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The Twisted Case of Angie Dodge | Full Episode

June 10, 2025 / 40:49

This episode covers the murder of Angie Dodge, the wrongful conviction of Chris Tap, and the eventual identification of her true killer, Brian Drips. Guests include Carol Dodge, Michael Usry Jr., and Greg Hampikian.

Carol Dodge, Angie's mother, shares her relentless pursuit of justice for her daughter, who was murdered in Idaho Falls in 1996. Despite a significant amount of DNA evidence, police struggled to find a match for nearly two decades.

In 2014, a public DNA database search led investigators to Michael Usry Jr., a filmmaker whose father had participated in a genealogy project. Usry was interrogated but ultimately cleared of any involvement in the murder.

Chris Tap, initially convicted of Angie's murder, confessed after lengthy interrogations, but his DNA did not match the evidence. His confession was later deemed coerced, leading to a push for his exoneration.

In 2019, advances in genetic genealogy finally identified Brian Drips as the true killer, leading to Tap's exoneration and raising questions about the implications of using DNA databases in criminal investigations.

TLDR

The episode details Angie's murder, wrongful conviction of Chris Tap, and the eventual capture of her real killer, Brian Drips.

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[Music] my name is Carol Dodge and I am the mother of Angie Dodge who was brutally
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murdered in June of 1996 and for 23 years I've traveled every road there is turned every St
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there is to find Justice for my [Music] daughter as the officers arrived at the crime scene and found Angie Dodge laying
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on the ground and it was obvious that there was a very brutal murder that had happened a lot of blood during the
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investigation we came across a significant amount of DNA that we believe is from the
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killer would you say that this crime scene provided really good evidence excellent
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evidence for nearly two decades police could not find a match to the Killer's DNA so in 2014 they went way outside the
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box and searched a public DNA database owned by ancestry.com it led us to this Michael
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lre Jr who just happened to be a filmmaker films of homicide um kind of a murder mystery filmmaker then he cuts
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off her head my name is Michael ushery uh I'm a filmmaker and was a suspect in the Angie
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Dodge case murder abilia it was then I knew it was a girl and she was young got me the reputation of being a
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person who is really into murder and things like that and I shoved her body over in the
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shower and just kept stabing her it was pretty creepy we had uh Louisiana State Police call
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him he had agreed to come down to the estate offices there in New Orleans the majority of the time that I
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was in the interrogation room I just didn't know what they were talking about they finally had to look at me and
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go no we think that you Michael Usher you know we think that you're involved in this murder
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case my whole purpose is to find uh who killed Angie Dodge the ability to kill is obviously
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somewhere in all of us because it happens every day [Music] [Music] grief has no time limit I just can't I
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can't let go I can't let go of her Carol Dodge lost her daughter Angie when she was just a teenage
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she was just discovering who she truly was and wanting Independence she says just let me grow
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up let me make my own mistakes so you know you don't need to watch me you know you don't need to be my
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shadow it was the summer of 1996 in Idaho Falls Idaho a mostly Mormon Community where neighbors knew each
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other by name and doors were rarely locked says former Chief of Police Mark McBride but it was very really very
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quiet peaceful Town overall just 3 weeks before her death 18-year-old Angie got her own apartment in this house I saw
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her the night that she was killed she said it's so hard growing up and she laid her head on my shoulder and we just
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kind of rock back and forth and I'm so grateful for that moment extremely grateful that
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my last words were that I love her the next morning Angie didn't show up for work at a local beauty supply
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store now we got a phone call at 911 Center about 11:00 in the morning and one of her friends at work
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came to check on her and the door was unlocked she went in and she found a body laying there on the floor in a very
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bloody crime scene there were no signs of forced entry but there were signs of a struggle you think she fought for her
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life yes I do Angie was stabbed and cut 14 times and left half naked the killer ejaculated on her leaving behind what
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DNA expert Greg hampikian calls a pristine profile it's a single profile uh complete identification one man to the
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exclusion of everyone on the planet police began collecting the DNA of dozens of local men and spent months
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interviewing everyone Angie knew including this young man Christopher tap although his DNA didn't match and tap
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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 were there correct correct did you know Christopher tap no didn't
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know had no clue tap told police that the night of Angie's death he and two friends stopped
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by her apartment during an argument tap claimed one of his friends started stabbing Angie while he held her down
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you're holding her down okay while she's being cut you're holding her down while
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she's [Music] being but when tap went before a judge he pled not guilty of raping and murdering Angie Dodge I
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said you Beast you horrible Beast how could he do this to my daughter defense argued tap's DNA didn't match the
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killers but on May 28th 1998 it took a jury approximately 13 hours to reach a verdict
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[Music] guilty nearly 2 years after Angie Dodge was murdered Chris tap faced his
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punishment with Carol Dodge glaring at him you are guilty of the crimes of Murder in the first degree and rape his
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sentence 30 years to life but the murder of Angie Dodge was still an open case Chris tap did not match the DNA and he
