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foreign [Music] the ability to kill is obviously somewhere in all of us because it happens every day across the
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country two and a half years ago my wife and I we were living in New Orleans having a
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good time living there in The Big Easy and I was working in the movie business I've produced and had directed a few
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short films [Music] murder rebelia it was then I knew it was a girl and she was young
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got me the reputation of being a person who is really into murder and things like that I shoved her body over in the
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shower and just kept stabbing her my name is Michael ushry I'm a filmmaker and was a
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suspect in the Angie Dodge case [Music] 19 year old Andy Dodge was murdered last
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week the latest violent crime in Idaho Falls at least one of the weapons used in it was a knife as the officers
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arrived at the crime scene and found Angie Dodge laying on the ground and it was obvious that there was a very brutal
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murder that had happened a lot of blood it's sad to see an 18 year old girl and see her life taken at the hands of
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somebody else in this fashion [Music] he was my daughter and she's my baby I'll never stop missing her during the
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investigation when we collected all the evidence we came across a significant amount of DNA that we believe is from
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the Killer would you say that this crime scene provided really good evidence excellent
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evidence we had a a neat semen sample for nearly two decades police could not find a match to the Killer's DNA so in
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2014 they went way outside the box and searched a public DNA database owned by ancestry.com
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it led us to this Michael Leslie Jr who just happened to be a filmmaker films of homicide kind of a murder
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mystery filmmaker then he cuts off her head [Music] it was pretty creepy we had Louisiana
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State Police call him he had agreed to come down to the estate offices there in New Orleans
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[Music] the majority of the time that I was in the interrogation room I just didn't
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know what they were talking about they finally had to look at me and go no we think that you Michael luxury you
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know we think that you're involved in this murder case my whole purpose is to find who killed
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Angie Dodge nobody ever thinks that they're going to get picked up by the police and taken
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into an interrogation room and questioned about a murderer when it happens to you it it's
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definitely a game changer [Music] [Music] all right [Music] foreign [Music] has no time limit
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I just can't I can't let go I can't let go of her [Music] Carol Dodge lost her daughter Angie when
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she was just a teenager she was just discovering who she truly was and wanting Independence
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she said just let me grow up let me make my own mistakes so you know you don't need to watch me you know you don't need
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to be my shadow it was the summer of 1996 in Idaho Falls Idaho a mostly Mormon Community where
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neighbors knew each other by name and doors were rarely locked says former Chief of Police Mark McBride
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but it was very really very quiet peaceful Town overall just three weeks before her death 18 year old Angie got
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her own apartment in this house I saw her the night that she was killed she did it so hard growing up and she
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laid her head on my shoulder and we just kind of rock back and forth and I'm so grateful for that moment
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extremely grateful that my last words were that I love her the next morning Angie didn't show up
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for work at a local beauty supply store we got a phone call at our 911 Center about 11 o'clock in the morning
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and one of her friends at work came to check on her and the door was unlocked she went in and she found a body laying
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there on the floor and a very bloody crime scene there was no sign of forced entry but there were signs of a struggle
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you think she fought for her life yes I do [Music] Angie was stabbed and cut 14 times and
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left half naked there were no signs of rape but the killer did ejaculate leaving behind what DNA expert Greg Ham
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pikian calls a pristine profile it's a single profile complete identification one man to the
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exclusion of everyone on the planet police tested the DNA of dozens of local men but couldn't get a match so for
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months they interviewed everyone Angie knew including this man Christopher Tapp although his DNA didn't match and he
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denied any involvement after more than 28 hours of interrogation over 23 days tap confessed to participating in
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Angie's murder you're there correct correct did you know Christopher Tapp no no had no clue
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tap told police that the night of Angie's death he and two friends stopped by her apartment during an argument tap
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claimed one of his friends started stabbing Angie while he held her down you hold her down okay while she's being
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cup you hold her down while she's being but when tap went before a judge he pled
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not guilty I said you Beast you horrible Beast how could he do this to my daughter
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the defense argued Taft's DNA didn't match the killers but on May 28 1998 it took the jury only 13 hours to reach a
