Forgot were, i just want to know what happened to my daughter. Join is as he hunts for a killer and searches for the truth. I want to put my fist through the tv. And just wait until you learn what she found. Still brings the hair up on the back of my neck. The confession welcome to date line everyone, im lester holt. A Police Interrogation video tape, it can play a big part in any case, but rarely the way it does in tonights story. For the mom youre about to meet, already grieving for her dead daughter, the tape revealed something almost as shocking as the murder itself. Youre about to see what that was and when you do, i would like you to ask yourself, what would you have done about it . Here is keith morrison. They keep him in here, deep inside the multiple walls and the armed doors and the rows and rows and rows of raiser wire, the confessed stabber, the convicted killer of that sweet, young woman all those years ago. He is lucky to be alive probably given the nature of the crime and the appeal from that girls mother for the death sentence, which makes what that mother tells us about him very puzzling indeed. Let him go. If the only thing his mother has is her only child, let him go. Her name is carroll dodge and the amazing story she will tell us tonight began on the worst day 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. I dialed angies number at work and a lady answered. I said, this is carroll dodge, angies mom. She said, angie has been found dead. Just over the phone. I remember saying, god, no, please no. This cant be real. Happened it turned out the night before in the tiny second floor walkup where the independent 18yearold had just started to build her life. Stabbed to death, her throat cut and carroll was haunted by a conversation she had with angie that very week. Thats what she said to me, mom, ive done something really stupid. Did you say to her what did you do . No, i didnt want to pry. What could it have been that something stupid . Would it lead to murderer . Idaho falls, idaho, big blue heaven above, dazzling white Mormon Temple below to aing anchor below. Fine way to raise a family, three dodge boys and one girl, angie, whose birth occasion, the biggest celebration of all. That was a pinnacle for my parents to have the baby girl. Little angie was one of those kids who learned about independence early on who grew up busy and strong and stubborn. Nobody got in her face because she would take care of you. She was a wee, petite thing. Angie was 511 and she was strong. But, of course, big can be a problem for a girl. As a teenager, she was too tall, too awkward. She struggled. And to make it worse, her parents marriage fell apart. Thats when angie went and just made friends whoever accepted her. Among angies new friends was jessica martinez. We both had very poor image because we had weight problems and wanted to be accepted not what we looked like but for people worp. Jessica turned out fine. But carroll worried 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 suddenfully this little apartment angies life was over and carroll grief stricken and dazed endured a murder investigation. We clearly thought there was some sort of relationship there because it was a crime of passion. Gerald and ken brown were back then detectives in the idaho falls, p. D. Angies boyfriend was out of town. They turned to this physical evidence, this bloody imprint. When her killer did something that was quite beyond sick, pulled down her pants, pulled up her shirt, left a deposit of semen on her body, his mark and his dna. Theres a lot of anger, lot of humiliation in this. And frustration for the cops because that dna didnt match any of their possible suspects. Month after month they chased leads into disappointing dead ends and all the while carroll dodge haunted the investigation, practically stalked the detectives, desperate for information, begging them, find the killer. I drove to the Police Department everyday that they were open. And then one day, seven months later, dead of winter, january 97, an arrest next door in nevada broke the case wide open. In custody was a young man named benjamin hobbs. Here he is at angies funeral, carrying flowers, but 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 ferman began talking to hobbs friends. Why do you think youre down here . Honestly, i have no idea. One of whom was a 20yearold named Christopher Tapp. He was no fellen but he was an admitted druggie and what do you know, chris tapp had a bit of a history with exSchool Resource offer now detective ferman. He was in trouble a time or two . He was. Just trying to help him out. I trust you and hopefully you trust me, okay . Yes, sir. He trusted ferman, but didnt know anything he said about angies murder. If i did anything about this, i would say, but i do not know. Thats the honest truth. Having made his statement, Christopher Tapp went home, in the clear apparently. Couple of days later, the detectives asked him to come downtown again. I told him i says, what are you doing . I says, this is a murder case. This is tapps mother, vera, she understand what he apparently did not that her son was quite possibly talking himself into very big trouble. Mom, i dont have anything to hide. I want to tell them that i dont know anything. But it didnt quite work out that way. Before long, chris