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a crime of passion. There's a lot of anger involved in this, but hang on. Because then Frank doesn't belong to the man police put in prison just search through me. Now their turns detective. Her words to me I'll, never forget where want to know what happened to my daughter join in She hunts for a killer and searches for the I wanted to put my fist through. The tv still brings the hare up on the back of my neck confession. Welcome today, like everyone, I'm Lester, halt a police interrogation videotape, it can play a big part in any case, but rarely the way it does in tonight story. For the mom you're about to meet already grieving for her dead daughter that,

revealed something almost as shocking as the murder itself. Here's Keith Morrison they kept him in the auto Correctional centre deepens at the multiple walls and the arm doors. The road those and rolls of razor wire. They confessed Stabber the convicted. Killer that sweet young woman all those years ago. It'll be alive, probably given, nature of the crime and the appeal from that girl's mother for the death sentence, which What that mother told us later on very puzzle Indeed, let him go only think his mother House early. Only let him go, Her name is Carol Dodge and the amazing stories you would tell us, began on the worst day of her life in prison, Thursday June thirteenth, one ninety six hundred and she six

call to a beauty salon to talk to her daughter, Angie, I town and she's bored at work a lady answer. I the scale Dodge energies mom, she said and she's been found dead over. I remember said: God: no fleets know this. it'd be real happened. It turned out night before tiny second floor walk up where the end of eighteen year old had just started to build her life stabbed to death. Her throat cut and Carol was it, by a conversation she'd had with Angie that very week she said to me in my turn, something really stupid. Did you sit or what you do know that you want to pry? What could it have been that something stupid? Did it led to murder Idaho falls Idaho, big blue

and above dazzling White Mormon Temple below to anchor the town and signal like a beacon. Its moral core of american virtues are in place raise a family three dodge boys one girl named Angie, whose birth Occasion Brother Brent, remembers the biggest celebration of all that was a pinnacle for me. To have a baby girl little It was one of those kids who learned about independence. Early on rob busy and strong and stubborn and she was five hundred and she was strong, but of course big, can be a problem for a girl. As a teenager, she was too tall to Awkward she struggled and to make it worse, her parents marriage. Part. That's when Anne she wept and just friends with whoever accepted her

New friends were Jessica Martinez, wanting to be accepted, not for what we look like, but for the people that we were back Carol worried a lot about those new friends didn't know they like Angie, had big plans I to go to college and just be the best person that she could be now suddenly in that little apartment and life was over and Carol. stricken and dazed. Endured a murder investigation We merely thought that if there is some sort of relationship there, because it was a crime of passion, for a man and can Brown were back then detectives in the ITA who falls pity and use Boyfriend was out of town or other friends, she d lobbyists to so? They turned to the physical evidence like a bloody print on Andrew's stomach must have been left. after she was dead? They figured did something that was quite beyond sick pull down her pants,

hold up her shirt lifted. Up. That of seamen on your body is mark. It is DNA, lot of anger, a lot of humiliation involved in this and frustration for the cops because and I didn't match any of their possible suspects month after month they chase leads into disappointing dead ends that all the wild Carol Dodge haunted the investigation practically stalked, the detective desperate for information begging them. find the killer. I do the police department, They were open and then one day, seven months later dead of winter January, ninety seven and arrest. next door in Nevada broke. Is wide open yesterday was a young man named Benjamin Hobbs. One of those less savory friends of get this was, now charged with sexually assaulting a woman at knifepoint, sound familiar.

so well, detective. Can Brown rushed off to question Hobbs Detective firm and began talking to hops. Friends what do you think honestly. I have no idea. Food was two year old named Christopher Tap Tap was no felon, but he was admitted druggie and do you know Chris Tapp had a bit of a history with x, school resource officer now detective firm and he was in trouble at the time or two. It was so and help him out. I trust you, and hopefully you trust me. Ok, yes, tat. He trusted but didn't know anything. You said about Angie's murder. I didn't know about this. I wish I sure and, having made his statement, Christopher Type went home in the clear, apparently a couple of days later

