This is Deborah Roberts. You're about to hear the first episode of the latest original true crime podcast from 2020 and ABC audio a Shocking six-part series called the snare. It's a story about loyalty persistence and a decades-long fight for justice in 1996 18 year old Angie Dodge was found brutally murdered in her apartment in Idaho Falls The police soon identified a suspect and put him behind bars But some evidence still didn't line up and doubts lingered about who was really responsible for years Angie's mom continued to search for answers and two decades later a Surprising revelation changed everything Here's the true story of what happened to Angie Dodge on our new podcast the snare We'll be sharing weekly episodes on Wednesdays right here on the 2020 podcast feed over the next six weeks starting right now with episode one But if you don't want to wait you can get new episodes early by following the snare on Apple podcast Spotify Amazon music or wherever you're listening now Now here's episode one of the snare the new documentary film cats. I wild heart is now available on Disney plus and Hulu
The more we grow into cats like the more eyes that we have on us we want to do everything for the fans Our icons are what make cats iconic cats eye wild hearts now available on Disney plus and Hulu This is Disney plus dot com forward slash what's hyphen on for more information term supply on a cold winter night in 1997 Police in a small city in Idaho have brought a young man to the station to help answer some questions His name is Chris tap He shifts around in his chair inside a spare interrogation room propping a baseball cap on the knee of his fate of blue jeans Chris is 20 years old the detective asks if he's comfortable and says he can leave anytime Not under his trouble You can get up with a hey of them to get on just one kind of big screen and open there The detective seems to think Chris knows something about the death of a young woman He knew the brutal murder of 18 year old Angie Dodge who'd been found stabbed and sexually assaulted in her apartment more than six months before
Chris is confused about why police would want to talk to him. What more can I say? I'm gonna be helpful I'll try to do everything I can but I really don't know that much But the detective doesn't appear to believe him he shifts gears saying if Chris is lying he's gonna pay a heavy price Starmed a shape up that some heads are gonna probably roll for a little bit and it appears here Just probably on the chopping block He says things will only get worse if it turns out Chris is hiding something But if he cooperates and fetches up now, then maybe believes can throw him a lifeline I can't make this promise to you But I can tell you that because of my position and everything I could pull a tamp to pull some serious strings, okay?
Chris thought he was here to help the police, but now he's starting to realize this might not be a friendly conversation He tries bargaining with the detective Chris has just said he's a scared little man. He's also volunteered to take a lie detector test Soon detectives will take him up on that offer and it will set him and others on a dark path a path They could never have predicted From ABC audio and 2020. I'm Maggie really this is the snare Episode one peacekeeper in June 1996 young people in Idaho Falls, Idaho were starting to settle into summer Jeremy serges Angie dodges classmate all through high school was one of them. It's an outdoorsy place
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 bobbin and water fights and yeah driving around with your feet hanging out the window Idaho Falls is a town of around fifty thousand not far from the Grand Teton's and Yellowstone National Park It's known for having some of the best fly fishing in the country and his home to Idaho's oldest rodeo the war bonnet 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 seem to all get along really good Right along the river. There's a sprawling white Mormon temple It's one of the towns defining features 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 serges 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 they wouldn't be anywhere to park. I mean at certain points There was hundreds of people down there hanging out having a good time Angie Dodge hung out at the river too You'd have the cowboys over here and jocks over here and Angie was a social butterfly So she would be in all the groups It wouldn't be just our click that she would be with she would be with them all Tim quick was one of Angie Dodge's best friends Angie's mom and my mom went to high school together So I met Angie at a very young age and we grew up together families did a lot together Tim says that summer Angie was really feeling her freedom She was 18 and had a job at a makeup store in town called Beauty for All Seasons She answered calls and processed orders and when she wasn't working she was socializing at the river Being a teenager in Idaho Falls was like freedom. It was like You could go hang out where you wanted you pretty much do what you wanted But Tim says the real taste of freedom for Angie that summer came in the form of an apartment