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verdict [Music] nearly two years after Angie Dodge was murdered Chris Tapp faced his punishment
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with Carol Dodge glaring at him you are guilty of the crimes of Murder in the first degree and rape
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his sentence 30 years to life but the murder of Angie Dodge was still an open case remember Chris Tapp did not match
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the DNA and he wouldn't tell police who did I just couldn't understand why he would
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go to prison and take a life sentence and give the other person up tap did give authorities several names
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including someone named Mike how sure are you that he's I'm dead set positive but police could
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never make a DNA match so the case went cold by 2009 the Killer's DNA had been entered into the national criminal
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database known as CODIS but there was still no match so Carol called well-known DNA expert Greg hempikian
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I had this message they don't know who killed my my daughter by then there had been many advances in DNA technology and
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so with hampikian's help Carol Dodge pushed authorities to use a new controversial search process called
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familial DNA it looks for anyone who may be related to Angie's killer which means
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going into that database in Idaho of the convicted offenders and looking for a family member that might match this DNA
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partially [Music] two places DC and Maryland passed a law that says no familial searches are
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allowed New York University law professor Aaron Murphy wrote inside the cell the Dark
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Side of forensic DNA and says there's real privacy concerns with familial DNA searches the states I think that are
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worried about this are worried about maybe we could use their DNA to see if your brother is breaking the law or your
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dad's breaking the law or your son's breaking the law Idaho doesn't allow familial searches in
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their criminal database so Greg Ham pikian made an even more controversial suggestion a familial search through
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public databases it was just this kind of search of familial DNA in a public database
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jedmatch.com that led to the arrest last April of Joseph D'Angelo he's the man suspected of being the Golden State
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killer responsible for at least 12 murders and 50 rapes I'm the one that went to the Idaho Falls
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Police Department and the prosecution saying we need to do this imagine you're one of millions of Americans to open up
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a kit like this spit into a test tube like this and then send your DNA off to a commercial database well now that
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database owns your DNA profile and you may not realize it but police may be able to access it
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we're interested in solving a crime and we're going to use any Technique we can that we can legally
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use in the summer of 2014 detectives searched a public DNA database owned by ancestry.com they got a hit I was told
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they got 34 out of 35 markers I believe is that good yeah that's that's a good investigative lead it was a close enough
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match to make detective Patrick McKenna think they had found a relative of Angie's killer so police got a warrant
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for Ancestry.com to reveal his identity it was a man named Michael asri senior [Music]
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we know it's not that individual or we would have had 35 out of 35 on that so that's when we started doing research
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into the family that led investigators to suspect us resun Michael usri Jr [Music]
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detective McKenna wondered if this could be the mic that Chris tapped once named
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and then we started researching him and the films that he was making was a little Eerie to uh try to think that
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that could possibly be a solid suspect in the case [Music] I have to ask you this question yes do
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you have a particular interest in Murder I I don't have a particular interest in
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Murder um it sure seems like it based on your film I know it does but no I really have
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quite an aversion to it but authorities investigating the brutal murder of Angie Dodge weren't so sure
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precisely at two o'clock three a gentleman came to my door in December of 2014 more than 18 years after Angie's
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murder two detectives from Idaho Falls and a Louisiana State Police Officer brought Michael usray Jr to a state
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police office near the New Orleans Superdome and started grilling him they said so what about your travels to
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Idaho have you ever been to Idaho and um I had in fact actually went up there with some friends for just one
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night he was 19 years old back then and he and his friends drove to Rexburg Idaho passing right through Idaho Falls
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well they were really interested in that I'm a little surprised that we were we were able to actually place them in
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Idaho Falls it was a big red flag for detective Patrick McKenna it's kind of weird but I
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just really didn't didn't get it then one of the officers pulled out a warrant biggest law enforcement guy I've
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ever seen in my life and swamped his cheek for DNA at that point I went hey what what's going on here you guys
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should I get a lawyer once they had his DNA they drove Michael usri home without any explanation I just
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basically stood on my sidewalk in a daze it was a call to a close friend that finally shed some light
