Jun 16, 2026 · 31 min · 15 segments
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Maggie RulliHost
In June 1996, young people in Idaho Falls, Idaho, were starting to settle into summer.
Jeremy Sargis, Angie Dodge's classmate all through high school, was one of them.
It's an outdoorsy place.
Uh, it was a good place to grow up.
We all were dorks back in the day, you know.
We all had good times and hooky bobbing and water fights and, yeah, driving around with your h- feet hanging out the window.
Idaho Falls is a town of around fifty thousand, not far from the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park.
It's known for having some of the best fly fishing in the country and is home to Idaho's oldest rodeo, the Warbonnet Roundup.
The town is named after a set of man-made waterfalls in the Snake River, which cuts it in half.
My friends and I spent a lot of time hanging out down at the river, being kids.
We seemed to all get along really good.
There's a big Latter-day Saints community in Idaho Falls, and the temple, with its massive steeple, towers over everything else.
But for Jeremy Sargis and his friends, the Snake River was what mattered in the summer of '96.
Everybody kind of cruised around earlier in the morning to see who'd stopped and was swimming or picnicking and, and then one person would stop, and another person would stop, and, you know, sometimes by the end of the night, they would, uh, there wouldn't be anywhere to park.
I mean, at certain points, there was hundreds of people down there hanging out and having a good time.
You'd have the cowboys over here and the jocks over here, and Angie was a social butterfly, so she would be in all the groups.
It wouldn't be just our clique that she would be with, she would be with them all.
Families did a lot together.
In June 1996, young people in Idaho Falls, Idaho, were starting to settle into summer.
Jeremy Sargis, Angie Dodge's classmate all through high school, was one of them.
It's an outdoorsy place.
Uh, it was a good place to grow up.
We all were dorks back in the day, you know.
We all had good times and hooky bobbing and water fights and, yeah, driving around with your h- feet hanging out the window.
Idaho Falls is a town of around fifty thousand, not far from the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park.
It's known for having some of the best fly fishing in the country and is home to Idaho's oldest rodeo, the Warbonnet Roundup.
The town is named after a set of man-made waterfalls in the Snake River, which cuts it in half.
My friends and I spent a lot of time hanging out down at the river, being kids.
We seemed to all get along really good.
There's a big Latter-day Saints community in Idaho Falls, and the temple, with its massive steeple, towers over everything else.
But for Jeremy Sargis and his friends, the Snake River was what mattered in the summer of '96.
Everybody kind of cruised around earlier in the morning to see who'd stopped and was swimming or picnicking and, and then one person would stop, and another person would stop, and, you know, sometimes by the end of the night, they would, uh, there wouldn't be anywhere to park.
I mean, at certain points, there was hundreds of people down there hanging out and having a good time.
You'd have the cowboys over here and the jocks over here, and Angie was a social butterfly, so she would be in all the groups.
It wouldn't be just our clique that she would be with, she would be with them all.
Families did a lot together.
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