She had moved out of her family home into her own place After the boat docks officially closed at 10 p.m Angie and her friends would go to someone's house to hang out in the weeks leading up to Angie's murder her new apartment was one of those hangout spots Angie's place was on the top floor of an older wood shingled house with creaky floors The bathroom had a water stained porcelain sink and pink floral wallpaper Angie had only been living there for a few weeks She hadn't even gotten to real bed yet and was still sleeping on a mattress on the floor Still she'd set up her kitchen with a spice rack the apartment was small and it wasn't fancy But it was hers and it was what she could afford the rent was just two hundred and fifty dollars a month Tim remembers how happy she was about getting her own place. You would have thought she was moving into an mansion She was super excited. It was the best house in the world just pure joy when she had her own place On the morning of June 13th Angie was supposed to clock into her shift at Beauty for All Seasons at 7 a.m But she didn't which was unlike her
So by 730 her coworkers tried calling her home phone no answer They left a message on her answering machine. They tried calling her again a few hours later Still no answer That's when two of her coworkers decided to go to her house and check on her They checked the front door which was closed but unlocked They made their way up the carpeted stairs and walked to her bedroom But instead of finding that Angie had overslept her coworkers found Angie's body lying on the floor covered in blood They rushed to Angie's home phone to call 911 Around 11 15 that morning Detective Jeff Pratt was sitting at his desk following up on some case reports when he got a call from his surgeon And he basically told me we have a suspicious death. I want you to come and process this crime scene Pratt had first joined the Idaho Falls Police Department as a patrol officer by the time he was promoted to detective in 1996 he'd been on the force for 15 years as part of his new detective assignment
He'd taken some photography classes to learn how to document crime scenes After hanging up the phone Pratt grabbed his personal camera a 35 millimeter pentax and drove over to Andrews Department in an unmarked car Pratt was familiar with Angie's address 444 I street. He lived nearby when he was starting out as a rookie cop That's when we called the lettered streets. They follow the alphabetical letters and it had seen better days By the time Angie moved in the neighborhood was kind of dilapidated and had a reputation for being unsafe There were reports of drug dealing another crime when detective Pratt pulled up to Angie's house He was met by a handful of law enforcement officers who'd already been inside They gave me a briefing of that they had been in the building that they had found the victim and Caution me that there was a pretty graphic in violent scene a lot of blood At this point Pratt didn't know the name of the victim or anything about Angie His job was to document evidence from the crime scene And so he focused his pentax camera as he made his way inside
At first he didn't see any obvious clues that something was off. I noticed the apartment is really clean It seems to be fairly orderly Nothing seemed out of place and there was no sign of forced entry But when detective Pratt turned a corner into Angie's bedroom the outlines of a violent crime scene came into focus There was blood splattered on the walls next Angie's body a white wicker laundry basket piled high with stuffed animals Including a blood stain to teddy bear tucked under Angie's left arm a white stuffed bunny rabbit Still there were no signs of a struggle a pink table lamp on Angie's nightstand appeared to be untouched The room was pretty much intact the bed was messed up and the bedding was you know flowing off of it the sheets and blankets But other than that in the immediate vicinity within a few feet around the victim was the only real chaos of the room I can see that she has some extensive lacerations or incisions stab wounds and there is a horrific wound to the throat Obviously a lot of blood spatter. He documented more than a dozen stab wounds including a six inch gasch across Angie's left breast
Which was exposed there were a few small defensive wounds on her arms and hands Angie's purple sweatpants had been pulled down to her knees. She wasn't wearing any underwear It appeared she'd been sexually assaulted and most striking of all there was a 14 inch gasch across Angie's throat detective Pratt had a theory about that The injury to Angie's throat I Believe really early on would have severed the larynx and the voice box. I don't believe she could have screamed I've always saw that it was the probably the worst case I've ever seen even to now, you know a number of years later It's still one of the worst cases I've ever seen is the one that sticks with me. It's the nightmare It's the one that you desperately want to solve to know I can't imagine anyone wanting to do that It comes on like that as a type of Pratt took in the totality of the crime scene
It seemed to him that whoever had done this had been motivated by pent up emotion and rage He thought this was the type of crime that was likely perpetrated by a lone killer Still he noticed this pattern in the blood spatter along one wall in Angie's bedroom The main question is lone killer theory Imagine if you flipped a wet paintbrush at a wall if someone happened to be standing in front of that wall This batter would land on them and leave a blank space on the wall behind them essentially an outline or avoid That's what detective Pratt noticed on this one wall in Angie's bedroom And it made him wonder if maybe the killer hadn't acted alone So it's possible that there was Something or someone in the path of where the blood was spraying that created a weighted shadow So I couldn't out and out categorically say There is more than one person, but it kind of appeared that that was a possibility Over the next 24 hours detective Pratt and Idaho Falls law enforcement collected physical evidence from the crime scene
