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 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 result came back and the semen found on angie s body didn t 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. it s frustration. but the detectives decided that didn t 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
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 don t remember it? just going to jog your memory for you and we ll go from there. there s times i wanted to put my fist through the tv. and finally, remember that the police theory of the crime after dna didn t 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 my head. jeff. by the time you had gone through all of those tapes, what did you think about chris tapp, the man you believed all those years
there s a lot of anger, lot of humiliation in this. and frustration for the cops because that dna didn t match any of their possible suspects. month after month, they chased leads into disappointing dead ends and all the while carol 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. one of those unsavory friends of angie s. here he is at angie s 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 furhman began
apparently did not that her son was quite possibly talking himself into very big trouble. mom, i don t have anything to hide. i want to tell them that i don t know anything. but it didn t 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. tapp s 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 ben s marriage and mr. hobbs did not like that one
i says, this is a murder case. this is tapp s mother, vera, she understood what he apparently did not that her son was quite possibly talking himself into very big trouble. mom, i don t have anything to hide. i want to tell them that i don t know anything. but it didn t quite work out that way. before long, chris tapp had 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 9 times, questioning him 20 hours, even gave him an immunity deal and that is when mr. tapp s 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 ben s marriage and mr. hobbs did not like that one