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Moore: I had followed some cold cases for years,

and so when I started working with Parabon,

one of the very first cases I ever asked them about

was the Angie Dodge murder case.

The night that Angie was killed,

Angie parked right here by the boat dock.

This case was a series of firsts for me ‐‐

the first time a victim's mother reached out to me directly,

so persistently that I had to meet her in person...

Good to meet you. CeCe Moore.

...the first time the police let us follow them

as they hunted a killer...

Aw [bleep] We just lost visual on him.

We're trying to catch him. Man: Is that him?

...and the first time it appeared

that genetic genealogy had led me wrong.

♪♪

I'm CeCe Moore.

For years, genealogy was my hobby,

and then it became my career.

Soon, I realized

that the techniques I developed to reunite families

could also be used to identify killers.

Now my team and I

help the police hunt violent criminals.

I'm a new kind of detective.

‐‐ Captions by VITAC ‐‐

Should I go? Marc: Yep.

Okay. [ Engine revs ]

Whoo! Sorry.

Gotta get us out of that before this guy comes.

Sorry. I don't want to kill you, Marc.

[ Laughs ]

I'm driving through some back areas of Idaho Falls.

Not like anything I've ever seen before.

There are some cows.

I'm on my way to meet Carol Dodge, finally.

I'm really excited to meet her.

The mother of Angie.

We've been exchanging e‐mails,

but this will be the first time that we'll ever meet in person.

And I look forward to learning more about Angie

and what happened.

This horribly sad case.

♪♪

Reporter: 18‐year‐old Angie Dodge was raped and murdered

in her Idaho Falls apartment.

Reporter #2: Someone had raped and killed her.

Reporter #3: Angie Dodge's life was cut short last night.

[ Police radio chatter ] Squires: This call came over the radio.

A body was found, and suspicious...

"Suspicious death.

I want you to come and process this crime scene.

Whatever you're doing, it'll hold."

I'd probably been on patrol for a couple of months.

It was my first homicide.

Pratt: They cautioned me that it was

a pretty graphic and violent scene,

lot of blood.

And then they pointed me toward the front door.

I took photographs to show my approach.

[ Camera shutter clicking ]

I get to the top of the stairs, and I continue to photograph.

I enter into the largest bedroom,

and that's where I was able to see the victim.

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

She's laying on the floor, on her back, next to a mattress.

It's not actually a bed.

Her sweatpants were pulled down just above knee level.

Her clothes are kind of disheveled.

She had a shirt on that was slightly lifted up,

and it was exposing one of the cut marks

on one of her breasts.

I can see that she has some extensive lacerations

or stab wounds.

And there is a horrific wound to the throat.

There was a lot of blood.

There were some blood marks on the wall.

♪♪

And then off to my right,

there was a laundry basket and some stuffed animals.

♪♪

It was probably the worst case I've ever seen.

♪♪

It's the nightmare.

♪♪

[ Vehicle door closes ]

[ Doorbell rings ] Hi!

CeCe, CeCe. Hi.

It's so good to meet you.

Nice to meet you, too.

I'm excited to see you.

Really, it's such a pleasure to meet you.

I can see Angie in your face.

Sorry.

When you have a child that's murdered, I...

life just gets shattered.

Mm‐hmm.

And there's no way to put the pieces back together.

♪♪

I wanted to hear a little bit about Angie,

what you could tell me about her.

She was my ‐‐ not only my baby,

but she was my only daughter.

She really went through some hard times

when she was younger because she was big for her age.

Yeah, was she 5'11"? Or 6 foot?

Mm‐hmm, mm‐hmm.

And so she was bullied,

and so when she would see other people being bullied

or being messed with,

she would get right in the person's face

and say, "You leave him alone."

♪♪

Okay, we're gonna turn right here, left.

Man, this is beautiful.

Look at the light.

I grew up out here. You did?

So you're a native. Yes.

My mom and dad were really poor,

and my mother raised five girls with no bathroom.

What?! We had an outhouse.

Oh, my.

[ Both laugh ]

So, is this her block? Where she lived?

Yes. Mm‐hmm. Okay.