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wouldn't tell police who did I just couldn't understand why he would go to prison and and take a life
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sentence and not give the other person up tap did give authorities several names including someone named Mike how
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sure are you that he first name is Mike I'm dead said positive but police could never make a DNA match so the case went
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cold but not for Carol Dodge I never stop looking for the actual person who matches the
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DNA by 2009 the Killer's DNA had been entered into the national criminal database known as cotus but there was
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still no match so Carol called well-known DNA expert Greg hampikian I had this message they don't know who
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killed my my daughter by then there had been many advances in DNA technology and
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so with hampikian help Carol Dodge pushed a 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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[Music] partially Idaho doesn't allow familial searches in their criminal database so
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hampikian made an even more controversial suggestion a familial search through public
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databases I'm the one that went to the idol Falls Police Department and the prosecution saying we need to do this
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imagine you're one of millions of Americans to open up a kit like this spit into a test tube like this and then
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send your DNA off to a commercial database well now that database owns your DNA profile and you may not realize
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it but police may be able to access it we're interest in solving a crime and we're going to use any Technique we can
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that we can legally use in the summer of 2014 detective searched a public DNA database owned by
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ancestry.com they got a hit I was told they got 34 out of 35 markers I believe is that good yeah that's that's a good
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investigative lead it was a close enough match to make detective Patrick McKenna
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think they had found a relative of Angie's killer so police got a warrant for Ancestry.com to reveal his identity
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it was a man named Michael usri senior we know it's not that individual or we would have had 35 out of 35 on
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that so that's when we started doing research into the family that led investigators to suspect Us's
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son Michael usri Jr detective McKenna wondered if this could be the mic that Chris tap once
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named and then we started researching him and the films that he was making was a little eie to uh try to think that
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that could possibly be a solid suspect in the case [Music] [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 Murder um it sure seems like
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it based on your film Pro I know it does but no I I really have quite an aversion
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to it but authorities investigating the brutal murder of Angie Dodge weren't so sure precisely at 2:00 three uh
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gentleman came to my door in December of 2014 more than 18 years after Angie's murder Michael usri Jr was living in New
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Orleans when two detectives from Idaho Falls and a Louisiana State Police office officer brought usri to a state
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police office near the New Orleans super doome and started grilling him they said so what about your travels
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to 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 Ed in that a little surprised that we were were able to actually Place him in Idaho Falls it
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was a big red flag for detective Patrick McKenna it's kind of weird but I just really didn't didn't get
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it then one of the officers pulled out a warrant and swabbed his cheek for DNA at that point I went hey what what's
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going on here you guys should I get a lawyer once they had his DNA they drove Michael
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usri home without any explanation I just basically stood on my sidewalk in a days it was a call to a
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close friend that finally shed some light and uh he said well what's the case what what is this and I go well
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they wouldn't tell me anything except that it was a high-profile murder case in Idaho Falls so he gets on the
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computer and within 20 seconds he's like oh yeah this is the case right here it's
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some girl named Angie Dodge the filmmaker whose movie featured a convict describing how he stabbed a
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woman to death watched her inside spill out all over the floor was now suspected
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of doing just that to Angie Dodge I mean it was very much a case of an Overkill they stabbed her and cut her and it was
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just a a Butchery people were like wow what does this imply you know for your career what
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is for your life for your family for your family's name usri remembers being terrified spending days hold up at home
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worried what police would do next pretty sure that they were capping my phone calls uh possibly staking me out
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certainly checking my computer searches but usri knew he hadn't killed anyone and he wanted answers a local
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newspaper reporter showed him a copy of of the warrant investigators used to obtain his DNA and right there the
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answer to the question why him dated back about 17 years and I went wow this is because of my dad the filmmaker's
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father Michael usri senior participated in a genealogy project at his local church a sample of his DNA went to that
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public database which was later purchased by ancestry.com and that's where police
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came across it there are 34 out of 35 LLS that match it seems shocking to me 34 out of 35 DNA markers sounds like a
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stunningly close match to Anie Dodge's killer but the reasons police honed in on him instead of any of his other
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relatives are detailed in the warrant I told you was Mike is the first name okay remember Chris tap told police
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a guy named Mike was involved in the murder police took to Facebook and found his profile Bingo Facebook showed asri
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had friends living in the Idaho Falls area and then there's 's films and then bludgeons her to death with this very
