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felony, was never charged with angie s murder. and idaho falls police told angie s mother carol they still couldn t find that third man, the one who left his dna on angie s body. that s when carol became, her word, obsessed. if the police couldn t track down her daughter s killer, well, then, she would. the anger just surged through me. and that s when i went to the streets, and i literally put 60,000 miles on my struck searching for her killer.
not guilty and is awaiting trial. it was an emotional moment for angie s mother, carol, who was there at the press conference. it was real nuts. he orchestrated the whole thing. it just took us 23 years to get here. but he led us all the way. for chris tap, the break in the case was a new beginning. a judge finally vacated his conviction and this time left the court not only a free man but a fully exonerated one. i m thankful that my mother will know that this last name is clean and that s the most important thing to me in this world. as for carle dodge, the idaho falls police department called her a warrior, adding that over the years many of their investigators said they were
her name is carol dodge, and the amazing story she will tell us tonight began on the worst day of her life. it was a thursday, june 13th, 1996, midmorning. she placed a call to a beauty salon to talk to her daughter angie. i dialed angie s number at work. and a lady answered, and i said, this is carol dodge, angie s mom. and she said, angie s been found dead. just over the phone? and i remember saying, god, no. please no. this can t be real. it happened, it turned out, the night before in the tiny second floor walkup where the independent 18-year-old had just started to build her life, stabbed to death, her throat cut. and carol was haunted by a conversation she d had with angie that very week. that s what she said to me, you know, mom, i ve done something really stupid. did you say to her, what did you do? no, i didn t want to pry. what could it have been, that something stupid? did it lead to murder?
corner. i wasn t clear. police, carol noticed, kept correcting him. for a guy who d taken part in a murder, tapp seemed to not know much about the layout of angie s apartment. maybe if you could just draw it out. when they asked him to draw it, he couldn t do it. detectives even, perhaps inadvertently, showed him where the murder occurred. it happened in here, in the bedroom, back here. it s back here. and there s more. police always told carol tapp knew things only the killer would know, the position of angie s body, the clothes she was wearing. now carol could see for herself on tape the reason chris would know those things. carol was stunned to see police had shown tapp photos of the crime scene. i want you to tell me how you remember it, how you don t remember it, and we re going to 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 peopl