Pratt: It's an older neighborhood in Idaho Falls.

It had...seen better days.

♪♪

Here, this was, you know, the backyard,

and there was a chain‐link fence.

Clark: Angie moved into a converted apartment

that was the second floor of a house.

And that's where she was the night she was killed.

♪♪

Angie was at my house that night

until 20 minutes after 10:00

because she moved out three weeks before.

Only three weeks before? And one of the reasons why ‐‐

because she disobeyed a house rule.

And I was so grateful that she had come over

'cause I hadn't seen her for three weeks.

Oh, that was the first time ‐‐ That was the first time ‐‐

Since she moved out? [ Voice breaking ] Yes.

Oh.

And the night that she came over,

I rocked her and I says,

"I'm just so glad you're not mad at me anymore."

And she just looked up, she said,

"Not even in a blue moon."

And...next day,

that's when they told me that Angie had been found dead.

♪♪

The police gathered DNA at the crime scene.

♪♪

The semen that we could see clearly all over the victim.

Skin cells under her fingernails.

Pratt: We found one hair that was obviously different.

We believe it was a pubic hair.

Some blood sampling, obviously.

The killer absolutely left his calling card there.

Jack: This was my only daughter,

and I hope you come forward and make it easy on everyone.

Squires: Almost every person that they brought in for an interview,

they asked them for DNA.

We're interviewing all family members,

associates, friends of hers.

Up to now,

we have collected over 100 different DNA samples.

There wasn't any matches.

They spent months trying to solve this case,

and they're getting nowhere.

And then a friend of hers named Benjamin Hobbs

was arrested in Nevada for raping a woman at knifepoint.

Much like the similar circumstances

that had happened in Angie's murder.

They began talking to a large number of Ben Hobbs' friends...

...including a guy named Chris Tapp.

Slowly over the course of these interrogations,

he winds up saying that he was assisting...

...and that he slashed Angie's breast.

And then the DNA results come back.

Neither Tapp nor Hobbs' DNA profile

matched the CODIS profile.

♪♪

But Chris Tapp has confessed to the crime.

So, in February of 1997, Chris Tapp was charged

with the rape and murder of Angie Dodge.

Guilty.

[ Spectators murmuring ]

The judge ultimately opted against the death penalty.

They gave him 30 years to life.

But it was clear

that somebody else must have been involved in the murder.

♪♪

We still needed to find that other person.

But nothing happened. Nothing came up.

No evidence came forward.

Moore: Carol Dodge is not happy

that her daughter's killer has not been identified.

♪♪

So she decides she needs to investigate it herself.

Carol: I literally went to the streets.

I kept going back and forth.

I'd go home 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 in the morning.

I kept reading all of the documents

and the different reports that I had accumulated.

Moore: The turning point comes

when she decides that she's going to get

Chris Tapp's interrogation tapes.

And she starts watching hours upon hours,

looking for any clues she can possibly find...

...to track down this mystery man

that left the DNA at the scene of her daughter's murder.

♪♪

And over time, she realizes that

he really doesn't know much about the crime.

She comes to the conclusion eventually

that the detectives appear to be feeding him information

about what happened that night.

Carol: For 13 years, I believed

that Chris Tapp was part of my daughter's killing.

So it took me a long time

after doing all the investigation about Chris Tapp

to say Chris Tapp's not there.

Moore: So, in a major turn of events,

Carol goes from wanting the death penalty for Chris Tapp

to believing he should be exonerated.

She becomes sort of an activist

for the man she thought killed her daughter.

[ Applause ]

Finally, in 2017, the prosecutor decides to make a deal.

After 20 years in prison, Chris Tapp is free.

‐Victory! ‐Victory!

Moore: But he has this murder conviction

hanging over his head.

The prosecutor refused to expunge that from his record.

And for the person who did kill Angie Dodge,

there's a bounty on your head.

Squires: As the years go by,

it never stopped being investigated.

Around October of '17, I took over the case.

We were still trying to search for whoever this person was.

But we have taken every street to the end,

and there's nothing else to follow up on.

♪♪

Moore: Poor Carol had been trying

to find her daughter's killer for 22 years.

