https://news.yahoo.com/idaho-man-pleads-guilty-rape-213334882.html
James Crump
Wed, February 10, 2021, 4:33 PM
A man from Idaho has pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of a teenage neighbour, after an innocent suspect spent 20 years in prison for the crimes.
During an appearance in a Bonneville County Courtroom on Tuesday, Brian Dripps, 55, admitted to raping and killing 18-year-old Angie Dodge inside her apartment in 1996.
In exchange for his plea, prosecutors will recommend that Mr Dripps serves life in prison, but be granted parole in 20 years, according to CBS News.
Another man, Christopher Tapp, served 20 years of a 30-year prison sentence for the crimes after he wrongly confessed to them in 1997.
Mr Tapp later claimed he was innocent, but was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison in 1998.
He was released in 2017 and finally exonerated in 2019 based on a genetic family tree, which many of Mr Dripps' relatives had uploaded DNA to.
Dripps confessed after officers matched his DNA to that of a cigarette butt he had thrown away close to the crime scene.
•••••
No comments:
Post a Comment