a teenager, home alone in the night of terror. i would just stare out the window and try and figure out how scared she must of been. on her body, like a signature, a handprint in blood. it was a crime of passion. there s a lot of anger involved in this. but how long? because that handprint doesn t belong to the man police put in prison. the anger just surged through me. now, a mother turns detective. her words to me were, i just want to know what happened to my daughter. join in as she hunts for the killer and searches for the truth. i wanted to put my fist through the tv. it still brings the hair up the back of my neck. hello, and welcome to dateline. a confession can wake up murder investigation wide open. soon after 19 angie was found stabbed, a local named christopher tapp admitted he was one of her killers. police reported every grisly detail that convinced that they had cracked the case. but years later, there was someone else who thought those t
a teenager, home alone in a night of terror. i would stare out the window and try to figure out how scared she must have been. on her body, like a signature, a handprint in blood. it was a crime of passion. there s a lot of anger involved in this. but how long? because that handprint doesn t belong to the man police put in prison. the anger just surged through me. now, a mother turns detective. her words to me were, i just want to know what happened to my daughter. join in as she hunts for the killer and searches for the truth. i wanted to put my fist through the tv. it still brings the hair up the back of my neck. hello, and welcome to dateline. a confession can wake up murder investigation wide open. soon after 19 angie was found stabbed, a local named christopher tapp admitted he was one of her killers. police reported every grisly detail that convinced that they had cracked the case. but years later, there was someone else who thought those tapes m
carefully kept by his mom, vera, started smoking marijuana at 13. then at 16, turned to meth. chris dropped out of high school. got and stayed high, every minute he could, he says. hanging out down by the river in idaho falls with all those kids his mother warned him about. and that he said, is how his name came up after the murder of angie dodge. when police were scouring the city for suspects who might match that the any left behind after the murder. so, to, he was asked to submit the any. did you think anything of that? no. i had no rhyme, no reason to be scared. and then? not a word. for months. until, you ll recall, january of 1997, when was tapp brought in for questioning after his friend ben hobbs was arrested for a nevada sexual attack. which police said, with similar to the murder of angie dodge.
Ten years after a 16-year-old boy confessed to a double murder and was sentenced to life in prison, a local businessman tries to prove the confession was.
and stabbed her, and he said he even stopped her once himself. the motive? revenge. what angie had been meddling in hubs marriage and he did like that one bit. so detectives questioned him and denied all part of the murder. i don t know, that s why i m asking you. because if she was, my dna will prove my innocence right there. and lo and behold, he was right. that dna results came back, and the semen found on angie s body did not belong to hobbs or tapp. neither one of them. what went through your heads when the dna results came back and it showed that the attacker was not them? one word, frustration. but the detectives decided that didn t mean that