There is one person that killed my daughter.

That's what the DNA shows.

So Carol is not going to give up,

and I want to be the one to help her.

[ Voice breaking ] I just want to know.

And I just know she was so scared.

I'm gonna give you a hug.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry I keep making you cry.

That's not what I mean to do.

I'm gonna do everything I can

to help give you some answers.

I just hope that I live long enough to see the day.

So we got to get busy.

Yeah, right? [ Laughs ]

♪♪

Alright, we're gonna talk about the murder of Angie Dodge.

Tom, have you been in touch with the department

about getting evidence?

Yeah, so, there is evidence.

They did say there's degradation.

The 61%.

Yeah, that's ‐‐ [ Sighs ]

Working with DNA is like trying to put a puzzle together.

Say you have 100 pieces in your puzzle.

This was missing 39 of those pieces.

Right at the margin for what we would accept.

We have a number system that we use,

and this case was a 4‐minus.

That's like a D‐minus in a grading system.

Moore: Genetic genealogy had never been done

on crime‐scene DNA of this degraded quality.

But CeCe is very tenacious.

Carol, Angie's mom, writes to me almost every day.

It'd be wonderful if we could help her gain justice on this case.

So we uploaded it to GEDMatch.

And at that point, I hand it off to CeCe.

♪♪

Moore: No cold‐case perpetrator had been identified

using such degraded DNA ‐‐ ever.

But I wanted to give this a try.

I found two matches who not only shared DNA with the suspect,

but shared DNA with each other.

Genetic network #1.

The top match was only about 107 centimorgans.

This might be a second cousin once removed

or a third cousin‐ish with the suspect.

But because we're missing all of that DNA,

I really couldn't predict what those relationships would be.

So I had to dig deeper into that match list.

I had three matches.

57 centimorgans...

32 centimorgans...

26.6.

It looked like fourth, maybe fifth cousins and beyond ‐‐

people who shared DNA with the suspect

but did not share DNA with that first genetic network.

My genetic network #2.

They should have common ancestors with the suspect

somewhere in their family trees, but because of the degraded DNA,

I just didn't know how far back the connection was going to be.

But I like building family trees,

so that was not a problem.

I'm using census records, death records, marriage records,

all the traditional genealogical resources.

And for genetic network #1,

we're going back to second great‐grandparents.

Their common ancestors with the suspect

are Joseph Lathrom and Orlena Gaither.

And I may not be pronouncing those right.

Best I can do.

Joseph also went by the name Josephus.

He was born 1856.

Orlena was born 1875 in Missouri.

In one of the census records, he is a cashier.

Orlena, of course, is a housewife.

There was a tornado in 1880, a flood in 1885,

and another tornado in 1888.

Maybe that's why he decided to become a cashier ‐‐

because he wanted to get inside from out in that weather.

Do we have the air conditioner on?

[ Imitates choking ] It's so hot!

Lennart, I'm so hot.

When I'm hot, I am just not ‐‐ especially recently.

I'm like one year‐long hot flash.

Right?

[ Chuckles ]

And for Genetic Network #2, their common ancestors are

Martin Van Buren Ussery and Sarah Adeline Morrison ‐‐

also second great‐grandparents.

They were both born 1844, also in Missouri.

Now, Martin Van Buren, that sounds familiar, right?

Our eighth president.

So, clearly, his parents were big fans.

Martin served on the Union side in the Civil War.

Fortunately, he wasn't gone very long,

because they still were able to have 12 children.

I'd say they liked each other a lot.

[ Laughter ]

12 children was good for them.

Not so good for me

'cause I need to follow those children

forward in time to try to find the suspect.

Who are the descendants of each of these common ancestors?

Where did they come together?

After hours and hours and hours of tree building,

it leads to this one marriage ‐‐ Clarence and Cleo Ussery.

Ah.

The suspect has to be a descendant of this couple

'cause we need that ancestral mix.

They got married in December 1916.

We have to build forward, try to find somebody of the right age,

of course the right gender,

and hopefully somewhere near Idaho Falls

that could be our suspect.

Fortunately, this family has really good obituaries.

