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48 Hours

The Twisted Case of Angie Dodge

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A brutal murder and police have DNA evidence — could a discarded cigarette lead investigators to a possible killer and close a case two decades later? CBS News correspondent Anne-Marie Green reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:09.4

My name is Carol Dodge and I am the mother of Angie Dodge.

0:22.9

It was brutally murdered in June of 1996.

0:34.6

And for 23 years I've traveled every road there is, turned every stone there is, to find

0:41.6

justice for my daughter.

0:48.4

As the officers arrived at the crime scene and found Angie Dodge laying on the ground

0:54.3

and it was obvious that there was a very brutal murder that had happened.

0:57.6

A lot of blood.

0:59.5

During the investigation we came across a significant amount of DNA that we believe is from the killer.

1:06.8

Would you say that this crime scene provided really good evidence?

1:11.4

Excellent evidence.

1:15.7

For nearly two decades police could not find a match to the killer's DNA.

1:20.9

So in 2014 they went way outside the box and searched a public DNA database owned by Ancestry.com.

1:31.4

It led us to this Michael S. Reed Jr. who just happened to be a filmmaker.

1:44.7

I was a film of homicide, kind of a murder mystery filmmaker.

1:49.7

Then he cuts off her head.

1:51.7

My name is Michael Eschrie.

1:54.7

I'm a filmmaker and was a suspect in the Angie Dodge case.

2:01.0

Murder Abilia.

2:02.0

It was then I knew it was a girl and she was young.

2:07.8

Got me the reputation of being a person who is really into murder and things like that.

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