the detectives asked him to come downtown again. I told him I says what are you doing? I said this is a murder if this is taps, mother Vera, she instead? What he apparently did not that her son was quite possibly talking himself into very big trouble. Mom. I don't have anything to hide. Now, tell him that I don't know anyting, but it didn't quite work out that way, for Long Christa had written statement for police then said he killed her and I just laughed at all like he was just telling me a joke, but that just the beginning several weeks they had tap in nine times question in twenty hours, even gave him an immunity deal, and that is why Mr Tat story began to evolve. yes, he admitted he was there when Ben Hobbs killed Angie. Held her down. He admitted when and stabbed her and then finally said even stabbed her

watching himself. The motive revenge Supposedly adjured been meddling and bends. Marriage and Mister Hobbs did not like that one so to take confronted Hobbs, who do not I any part in the murder at asked question about Angie. Was she killed? That's because if she was my neighbor, MRS Right, there I'm going to be hope. He was right that dna result came back and the one found on Angie's body, didn't belong to Ben Hobbs or Chris Tapp, neither one of them what went through your heads when the DNA results came back and it shows The attacker was not then coms, Africa, now it down to one word its frustration, but the detective decided that didn't mean Chris was lying or that there theory of the crime was wrong. Could only mean they decide that they did to expand the theory.

and Chris TAT were guilty. They were sure of it so that miss We did. I must have come from a third Birdman a third attacker, so they put back in the little interrogation room and asked him was Birdman involved in the crime and sure enough Chris, I have said yes, there was a third man, but no matter how many times detectors asked he couldn't or wouldn't tell them who it was prosecutors made a decision. If TAT was but to tell them the whole truth. He wouldn't get his deal. Chris Tap was charged with murder, but only Chris I evidence to go after obs or anyone else. The announcement caught Carroll Dodge by surprise, detectors during the dark. Until now, but one look Christopher type in court, and she knew she wanted him dead, when it is finally looking

Suddenly I thought was a devil who had taken my daughter's life Chris, I was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for Andy's murder and twenty years for rape which is one Carol. Dodges odyssey really began her own navigation filled with danger and surprised very troubling discoveries. When we come back one discovery so troubling that Angie's mother reached out for help the eager search through me, search for the truth would hold. Some chilling surprises still brings. the hair up on the back of my neck. When Dateline continues The in the years after Angie dodges murder, the man who can

after taking part in her killing. Christopher top was safely tucked away at state prison. His alleged accomplice, Hobbs in prison for a different fellow, they was never charged with Andy's murder, and Idaho falls. Police told Angie's, mother Carol. They still couldn't find that third man, the one who, Does dna on I judged body. That's one Carol became her word obsessed if the police couldn't tracked down her down it's well. Then she would be Hager just search through me and that's what I went to the streets and I literally put sixty thousand miles on my truck searching for her killer, yourself in harm's way of absolutely, I remember to a place where lady said you need, if before somebody, hurt you the days and weeks passed I had a gun put to my head. One night in a friend New leads, What out

Carol, often ending up parked outside the apartment where Angie was murdered. I would just stare at that house and stare at the windows and try and figure out how scourge must appear or something else Carol stop doing. Reading police report ITALY memorizing idols. Will I get up and I just go what part I understand it didn't make sense. None of it made sense and in one of those reports, Carol found a phrase which the more she read it sounded out of place in the dna world. It was about pubic hairs, which, in addition to the semen, had been found on Andy's body, it was written in this lab report that a similar or same as the victim said to myself it's either or it's not Angie, for it be an either war. In today's scientific world,

Carol remembered reading an article about an internationally known dna expert? Who just so happened to live and work right in Idaho, so it feel to be a recognized dna expert fun at no time did fruit flies. Nobody invited me to talk on television. This is the expert doktor Gregg, hemp picky in A fruit fly geneticist, who well spread his infectious enthusiasm to students at Boise State University, Dr Ham? Work is not all done in the classroom, in fact, his own change back in two thousand and four when he was asked to test them dna that eventually led to an innocent man being freed from prison in Georgia doctor in Exoneree. Wrote a book together and just like that I found a new calling is now in high demand two thousand and eleven. He was part of the team credited with freeing Amanda Knox.

