Christopher Tapp

Not really.

Now retired detective Jeff Pratt, the man who from the start thought DNA would solve the case.

It's investigating 101.

It is.

Now clearly the priority was to get a sample of DNA from this drips character.

This man, right here.

At the time all this was going down, Brian Dripps was 53 years old, an ex-marine and father of three.

He now lived 300 miles from Idaho Falls, in a town called Caldwell, just west of Boise.

So those detectives decamped to Caldwell.

I could not have had a more motivated staff.

We're going to go solve a murder.

And on May 10th, 2019, just a month shy of 23 years since the murder of Angie Dodge.

And after days and nights of surveillance, they watched Brian Dripps flick a cigarette butt from his car.

Three of us were on that cigarette butt so fast that would make your head spin.

We didn't care whether a car was going to take us out or not.

Off it went to the Idaho State Crime Lab.

And the very next day, the captain got a call from his lieutenant.

And geez, I almost want to tear up.

I'm trying to keep it calm and collected here.

When he called me, he said, I just got a call from the lab.