tapp written a statement for police saying that ben hobbs said he killed her and i just laughed it off like he was just telling me a joke. Ah, but that was just the beginning. Over the next several weeks they had tapp in here nine times, questioning him 20 hours, even gave him an immunity deal and that is when mr. Tapps story began to evolve. Yes, he admitted he was there when ben hobbs killed angie, even held her down he admitted when ben stabbed her and then finally, he said, he even stabbed her once himself. The motive, revenge. Supposedly angie had been meddling in bens marriage and mr. Hobbs did not like that one bit. So detectives confronted hobbs, who denied any part in fact murder. And asked them a question about angie. Was she raped the night she was killed . I dont know. Thats why im asking you because if she was, my dna will prove my innocence right there. And lo and behold, he was right. That dna result came back and the semen found on angies body didnt belong to ben hobbs or chris tapp, neither one of them. What went through your heads when the dna results came back and it showed that the attacker was not ben hobbs. Its frustration. But the detectives decided that didnt mean chris was lying or that the theory of the crime was wrong. It could only mean they decided that they needed to expand the theory. Ben hobbs and chris tapp were guilt, they were sure of it, so that mystery dna must have come from a third man, a third attacker. So they put tapp back in the Interrogation Room and asked him, was a third man involved in the crime . Sure enough, chris tapp said yes, there was a third man. No matter how many times detectives asked, he couldnt or wouldnt tell them who it was. So prosecutors made a decision, if tapp wasnt going to tell him the whole truth, he wouldnt get his deal. Chris tapp was charged with murder, but only chris. Not enough evidence to go after hobbs or anyone else. The announcement caught carroll dodge by surprise. Detectives kept her in the dark until now. But one look at Christopher Tapp in court and she knew she wanted him dead. I mean, i was finally looking somebody in the eye. I thought was a devil who had taken my daughters life. Chris tapp was found guilty and sent off to state prison for 40 years, which is when carroll dodges odyssey really began. Her own investigation, filled with danger, surprise and some very troubling discoveries. When we come back, one discovery so troubling that angies mother reached out for help. The anger just surged through me. Her search for the truth would hold some chilling surprises. Still brings the hair up on the back of my neck. When the confession continues. Huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Everybody knows that. 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Thats when carol became her word obsessed. If the police couldnt track down her daughters killer, well, then she would. The anger just surged through me. And thats when i went to the streets and i literally put 60,000 miles on my truck searching for her killer. You purt yourself in harms way. Oh, absolutely. I remember going to a place and the lady said you need to leave before somebody hurts you. Thats how the days and weeks passed. I had a gun put to my head in one night. In a frenzy of new leads that never panned out, but carol often ended up parked outside the apartment where angie was murdered. I would just stair at that house and stair at the windows and try and figure out how scared she must have been. Something else carol couldnt stop doing, Reading Police reports. Practically memorizing them. I dont sleep and i get up and i just go, what part of this dont i understand . It didnt 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 a dna world. It was about pubic hairs, which in addition to the semen had been found on angies body. It was written in this lab report that it is similar or same as the victim. And i said to myself, its either angies or its not angies. Right. It cant be an either or. Not in Todays Society world. Of course. Then carol remember readen an article about an internationally known dna expert who just so happened to live and work right in idaho. How does it feel to be recognized dna expert . Its fun. I did fruit flies. Nobody invited me to talk on television. This is the expert, dr. Greg hamfikien who spreads his infectious enthusiasm at boise state university. His work is not all done in the classroom. In fact, his own path changed back in 2004 when he was asked to test some dna that eventually led to an innocent man being freed from prison in georgia. The doctor wrote a book and just like that the doctor found a new calling. He is now in high demand. In tween, he was part of the team credited with freeing amanda knox. And in his spare time, he is founder and director of idahos Innocence Project. Its an unfortunate thing that our name is innocence. Honestly, ive worked on 13 exonerations now, four of the ones in georgia, they found the actual perp ray tor, to those four guys im the guilty project. So now the coincidence you just couldnt make up. The very week carol left a phone message for the doctor asking for help, idahos Innocence Project had just taken on a new case the case of the man convicted of killing carols daughter. Christopher tapp. The doctor called carol back. Her words to me, ill never forget, i