college student, in prison, for murder in ITALY and in his Their time and take you If the founder and director of Idaho's innocence project an unfortunate thing that our name is innocence because, honestly, you know I've worked on. I think thirteen exonerations now for the ones in Georgia. They found the actual perpetrator so to those four guys, I'm the guilty project so now So don't you just couldn't make up the very week care left, a phone message for doktor and asking for help either whose innocence project had just taken on a new case, the case of the man convicted of care. In Carol's daughter, Christopher time. The doctor called Carol her words to me I'll, never forget where just want to know what happened to my daughter,

brings the hair up on the back of my neck. The curiosity of her surprise, you, the knowledge, surprise, but she's turned all of that love and devotion for her daughter into a very careful record of this case, so she that report to him the one that said pubic. Hairs found on energy were similar to or the same as the victim, because although even herds are there, not just as you thought he said, Where are the hairs. I said I assume that you're still in evidence. What would you call the Idaho Falls Police Department which found the hairs in an envelope in the evidence room where they had been stored for all those years? Well, after Caro's call those pubic hairs were sent after the crime. In the lab where state of the art dna tests could show that Chris Tapp was there at the crime scene or that Bin OBS was there at the crime scene or the tired of your physical evidence was left by one unknown. Third man. That was a fundamental question. Huge,

and the answer from the dna no doubt it's all one person who did this in terms of the DNA. One killer the sign said there was no evidence. There were three attackers and Angie's apartment that night as the police at theorize, but just one and that Ramon what news could mean only one thing, at least according to the Idaho Innocence Project Chris story was a false he was not there. Was an innocent man, the theory of multiple killers, ridiculous, said, hemp again to imagine that there is this group of criminals who know dna and are so careful. What did they do they plan somebody else's seamen and pubic care and then cleaned up all their here. Did you might well imagine that conclusion Chris TAT had to be that the killer had never been caught. Came down like a hammer to the head on Angie's

other. I was extremely angry when they have dna not once but twice that so the same person and it's not Chris TAT something's wrong. So would you do I met with the chief? and I ask for copies of all of the video tapes, those videotapes, the ones. Kristap had confessed to taking part in the murder, the most Alex Carroll more about the case than anyone I think she had ever done, was wash all the more than twenty hours of the Chris interrogation. She did Every minute was done. Carol Dodge was a changed. Woman Looking at a brand new case coming up, there's times that I wanted to put my fist through the tv the table the tapes what it is

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PA five, twenty nine twenty com, slash Keystone and watch your savings grow alongside your child, discover more at p, five, twenty nine dot com, Slash Keystone What a dozen years after her daughter's murder, the ground Carol dodges feet was quaking new DNA. ES revealed that none of the physical evidence implicated, Murderer Christopher Tap, but pointed instead after some mystery man still at large And the woman who'd, relentlessly, prompted the ITA whole false police to find her daughters killer began to doubt Everything knows detectives Edward telling our thirteen years. They had me convinced that Chris CAP was there all they kept saying. he confessed Carol. He confessed

was it a real confession, paralysed for and got a complete set of tabs. Do confessions and what she saw amazed. Her this time. Of course, she knew so much more than she had a decade before new, for example that then detective Jared, A man who ran the interviews had been a school resource officer well now, to a young Chris TAT. I trust you- and hopefully you trust me. Ok, firm and check Chris just trust me Chris, you gotta trust me. You know go way back Chris and I think that he was talk to. affected doubt, and he was a follower she watched. Chris insisted he knew nothing, and then she saw detectives as they're trained to do subtly make tap an active participant, the Temple hypothetically crusher or there hypothetically Chris. How do you think it happened

and I remember Chris saying you mean, like a tv, show actually saw police administering polygraph after polygraph and almost always with the same result. They would tell him was deceptive and How when tap was promised immunity? His story about Ben Hobbs changed, but perhaps with trouble Carol. Most was how confused tap was ten days after his first interviews, still seem not to know what house you lived in, police Carol noticed, kept correcting him for a guy pride in a murder,

also seem not to know much about the lay out of Andy's apartment right when they asked him to dried. You couldn't do it detectives, even perhaps virgin showed him where the murder here I ask, and it was more police- We still girl the new do things only the killer would know the location. The position of Anti spy the clothes she was wearing well now, care see for herself on tape? The reason Chris would know those things girl, stunned to see police had shown top photos. the crime scene that's how you remember it I don't remember Justin,

said. I wanted to put my fist through the tv and finally remember The police theory of the crime after DNA didn't match tap or Hobbs was a treat who committed the murder together, this man hours literally trying to drag the name of that third man out of tap and when Carol saw the tape. listen for yourself, the name my suggestion Appleton. time. You had gone through all of those tapes. What did you think about Chris the man you believed all those years. How could they do this to me how they manage to keep some one in prison for all these years and it's possible he's, not there, and after that Eureka moment Carol

