers, even. Oh, yeah. Well, with that, have a great weekend. Thanks for creeping with us. Thanks for listening and as always, a special thank you to our patrons who support us via Patreon.
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