A Mom Spent 23 Years Doing What Police Couldn't. She Found Her Daughter's Killer

I Wish You Were Here

Michelle Cuervo

True Crime

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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🎙️ A Mom Spent 23 Years Doing What Police Couldn't. She Found Her Daughter's Killer In this episode: In June 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was found murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment — just three weeks after moving in on her own. Her mother Carol had rocked her in her arms the night before and said goodbye. Police zeroed in on Chris Tapp, a 20-year-old with no DNA match to the crime scene, and after 28 hours of interrogation over 23 days, extracted a confession experts would later call the worst case of police fact-feeding they had ever seen. Tapp spent 20 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. The real killer — Brian Dripps — lived directly across the street from Angie the entire time. It took a grieving mother, a DNA expert, and 23 years of fighting to finally put the right man behind bars. #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #CrimeStory #AngieDodge #AngieDodgeStory #Convicted #TrueStory #IWishYouWereHerePod #UnsolvedMystery #TrueCrimeStoryteller 🎧 Listen to the Podcast Apple Podcasts:I Wish You Were Here on Apple Podcast Spotify:I Wish You Were Here on Spotify All Platforms: https://hoo.be/mshellllly 🤝 This Episode Is Sponsored By COZY EARTH Go to COZYEARTH.COM/WISH for 20% off! 🔗 Link: http://COZYEARTH.COM/WISH 🌐 Follow Me TikTok: TikTok Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mshellllly/ YouTube: I Wish You Were Here on YouTube 🖤 Disclaimer This episode discusses real events involving real people. Information is presented based on publicly available sources at the time of recording. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	He was the convicted murderer. He had been found guilty and he was serving time for it.
0:04.6	And the victim's mother, through the heartbreaking loss of her own precious daughter, was fighting hard to get him out of prison.
0:13.6	This is the unbelievable story of Angie Dodge. There's so much to go through. I also feel like I haven't sat down to properly talk to you
0:22.4	guys in a while, so I'm eager to get into this case, eager to learn your thoughts and what you
0:26.8	think about this case specifically, the trial and everything that came along with it. It's a crazy one.
0:32.5	There's so much to go through it. So let's get into it. My name is Michelle Cuervo. I am your host, and welcome to this
0:39.4	episode of I Wish You Were Here. June 13, 1999, a Thursday in Idaho Falls. Two teenage girls
0:49.9	were concerned about their 18-year-old friend, Angie Dodge. 18-year-old Angie Dodge was a radiant, beautiful girl with thick blonde hair and a beautiful
0:59.3	bright smile.
1:00.7	That Thursday in 1996, she failed to show up to her shift at work.
1:05.5	And when their phone calls also went unanswered, her coworkers decided it was the best
1:10.3	thing to do to just head over to her apartment
1:12.4	to make sure that everything was all right. Angie had just moved out of her family home just three
1:18.5	weeks prior, and her entire family had a very close-knit relationship. She was the youngest of four kids,
1:24.5	and she was the only daughter. Her and her brothers grew up moving their
1:27.7	entire life. It was something that they were used to because they were military kids. But when they
1:32.5	moved to Idaho Falls, Angie was so excited to finally make friends that she could keep, which she did
1:39.3	make a lot of friends and easily too because she was genuinely such a kind, nice person to be around. She was the kind
1:46.5	of friend that you would want to have, the kind of person that you would want to have in your life.
1:51.0	So she was so excited for that. She was also really looking forward to just starting new and starting
1:56.6	her life there. She moved into her very own apartment at only 18 years old, but the day that she
2:02.5	moved out of her family's home, the day that she left home to go and move into her apartment,
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