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Angie Dodge Murder: Solved

May 22, 2019February 26, 2020Danny R. Smith21 Comments

I am writing this having just finished watching the press conference by the Idaho Falls Police Department announcing the arrest of Brian Leigh Dripps for the 1996 murder of Angie Dodge. Congratulations to them; it’s about time this case was solved. That may sound mean-spirited, but it’s not; it’s outrage.

The Unsolved Murder of Angie Dodge

June 13, 2018February 26, 2020Danny R. Smith25 Comments

Twenty-two years ago today, 18-year-old Angie Raye Dodge was killed as she slept in her upstairs apartment in the sleepy town of Idaho Falls, Idaho. At the time of Angie’s murder, DNA had become a household term thanks to the spectacle that was the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles. Simpson’s 1995 acquittal should…