Brian Dripps’s 2021 sentence in the Angie Dodge case
Idaho Statesman · Jacob Scholl · June 8, 2021
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1996 · Idaho Falls, Idaho
Angie Dodge
DNA, a wrongful conviction and the search for the person who killed her
Eighteen-year-old Angie Dodge was killed in her Idaho Falls apartment in 1996. Christopher Tapp was convicted, but DNA evidence and years of scrutiny eventually helped clear him. Genetic genealogy led investigators to Brian Dripps, whose DNA matched evidence from the crime scene. Tapp was exonerated in 2019. Dripps pleaded guilty to murder and rape and received a sentence of twenty years to life in 2021, bringing a different legal outcome after decades of investigation.
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48 Hours — The Twisted Case of Angie Dodge
CBS News · Anne-Marie Green · November 9, 2019
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Innocence Project · 2023
Remembering Christopher Tapp
The organization that helped represent Tapp reflects on his wrongful conviction, the genetic-genealogy breakthrough and his life after exoneration. This is an attributed account from his advocates and a useful companion to the independent reporting on Dripps’s prosecution.
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CBS News · Anne-Marie Green · November 9, 2019
48 Hours — The Twisted Case of Angie Dodge
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Brian Dripps’s 2021 sentence in the Angie Dodge case
Local reporting on the sentence imposed after Dripps pleaded guilty, including the minimum term before parole eligibility. The article also explains Christopher Tapp’s release and later exoneration, keeping the two men’s very different roles in the case clear.
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