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Hammer the more usri read the more Furious he grew that anyone would think he was a killer but even more troubling
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was the idea that Angie Dodge's killer might be someone in his family just knowing that somebody in my
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family would possibly do something like that is disturbing I mean to say the least you know
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[Music] [Music] Michael ustri 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 13th
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2015 more than a month later they sent me an email and it says Michael Usery 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 lustri was
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officially cleared of the murder of Angie Dodge but he was still thoroughly traumatized you were angry at
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ancestry I was angry at everybody the police scientist you know these databased companies you know how could
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they misfire so bad 48 Hours asked and ancestry.com about Us's experience in a statement they said they will not share
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any information with law enforcement unless compelled to by a court order or search warrant usry's case they say was
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unique and the only time they have received a formal legal request for DNA related
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information after what happened to Usry 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 can't control fate and what happens to you so
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I just figured that this was there was a reason for this uh happening Michael usri decided he wanted to try and
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prevent it from happening to anyone else by making a documentary about his experience he was shocked when Angie
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Dodge's mother was willing to talk what he didn't realize is that Dodge had an agenda of her own she's fairly certain
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that a killer is in my bloodline I remember Mike and I sitting down and I say okay Mike here's a piece of paper
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now I want you to write down from your great-grandfather to your grandfather to your dad and he did me a genealogy sheet
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my grandfather he had six other brothers Carol just wonders hey maybe it's somebody you don't even know maybe it's
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an illegitimate son of one of your papies Brothers despite all that Carol Dodge and Michael usri have forged a rather
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odd close Bond you're a really special person you are too Carol and after hearing Carol and Angie's Story the
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focus of Us's documentary changed dramatically to Carol Dodge's search for her daughter's killer he immersed
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himself in the case starting with the man who had confessed Chris tap how many times did you stabber before you let go
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that first time usri quickly learned that Chris tap was now claiming his confession was forced and the Idaho
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Innocence Project headed by that DNA expert Greg hin was now working to set tap free based on the DNA is there any
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way that Chris could have been in that room no not based on the DNA the more Carol Dodge learned about DNA the the
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more she questioned Chris's confession that he held Angie down while she was being stabbed it wasn't until I started
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studying science that I said it's impossible how could Chris admit in doing what he said he did and there be
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no physical evidence but it wasn't just the science that bothered Carol Dodge she believed Chris taff's confession was
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coerced by the detectives who interrogated him I mean come on man I mean you're the Heat of the Moment she's
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putting up the fight do you know you're caught you're right there in the middle I watch it right and it's so frustrating
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this was Chris tap when we first met at 40 years old he'd been inmate number 56265 for 20 years you look at that
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20-year-old kid you know and you realize God I was just an idiot think hard about
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it I know it's I know it's there you know Chris 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 can see them specifically pointing out facts to me or or giving little
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innuendos this should be the stairs going up okay so you went up these stairs or hints of how the murder went
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down well it's a porch that goes outside it all started because Chris tap's friend a man named Ben who also
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knew Angie was arrested in Eli Nevada for assaulting a woman at knife point to investigators the crime seems
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similar to the attack on Angie so while Ben was in custody in Nevada investigators brought Chris in for
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questioning emphatically I said I had nothing to do with it I don't know what you're talking about I'm going I knew
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there's no way but instead of leaving it at that tap then just 20 years years old
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cooperated I felt like trust him they're not going to do anything wrong he doesn't know they can lie to him and
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most innocent people have no idea that the interrogators can lie to you first tap was told there was irrefutable
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evidence that his friend Ben killed Angie and that tap was there when it happened I'm pretty sure we're we know
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what happened and who did what how when where and why tap kept denying all knowledge of the crime crime did you
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hear a scream or anything like that I wasn't there but detectives persisted and even though he had a lawyer tap kept
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talking and so when they offered you a polygraph seemed like a good idea yeah seemed like a great idea I had nothing
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to hide no no reason not to do it but tap was told he was being deceptive and detectives promised him
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full immunity no jail time in exchange for the truth as long as he hadn't participated in the actual
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murder that's when tap says he started telling police what he thought they wanted to hear now are you sure Ben's
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there yes positive yeah yes okay tap told the detectives he was there when Ben killed atie Dodge God he told him no
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don't do it don't do it okay so did do he have the night par yeah but just hours later
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detectives learned that Ben did not match the Killer's DNA A desperate Chris tap started changing his story blaming
