Introducing "The Snare"
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What is The Snare and why is this episode being introduced?
Hello, hello. Happy Saturday. And we've got something special for you today. As you know, the team at ABC Audio produces lots of different podcasts. And if you like true crime, the latest new series is a fascinating story that you don't want to miss. It's called The Snare. It's hosted by Maggie Rooley. You've heard her before. And in this six-part series, Maggie tells the story of Angie Dodge, an 18-year-old who was found brutally murdered just weeks after moving into her first apartment. Police soon identified a suspect and put him behind bars, but the DNA evidence found at the crime scene still didn't line up. So Angie's mother continued searching for answers. Finally, 20 years later, a surprising revelation came out that changed everything.
You're about to find out some of this today. Keep listening to hear the first episode right here. If you like it, you can keep following the show for free on whatever podcast app you're using right now. Just search The Snare.
All right, here's episode one. On a cold winter night in 1997, police in a small city in Idaho have brought a young man to the station to help answer some questions.
His name is Chris Tapp. He shifts around in his chair inside a spare interrogation room, propping a baseball cap on the knee of his faded blue jeans. Chris is 20 years old. The detective asks if he's comfortable and says he can leave anytime. You're not under arrest. You're not in trouble.
You can get up and say, hey, I'm done. Take me home. You just want to kind of pick your grade and kind of go from there.
The detective seems to think Chris knows something about the death of a young woman he knew, the brutal murder of 18-year-old Angie Dodge, who'd been found stabbed and sexually assaulted in her apartment more than six months before. Chris is confused about why police would want to talk to him.
What more can I say? I mean, I'm going to be helpful. I'm going to try to do everything I can. But I really don't know that much.
But the detective doesn't appear to believe him. He shifts gears, saying if Chris is lying, he's gonna pay a heavy price.
Starting to shape up that some heads are gonna probably roll a little bit. And it appears yours is probably on the chopping block.
He says things will only get worse if it turns out Chris is hiding something. But if he cooperates and fesses up now, then maybe police can throw him a lifeline.
I can't make this promise to you, but I can tell you that because of my position and everything, I could attempt to pull some serious strings, okay?
Okay.
Chris thought he was here to help the police, but now he's starting to realize this might not be a friendly conversation. He tries bargaining with the detective.
I'll take a lie detector test. I will find anything that would just verify what I said. You can take it to court. I'm being a scared little man.
Chris has just said he's a scared little man. He's also volunteered to take a lie detector test. Soon, detectives will take him up on that offer. And it will set him and others on a dark path. A path they could never have predicted. 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.
It's an outdoorsy place. It was a good place to grow up. We all were dorks back in the day. You know, we all had good times and hooky-bobbing and water fights and, yeah, driving around with your feet hanging out the window.
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.
My friends and I spent a lot of time hanging out down at the river, being kids. We seemed to all get along really good.
Right along the river, there's a sprawling white Mormon temple.
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