And what does she see as she is watching these 60 hours of interrogation of Chris Tapp?

This, for me, I think is the heart of this entire case.

You have Carol Dodge, Angie's mother, who, you know, obviously her world is... turned upside down, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking, all of the things to describe what she feels with the death of her only daughter at 18.

And initially, you know, after the confession, Chris Tapp is convicted, and she is there demanding the death penalty, right? She wants justice for her daughter.

But she also realizes, while she believes at that point that Chris Tapp was guilty and she wants him to face the death penalty, that someone else is also guilty out there, that police haven't finished this job.

And so it's really, you know, Carol, as well as some other police officers, but Carol at the heart of this, that just does not quit.

I cannot stress that enough.

We have ancestry.com. And so Maggie, what eventually happens in this search for a DNA match?

Hey, what surprised you the most about this story? 'Cause there are so many twists and turns here.

Yeah.

You really never know what's coming, Brad, and I think, uh, the biggest surprise in this story is, uh, who ends up supporting Chris Tapp.

He ends up confessing to this crime.

He's convicted.

He goes to prison.

You have Carol, Angie's mom, wanting the death penalty for Chris Tapp.

And, um, I just wanted to, to make sure that he knew that I, I, I cared, and I, I just wanted Chris to know that I was there for him, and I, and I understand how his confession happened.

Hey, what surprised you the most about this story? 'Cause there are so many twists and turns here.

Yeah.

You really never know what's coming, Brad, and I think, uh, the biggest surprise in this story is, uh, who ends up supporting Chris Tapp.

He ends up confessing to this crime.

He's convicted.

He goes to prison.

You have Carol, Angie's mom, wanting the death penalty for Chris Tapp.

And, um, I just wanted to, to make sure that he knew that I, I, I cared, and I, I just wanted Chris to know that I was there for him, and I, and I understand how his confession happened.

Can you give us a little bit of a backstory on Angie Dodge and a little bit about her family, maybe some of the events leading up to the tragedy that occurred?

Yeah, of course.

You know, this podcast is going to take us all back to 1996.

It's actually 30 years almost to the very day that Angie Dodge was murdered.

So Angie Dodge, she was 18 years old.

She was really just starting off in life.

She had just moved out of her house, moved into this brand new apartment in Idaho Falls, Idaho, a small town.

Did you seem to encounter any sort of pushback or did you know of any sort of resistance to scientific evidence like DNA on the investigators part?