However, because of the degraded DNA,

I'm not sure if it's one of their grandsons

or their great‐grandsons,

but they have six male descendants

over two generations that could be Angie's killer.

Five of the six males lived over 1,000 miles away.

But one of them lived in Idaho.

He was the only one who came anywhere near Idaho Falls.

But I communicated all six of these names

back to the Idaho Falls Police Department.

As you know, we took the crime‐scene DNA,

and I was able to narrow it down

to six possible suspects for you.

Now, many of my cases,

I can provide one name or two brothers,

but I'd say six is ‐‐

Squires: Pretty good.

Pretty good. ‐Six is pretty good.

Can I ask you something? Yeah. Please do.

How would you get that familial information

for the descendants?

That's a great question. Just genealogical information?

I was able to find obituaries for this family.

It was not only the first big lead,

but really, just about the only lead.

Now, this fifth son is most interesting to me

because they moved to Idaho.

Wow.

Even though it wasn't Idaho Falls,

it was a lot closer than everybody else was.

That's great.

See? You are a detective. See? You are a detective.

♪♪

It was incredible. It was incredible.

She was the key to making it happen.

That just puts the onus for us to do our job.

We're not just going off of the information we get from you.

We're going to have to do the rest of the investigation

to determine that that person was actually involved.

Moore: So that means you all have a job to do.

[ Laughter ]

You always have a job to do, but you really have a job to do.

Okay, I'm back to eyes on the trooper.

Man: Aw [bleep] We just lost visual on him.

We're trying to catch him. Is that him right there?

And you guys are gonna have to work for this one.

♪♪

♪♪

Sage: I think everybody knows why we're here.

We're gonna try to get a DNA sample

from a possible contributor that Cece has identified

of our unknown DNA found at the Angie Dodge homicide.

He lives in the area, he has the right surname,

the right, I guess, autosomal DNA.

[ Chuckling ] That's very good. Very good.

[ Laughter ]

Everybody's just like, "Whoa!" Sorry, buddy.

I hate you guys.

[ Laughter ]

So, one thing that's beneficial for us

is he's got two sons who will share a lot of his same DNA,

and according to CeCe, even if we can get a sample from them,

that'll help us to narrow down who our likely suspect is ‐‐

if it's a cousin, an uncle,

or if it's in a different line of their family tree.

I mean, this is the first step

in what's gonna eventually help us catch this guy.

I know ‐‐ it's the kind of thing

that's been giving me goose bumps for months,

and I'm excited about it, so I hope you guys all are, too.

Get some gloves, get some swabs, get some evidence bags.

Man: Good job, Sage!

Autosomal. [ Laughter ]

Autosomal, autosomal, autosomal!

♪♪

The person that CeCe had identified

lives about 2 1/2 hours away from where we are.

Moore: This potential person of interest

was a family man, living out in a rural area.

He didn't seem like the type of person

that would do something like this,

but I've learned in my work you can't always tell

who is capable of such violence.

Genetic genealogy is a lead generator, and that's all.

Any information that I am providing to the detectives

is simply a tip.

So, we're just gonna, hopefully, find some piece of DNA

that he discards,

whether blowing his nose, drinking a soda.

Moore: They have to build that traditional case

and collect that DNA sample

to compare to their crime‐scene DNA.

Spencer: There could be DNA here that...

Squires: We had made contact with

their local investigators in that area.

And we put a plan together

between six and eight of our own detectives.

Was mainly farm country.

Mulden: Doesn't look like there's a really good spot

to actually watch the house itself.

We're gonna have to find out something ‐‐

Hey, Bill, I'm gonna take a parallel road.

♪♪

Squires: And so, to have surveillance vehicles around

just stuck out like a sore thumb.

♪♪

The first day ‐‐

and it was a long day, a 12‐ or 14‐hour day...

[ Engine starts ]

...and we weren't able to actually get a sample.

If we can get the father's sample,

that would be fantastic,

but if it's too difficult, perhaps we can get the son.

♪♪

We split half of the team on the son

and half of the team on the father just in case

'cause we didn't want to miss an opportunity.

Mulden: This is the target vehicle.

We'll keep an eye on him.

