but was it a real confession? carol asked for and got a complete set of tapp s video tape confessions. and what she saw amazed her. by this time, of course, she knew so much more than she had a decade before, knew, for example, that then detective jared furhiman who ran the interviews had been a school resource officer, well known to a young chris tapp. i trust you and hopefully you trust me, okay? furhiman kept telling chris, just trust me, chris. you have to trust me. we go way back, chris. and i think that he was taught to respect adults and he was a follower. she watched as chris insisted he knew nothing and then she saw detectives, as they re trained to do, subtly make tapp a
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. i m going to say jeff. mike was the first name. mickelson. 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 how did they do this to me? how have they managed to keep someone in prison for all these years and it s a possibility he s not there? after that eureka moment, carol dodge made a decision. she would do more than search to find her daughter s killer, she would actively work to free christopher tapp, the only man convicted of the murder. i think that chris case truly got taken seriously after i made my contact with boise state.
his mother warned him about. and that he says is how his name came up after the murder of angie dodge, when police were scouring the city for suspects who might match that dna left behind after the murder. so, too, he was asked to submit 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.
participant. hypothetically, chris, how do you think it happened? i remember chris saying, you mean like a tv show? next she saw police administering polygraph after polygraph, almost always with the same result. they would tell him he s deceptive. when tapp was promised immunity, his story about ben hobbs changed. he got a knife. and he just started to cut her. but perhaps what troubled carol most was seeing how confused tapp was, even ten days after his first interviews, he still seemed not to know what house angie lived in. did she live on the corner? police, carol noticed, kept correcting him. for a guy who taken part in a murder, he seemed not to know much about the layout of angie s apartment. why don t you try to draw it out.
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? if you re going to nail it down to one word, 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 guilty, they were sure of it, so that mystery dna must have come from a third man, a third attacker. so they put tapp back in the