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and uh he said well what's the case what what is this and I go well they wouldn't
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tell me anything except that it was a high-profile murder case in Idaho Falls so he gets on the computer and within 20
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seconds he's like oh yeah this is the case right here it's some girl named Angie Dodge
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the filmmaker whose movie featured a convict describing how he stabbed a woman to death watched her inside spill
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out all over the floor was now suspected of doing just that to Angie Dodge I mean it was very much a case of an
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Overkill they stabbed her and cut her and it was just a a Butchery people were like wow what does this
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imply you know for your career what is it for your life for your family for your family's name usri remembers being
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terrified spending days hold up at home worried what police would do next pretty
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sure that they were tapping my phone calls uh possibly staking me out and certainly
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checking my computer searches also anxious four states away was Carol Dodge Angie's mother who prayed this new
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lead would finally unmask the killer who left his DNA at the scene she deserves Justice
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all victims deserve justice but usri knew he hadn't killed anyone any wanted answers a local newspaper
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reporter showed him a copy of the warrant investigators used to obtain his DNA and right there the answer to the
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question why him and I went wow this is because of my dad 15 years ago the filmmaker's father
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Michael Usry senior participated in a genealogy project at his local church a sample of his DNA went to that public
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database which was later purchased by ancestry.com and that's where police came across it there are 34 out of 35
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ll's that match it seems shocking to me you know 34 out of 35 I mean that's a great number right who who
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wouldn't be you know drawn to that 34 out of 35 DNA markers sounds like a stunningly close match to Angie Dodge's
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killer but the reasons police honed in on him instead of any of his other relatives are detailed in the warrant I
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told you what Mike is his first name okay remember Chris tap told police a guy named Mike was involved in the
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murder police took to Facebook and found his profile Bingo Facebook showed us we
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had friends living in the Idaho Falls area and then there's usrey's films and bludgeon's her to death was this very
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hammer the more usri read the more Furious he grew that anyone would think he was a
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killer it would be torture I mean most people would not be able to just continue sailing through their day if
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they were under suspicion for a rape homicide NYU Law Professor Aaron Murphy if you
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Google his name one of the first things that comes up is this Mike's now forever
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associated with this very serious and gruesome incident do you start to think maybe someone in my family is the Killer
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how could I not think [Music] Michael Osprey worried every day he knew that Idaho Falls Police suspected him of
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murdering Angie Dodge and the uncertainty of what would happen next kept him up at night until January 13
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2015 more than a month later they sent me an email and it says Michael Usher Jr we just wanted to let you know that your
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DNA did not match our crime scene DNA something you already knew in an email from police Michael Usry was officially
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cleared of the murder of Angie Dodge but he was still thoroughly traumatized you were angry at ancestry
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I was angry at everybody the police scientists you know these database companies you know how could they
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misfire so bad 48 Hours asked ancestry.com about usrey's experience in a statement they said they will not
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share any information with law enforcement unless compelled to by a court order or search warrant
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usri's case they say was unique and the only time they have received a formal legal request for dna-related
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information after what happened to us re ancestry.com told us they took action the public database used by authorities
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was made private and can no longer be accessed by the public or police but we were wondering could what happened to
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Michael usri happen again to someone else with police using another public database to our surprise law professor
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Aaron Murphy says maybe you know these cases tend only to come to light when something goes wrong so you might never
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know if police checked your DNA to look for a criminal yeah most of them don't have to tell us how many times have you
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done these searches how many people did you investigate without them even knowing
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us re-decided the best way to prevent it from happening again was to go public with what happened to him in a
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documentary he was shocked when Angie Dodge's mother was willing to talk what he didn't realize is that Carol
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Dodge had an agenda of her own she's fairly certain that a killer is in my bloodline
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do you believe my guestry is related to the killer of your daughter somehow despite all that Carol Dodge and
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Michael Usry have forged a rather odd close Bond you're a really special person you are too Carol and after
