DNA clears Usry family in Angie Dodge homicide
The Idaho Falls Police Department says recent DNA reports clear Michael Usry Jr. and his family of involvement in the Angie Dodge homicide case. The testing clears the family out to the 6th-degree relative.
Usry was interviewed by police in connection with the original Angie Dodge murder case.
Police searched the public DNA database Ancestry-dot-com in 2014 in an effort to find a match to DNA found at the scene of the Angie Dodge murder.
Using the Y-strand only, the report showed 34 out of 35 markers of the Usry family.
Snapshot DNA phenotyping kinship testing was completed by Parabon Nanolabs. The test not only evaluated the Y-strand, but the familial DNA of both the male and female sides of the family, overlaying them to come up with a profile.
The report stated the company was 87.63 percent confident that the unknown DNA from the crime scene did not match the Usry family.
Parabon testing is the same testing used by police to develop a DNA phenotype snapshot of the suspected killer, released in a press conference on May 1, 2017.
“We have talked to both Mike Usry Jr. and Carol Dodge personally to let them know of the test results,” states Det. Pat McKenna, Idaho Falls Police Department. “We are continuing to work the leads received from the snapshot and continuing with our investigation as we have been. These results do not change that,” adds McKenna.