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several other friends for the murder I continue to lie I continue to give them story after story and it they should
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have just stopped but they didn't but Chris why didn't you stop I didn't think I could when none of the men he named
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matched the DNA tap says police still refused to let up after 23 days and seven interrogations Chris tap confessed
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to participating in Angie's murder and authorities voided his immunity agreement you're holding her down okay
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while she's being cut you're holding her down while she's been cut that's what was the end of it all
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that's what brought me to prison authorities have repeatedly dismissed tap's claims of a forc confession until
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an astonishing Discovery would change the game you're fine never before seen videotapes of seven polygraph exams
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administered to Chris tap tapes that convinced even Carol Dodge that Chris tap is innocent Chris tap
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basically 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 's family [Music] [Music] you always got to have a little faith got to have a little hope I haven't
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accepted this as my an I can't imagine spending one day in prison let alone 20 plus years Mike heee
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is 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 prove it when you look at the interrogation videos he knows nothing so
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Chris tap Ben he struggles let it out for details let it out you're there why cuz he wasn't there hee runs a wrongful
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conviction project called judges for justice and took on tap's case after watching the interrogation
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tapes I wasn't SC I wasn't even down the stairs I wasn't nowhere around judge heee became convinced that
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Chris tap had had been coerced into changing his story an astounding six times and knew that something was
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missing I was concerned he went from one day saying I wasn't there and the next day you're standing above her like this
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like her heads right here yeah I'm at the crime scene and I stabbed her I couldn't see how he made that jump so I
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went back to look at the polygraph and my judges dropped do it help to say that I'm nervous in between Chris's nine
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interrogations detectives administered seven polygraph exams all of them were recorded but no one had ever bothered to
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look at the tapes because polygraphs are inadmissible in court and the sound is barely
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audible your polygraphs are typically used to assess The credibility of the witness
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when they're done honestly and how was the polygraph used in this case this case was used to trick Chris tap into
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giving false test testimony our polygraph expert says it was used like a psychological rubber hose to get him to
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implicate himself in the murder of Angie Dodge judge heee says that detectives in
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the case broke the rules in the polygraph room and thought no one would ever notice United States Supreme Court
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has held that it's improper to threaten you can't threaten because it leads to false confessions they threaten him with
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the gas chamber being accessory to murder and being a conspirator to murder know
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accessory that's being charged with just like the person do they get they figured no one's going to look
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at the polygraphs so it'll be hidden no one will ever see it hee says Chris tap was brainwashed I'm scared you're scared
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the reason why is cuz you subconsciously Chris tap eventually comes to believe that the polygraph is an all- knowing
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scientific instrument that can read his subconscious and is telling the machine that he was at the
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crime I wouldn't say this you you [Music] trapped Chris finally says yes I stabbed
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her because Ben threatened me and then Chris said did I do it the police officer walks over says give me your
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hand like he passed the polygraph and that gets Chris tap 30 Years to Life charged with the death
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penalty ugly stuff do you remember that moment yeah scared scared that's pretty much the day
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my life ended but tap never told anyone about what happened during those polygraph exams I didn't know what they
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did in the polygraph tapes was wrong I didn't know if I would have known these things 20 years 15 10 years ago then
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maybe we wouldn't be here today Idaho Falls Police deny any wrongdoing and I don't remember seeing in their
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interrogations or polygraph exams do you think the polygraph was used as a coercive
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tool I don't know that was the intent I think the intent is find out the truth over the years the courts have upheld
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tap's confession as valid and admissible and not the product of coercive police conduct I don't think they were trying
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to cause harm it wasn't any malicious intent I don't think it's hard for me to wrap my head around what the police are
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thinking John Thomas is Chris tap's appellate attorney it's okay you made a mistake just say hey I made a mistake we
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got the wrong guy let's all rally around around and let's get the right guy Mike heee was hoping that the newly
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discovered polygraph tapes would be enough for a judge to Grant Chris tap a new trial those polygraph videos now new
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evidence they're the wedge to get Chris in front of a judge to see the coercion that went
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on I hope he walks out a free man it's not often you hear the mother of a victim say that about the only man man
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serving time for her daughter's murder [Music] true it was March 2017 and Chris tap was
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just two weeks away from two hearings that his lawyer John Thomas hoped would set him free we have too much evidence
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showing that Chris tap wasn't there have you ever found DNA that matched Chris tap at the scene no but
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police chief Mark McBride maintained that given tap's confession the absence of his DNA at the crime scene proved