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hearing Carol and Angie's Story the focus of usri's documentary changed dramatically to Carol Dodge's search for
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her daughter's killer I thought that a better a more productive thing to do would be to try
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to make a film to try to bring attention to this all three wanted to help Carol so he immersed himself in the case
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starting with the man who had confessed Chris tapped how many times has been stabbed before you let go that first
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time usri quickly learned that Chris Tapp was now claiming that his confession was forced
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and that the Idaho Innocence Project headed by that DNA expert Greg hempikian was now working to set tap free based on
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the DNA is there any way that Chris could have been in that room no not based on the DNA the more Carol Dodge
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learned about DNA the more she questioned Chris's confession that he held Angie down while she was being
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stabbed it wasn't until I started studying science that I said it's impossible how could Chris admit in doing what he
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said he did and there'd be no physical evidence but it wasn't just the science that bothered Dr Ham pikian he believes
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that christoph's confession was coerced by the detectives who interrogated him oh man I mean you're the Heat of the
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Moment she's putting up the fight I watch it and it's so frustrating this is Chris Tapp at 40 years old he'd
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been inmate number 56265 for 20 years you look at that 20 year old kid you know and you realize God I was just an idiot
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think hard about it I know it's I know it's there tap says his confession was a lie a story fed to him by police and
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then forced back out of him on tape you're going to see him specifically pointing out facts to me or or given
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little innuendos this would be the stairs going up okay so you went up these stairs
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or hints of how the murder went down it All Began six months after Angie's murder when one of her friends Ben Hobbs
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was arrested in Las Vegas for sexually assaulting a woman at knifepoint now Idaho Falls detectives had already
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questioned and cleared Ben Hobbs but because the crime he committed in Vegas was so similar they wondered if he might
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be Angie's killer and so while Ben Hobbs remained in custody in Nevada detectives
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brought in his best friend for questioning Chris Tapp in fatiguez said I had nothing to do with it I don't know
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what you're talking about but instead of leaving it at that tap cooperated I felt like trust him they're
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not going to do anything wrong he doesn't know they can lie to him and most innocent people have no idea that
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the interrogators can lie to you first tap was told that there was irrefutable evidence that his friend Ben Hobbs
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killed Angie Dodge and that tap was there when it happened pretty sure where we know
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[Music] what and how when where and why tap kept denying all knowledge of the crime did
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you hear her scream or anything like that I wasn't there but detectives persisted and even though he had a
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lawyer cap kept talking and so when they offered you a polygraph seemed like a good idea yeah seemed like
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a great idea I had nothing to hide no no reason not to do it but tap was told he was being deceptive
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detectives promised him full immunity no jail time in exchange for the truth as long as he didn't participate in the
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actual murder that's when tap says he started telling police what he thought they wanted to
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hear now are you sure Ben's there yes you positive yeah yes tap told detectives he
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was there when Ben Hobbs killed Angie Dodge [Music] then just hours later a shocking twist
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detectives learned that Ben Hobbs did not match the Killer's DNA tap was told there was now evidence that a third man
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was at Angie's apartment that night Jeremy Sarge's a friend of tap and Hobbes 90 minutes later tap was blaming
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Sarge's for Angie's murder I continue to lie I continue to give him this story after Story in it they should have just
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stopped but they didn't but Chris why didn't you stop I didn't think I could detectives tested Jeremy Sarge's DNA and
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it was also not a match and when Jairus DNA came back is the day they forwarded my immune agreement
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ripped everything up and told me I'm the humongous you know liar that's when Chris Tapp says police
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pushed him to change his story one last time after 23 days and seven interrogations
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Chris tap confessed to participating in Angie's murder hold her down okay while she's being
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cut you're older down that's what was the end of it all that's what brought me to prison
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authorities have repeatedly dismissed tap's claims of a forced confession until 2016 when a shocking Discovery
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would change the game never before seen videotapes of seven polygraph exams administered to Chris
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tap tapes that convinced even Carol Dodge that Chris Tapp is innocent Chris tap basically
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just got railroaded Carol Dodge took on a new mission to free the Man convicted of her daughter's
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murder and find the killer who left his DNA even if it turned out to be a member
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of Michael usry's family [Music] as Michael usri began looking into the Angie Dodge murder case he had
