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.
and having made his statement. went tapp home, in the clear apparently. a couple of days later, detectives asked him to come downtown again. i told him, what are you doing? this is a murder case. this is tapp s mother vera. she was afraid that her son was talking himself into big trouble. he said mom, i don t have anything to hide. but that didn t quite work out that way. before long, christopher tapp wrote a statement for police. he said that was hobbs killed her and i left it off as though it was a joke. after over the course of several, weeks they had to happen here nine times. the even gave him an immunity deal and that is when mr. tapp s story began to evolve. he seemed to be there, even held her down, he admitted.
man still at large. and the womanhood relentlessly brought it to the idaho falls wall police to find her daughters killer, began doubting everything those detectives told her. for 13 years they had me convinced that tapp was there. they kept saying, he confessed, carol, he confessed. but was it a real confession? carol as for, and got, a complete set of tapes, video taped confessions. and what she saw amazed her. by this time, of course, she knew so much more than she knew a decade before. knew that then detective fuhriman had been a school resource officer, well known to the young christopher tapp. i trust you. and hopefully you trust me, okay? he kept telling chris, trust
what s house and you lived in. then she, like, live on the corner? or was it. it was in the middle of the block. police, carol noted, kept correcting him. for a guy who had taken part in a murder, he didn t seem to know the layout of angie s apartment. why don t you try and draw? it sometimes it s easier if you if you can draw it out. when they asked him to draw it? he could not do it. take this even, inadvertently, showed him where the murder occurred. bathrooms back here. and the bedroom was, like, back here. no the bedrooms there. oh yes, and there was more. police had always told carole that chris tapp did only a killer would know. the position, the location, because she was wearing. but now kyle could see first off on tape, the reason why chris would know those things she was stunned that police
jail. who watched as immunity deals were offered and then later torn up. how could that kid, the lawyer asked, be expected to believe he could leave whenever he wanted? did you think that if you decided not to talk to the police that you are going to be able to go home? no. i would not have been allowed to go home. but tapp had to acknowledge when he was questioned by the prosecutors, he had, indeed, lied over the years. many times. including in sworn affidavits used in past appeals. you ve admitted the fact that you lied on any number of occasions. and if you lied before, how can we believe you now? of course you re gonna see i m a liar now. he s just trying to save himself. but it s the truth. i m innocent. i ve never committed this crime. when testimony was over, it was up to the judge. would he order a new trial for chris tapp? or would he send it back to prison? maybe, for good. and then, for months later, a ruling.