They swapped blood from the wall in Angie's body They collected samples of semen and samples of hair from a hair clip of pink fuzzy toilet seat cover and from Angie's purple sweatpants We found one hair that we believe was a pubic hair that was obviously different than the others DNA technology was just starting to emerge at the time detective Pratt says he knew collecting all these samples could lead to a DNA match and to Angie's murderer The killer absolutely left his killing card there According to police officers in Idaho Falls were mostly used to dealing with thefts or drug crimes, especially men The year before Angie's death. They're only the two murders in the town And while the police investigation began Angie's family friends and community can asking their own questions Why would anyone want to hurt Angie and who could have committed this brutal murder?
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And they would cook and do all sorts of things and listen to music But she'd see some new kid come to school or you know and she she was very compassionate Angie was also serious determined and seemed eager to grow up She graduated from high school with honors the year before and was working full-time Angie was interested in entrepreneurship and had taken some classes at Idaho State Actually one of the pieces of evidence detected collected from her apartment was a textbook about entrepreneurship sitting on her nightstand There is no doubt that Angie would have become an entrepreneur She she was very business-minded and when she was a freshman high school she ran her finances for a whole year When I see her day planner she had her money. This is what I owe This is how much money I have in the bank. This is what I need to write checks for it was like she was so organized With her money Angie had secured her apartment and she also bought a car a Chevy Geometric You know it wasn't an expensive car But it was a brand new car and she was just excited to compete that she got a loan at 18
Angie's car was called the boat. This is Angie's longtime friend Tim Quick again She would pull up to anything with her foot out the window of her car You would see her foot and then you'd see her face and it's just big smile like I've arrived the party has started to Wait it has begun. You know, it's just like a pure joy. Tim recalls how special Angie's smile was Her smile would light up any room we were ever in Aside from being outgoing and boisterous. He says Angie was also a peacekeeper. I used to get in a lot of scuffles when I was younger
Angie would step in all the time and tell me it wasn't worth it. Tell me it wasn't worth the trouble I was gonna get into or worth hurting myself or the other person for she was always a peacemaker Always I was wanted everyone to be happy Tim says this continued all the way through high school and to Angie's time hanging out the river where he says It wasn't uncommon for people to get into fights or for the cops to show up and Angie would love To get in the middle of it to break it up just to make peace so we wouldn't get removed from our hangout Tim says Angie and her mom were both strong-willed and opinionated and Angie had argued with her mom a few weeks before her death one of the reasons why she moved out is because she disobeyed a house girl and She said why don't you just let me grow up and you know, just I'm 18 mother. Just let me grow up That's how we learn, you know On the night of June 12th, 1996 the sun was setting then Carol Dodge was outside the house doing yard work
And I heard her come through the back way of the patio and her and I were always known to be barefooted We just never were shoes, but she had a broken stock son and anyway, she does a smile on my ear Carol hadn't seen her daughter since the fight since Angie had moved into her own apartment I was so grateful that she had to mover because I hadn't seen her for three weeks Carol says Angie had come over to make peace to put their big fight behind them We sat down and we talked and I just took a hold of her. She laid her head on my shoulder And I rocked her and I said I'm so glad you're not mad at me anymore And she just went up. She said not even in a blue moon That was a god-given fight as Carol held her only daughter Angie can fight it in her mom about something that happened weighing on her She says, you know mom, I've done something really stupid and I said sweetheart we all do think stupid look at the stupid things that I've done She says no mom, this is really stupid
Carol didn't ask Angie what that stupid thing was for years. She says she would regret this decision a million times over I keep going back when Angie said I've done something really stupid What is it that she did that possibly was the reason why she was killed before long the police would ask Carol about these last moments with Angie What did she remember about Angie that night? Oh, I can remember is how her How her hair smelled and how she smells so clean and just I remember how cute her hair like that night So the time Angie passed away. I found out By her mother calling me It was before all the new stations came on with it and before I Can remember really is Carol. I said hello and Carol said she's gone. It was
One of the hardest days of my life. I would love to know Angie now That's the hardest part who in her right mind would want to kill someone was such a pleasant someone so pleasant someone so joyful someone so perfect for life someone just someone to come to Happy to the saddest moment in someone's life Carol is destroyed. I've got a daughter. It's the same age as Angie wasn't she was killed. I can't even imagine What that would be like?