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preconceived notions why would you confess to something that you didn't do I wouldn't do that and now what do you
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think that it's possible that anybody could do it now usri believes that Chris Tapp was forced to confess to a crime he
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didn't commit and condemned to a place where he doesn't belong he always Gotta Have a Little Faith gotta have a little
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hope I haven't accepted this is my end I can't imagine spending one day in prison let alone 20 plus years my TV is
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a retired Superior Court Judge who believes so strongly that Chris tap is innocent he spent the last four years
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trying to help prove it when you look at the interrogation videos he knows nothing
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so Chris Taff y he struggles for details you're there why because he wasn't there
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heavy runs a wrongful conviction project called judges for justice and took on tap's case after watching the
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interrogation tapes I wasn't nowhere around judge heavy became convinced that Chris Tapp had
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been coerced into changing his story an astounding six times and knew that something was missing I was concerned he
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went from one day saying I wasn't there and the next day you're standing A boat like this like her head's right here I'm
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at the crime scene and I stabbed her I couldn't see how he made that jump so I went back to look at the polygraph and
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my jaw just dropped so it helped the sound that I'm nervous in between Chris's nine interrogations detectives
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also administered seven polygraph exams all of them were recorded but no one had
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ever bothered to look at the tapes because polygraphs are inadmissible in court and the sound is barely Audible
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[Music] polygraphs are typically used to assess The credibility of the witness when
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they're done honestly and how was the polygraph used in this case this case was used to trick Chris tap into giving
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false testimony our polygraph expert said it was used like a psychological rubber hose they beat him up with the
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psychology of it all to coerce him into falsely accusing other people they manufactured testimony to get him to
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implicate himself in the murder of Angie Dodge judge heavy says that detectives in this
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case broke the rules in the polygraph room and thought no one would ever notice United States Supreme Court has
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held that it's improper to threaten you can't threaten because it leads to false
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confessions they threaten him with the gas chamber being accessory to murder and being a conspirator to murder
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[Music] they figured no one's going to look at the polygraphs so it'll be hidden no one
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will ever see it TV says Chris Tapp was brainwashed Chris Tapp eventually comes to believe
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that the polygraph is an all-knowing scientific instrument that can read his subconscious and is telling the machine
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that he was at the crime [Music] [Music] Chris finally says yes I stabbed her because Ben threatened me and then Chris
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said did I do it the police officer walks over says give me your hand like he passed the polygraph
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and that gets Chris tapped 30 Years to Life charged with the death penalty ugly stuff do you remember that moment
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yeah yeah scared I'm scared that's pretty much the day my life ended tap never told anyone what happened
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during those polygraph exams I didn't know what they did no polygraph tapes was wrong
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I didn't know if I would have known these things 20 years 15 10 years ago then maybe
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we wouldn't be here today Idaho Falls Police deny any wrongdoing in their interrogations or polygraph
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exams do you think the polygraph was used as a coercive tool well I don't know that was the intent I
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think the intent is find out the truth over the years the the courts have upheld Taft's confession as valid and
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admissible and not the product of coercive police conduct I don't think they're trying to cause harm it wasn't
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any malicious intent I don't think it's hard for me to wrap my head around what the police are thinking John Thomas is
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Chris Tapps appellate attorney it's okay you made a mistake just say hey I made a
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mistake we got the wrong guy let's all rally around and let's get the right guy [Music]
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hoping that the newly discovered discover polygraph tapes would be enough for a judge to Grant Chris Tapp a new
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trial those polygraph videos now new evidence they're the wedge to get Chris in front of a judge to see the coercion
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that went on the polygraphs are the answer to getting them out what's your biggest fear when
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it comes to this case I guess my biggest fear of this entire case would be that it just
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continues on indefinitely Chris stays in jail Carol continues to search I hope he walks out
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a free man it's not often you hear the mother of a victim say that about the only man serving time
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for her daughter's murder true for the first time ever Michael Usry was about to come face to
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face with the Man convicted of killing Angie Dodge Chris Chris tap I'm gonna just take a moment
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because I didn't think that this would ever happen and interview him for his documentary why did you confess to give
