157: Forensic Breakthrough: Angie Dodge - Familial DNA

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Angie Dodge never reported for work, and co-workers found her dead in her apartment. The killer was caught and put in prison... or so they thought. However, with advancements in DNA it was learned that they in fact had the wrong guy. But now they had a new challenge. Who actually did it? Inspired by the Golden State Killer case, investigators thought they knew just the way to make it happen....

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Sources:
Unraveling the Twisted Case of Angie Dodge - ISHI News
Tapp sues Idaho Falls police over Angie Dodge murder case | Idaho Statesman
Police arrest Idaho man in 23-year-old cold-case murder of Angie Dodge (nbcnews.com)
New Orleans filmmaker cleared in cold-case murder; false positive highlights limitations of familial DNA searching | | nola.com
How Genetic Genealogy Helped Christopher Tapp’s Wrongful Conviction Case in Idaho | The Marshall Project
'A new beginning': Man convicted of murder in the '90s exonerated thanks to genetic genealogy - ABC News (go.com)
Privacy concerns after public genealogy database used to ID "Golden State Killer" suspect - CBS News

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.5	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.8	And welcome back to Corpus Delecti.
0:28.7	We are excited to continue on our scientific breakthrough series.
0:33.6	However, we are going to start to bring this series to a close, which we mentioned in the last episode.
0:40.6	It will continue on Patreon.
0:42.8	We have this one and then one final one in the Forensic Breakthrough series.
0:49.7	And then we will be moving on.
0:51.4	Jen, do we want to go ahead and tell them what we're moving on to?
0:55.1	Yeah, let's go ahead and do it.
0:56.6	We are going to bring you our sweet home Alabama murders.
1:01.3	So this series is going to be centric around Alabama
1:05.4	and the horrible crimes that happen here down south.
1:10.1	We have done.
1:11.7	In fact, when we first started Corpus DeLicti almost four years ago, which is insane, our first
1:17.5	several episodes, I want to say three or so stories, we're Alabama-based.
1:22.1	But of course, there's so much more to talk about.
1:25.7	Also, with that said, we are crossing our fingers that our timing
1:30.4	with the series is right, because we have some potentially really, really big stuff in the works.
1:36.7	So stay tuned because we're pretty excited about it. We might be branching out a little bit.
1:42.9	We'll just leave it at that.
1:52.5	But this week, our episode takes 23 years in the making, and it is actually solved by using the newest DNA tactic out there, familial DNA, to bring it to a close.
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