♪♪

Hey, John, we just got back into the parking lot.

We actually have good eyes on the car.

♪♪

His son...

Man: Copy this. We got eyes on him.

...ended up going into a local bank there.

♪♪

So, the farmer blow is right there.

He came out of the bank

and spit a couple of wads of chew here on the ground.

You got it.

We continued to surveil the father.

Man: Stay with him as best you can.

♪♪

Tisdale: I love my wife, but you are now a close second, sir.

[ Laughs ] Thank him. He did all the dirty work.

Oh, my gosh. Here's sample 1.

Beautiful. Here's sample 2.

Well, Bill, you're the proud new owner of two spit tubes.

[ Laughs ]

That was awesome, dude!

You know how I'm gonna pay you back?

Ooh! Dinner.

Dinner's on me. Ooh!

DQ or Taco Bell ‐‐ it's your call.

♪♪

Moore: So, I'm really excited

that they've been successful in getting this DNA.

I was still on pins and needles

waiting for those results to come in.

The genetic genealogy had led to just these six cousins.

But when the results came back...

it seemed to eliminate all of them.

♪♪

It was a total shock.

I just...

I just couldn't figure out what had gone wrong.

♪♪

Squires: I really thought that we might be at a dead end right there.

So it was really depressing.

Moore: Never before had genetic genealogy

given me the wrong answer.

And I think the thing that I was most afraid of

was failing Carol

and having to tell her that I couldn't identify him.

♪♪

♪♪

So, my tree that I like to sit in and read was just there.

Back there? Yep.

Moore: It's very hard for me to step away from a case,

but I really was kind of at a dead end.

I didn't know what else to do.

There were times where I was very doubtful

we would be able to do anything with this.

It was incredibly discouraging.

But it was nice to come back home.

See, that was my parents' room right there.

In the past, I was definitely

not thinking about murders or rapes,

but ever since I started working with law enforcement,

I'm faced with incredible evil.

And once you meet the family,

I think it's impossible to deny how much these cases mean.

Like the Dodge case, I think a lot about

what it would have been like to have something like that happen

here in Westwood, Rancho Bernardo.

Everything would have changed.

♪♪

Welcome to The Mount.

The Mount.

By chance, my high school recently created a hall of fame

and decided to induct me as one of the first people.

My work with genetic genealogy

was absolutely borne of a passion.

It was never intended to be a career.

Okay, this is great. Everybody looking right here.

I didn't find this until I was in my 40s.

So many of us women feel like

we're kind of forgotten at that point.

Being able to return...

Thanks for being here.

My pleasure and my honor.

...to receive this award really validated

that I had made the right choices after all,

because I really believe strongly

that a big part of my success is the unwillingness to give up.

So I decided that

even when the odds looked to be stacked against me,

I was not going to give up.

I could not fail Carol.

Carol demanded answers, deserved answers,

and I knew I had to find a way to get them for her.

I had to figure out what had gone wrong.

Because it had to be a descendant

of Clarence and Cleo Ussery.

Now, because of my unknown parentage work,

I'm always aware that there's a possibility

there's someone that just doesn't show up

in the written records.

Was there a missing descendant

that was hidden in the tree somehow?

I harkened back to my earlier research

where one of the grandsons had an early marriage.

He was really young, his wife even younger.

She was 16.

And I was really surprised

not to find any children from that marriage

'cause most people don't get married that young

for no reason.

The problem was, there had also been an early divorce.

I just couldn't find her.

Clearly, she had remarried, 'cause she just disappeared.

So I decided to look at her parents,

and my hope was that her mother would have an obituary

that would name the daughter, and if she had any children,

that they might be mentioned, as well.

But not everything is digitized.

And so, my right‐hand genetic genealogist researcher

called the local librarian

in that very small town in Missouri,

and I got it.

Not only does it name the daughter,

but it names her son.

He was born during that early marriage,

but he was carrying his stepfather's surname.

He was the right age.

And in 1996, guess where he was living.

Idaho Falls.

Not just Idaho, but Idaho Falls.

That was huge.

I wanted to get this name to them as quickly as I could.