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him what they wanted to to get away from them to do whatever it took for me to go home
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the day usury met Chris Tapp he was only weeks away from two hearings that his lawyer Don Thomas hoped would
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set him free we have too much evidence showing that christab wasn't there that I'm innocent
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have you ever found DNA that matched Chris tap at the scene no former police chief Mark McBride maintains that given
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Taps confession the absence of his DNA at the crime scene proves nothing then a stunning
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turn of events the District Attorney's Office wanted to make a deal tap's murder conviction would stand but
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the rape conviction would be expunged and there would be no probation Chris tap will just take his lumps on
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his 20 years and and walk walk a free man unwilling to risk another 10 years in prison Taft took the deal
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there were too many what-ifs we had had a number of post-conviction petitions before and all of them have been denied
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the next day of 48 Hours producer followed John Thomas as he sped to the county jail paperwork in hand
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we are headed to the jail to get Chris to review the employee agreement and if he reviews it and agrees with it
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I will sign it and I'll be out of prison for the rest of his life what you got there got it signed
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sign and seal it's all good 48 hours later cap supporters Greg hanpiki and Mike Evy and even Michael
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Usry had made it to Idaho Falls for an emergency hearing nervous a little over two decades from the day Chris Tapp was
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first arrested he walked into the courtroom one more time in handcuffs all right this court is now in session to
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Alan Stevens presiding and after some legal formalities did you read the stipulation every line of it before you
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signed it yes your honor Carol Dodge was called on to make a victim impact statement on behalf of her daughter
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Angie go ahead Miss Dodge I stand here today not as a victim but I am a survivor of a horrific crime
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that took my daughter's life Chris Tapp fought back tears and I hope that you will help me find Justice for Angie
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[Music] but it was clear that along with her daughter Carol considers Chris tap another victim in this endless tragedy
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but I'm extremely happy for you you have your life back Mr Tapp but the judge still had to sign off on the deal
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and then with just a few words and I do accept the stipulation judge Alan Stevens said Chris tap free
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handcuffs were removed and Carol Dodge was the first to hold him in her arms just feet away from the celebration
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victory a hunt for Angie Dodge's killer continued I got a tap on the shoulder from one of the bailiffs and he said
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that uh detective McKenna wanted to talk to me detective McKenna showed Michael usri this sketch of Angie's killer it
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was made with new technology that claims to recreate facial features using DNA when he showed me uh the sketch there
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was a split second where I really had this fear that I would actually recognize this person but Michael usri
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was once again a dead end it was not a face he knew there was a little bit of relief when I saw the composite sketch
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because I have never believed that someone in my family could be involved in a crime like this it's highly likely
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that his family has nothing to do with this crime at all while police still believed that usri's
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family tree contained a killer law professor Aaron Murphy disagreed 99 of people match to one another on the
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genome so I will match someone who lives on the other side of the globe who has no direct genetic connection to me
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whatsoever and just because we're human beings so what's really important to ask
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is what's the quality of the match how much information did you look at [Music] as it turns out Professor Murphy was
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right on Wednesday July 12 2017 Idaho Falls Police put out this press release stating that they took the DNA testing
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to the next level and recently received a DNA report that clears Michael Usry Jr
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and his family of involvement in the Angie Dodge homicide case the report from the DNA lab also stated that they
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were 87.63 confident that the unknown DNA from the Angie Dodge crime scene did not
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match the usri family [Music] Carol Dodge must now find the strength to keep going you have to be really
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strong to continue the journey to Justice I don't know how she goes on and yet I can
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understand how she could never quit Carol is worried that police will never catch Angie's killer if they remain
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focused on their theory of the crime that Chris and two of his friends killed Angie I hope that they can now go
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forward and get out of the Chris tap box stop looking for two to three people when we just have one DNA that's all we
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got is one DNA everyone involved in the case has vowed to never stop searching for the man who
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murdered Angie Dodge even the young filmmaker once suspected of being her killer he could have walked away and I
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probably would have I continue to stick with it because mainly because of Carol Dodge
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I want to help her I love Carol We're In It Together [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you