Maggie Rulli

From ABC Audio and 2020, I'm Maggie Rulli.

This is The Snare.

Episode 1, Peacekeeper.

In June 1996, young people in Idaho Falls, Idaho, were starting to settle into summer.

Jeremy Sargis, Angie Dodge's classmate all through high school, was one of them.

Idaho Falls is a town of around 50,000, not far from the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park.

It's known for having some of the best fly fishing in the country and is home to Idaho's oldest rodeo, the War Bonnet Roundup.

The town is named after a set of man-made waterfalls in the Snake River, which cuts it in half.

Right along the river, there's a sprawling white Mormon temple.

It's one of the town's defining features.

There's a big Latter-day Saints community in Idaho Falls, and the temple, with its massive steeple, towers over everything else.

But for Jeremy Sargis and his friends, the Snake River was what mattered in the summer of 96.

Angie Dodge hung out at the river, too.

Tim Quick was one of Angie Dodge's best friends.

Tim says that summer, Angie was really feeling her freedom.

She was 18 and had a job at a makeup store in town called Beauty For All Seasons.

She answered calls and processed orders.

And when she wasn't working, she was socializing at the river.

But Tim says the real taste of freedom for Angie that summer came in the form of an apartment.

She had moved out of her family home into her own place.