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Because that hand print doesnt belong to the man police put in prison. The anger just surged through me. Reporter 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 fist through the tv. It still brings the hair up on on the back of my neck. The confession. Hello and welcome to da dateline extra im craig melvin though 18 years old, angie dodge was ea...

Join in as she hunts for a killer and searches for the truth. I wanted to put my fist through the tv. And just wait till you learn what she found. It still brings the hair up on the back of my neck. They keep him in here, deep inside the multiple walls and the armed doors and the rolls and rolls of razor wire, the confessed stabber, the convicted killer of that sweet young woman all those years ago. Hes lucky to be alive probably, given the nature of the crime and the appeal from that girls moth...

A hand print in blood. It was a crime of passion. Theres a lot of anger involved in this. But that handprint doesnt belong to the man police put in prison. 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 fist through the tv. And just wait till you learn what she found. It still brings the hair up on the back of ...

Carrying flowers. get this, hobbs was now charged with sexually assaulting a woman at knife point. sound familiar? so while detective ken brown rushed off to question hobbs, detective jared furman began talking to hobbs friends. why do you think youre down here? >> honestly, i have no idea. >> one of whom was a 20-year-old named christopher tapp. tapp was no felon, but he was an admitted druggy, and what do you know, chris tapp had a bit of a history with ex-school resource officer, now detectiv...

Accepted her. >> among angies new friends was jessica martinez. >> we both had a very poor image because we had weight problems andnt waed to be accepted, not for what we looked like, but for the people that we were. >> jessica has since turned out fine, but back then carol worried a lot about those new friends, didnt know they, like angie, had big plans. >> she wanted to go to college and just be the best person that she could be. >> now suddenly in this little apartment, angies life was over, ...

Confessed, carol, he confessed. >> reporter: but was it a real confession? carol asked for and got a complete set of tapps videotaped confessions and what she saw amazed her. by this time, of course, she knew so much more than she had a decade before. knew, for example, that then detective jared furman, who ran the interviews had been a school resource officer. well known for a young chris tapp. >> i trust you and hopefully you trust me, okay. >> reporter: furman kept telling chris, just trust m...

Death of an estranged husband and off and on battles with t s police she had to fight that in a new way. remember jared furman, the protective who befriended chris tapp in a previous position as school resources officer. >> the fellow who got that confession has come on to become the mayor of the town. does that have anything to do with it? >> people have to protect their story without looking any deeper and saying is this really accurate? >> reporter: so the police had taken a false perception ...

Named christopher tapp. tapp was no felon but he was an admitted druggy and chris tapp had a bit of a history with ex-school resource officer, now detective, furman. he was ine, trouble a time or t? >> he was. just trying to help him out. he trusted furman but didnt know anything ed about angies murder. having made his statement, christopher tapp went home in the clear, apparently. a couple of days late, the detectives asked him to come downtown again. >> i told him, i said, what are you doing? ...

Tapp. his mother vera sat right behind him. carol dodge was there too. two of her sons also. >> they got a lot at stake. if chris tapp walks free, then what? then it is who is the killer? >> reporter: the prosecution would rely on the word of the detective who later became idaho falls mayor, jared furman. furman ran the police interviews and said chris tapp was never technically in custody. >> was chris tapp free to leave? >> yes. >> thats funny, chris tapps lawyered wh es argued when it wr turn...

For what we looked like, but for the people that we were. >> reporter: jessica has since turned out fine, of course, but back then carol worried a lot about those new friends, didnt know they, like angie, had big plans. >> she wanted to go to college and just be the best person that she could be. >> reporter: now suddenly, in this little apartment, angies life was over, and carol, grief stricken and dazed endured a murder investigation. >> we clearly thought that there was some sort of relations...