what s house and you lived in. then she, like, live on the corner? or was it. it was in the middle of the block. police, carol noted, kept correcting him. for a guy who had taken part in a murder, he didn t seem to know the layout of angie s apartment. why don t you try and draw? it sometimes it s easier if you if you can draw it out. when they asked him to draw it? he could not do it. take this even, inadvertently, showed him where the murder occurred. bathrooms back here. and the bedroom was, like, back here. no the bedrooms there. oh yes, and there was more. police had always told carole that chris tapp did only a killer would know. the position, the location, because she was wearing. but now kyle could see first off on tape, the reason why chris would know those things she was stunned that police
if this confession goes, the state has almost no evidence. i think they d have to dismiss the case. the stakes could not have been higher for mr. tapp. his mother, vera, sat right behind him. carol dodge was there to. two of her sons also. there s got a lot at stake. if chris tapp walks free, then what? then it s who is the color? the prosecution would rely on the word of the detective who later became idaho falls mayor, jared fuhriman. fuhriman round the police interviews and said chris tapp was never technically in custody. was chris tapp free to leave? yes. that s funny, chris tapp s or geared when it was their turn. how could a 20 year old who had been arrested twice and watched as the door was actually barred during some of his interviews the only reason i m doing this is so nobody comes in, okay? how could that young man who had been questioned on and off for nearly a month. who spent more than a week of that time actually locked up in
okay? but i didn t. would you listen? sorry. okay. hypothetically, i said. try and put yourself there right now and tell me what s going on inside your stomach and your brain. scared. trying to figure out what they want. just for them to leave me alone. lie? i didn t kill nobody. i was never there the night with the murder happened. they just kept focusing on, well if you were there. if you did do it. if you held a knife. it s okay. we will help you. so, like an idiot, i believed them. and then they charged with murder? yeah. by now, of course, chris tapp was fighting to clear his name. with the support not only of his own mother and the innocence project. but of carol dodge, the victims mother. carol dodge came around to your side. what was that like? it s an amazing feeling. and i appreciate her finally understanding that i m innocent. and, as we spoke, for the first time in years, chris tapp had reason to feel one spark of possibility. someone in a positi
indeed. let him go. it s the only thing his mother has. it s only her only child. will let him go. her name is carol dodge and the amazing story she would tell us began on the worst of her life. it was a thursday june 13th, 1996 midmorning. she placed a call to a beauty salon to talk to her daughter, angie. why dialed angie s at work. and a lady answered. i said this is carol dodge and she said, she s been found dead. on the phone? and i remember thinking, god no, please no. this can t be real. happen to turn out the night before, in a tiny second floor walk up where an 18 year old hug just started to build her life. stabbed to death. her throat cut.
chris top was innocent. this came down like a hammer on the head on angie s mother s head. i was extremely angry. the blitz to the same person,. it s not chris tapp. so why did you do? i met with the chief and i asked for copies of all of the videotapes. those videotapes, the ones in which chris tapp had confessed to taking part of the murder, and moore accounts, carroll knew more about the case more than anyone. but one thing she did not do was watch more than 20 hours of the chris tapp interrogation. and now she did, watched every minute. when she was done, carol dodge was a changed woman with a brand-new case. coming up, the tale of the tapes.