Hey, everyone. How are you guys doing?

We're scared.

We're apprehensive about what we're gonna hear.

So, I guess we can go over it on my screen.

Squires: She begins to lay out

all of the work that she had done on the report.

And that makes them much less likely to be the subject.

...they only share... ...centimorgans...

...definitely not what we expect.

...major problem for us...

Squires: I'm really expecting bad news.

So we're kind of sitting there listening to this going,

"When is it coming?"

...and we might never find them.

She just kept us on the edge of our seat.

It was excruciating.

And...

[ Laughs ]

You're really adding a lot of drama for us on this.

I'm not adding it.

I'm feeling it.

We've got him. [ Chuckles ]

Are you serious?

I'm serious.

[ Chuckles ]

[ Sighs ]

[ Sniffles ]

Our jaws about dropped.

It was incredible.

Now, we don't take anything for granted at this point,

and we have to confirm all this information.

But to have a lead like that after 23, 24 years,

"huge" is probably an understatement.

♪♪

Moore: His name was Brian Dripps.

Squires: Brian L. Dripps.

Moore: At the time of the crime, he was 30 years old.

It was just a few days before his 31st birthday.

He was going through a divorce.

He had a child being born.

Dripps had only had some minor issues.

There was a couple of misdemeanors on his record.

Through our investigation, we find out

that he actually was in Idaho Falls at the time.

Moore: Not just in Idaho Falls,

but right across the street from her house.

♪♪

Squires: It is 0620 in the morning,

and we are in Caldwell, Idaho.

We're gonna go set up on our person of interest's house here.

We don't know anything about where he works,

so wherever he goes,

we can tail him and try to figure out what he does.

He's at the end of this street on our left.

♪♪

I just did the drive by.

That's good news.

♪♪

Alright, so, this is where his house is.

So, we've got a guy down here watching this intersection,

we're up here watching this,

and then we've got a guy down here, north.

♪♪

Yeah, we're not ‐‐ [ Clears throat ]

I mean, it's something we got to keep in the back of our mind,

in that, you know, this is a murder investigation,

so if he gets desperate,

then you never know what could happen here.

We got to be careful.

He was a concealed weapon permit holder,

so we didn't want someone getting shot.

♪♪

Albright: It's just a waiting game now.

We could be sitting here for 2 minutes up to 12 hours.

♪♪

This is torturous.

♪♪

Just watching one intersection for one car.

Then you start thinking to yourself, like,

how often do I leave my house if it's my day off?

♪♪

We've been going for 5 1/2, almost 6 hours.

Just waiting.

♪♪

Tisdale: Cigarette is in hand.

Man, this is it. This could be great.

So, our subject is a couple cars ahead of us.

We've got a UC guy right behind him.

He's got eyes on him,

and those cigarette butts are like DNA traps.

They'd be perfect for collecting a sample.

[ Engine revs ]

I think I'm behind Sage.

Affirm. I'm right behind Spencer.

It's still smoking.

Squires: Oh, my gosh, don't get out!

Still smoldering.

♪♪

[ Laughing ] Oh!

He just flipped it out. Spencer's got it.

That could have just been our Huckleberry right there, guys.

Yeah!

That's awesome.

It's right there.

[ Laughter ]

Hey, we're not done yet. Let's get to the lab.

Let's get to the lab.

Saddle up.

Hello. Is this CeCe? Yes, it is.

We were able to get a cigarette butt.

It was still smoking when we picked it up.

Good work! [ Laughs ]

Albright: Hey, Cindy.

Cindy: Hi. How are you? Very well, thank you.

What do you think our turnaround could be on this sample?

If everything goes smoothly,

I should have a result by Sunday.

Oh, great. Yeah.

Whoo‐hoo! [ Chuckles ]

If it's not a match, I give up.

[ Laughs ]

♪♪

Squires: The next day, I'm out on my lawn mower on Saturday,

trying to get my yard mowed.

Lieutenant Tisdale calls me, and I know

he would only be calling me about this at this time, and...

You're probably ready for some results?

I am!

Well, I think before we get to that, we should go back

and talk about some things in more detail, you know?

