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And I'm Dick.

Eight year old Angie Dodge had just moved into her first apartment back in 1996

when her life was suddenly and violently snuffed out.

In 1998, a young man named Christopher Tapp was convicted of Angie's murder.

The prosecution's case relied on Chris's confession.

The defense argued that the confession was coerced and that the state was ignoring

DNA evidence from an unknown suspect.

Angie's heartbroken mother, Carol Dodge, was left to wonder about this suspect that was still at large.

After years of seeking the real truth, Carol Dodge watched Chris's confession tapes.

Appalled by the interrogations, she reached out to an expert in false confessions,

who in turn contacted the Innocence Project. But it would take several more years and the work of experts in DNA genealogy

to find Angie's real killer and finally exonerate Chris Tapp.

The use of genealogical familial searching

and its success in this and other cases

has really

has really exciting implications for future criminal investigations. The public has shown approval for the technique overall,

however there really are some privacy concerns over the use of private genetic data to

implicate a person or even his or her relatives in a crime.

Join us at the quiet end for our discussion on the murder of Angie Dodge.

By putting together a DNA profile and identifying relatives in the suspect's family tree,

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