FACTS:
June 12, 1996 – Shortly before Angie’s murder five teenage friends were visiting Angie at her apartment at around 11:30 PM. The friends left Angie’s apartment just after midnight.
June 13, 1996 – Angie was brutally murdered at her “I” Street apartment in Idaho Falls, ID sometime in the early morning hours and after the teenage friends left her apartment. At around 10:40 am, two co-workers drove to Angie’s apartment to check on her because she had not shown up for work that morning and she was not responding to any phones calls which was very unusual. Upon their arrival they discovered Angie’s lifeless exposed body.
January 1997 – Christopher C. Tapp was arrested and charged with first degree murder and rape after he made a confession in a very detailed interview. In his taped confession, Tapp claims that he went with Benjamin Hobbs and another individual named “Mike” to Angie’s apartment at around 1:00 am; just shortly after the teenage friends had left the apartment. According to Tapp the three men drove around the block of Angie’s apartment and then to Freeman Park for awhile waiting for Angie’s friends to leave. Tapp claims that they arrived back at the apartment at around 1:30 am. Tapp claims that they entered Angie’s apartment after she let them in.
After entering into the apartment Tapp claims that Angie and Hobbs got into a verbal argument about Hobb’s ex-wife and Hobb’s became in- raged and stabbed Angie and she fell. Tapp claims that he then helped hold Angie down while Hobbs raped her and cut her throat. Tapp then claims that three fled from the crime scene and drove to the river and disposed of the weapon.
1998 – Tapp was convicted of first degree murder and rape for his involvement in the murder by a jury. He is now serving 25 years to life at the Idaho State Correctional Center in Boise, ID. The DNA collected at the crime scene did not match Tapp or Hobbs and the third person that Tapp implicates has never been identified. The DNA collected from the scene belongs to a Caucasian individual.
Suspects – Although Tapp implicated Benjamin Hobbs as the main attacker in the murder, no charges have been filed against Hobbs because the DNA does not match Hobbs.
Throughout the past 14 years several investigators have interviewed Hobbs on many occasions but he denies any involvement.
However Benjamin Hobbs was arrested in Ely, Nevada in December 1996 for kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon and rape of young woman and is now serving a 25 year sentence in a Nevada prison.
Criminal Investigators are still actively searching for a Caucasian individual that would match the DNA evidence collected . Investigators are asking anyone with information regarding the murder of Angie Dodge to please contact them immediately.
CONTACT US:
Idaho State Criminal Investigator
scott.smith@ag.idaho.gov
Telephone # (208) 332-3089
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Crime Stoppers: (208) 522-1983