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nothing then in a stunning turn of events the District Attorney's Office wanted to make a
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deal tap's murder conviction would stand but the rape conviction would go away and there would be no
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probation Chris tap would just take his lumps on his 20 years and and walk walk a free man victory
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victory tap took the deal that was in 2017 2 years later I've got a full-time job I'm
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married I've actually become that productive member of society that I truly thought I could become meanwhile
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Carol Dodge never stopped hunting for Angie's killer I've done a lot of research on technology and I was B deter
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when I was going to solve my daughter's [Music] case not long after Chris's release
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Carol got some help new police chief Bryce Johnson says he already had his sights set on Angie's case I talked to
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all the detectives and I kind of told them let's not worry about what's been done over the past 23 years we have one
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Mission it's to find out who left this DNA sampled it wasn't easy but 2 years later
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there was news today we are here to share developments in the homicide investigation of Angie Dodge on May 16th
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2019 thank you and thank you for being here Chief Johnson told the world they had finally found and arrested the man
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who matched the DNA Carol inspired us all to try harder and to do better the thing about Carol is she knew more about
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DNA than I knew about DNA what Carol knew is that this woman good afternoon CC Mo and a company called parabon
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nanolabs had been making huge strides in solving cold cases using genealogy and public
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databases this is our 56th case this year at parabon using genetic genealogy to identify unknown suspects and victims
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Moore and parabon were able to generate an even more complete DNA profile of Angie's killer than ever
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before that profile could now be uploaded to a large public DNA database called Jed match a free website that
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allows people to upload their own DNA Profiles In Search of relatives in return if users opt in their data can be
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accessed by law enforcement when we upload that data we get a list of people that share significant amounts of DNA
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with the unknown suspect Moore found a family tree that she was confident contained a killer and
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it was Michael Us's family tree he apparently was a split off of the usri family from something like over
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a hundred years ago so we're talking about right family tree but the branches way off on the other side way off yeah
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did you know anything about this sort of offshoot of your family no totally not now detective Sage Albright and
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Captain Bill Squires were laser focused on the men in this way off branch of Us's family tree it had been whittel
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down to a list of persons that I think was around 10 or 11 people that we were able to reduce down further just because
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they weren't in Idaho at the time or they were 3 years old at the time left with six possible SU ects detectives had
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to secretly collect their DNA following them around for days waiting for discarded cigarette butts soda cans or
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plastic straws one guy was a tobacco chewer the detectives came out kind of scooped that up we sent off the lab came
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back negative it wasn't the person we're looking for then they started running out of men and a fear set in the thing
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we were concerned about is there a child out there that nobody knows about right
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does someone have a baby and it's in the genealogy record they were right and this obituary miraculously LED CC Moore
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to a missing usri this woman Helen Darnell had a daughter who was once married to an usri after their divorce a
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son was born under a different last name Brian drips when we looked at that name uh we
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realized we had talked to him in the first days of the investigation he lived across the street from Angie
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I literally said you got to be kidding Brian drips he was right across the street that it took me 23 years when
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they had it in the first 25 pages of the investigation the police report indicates that the day of Angie's murder
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a young police officer who was canvasing the neighborhood had briefly questioned
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a then 31 year-old Brian drips everyone in that neighborhood got got a knock on the door drips denied any knowledge of
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the crime and police never asked for his DNA about 7 weeks after the murder drips
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left Idaho Falls he was living in Idaho about 300 mil away when a cigarette butt
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linked his DNA to the crime and detectives picked him up for questioning it was obviously was nervous he he put
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on a pretty good game game face but his his started to shake for several hours drips denied any involvement in Angie's
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death and then when we told him we have your DNA at the crime scene uh he there was there was a noticeable change in his
00:38:11
demeanor and eventually he he told us that he had been involved detective Albright says trips also reported that
00:38:20
he acted alone that meant Chris tap could not have been there 2 months after drips was
00:38:29
arrested tap was back in court there was putar convincing evidence the defendant
00:38:34
was convicted of a crime for which you not commit this time to be fully [Music] exonerated this case is the world's
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first exoneration by way of genealogical DNA testing I'm extremely happy for him I
00:38:57
hope that he can piece together his life again but usri says he still has doubts
00:39:03
about the use of genealogy kind of a scary thing to me to think about what this world is going to be like um if all
00:39:12
of our genetic codes are in a computer database once it's in a computer uh that's almost like more permanent than
00:39:21
carving something in stone nowadays but I think that we really really need to be
00:39:28
uh cautious and and and take a step back and look at this technology Carol Dodge
00:39:35
disagrees without technology without genealogy research uh we would have never found
00:39:43
Angie's killer it is the key that opens the door to Justice [Music] [Music]

