bit. so detectives confronted hobbs, who denied any part in fact murder. and asked them a question about angie. was she raped the night she was killed? i don t know. that s why i m asking you because if she was, my dna will prove my innocence right there. and lo and behold, he was right. that dna result came back and the semen found on angie s body didn t belong to ben hobbs or chris tapp, neither one of them. what went through your heads when the dna results came back and it showed that the attacker was not ben hobbs. it s frustration. but the detectives decided that didn t mean chris was lying or that the theory of the crime was wrong. it could only mean they decided that they needed to expand the theory. ben hobbs and chris tapp were
herself on tape the reason chris would know those things. carol was stunned to see police had shown tapp photos of the crime scene. is that how you remember it? is that how you don t remember it? just going to jog your memory for you and we ll 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 people committed the murder together. the detectives spent hours, literally trying to drag the name of that third man out of tapp. and when carol saw the tape, well, you watch it. the name nothing comes to my head. jeff. by the time you had gone through all of those tapes, what did you think about chris tapp, the man you believed all those years
dna. did you think anything of that? no. i had no rhyme, no reason to be scared. then, not a word. for months, until, you ll recall, january of 1997, when tapp was brought in for questioning, after his friend ben hobbs was arrested for a nevada sexual attack, which police said was similar to the murder of angie dodge. i didn t know what i was being brought in for. you didn t connect it with the angie thing at all? no. i honestly thought i was going in for drugs. as you ve seen over the course of several weeks, chris tapp soon went from saying he knew nothing about angie s murder, to being the only man charged in the case, just as his mother warned him. how was your mother during all this? frantic. i was honest with her. i said i had nothing to do with this, mom. i tried to explain to her. i didn t really confess. it took days to get to a story where i actually made a
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 man 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 interviews 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.
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. t tapp was no felon, but he was an admitted druggie and what do you know, chris tapp had a bit of history with an ex-school resource officer now detective fuhrman. 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 furhman, 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? i says, this is a murder case. this is tapp s mother, vera, she understand what he