The tangled history of the case point to the larger systemic issues inside the criminal justice system, including the American courts’s continuing resistance to claims of innocence.
Angie Dodge's death in 1996 has stumped detectives for decades. Police have now made an arrest. By Kyle Swenson Kyle Swenson Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow May 17 at 6:34 AM Fact and fantasy collided for Michael Usry Jr. with a knock on his door in December 2014. Officers from the Louisiana State Police were outside, asking the then-35-year-old to come downtown for a conversation.
The crime was the brutal June 1996 murder of 18-year-old Angie Dodge in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Usry’s shock was soon supersized when he learned how he landed in the investigation’s crosshairs: a genealogical analysis of the suspect’s DNA from the crime scene had led investigators to Usry’s family tree. His 1996 trip to Idaho, and his bloody film work, only further spiked the investigator’s suspicions.
In the summer of 1996, Dodge had just graduated from high school and moved into her own apartment Idaho Falls, a heavily Mormon town in the state’s southeastern corner. Although a DNA test failed to match Tapp to the semen found at the scene, investigators relentlessly grilled him for 28 hours over the next three-plus weeks. After denying he had any part in the crime, Tapp wilted under the interrogation, telling detectives he and two friends had gone to Dodge’s apartment on the night of her death. After a fight, Tapp said he held the woman down while his friends killed her.
In the official version of events, Tapp was the accessory, but police had still not identified the actual assailant.
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