been higher for mr. tapp. his mother, vera, sat right behind him. carol dodge was there to. two of her sons also. there s got a lot at stake. if chris tapp walks free, then what? then it s who is the color? the prosecution would rely on the word of the detective who later became idaho falls mayor, jared fuhriman. fuhriman round 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 or geared 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 the only reason i m doing this is so nobody comes in, okay? 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
had become carol s reason for living. through three heart attacks. the death of an estranged husband. on often on battles with the idaho falls police. and now she was going to have to fight that power in a whole new way. because remember jared fuhriman, the detective who befriended chris tapp, in a previous position as school resources officer? the fellow who got that confession has gone on to become the mayor of the town. true. does that have anything to do with it as far as you know? people are going to protect their story, without looking any deeper and saying, is this really accurate? so, the idaho falls police had taken a false confession. put the wrong man in prison. and failed to find the real killer? when we spoke to the former detective, then mayor, jared fuhriman, he said no, just not true. and how did he know? it was fuhriman who took tapp to visit the crime scene during
a young chris tapp. i trust you and hopefully you trust me, okay? fuhriman kept telling chris, just trust me, chris, you have to trust me. you know, we go way back, chris. and i think 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 make tapp an active 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. and how 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
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 the idaho falls police had taken a false confession, put the wrong man in prison, and failed to find the real killer? when we spoke to the former detective and then mayor jared fuhriman, he said, no, not true, and how did he know? it was fuhriman who took tapp to visit the crime scene during one of those many interviews 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. but
it took days to get to a story where i actually made a confession. well, of course one of the difficulties was your story kept changing, right? very much it did. i mean, you went from saying i don t know anything about this to then saying, well, maybe ben had something to do with it to then, well, maybe there was a third guy involved to wait a minute, i was there and, oh, yeah, and i cut her. where did that come from? trying to give them what they wanted to hear just to appease them. why would you say you cut her? during that time, mr. fuhriman he said hypothetically even if you did cut her, it still doesn t matter. we ll be able to get you another deal, you just need to help us. indeed here it is on tape with then detective fuhriman in charge of the interview. hypothetically if chris tapp was holding on to angie as she was being cut and some other stuff was going on, or if chris