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[Music] the ability to kill is obviously somewhere in all of us because it happens every day across the
country 2 and a half years ago uh my wife and I we were living in New Orleans having a good time living there in the
Big Easy and I was working in the movie business I've produced and had directed a few short
films murder ailia it was then I knew it was a girl and she was young got me the reputation of being a
person who is really into murder and things like that and I shoved her body over in the
shower I just kept stabbing her my name is Michael Usery uh I'm a filmmaker and was a suspect in the Angie Dodge
case 19-year-old Andy Dodge was murdered last week the latest violent crime in Idaho
Falls at least one of the weapons used in it was a knife as the officers arrived at the crime scene and found
Angie Dodge laying on the ground and it was obvious that there was a very brutal
murder that had happened a lot of blood it's sad to see an 18-year-old girl and see her life taken at the hands of
somebody else in this fashion Henry was my only daughter and she's my baby I'll never stop missing her during
the investigation when we collected all the evidence we came across a significant amount of DNA that we
believe is from the killer would you say that this crime scene provided really good evidence
excellent evidence you had a a neat Seaman sample for nearly two decades police could not find a match to the Killer's
DNA so in 2014 they went way outside the box and searched a public DNA database owned by
ancestry.com it led us to this Michael lre Jr who just happened to be a filmmaker films of homicide um kind of a
murder mystery filmmaker then he cuts off her head it was pretty creepy we had uh
Louisiana State Police call him he had agreed to come down to the State offices there in New
Orleans the majority of the time that I was in the interrogation room I just didn't know what they were talking
about they finally had to look at me and go no we think that you Michael Usery you know we think that you're involved
in this murder case my whole purpose is to find uh who killed Angie Dodge nobody ever thinks that they're
going to get picked up by the police and taken into an interrogation room and questioned about a
murder uh when it happens to you it it's definitely a game [Music] changer

Police have DNA evidence in a brutal murder, but can't match a killer -- so how did a public DNA database lead police to suspect a filmmaker of murder? CBS News correspondent Anne-Marie Green investigates for "48 Hours" Saturday, June 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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Brief Summary

Filmmaker Michael Usery discusses being wrongly suspected in the brutal murder of Angie Dodge and the DNA evidence that led to his interrogation.

Key points

The Murder of Angie Dodge. 19-year-old Angie Dodge was brutally murdered, shocking the community of Idaho Falls.
Michael Usery's Interrogation. Filmmaker Michael Usery finds himself a suspect in the murder investigation.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It’s sad to see an 18-year-old girl’s life taken at the hands of somebody else.

A poignant remark about the murder of Angie Dodge.

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