Barking dogs at Iowa kennel provide key evidence in murder case

48 Hours Barking dogs at Iowa kennel provide key evidence in murder case .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-48-hours.jpg'); } By Iris Carreras Updated on: June 10, 2026 / 8:49 AM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google When Angela Prichard arrived at work at the Mississippi Ridge Kennels in Bellevue, Iowa, the morning of Oct. 8, 2022, she did not anticipate her estranged husband, Christopher Prichard, would be waiting inside with a shotgun. What was meant to be a routine morning turned into tragedy when Christopher Prichard fatally shot her in the chest.Special Agent Dustin Henningsen from the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation led the case. "You can hear dogs start to bark in the middle of the night. We had determined that was most likely the point when he arrived at the kennels," Henningsen told CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti in an interview for "48 Hours." An encore of "Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?" — airs Saturday, June 13  at 10/9c* on CBS and streams on Paramount+ (following the WNBA on CBS). On the morning of Oct. 8, 2022, Angela Prichard was shot and killed by her estranged husband where she worked at a dog kennel in Bellevue, Iowa.  Joshua Close Henningsen added it was "very, very early in the morning, when there was no daylight … close to 4 a.m."According to investigators, a day earlier on Oct. 7, Christopher Prichard snuck into an acquaintance's barn a few miles away from the kennels and later trekked through the woods in the middle of the night. Angela Prichard's sister, Wendy Budde, told "48 Hours" Christopher Prichard knew the combination to get inside. When Angela Prichard arrived in the morning to tend to the dogs, Christopher Prichard appeared with a shotgun. Angela Prichard called 911 almost immediately and is heard yelling "please get out" before yelling "Chris!" The sound of a gunshot can be heard on the 911 call. She ultimately named her...