if there s dna, for god sakes believe the science. people are not that accurate. the dna is very precise. and now, 15 years after the murder of her daughter, angie s own mother, carol dodge, had done what was once unthinkable. she had joined forces with the innocence project. the city of idaho falls has got it wrong. you want somebody to take you seriously? yes. in the year since the murder, finding angie s killer had become carol s reason of living, through three heart attacks the death of an estranged husband, off and on battles with the idaho police and now she had to fight that power in a whole new way because remember jared furhman the detective who befriended chris tapp in a previous position of school resources officer the fellow got that confession has gone on to become the mayor of town.
true. did that have anything to do with it as far as people can tell? people have to protect their story without looking any deeper and saying, is this really accurate? so had the idaho falls police taken a false confession, put the wrong person in prison and failed to find the real killer? no, that just wasn t true said the former detective and later mayor jared furhman. how does he know? it was furhman who took tapp to visit the crime scene, during some of those many itries all those years ago. let me tell you, they weren t in the room with me when he took us up the stairs, took us into the bedroom and relived that night. you could see it on his face, he was reliving it. of course the critics wouldn t be able to see that because it was one of the only times during the investigation when the police did not video tape chris tapp.
if chris tapp walks free, then what? then it s who is the killer? the prosecution would rely on the word of the mayor of idaho falls, jared furhman. he was then a detective and ran the police interviews and said, chris tapp was never technically in custody. was chris tapp free to leave? yes. that s funny, chris tapp s lawyers argued when it was their turn. how could a 20-year-old who had been arrested twice and watched as the door was actually barred during some of his interviews how could that young man, who had been questioned on and off for nearly a month who spent more than a week of that time actually locked up in jail, who watched as immunity deals were offered and then later torn up, how could that kid, the lawyer asked, be expected to believe that he could leave when ever he wanted. did you think that you would be able to go home if you did no.
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. 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 talking to hobbs friends.
sound familiar? so while detective ken brown rushed off to question hobbs, detective jared furhman began talking to hobbs friends. why do you think you re down here? honestly, i have no idea. one of whom was a 20-year-old named christopher tapp. he was no felon but he was an admitted druggie and what do you know, chris tapp had a bit of a history with ex-school resource offer now detective furhiman. 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 furhiman, but didn t know anything he said about angie s murder. if i did anything about this, i would say, but i do not know. that s 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?