"Wholesome, anywhere Main Street USA, but what if that's a mirage too? Turns out, behind some of these doors there are secrets: about religion, about friendship, about sex and about murder," Mankiewicz says.Īs revealed through close friends Jason and KellyBernatene and Detective Robert Meyer of the Kern County Sheriff's Department, the episode thread follows the hidden lives of a young family that looked perfect from the outside in the idyllic family community located in Helendale, California. The houses look solid enough: stucco and red tile, along with churches, golf courses and parks for the kids. "Trackless, dry and desolate: the Mojave Desert fits almost no one's image about the California lifestyle, unless, that is, you stumble upon this little oasis: Silver Lakes, a community of 5,000, improbably built in the desert, on the water. "It was true: Big Rob Limon, the nicest guy in the world, had been shot to death in the head at work," says narrator Josh Mankiewicz as close family friends of Limon's and wife Sabrina reacted in utter shock to his seemingly senseless murder in his workshop in Tehachapi, California.įirst, Mankiewicz sets up the murder mystery in a descriptive introduction to the Secrets in Silver Lakes episode, which airs Friday at 9 p.m. We can't help but wonder if they know what happened there all those years ago.In its winding, salacious style, NBC unravels a sin-proves-to-be-sexy episode of Dateline on the circuitous murder of Robert Limon, 38, a well-liked, hardworking man found shot twice in 2014 at the train yard where he labored. According to the Ada County Assessor's website, someone new purchased the property in 2019. Once they found Ford's bones in the backyard of the Clark Street home, Gough, then 62, was arrested and was eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison for second degree murder. Decades later, Kim came forward and tipped police off to the crime. She told the family that Ford had left her for another woman and abandoned the family. When her son came home from school, she had him carry it to a hole in the backyard of their Boise Bench home. She then asked her daughter to help stuff the body in a truck. Gough drugged her husband by sprinkling powder from sleeping pills into his favorite desert and then had her daughter cover her ears as she pulled the trigger on the rifle, shooting Ford in the chest. While Kim's siblings were at school, her mother had her stay behind to assist in the murder of Gough's husband, Lloyd Ford. Keith Morrison sat down with Judy Gough's daughter, Kim, to discuss a horrific crime she dragged the 12 year-old into in 1980.
His DNA did indeed match the DNA left at the crime seen decades ago. In 2019, 53 year-old Brian Leigh Dripps of Caldwell was arrested and charged with Angie's murder. After this original episode aired, Morrison did a follow-up special called "Who Killed Angie Dodge?" for ID showing an agreement leading to Tapp's release after more than 7,000 days in prison and Carol Dodge's continued search for her daughter's killer.
She, like many others, believed that his confession was coerced by police. Tapp later rescinded his confession and Angie's own mother was a major player in fighting for his release from prison. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison, despite the fact that there was no DNA evidence linking Tapp to the crime. Months later, an acquaintance by the name of Chris Tapp confessed to Dodge's sexual assault and murder. After she failed to show up at work, two of her co-workers stopped by her apartment to check on her only to find her dead body on the bedroom floor. In 2012, Keith Morrison traveled to Idaho Falls to take a deeper look at the 1996 murder of 18 year-old, Angie Dodge.