[ Laughs ]

Yeah, thanks. Thanks, Captain.

[ Laughter ]

I get what you're doing.

So, our guy, Brian L. Dripps, is...

the match to the crime‐scene semen.

Moore: It was a huge relief.

We've got our match.

Squires: It was huge.

That's probably where it set in the most with me.

"Man, this is the guy.

This is the guy we've been looking for for 23 years."

Moore: So, how does it feel, guys?

[ Chuckles ] Unbelievable.

And now we're in game face mode,

figuring out what we need to do

for the rest of the investigation.

♪♪

My work's done, and your work is just starting.

This is not just a regular case.

It's woven in the fabric

of every IFPD guy's career that's here.

Hell yeah, guys. Let's do this.

Let's go catch a murderer.

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This is the street he'll be coming out on.

Our plan was that we set up in very similar surveillance spots

that we were before.

Sweet. Geez.

And sure enough, right about noon,

gets in his red truck.

There he is.

Alright, I've got him. Stand by.

He takes kind of a roundabout course...

Yeah, it's kind of conspicuous, guys. Watch out.

...into the city.

There's a bank. There he is.

Yeah, just pulled into a parking spot, Idaho Central Bank.

I'm thinking we should...

We got our two guys on foot going in now.

We're gonna stay outside, and our guys are gonna contact

when he comes out of the bank.

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I can see Brandon in there on the phone.

Man: 10‐4.

Here he comes.

Squires: He's in the bank.

Man: Okay.

Okay, stand by.

Okay, he's gonna come out now.

Alright, heads up ‐‐ he's heading for the entrance now.

Heading for the exit.

Yep. Yep.

He's gonna be coming out.

Here we go.

Man #2: There he is.

Camo fatigues, black shirt, big, long beard.

They're walking up, making contact now. Stand by.

Trying to see if he'll be willing to come down voluntarily

and answer some questions at Caldwell PD.

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He's trying to get back in his car.

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Well, he's ‐‐

Oh, he's getting in his truck with him.

John's gonna sit in his truck with him.

I don't like that without the wire.

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We used the Caldwell Police Department's interview rooms.

He denied any involvement right off the get‐go.

This interview went for about 5 1/2 hours‐ish.

And they told him, "We have your DNA."

Squires: He still really didn't want to admit anything

but wanted to take a smoke break.

Then when he came back in...

Pratt: He kind of slumps a little bit.

He was silent for a couple minutes.

And then he just said, "I did it.

I raped her.

And, apparently, I killed her."

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He told us that he had gone over there

with the intention to rape Angie but not kill her.

We asked him if anyone else was involved, and he said no.

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Pratt: This was the way

to make this nightmare finally come to an end.

It was a huge victory for me.

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[ Indistinct talking ]

We've charged a 53‐year‐old man named Brian L. Dripps

with the murder and rape of your daughter.

[ Sobs ]

Okay.

Just 23 years ago, we were in this same building,

hearing the sad news that she was gone.

It was hours of interviewing.

This was the one chance. We only get one shot at it.

What's he done for the last 23 years?

I don't know, really,

if he's done anything, you know, worth mentioning.

Does he have family?

He's got three kids.

Yeah.

He's got three children.

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Moore: This is a story of perseverance ‐‐

of mostly Carol Dodge,

but also of the Idaho Falls Police Department.

They never gave up.

Finally identifying that DNA was a triumph.

The fact that we overcame so many obstacles and dead ends

to finally be there was an amazing moment.

Hey, lady.

[ Sniffles ]

It's good to see you.

Ohh.

So good to see you.

Are you okay?

[ Sniffles ] We made it.

We sure as hell did. You bucked up.

Sure as hell did.

[ Laughs ] Yep.

CeCe. Hi, Carol.

Thank you.

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It couldn't have been done without you.

Well, it couldn't have been done without you.

You're almost superhuman to us.

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[ Sighs, sniffles ]

We made it. Thank you.

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Getting answers for Carol and having Chris Tapp exonerated

was an incredibly rewarding end to such a complex case.

[ Applause ]

This is pure joy.

[ Laughter, cheering ]

It really was the pinnacle of my career.

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