Dodge made a decision. She would do more than search to find her daughter's killer. She would actively work to free Christopher. Tat the only man convicted of the murder? I think that Christmas. case truly got taken seriously after I if my contact with Boise State She was the first victim family member who came forward to work with the innocence project. On a case I mean she's the leading edge of a group of people who have come forward and and said you know what we just want to know what happened the matter who is now on his side. Chris Tapp was interface with two very uncomfortable truths. One of appeals had done nothing to overturn his conviction and prison sentence and two Active who put behind bars, had gone on to a much more powerful position and not a whole falls, and- still absolutely certain. Chris Kristap was

guilty as sin when we come back we're detective reveals what makes him so sure of taps guilt. He took us to the bedroom and really that night feet on his face. He was reliving. It dateline continues at the time we visited the city of Idaho falls in March, two thousand twelve. The Angie Dodge murder case was disarm, just a piece of city history, but died a hose innocence project at its founder Doktor Gregory pick you it was a miscarriage of justice and a cause There's dna forgot ex believe the science people are not that accurate. The deal is very precise and fifty years after the murder of her daughter

jeez own mother, Carol Dodge had done what was once unthinkable joined forces with the innocence project The Idaho falls has got it wrong. Take you seriously in the years since the murder, finding Angie's killer had become carols reason for living through three heart attacks estranged, husband off and on close with the Idaho falls police I know she was going to have to fight that power in a whole new way because I remember Jared from and the detective who befriended Chris Tapp in a previous position, a school resources officer. The fellow got that confession How long on to become the mayor of the town that having to do that as far as you can tell people gotta protect their story without looking any deeper and saying you know, is this really accurate

So the idea of a false taken, a false concession but the wrong man in prison and failed to find the real killer I spoke to the former detective, then Mayor Jared from firmament. He said just not true, and how did he know it was for a man who took tat to visit the crime scene during some of those many interviews all those years ago. Let me tell you: they weren't in the room with me. When he took us up, the stairs took us into the bedroom and that night you could see it on his face. He was reliving. It course The critics wouldn't be able to see that because it was one of the only times during the investigation when the police did not David Kristen, but I have no doubt in my mind that Chris is part. Homicide

because what is a twenty five percent of all DNA resolve cases where somebody release from prison it turns out. There was a false confession: people do: can two things I didn't do we know that, but when but confess to crimes that they don't do they don't know the minute details of that case, Chris New and knows the minute details of He of course claims that he knows them because he was fed them. We were politely disagree with that. Possible at least that there was some suggestion of all these things before you actually said that for us to sit and say, there's absolutely absolutely no possibility anything could have happened. You know we can't say things like that. We can say that we have reviewed takes over and over a jury who reviewed those. two guys who interviewed this person over over again and found it in the first.

The view second interview, the third interview, the fourth any of you, the fifth interview he lied like a sidewalk, then you'd find into the seventh interview and that's the gospel truth now, absolutely not during each other views. He was bringing out information that he absolutely knew was not fed to the color closed that she was wearing the position of the clothes. times he was stabbed. The diagram on where she was at in the room. Interesting many times as he interviews progressed Chris Tap to know nothing about the clothes Angie Dodge was wary What I never used. some details in the interview could be interpreted to back up the claims by police. Once, for example, before tap was shown, the crime scene photos see seems too im guessing kind of way, know what Angie was wearing

and well he's wrong about the color of her clothes to being as many times if Reclose were half honour, half offer pulled up or push them you don't. Let me say this about her pants I have on one also said the detective Chris talked about Ben ah but hitting Angie behind the ear, and have the evidence to back that. We have bruising where, where he says that ban hitter detectives insisted they were right. Ben Hall It was the ring leader Chris Tapp was involved in the attack and an unknown third man left the dna in the form of semen, three attackers, the identity, the third, still a secret unrevealed by either of the other two all those years later. At about the fact Carol Dodge now disagreed with their theory and was supporting Chris. the only man in prison for the murder