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  • 90
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  • 85
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Episode Highlights

  • Carol Dodge's Quest for Justice
    For 23 years, Carol Dodge has tirelessly sought justice for her daughter, Angie.
    “I can't let go of her.”
    @ 03m 50s
    June 10, 2025
  • DNA Evidence Leads to New Suspect
    In 2014, police used a public DNA database to identify Michael Usry as a suspect.
    “They got 34 out of 35 markers.”
    @ 10m 20s
    June 10, 2025
  • Chris Tap's Confession Under Scrutiny
    After 23 days of interrogation, Chris Tap confessed to Angie's murder, but claims it was coerced.
    “I didn't think I could stop.”
    @ 24m 21s
    June 10, 2025
  • A Judge's Fight for Innocence
    Retired Judge Mike Hee believes Chris Tap is innocent and works to prove it.
    “When you look at the interrogation videos, he knows nothing.”
    @ 26m 27s
    June 10, 2025
  • Chris Tap's Confession
    Chris Tap was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn't commit, leading to a life sentence.
    “I stabbed her because Ben threatened me”
    @ 29m 20s
    June 10, 2025
  • A New Trial for Chris Tap
    Chris Tap's confession is challenged as new evidence emerges, leading to hopes for exoneration.
    “Those polygraph videos now new evidence”
    @ 31m 10s
    June 10, 2025
  • The Breakthrough in Angie's Case
    After years of investigation, DNA technology finally leads to the arrest of Angie's real killer.
    “We had finally found and arrested the man who matched the DNA”
    @ 33m 50s
    June 10, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • Grief has no time limit.
    The Twisted Case of Angie Dodge | Full Episode
  • You are guilty of the crimes of murder in the first degree and rape.
    The Twisted Case of Angie Dodge | Full Episode
  • I mean to say the least, you know.
    The Twisted Case of Angie Dodge | Full Episode
  • You always got to have a little faith, got to have a little hope.
    The Twisted Case of Angie Dodge | Full Episode
  • I hope he walks out a free man.
    The Twisted Case of Angie Dodge | Full Episode
  • This case is the world's first exoneration by way of genealogical DNA testing.
    The Twisted Case of Angie Dodge | Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Carol's Pain03:50
  • DNA Breakthrough10:20
  • Confession Controversy24:21
  • Fight for Justice26:27
  • Coercive Interrogation28:21
  • Life Sentence29:33
  • Exoneration38:46
  • Justice Served39:47

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