Christopher Tapp

It was finished.

Chris Tapp had become, according to the Innocence Project, the first person in the world to be exonerated by genetic genealogy.

If our story ended here, well, that ending might be a happy one.

But it doesn't end here.

And this ending?

Well, it's more Greek tragedy than anything else.

I don't know if there's a way to make sense of this.

Nearly a quarter century to the day after he raped and murdered Angie Dodge, Brian Dripps shuffled into a courtroom in Idaho Falls.

He'd cut a deal and pleaded guilty.

This was sentencing day.

Carol Dodge told us she was too torn up to sit down with us for a final interview about her struggle to get justice for her daughter, Angie.

But in court, she did not hold back.

You, Brian Dripps, deserve eternal hell.

You better look up at me instead of looking at that table.

We have to have gone through 25 years of pure hell trying to find justice.

We're looking for you.

Before a sentence was pronounced, Dripps spoke to the Dodge family.

The judge sentenced Dripps to life in prison.

He must serve 20 years before he's eligible for parole in 2039, when he will be 73 years old.

The two original lead detectives charged with finding Angie Dodge's killer were not in court that day.