what's it like to know that Carol is now actively campaign? For his release, Belize and innocent man, I think that's part of the process. in some respects her heart and broken and she's convinced you got the wrong guy when I that I was I am surprised, has been close to ride for sixteen years for she's looking for closure tomorrow or the next day Chris could be guilty in her mind, again perhaps now would be a good time to talk to the man in the moon I all this. This series Confessor Crystal with TAT coming out, then kill. So why would he confess tackling the biggest mystery of all when Dateline continues, your bedroom deserves a refresh, and now is the perfect time to elevate

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is no longer the aimless pothead from those tapes and ninety ninety seven, when we met him the man who had done more than a decade of hard time as people look at you but you most want them to know by you. I've been so wrong all these years. Could individuals do something time human being like done me. Yes, I am course. Everybody in prison is innocent right at the her case, the dna, none of them points to me, point, there is little dispute, of course, but how did Chris Tap get here? that's a familiar story to many families: a sweet little boy with a typical childhood, carefully cut by his mom zero. smoking marijuana at thirteen. Then, sixteen turned to Meth Chris dropped out of high school

God and stayed high every minute. He could. He says down by the river- and I do hope, falls with all those kids, his mother warned him about. and that he says, is how his name came up after the murder of Angie Dodge when police scouring. The city for suspects two might match that dna left behind after the murder so too, he was asked to submit dna You think you're the other now I have no rhyme no reason to be scared, not a word for months, until you will recall January of nineteen ninety seven when TAT was brought in for questioning after his friend Ben Hobbs was arrested for the Nevada sexual attack, which police said was similar to the murder of Angie Dodge, I didn't know, what I was being brought in for it didn't connect with the Angie thing. At all know. I thought I was honestly I was going in for for drugs and, as you've heard, course of several weeks Chris

Apsu soon went from saying he knew nothing about Angie, Dodge's murder to being the the man charged in the case, just as his mother warned him. How is your mom Jerry? magic- and I was honest with her- I said I had nothing to do with this mom and I try to explain to her. Didn't really confess it took days. To get to a story where I actually made a confession. Well One of the difficulties was your story kept changing. very much at it. I mean you went for saying, I know a little about this to then say: well, maybe Bennet had something to do with it to Well, maybe there's a third guy involved. When I was there, I and oh yeah and I cut her weight. Atkins for trying to give them what they wanted to hear just to appease pizza, but why? You say you cut her because in a time. Mr firming, he said

hypothetical, even if you did cutter, is still ain't. Gonna matter will be able to get you. Another deal will be able to help you. You just need A and a here it is on tape with then detective firm and in charge of the interview hypothetically I have the whole nine issues being cut. and some was going on with Chris tapp- I took part in Lanai in any way shape or form okay, but I didn't Would you listen ass? Her hi took part in any of that Okay, because you're still here, you still showing some good faith that you want to cooperate and the prosecutor will reconsider another. exactly you believe that story. Hook, line sinker, trailer the right. Now tell me, what's going on inside your stomach and your brain scare, trying to figure out what they

and just for them to leave me alone why kill nobody. I was never there the night the murder happened they just kept focusing on while he was there. If you did do it. If you held a knife, it's okay, we will help you like an idiot, I believe them Then they charge you with murder. By now Where's Chris Tap was fighting to clear his name with this not only of his own mother and the innocence project, but of well dodge the victim's mother. Dodge came around Do your side like an amazing feeling, and I appreciate her Only understanding that I'm innocent and we spoke for the first time in years. Chris TAT had reason to you once bark of possibility to someone in a position to change his future. To listen,

coming up a new chance at freedom controversial confession, get thrown out of court. This fashion goes the state has almost no evidence stakes hearing with Carol Dodge Front and center. Dateline continues More than fifteen years after Angie Dodge was murdered on a quiet street in Idaho falls. Something was to change in the case of her confessed killer Christopher TAT, but first time since his trial, a hearing on evidence was about to be held before a judge. This Chris Tapp entered the courtroom. He and his supporters finally had reason for hope. Not that the judge could review the evidence and just declare tap innocent. This would have to be based strictly on points of law.

