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 admitted to be one of the killers. A grizzly murder captured on videotape, but for her mom, the details on tape did not give her answers. In fact, they raised more questions. Heres keith morrison. They kept him here. Deep inside the multiple walls and the armed doors, the rolls and rolls of razor wire, the confessed stabber, convicted killer that stabbed a sweet woman all those years ago. Lucky to be alive, probably, given the nature of the crime and the appeal from the girls mother for the dea
conviction. chris had a decision to make. this was not an exoneration. he d still be a killer in the eyes of it law, but he d 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 angie s murder. he declined dateline s request for an interview. for the idaho innocent project the answer still lies not only in the machinery of law but in science. that dna left at the scene, it points, he says, to the simplest explanation. not to a third man or even a second one but just one. what are the chances that a story could remain a secret for that many years if three people
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. there s 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 didn t have any clue of what she had gotten herself into. and neither did she, carol admits, when she setout on a quest to find a killer. not finished, not yet. i m never going to stop looking. one day i m going to look that man in the eye. one day he will be found.
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 it s a responsibility it s not there. after that moment, she made a decision. she would do more than search to find her daughter s killer. she would actively work to free christopher taft, the only man convicted of the murder. i think that chris s case truly got taken seriously after i made my contact with boise state. she was the first victim s family member who came forward to work with the innocence project on a case. i mean, she s the leading edge of a group of people who have come forward and said, you know, we just want to know what happened. no matter who was now on his side, chris taft was face-to-face with two very uncomfortable truths. one, years of appeals had done nothing to overturn his conviction and prison sentence.
have. welcome back. chris taft s 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? you re 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 is. christopher taft. no longer the endless pot head seen in the videotapes in sne19. when we met, he had done a decade of hard time. when people look at you, what do