just want to know what happened to my daughter. And, you know, it still brings the hair up on the back of my neck. The curiosity first surprise you. The knowledge surprised me. Shes turned all of that love and devotion for her daughter into a very careful record of this case. So she read that report to him, the one that said the pubic hairs found on angie were similar to or the same as the victim. He goes, well theyre either hers or theyre not. Just as you thought. He said, well where are the hairs . I said i assume that theyre still in evidence. Though she called 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 carols calls those pubic hairs were acceptability off to the crime lab where state of the art dna could show that chris tapp was there at the crime scene or that ben hobbs was there at the crime scene or that the entirety of the physical evidence was left by one unknown third man. That was a fundamental question, huge. And the answer from the dna left no doubt. Only one person who did this in terms of dna. One killer. The science said there was no evidence there were three attackers in angies apartment that night as the police had thee orized, but just one. And that remarkable news could mean only one thing, at least according to the idaho Innocence Project, chris tapps story was a false confession. He was not there. He was an innocent man, the theory of multiple killers, ridiculous, said the doctor. To imagine that there is this group of criminals who know about dna and are so careful, what did they do . They planted somebody elses semen and pubic hair and cleaned up all their own dna . As you might well imagine, that conclusion that chris tapp had to be innocent, the killer had never been caught, came down like a hammer to the head on angies mother. I was extremely angry. When they have dna, not once but twice, that belongs to the same person and its not chris tapp, something is wrong. So what did you do . I met with the chief and i asked for copies of all of the video tapes. Those video tapes, the ones in which chris tapp had confessed to taking part in the murder, on most accounts carol knew more about the case than anyone. All she did is watched more than all of 20 hours of chris tapp interrogation until now, and she did, she watched every minute. And when she was done, carol dodge was a changed woman. Looking at a brand new case. Coming up theres times that i wanted to put my fist through the tv. The tale of the tapes, what exactly had she found . Were going to go from more than a dozen years after her daughters murder, the ground beneath carol dodges feet was quaking. New dna tests revealed that none of the physical evidence implicated confessed murderer Christopher Tapp but pointed instead to some mystery man still at large. And the woman who relentlessly prodded the Idaho Falls Police to find their daughters killer, began to doubt everything those detectives had been telling her. For 13 years they had me convinced that chris tapp was there. All they kept saying was that he confessed, carol, he confessed. But, was it a real confession . Carol asked for and got a complete set of tapps video tape 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 furhman who ran the interviews had been a School Resource officer, well known to a young chris tapp. I trust you and hopefully you trust me, okay . Furhman kept telling chris, just trust me, chris. You have to trust me. We go way back, chris. And i think that he was taught to respect adults and he was a follower. She watched as chris insisted he knew nothing and then she saw detectives, as theyre trained to do, subjectly make tapp. Hypothetically, chris, how do you think it happened . I remember chris saying, you mean like a tv show . Next she saw police administering polygraph after polygraph, almost always with the same result. They would tell him hes deceptive. When tapp was promised immunity, his story about ben hobbs changed. He got a knife. And he just started to cut her. But perhaps what troubled carol most was seeing how confused tapp was, even ten days after his first interviews, he still seemed not to know what house angie lived in. Did she live on the corner . Police, carol noticed, kept correcting him. For a guy who taken part in a murder, he seemed not to know much about the layout of angies apartment. Why dont you try to draw it out. When they asked him to draw it, he couldnt do it. Detectives even perhaps inadvertently showed him where the murder occurred. Bedroom, right back here. Oh, yes. And there was more. Police had always told carol that chris tapp knew things only the killer would know, the location and position of angies body, the clothes she was wearing. Well, now carol could see for herself on tape the reason chris would know those things. Carol was stunned to see police had shown tapp photos of the crime scene. Is that how you remember it . Is that how you dont remember it . Just going to jog your memory for you and well go from there. Theres times i wanted to put my fist through the tv. And finally, remember that the Police Theory of the crime after dna didnt match tapp or hobbs was that three people committed the murder together. The detectives spent hours, literally trying to drag the name of that third man out of tapp. And when carol saw the tape, well, you watch it. The name nothing comes to