Dodge family reactions to arrest in Angie Dodge murder case

Описание: On the day Angie Dodge's family was called to the Idaho Falls Police Department in 1996 to identify her body, her brother, Brent, was there with his 6-year-old daughter, Heidi.

An officer cared for the young girl while detectives met with Brent and Carol.

"As we were leaving, my daughter said, 'Dad, did you lock the doors? Are we safe tonight?'" Brent recalled, holding back tears.

Looking at his mother during the news conference, Brent continued, 'We're safe tonight. The bad guy is behind bars."

Brent, Johnson and Moore all credit Carol's determination and strength to solve her daughter's homicide and bring closure.

"We express our gratitude for the prayers, the faith and hope to help our mother soldier on," Brent said. "This is a great day for our family. Angie was a wonderful, bright young woman. I never had the opportunity to become an uncle because she was taken from us. We love her, we appreciate her, we appreciate this day."

Brent announced the Dodge family is launching a fundraising project called '5 for Hope' that will collect money to be used in solving unsolved murders nationwide. Donations are being accepted on AngieDodge.com.

"There are 200,000 unsolved murders in the United States. They are people like us. They have families, they live in pain and they suffer," Brent said. "I had this idea. What would it be like if we could crowdfund some additional technology or source some additional technology to help solve those."

Following Brent's remarks, Carol thanked the police, public, media and others for supporting her over the years.

"What an overwhelming day. I can't express how hard this journey has been," Carol said. "Hundreds of people (have) been affected by one person's choice to take my daughter's life. Not only did he take her life, he took a piece out of all of our lives and affected so many people around the world."

Through tears, Carol said her family has been blessed by God for putting the right people in their lives that have brought them to this day.

"We had to go through all the learning processes and all the technologies had to come about because it was really in God's hands. He orchestrated the whole thing. It just took us 23 years to get here."