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Including detective Jeff Pratt the officer who took photos of the crime scene at Angie's apartment on this day He's wearing a gray suit and navy blue tie. He has his pentax camera strapped around his neck Pratt and another detective are here to investigate. They're watching even recording with the video camera Could Angie's killer be mingling among her friends and family? After the service ends police follow the crowd outside to a nearby cemetery with the video camera It's a windy June day and the camera zooms in on different faces. It's hunting for clues At that time there were no suspects the police chief was open about that when he previously spoke to the press There's a brutal homicide and and we do not have a suspect of this time and there is reason for for people to be cautious right now And people in Idaho Falls were cautious Jeremy Sargis remembers the fear in the community nothing like that happens in in Idaho Falls It just doesn't there's some crazy stuff that happens in every town, but that was pretty extreme
I know then I started carrying a knife it scared people it really did He also remembers how quickly rumors started swirling about who could have killed Angie everybody had an idea of Who might have done it and what might have happened and you know, I guess that's just the nature of people I remember the police pulling in hundreds and hundreds of people for questioning all of us really what was highly unusual for this case And especially unusual for Idaho Falls is it was a who done it. This is Brian Clark a reporter in Eastern Idaho who has covered the Andy Dodge case There were no witnesses. There was physical evidence, but no obvious way to tell who it came from Brian Clark says police looked at other items found in Angie's apartment like a planner They wanted to find out what her routine had been who she'd been speaking with they were also voicemails on her home phone And so they started looking into the people who would call police officers interviewed Angie's family and her ex-boyfriend and cleared them they also interviewed her neighbors and friends basically They wanted to talk to anyone who knew Angie, but after all that they didn't identify any suspects as they did all these interviews
Investigators collected DNA samples from around a hundred people trying to get a match to the physical evidence from the crime scene But officers weren't the only ones asking around and trying to figure out who had killed Angie Brian Clark says Carol Dodge got very involved in the hunt for her daughter's murderer. She started hitting the streets like a cop interviewing people trying to find out who killed her daughter she tracked down people She started looking into the drug scene in the area finding people who were involved in the drug scene interviewing them She put 2,500 flyers up offering rewards for information I go home 3 4 5 o'clock in the morning Tim quick remembers helping Carol Dodge with these efforts. We thought we were our own investigative team When asked questions everyone anyone who would know Still as the summer of 1996 went on neither the police nor Angie's family and friends had any leads Summer became fall fall became winter. There were no suspects no arrests
The investigation seemed to be at a standstill until one day in January 1997 when Idaho Falls police learned about a crime that seemed strangely similar There was an arrest hundreds of miles away in Nevada of a man who hung out down by the Snake River to a man who knew Angie Dodge a Man who was even captured on video the Angie's funeral The snare is a production of ABC audio and 2020 hosted by me Matthew Rooley produced by Camille Peterson and Sabrina Fang with help from Annalie Cylinder and Emily Shuntz edited by Tracy Samelson our supervising producer is Susie Lou music by Evan Viola mixing by Bob Mallory special Thanks to Katie Dendoss Janice Johnston Nancy Rosenbaum Sasha Asalainian Suzanne de Kanto and Michelle Margolis Josh Cohen is our director of podcast programming. Amy McNiff is our executive producer Last October's brazen daytime high-sits at the Louvre was shocking now nearly a year out
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