Christopher Taft News Today

The anger just surged through me. Now, a mother turns detective. Her words to me, ill never forget were, i just want to know what happened to my daughter. Join in as she hunts for a killer and searches for the truth. I wanted to put my fists through the tv. Still brings my the hair up on my neck. The confession. 18 years old, amy dodge was eager to live life on her own terms finding a job, a new apartment, and then she was stabbed to death in her bedroom, within months, a local named christopher...

Conviction. chris had a decision to make. this was not an exoneration. hed still be a killer in the eyes of it law, but hed be a free man. he accepted and was resnsed to time served, no probation or parole. after 20 years behind bars he left the hearing a free man. >> how are you feeling? >> overwhelmed. completely totally overwhelmed. >> as for van hobbs he still denies any involvement in angies murder. he declined datelines request for an interview. for the idaho innocent project the answer st...

Were involved? >> secrets can be kept, but, you know, science reveals those secrets. someone went in and committed a typical violent rape murder and left typical evidence. theres no other person there by dna. where is he? >> where indeed. and carol dodge is still tortured, still pondering that last message from her angie, that she had done something stupid. sounds to me that you believed she had crossed or double crossed somebody who was very dangerous. >> she had crossed the line and didnt have...

Think about chris taft, the man you believed all the years -- >> how did they do this to me? managed to keep someone in prison for all these years, and its a responsibility its not there. >> after that moment, she made a decision. she would do more than search to find her daughters killer. she would actively work to free christopher taft, the only man convicted of the murder. >> i think that chriss case truly got taken seriously after i made my contact with boise state. >> she was the first vict...

Have. welcome back. chris tafts supporters insisted dna evidence proved he was not involved in the murders of angie dodge, but police were convinced he was the killer. according to the detectives, he shared grizzly details of the crime only the killer could know. what did chris have to say about that confession so many years ago? youre about to hear his side of the story. here, again, is keith morrison. there comes a time in every tale to meet the man in the center of the story, and here he ...

>> but, perhaps, what troubled her the most was seeing how confused taft was, even ten days after the first interviews, he still seemed not to know what house she lived in. >> lived on the corner? >> on the block. >> police kept correcting him. for a guy who took part in a murder, he seemed not to know much about the layout of her apartment. >> its easier to draw it out. >> when asked to draw it, he couldnt do it. >> detectives even showed him where the murder occurred. >> happened here in the b...

The murder. so, too, he was asked to submit dna. did you think anything of it? >> no. i had no reason to be scared. >> reporter: but then, not a word, for months, until, youll recall, january of 1997, when taft was brought in for questioning after his friend, ben hobbs was arrested for a nevada sexual attack, police said was similar to the murder of angie dodge. >> i didnt know what i was brought in for. >> didnt connect with the angie thing at all? >> no. i thought i was going in for drugs. >> ...

The evidence and just declare taft innocent. no, this would have to be based strictly on points of law. idaho court of appeals had over the years thrown out all but one of tafts videotaped interviews, that being pone where he said he took part in the crime. but in this hearing it could be thrown out, too. if the court decided taft believed he was in custody when he said those incriminating things. if he thought he was unable to leave this little room. because that would have violated his basic c...

Like magic. at comcast, its my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. my name is mike, im in product development at comcast. were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. in the years after angie dodges murder, the man who confessed to taking part in the killing, christopher taft, was tucked away in state prison, az accomplice, tucked in prison for another felony was never charged with the murder, and idaho falls police told the mother, carol, they still couldnt ...

Guessing way, know what she was wearing. >> i have in mind a t-shirt and sweats. >> although, hes wrong about the color of the clothes, after being asked many times, if the clothes were half on or half off, pulled up, pushed down, he does correctly say this about her pants. >> one leg, like -- >> the detectives said chris talked about ben hobbs hitting angie behind the ear. >> we have evidence to back it, bruising where he says that ben hit her. >> so, detectives insisted they were right. ben ho...