I court of Appeals had over the years thrown out but one of Tabs videotaped interviews, that being the one where he said, he took part in the crime, but isn't this hearing it could be thrown out to if the court does tat believed he was in custody when he those incriminating things if It was unable to leave this little room because that was violated his basic constitutional rights. That Saturn Dennis Benjamin and John Thomas, results from this new trial or it possible to have an exaggeration of this confession goes the state almost no evidence. dismiss the case it could not have been higher. For MR ties, his mother Vera sat right behind him Carol Dodge. Was there too two of her sons, also they ve, got a lot of US at stake. If Chris Tap walks free, then what then it's who is the killer?

the prosecution would rely on. The word of the detective who later became Idaho, falls Mayor Jared for firm and ran the police of use and said Chris Tap was never technically in custody was Chris leave. Yes, that's funny! here's taps lawyers argued when it was their terms? How could a toy the Euro has been arrested twice and why Does the door was actually barred during some of his interviews? No, how could that young man looking? turn on and off for nearly a month? and more than a week at that time, actually locked up in jail who'd? Why Does immunity deals were offered and then later torn up? How could that kid, your ass be expected to believe you can leave whenever he wanted? Did you think If you decided not to talk to the police that you were going to be able to go home now. I would not been long ago, but had to acknowledge when he was questioned by the prosecutor.

indeed lied over the years many times including and sworn affidavits used in past appeals, give admitted fact that you lied and a number of occasions and if you lied before I believe you now coarser Santa Liar now he's just trying to save himself. What is the truth? I'm innocent I've, never committed crime testimony was over. It was up to the judge: What do you order a new trial for Chris Tapp what send them back to prison, maybe for good four months later, a ruling Chris Tap was never threatened, restrained or handcuffed, said the judge and thus was not and costs. Appeal denied the, but the truth will set me free Sunday pretty convinced to that. as the go on you

there were more motions, more hearings, but is the same result and then two decades after conviction in March, two thousand and seventeen a stunning twist prosecutors offered Chris Tapp a plea deal downgrading his conviction to second degree, murder and vacating, his rape conviction, rosetta intimate. It was not an exaggeration. He'd still be a killer in the eyes of the law, but he'd be out of prison. He acted and was reset instead of time served no probation or parole after twenty years behind bars. He left the hearing, a free man Are you feeling totally overwhelmed her doktor Gregory Peak in the other who innocence project the answer to who killed Angie Dodge still rested in science. He said

DNA left the scene points to the simplest explanation. Not the three men, not even to just one secrets, be kept, but you know reveals that secrets. Somebody went in and committed a typical, violent rape, murder and left Tippit evidence there's no other person. Whereby DNA, where, where is he then in May two thousand and nineteen a long awaited breakthrough using the newest advancement known as genetic genealogy investigator, It's finally matched the dna today here to announce that we have arrested Brian Les drips. It belonged to a man named Brian drips, a neighbor who lived across the street Angie when she was killed charged with the rape and murder of the teenage? It was an emotional moment for Andrews mother Carroll. Who is there at the Prescott

It was really straight at the whole thing just took as twenty three years to get here. But he us all the way, and I want to pick out with for Chris TAT, the break in the case was a new beginning in July, two thousand and nineteen a judge finally vacated his murder conviction. This time you left because not only a free man, but a fully exonerated one last Brian drips. On the other hand, we would live free all those years, face the consequences he pleaded. Guilty to both the rape and murder of Angie Dodge and was sentenced to a minimum of twenty years to life. As for girl Dodge

the Idaho falls Police Department called her a warrior, adding that over the years? Many of their investigators said they were inspired to do more, try harder and innovate because of her here's love for her daughter That's all for now. I'm Lester Holt thanks for joining us without depositing a penny. You've already started saving for your newborns higher education, children born to PA residents in two thousand and nineteen and after have one hundred dollars waiting in a Keystone scholars, account part of the p a five twenty nine college and Career savings program. Keystone scholars helps you get an early start for a reward finish finnish view, your account. PA five. Twenty nine twenty com, slash Keystone and watch your savings grow alongside your child. Discover more at p a five twenty nine dot com, Slash Keystone.