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 and wrong man in prison and failed to find the real killer. when we spoke to the former detective and then mayor jared furman, ed, no, just not true. how did he know? it was furman who took tapp to visit the crime scene during some of those many interviews all of those years ago.
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 didn t know anything ed about angie s 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? i said this is a murder case. reporter: this is tapp s mother vera. she understooder what he apparentlyto did not that her s was quite possibly talking himself into very big trouble. ed, mom, i don t have anything to hide and i want to
were similar to or the same as the victim. reporter: he said they either hers or they are not. just as you thought. ed where are the hairs? i said, i assume that they are still in evidence. reporter: so they called the idaho falls police department which found the hairs in an envelope in the evidence room where they shall be stored all of those year. after carol s calls though pubic hairs were sent offer to the crime lab where dna tests showed that chris tapp was there at the cream scene and 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 that was huge. the answer from the dna? left no doubt. only one person who did this in term of the dna. reporter: one killer. the science said there was no evidence there were three attackers in angie s apartment that night as the police had theorized but just one.