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It was a horrific crime.

People were shocked.

They were afraid.

Idaho Falls hadn't
experienced anything like this.

But the police
have arrested somebody.

He's even confessed.

So I can remember thinking,
"Okay, good, they got the guy."

I don't remember a lot of
thought in the community that,

"Okay, this is the wrong guy."

Or any thought, quite honestly.

But we found these videos,

and if you watch
all of them together,

you can see how there were
some weird things going on.

I had nothing to do with this.

But people were confused.

Why would someone admit to
something that they didn't do?

I think Idaho Falls in 1996

was a lot like
what you see now.

Idaho Falls is a town
of 60,000 or so,

and everybody knows everybody.

The Mormon Church is not
just the dominant religion,

but it's the dominant culture.

It's ... It's very conservative,
it's very insulated.

The old saying is
Mormons make good communities,

and you see that.

It's generally a safe place.

It's generally a good place
to raise kids.

But then the world fell apart
when Angie Dodge was murdered,

and it's just been
a nightmare ever since.

Angie Dodge's life
was cut short last night.

It was a horrible shock
to her friends and family.

What happened here is too
brutal to even consider.

Police won't even say how many
times the victim was stabbed.

This town probably averages
one or two murders a year.

And the murders here tend
to be domestics or bar fights,

or, you know,
things that are understandable.

This wasn't understandable.

Okay, June 13, 1996.
Idaho Falls.

Angie Dodge, 18 years old,
is murdered,

and subsequently
sexually assaulted

in her own apartment.

There was no sign
of an actual break-in.

There was
tremendous brutality.

She's ... She's
almost decapitated.

And there was substantial
crime-scene evidence

with ejaculate
on the body.

Yeah, the perpetrator
clearly left his DNA,

but they still were
unable to identify

a viable suspect
at that time.

For neighbors who live
near 444 I Street,

the most difficult
element of this crime

is the unanswered question.

Was Angie Dodge's brutal death

targeted,
or was it simply a random act?

People were shocked.

They were afraid
because obviously,

someone had done this
and was out there.

It was something
that got written about a lot

in the newspaper.

And you saw it
from the police perspective.

Those guys really tried hard.

We're interviewing
all family members,

associates, friends of hers,

and just trying to
determine what went on.

There was a huge effort
expended on their part.

I mean, they pulled hundreds
of people in, ran a lot of DNA.

They took this as personally
as everybody else did.

We all live here.
Nobody wants to see this.

As one friend said,
it's like she's frozen in time.

She can't come back,
and she can't move forward

until there is some closure
to her murder.

Angie had a really bright,
loud personality.

You couldn't miss her.

She was fun. She was funny.

She told you how it is.

If she didn't like you,
she'd tell you.

And that was the cool
thing about her.

She's beautiful.
She hated wearing shoes.

She was just great to be
around, you know?

She was fun,

and she was like a protector,
and she was a great friend.

She seemed to be
outgoing, gregarious.

She was like a really nice
young woman

with friends and a job
and an apartment.

She had just really
graduated from high school.

You have, you know,
a-a very young victim,

and I would be very surprised
that that offender's over 23.

This was my only daughter,
and I hope you come forward

and make it easy
on everyone.

From the police perspective,

they hadn't experienced this
to go in

and try to process
this crime scene

and try to understand
how this happened.

It was really
difficult for them.

Although this was a huge thing
in Idaho Falls,

the case went cold
for about six months.

And that's when they get
a tip out of Ely, Nevada,

that Ben Hobbs,
who was from Idaho Falls,

was actually involved

in another rape allegation
down there.

And so, he becomes a suspect
in the Angie Dodge murder.

It's been very emotional the
whole time to get through this.

And, like I said,
through the investigations,

through information that is ...
that ... that we've developed,

that has come in
from some people out there,

we got the leads.

Now, that was
a good lead, right?

Somebody from Idaho Falls gets
arrested for a knifepoint rape.

So they go to Ely, Nevada,

and they start
to question Hobbs.

And he was friends
with Angie Dodge.

They send Hobbs' DNA
out for testing,

but before any
results come back,

they pull in Hobbs'
circle of friends,

including Chris Tapp.

Jared Fuhriman called
my house, and he's like,

"Hey, we have
a couple questions for you.

We'll come pick you up."

I said all right.

And that's when
all of it started.

Jared Fuhriman had
a relationship with me

before this.

He was the school resource
officer in my junior high.

He was someone
I thought I could trust.

I had a little bit of a,
you know,

drug and alcohol problem
growing up,

so I imagined that they wanted
to talk to me

about something drug-related.

I had no idea it was ever about
the Angie Dodge murder.

I met Angie through Ben
in 1995.

And we all hung out
at the river.

Ben Hobbs, Jeremy Sargis,
Tom Brown.

And we were just a pretty
laid-back group of friends.

Basically, our days consisted

of just hanging out
down at the river.

We weren't fighters or thieves
or troublemakers or anything.

But the police start talking
to all of us.

Seemed like they were
kind of honing in on

the river people
right out of the gate.

Jared Fuhriman asked me
if I could go down

to the police station and stuff.

And I went, "What for?"

He just says, "I got
a few questions to ask you."

I don't really remember
the first interrogation.

There was so many.

Okay.

They interrogated a lot of us.

Just grabbing us
out of the blue.

We thought, well,
let's just cooperate and try

and help solve this crime.

We thought,
let's brainstorm with them.

Maybe we can help.

And they took that as
we might know something.

So then they start talking to me
a little bit about Ben Hobbs.

Ben's giving you up,
saying this, saying that,

and I was floored.

Fuhriman started getting
really rude and saying,

"Well, you need to confess,"
and stuff.

He wouldn't back down.

I said, "I don't know nothing.
I don't have any ideas.

I can't help you.
I had nothing to do with it."

Here's the problem
in my opinion.

The focus is on people
who were down at the river.

And so that's where the
investigation funnels to.

It just seemed like
a weird narrative to me

from the beginning.

I think the officers
tried to make the facts

fit their theory instead of
the opposite, you know?

You are so right
on there.

Fuhriman told me, you know, that
they had Ben dead to rights.

And they're, ya know ...
They're gonna ...

They're gonna take him down.

And so I got a little upset with
him, and I tried something else.

I confronted him.

He stormed out of
the interrogation room,

and that upset him pretty good.

My father come down,
and he kind of raised hell

with the police department,
saying,

"My son had nothing
to do with it.

You can't hold him.

If you got anything to hold him,
you better do it or let him go."

After that, I left.

After I got arrested,
my dad hired a big lawyer,

and when I went to court,

he wouldn't even let me
tell them my name.

All I could say was,
on the advice of my attorney,

I invoke
my Fifth Amendment Right,

and that's truly what saved me.

If Chris would have done that,

they wouldn't have had
anything.

I was so scared and so confused

and so bewildered.

Chris, you could push him
around a little bit,

you know,
and the police saw that,

and they pushed him
around pretty hard.

Where was his lawyer?

It looks like he fell
into the trap a lot of people do.

If they feel like
they're innocent, he said,

"Well, what harm
can my statements be?

If I didn't do anything,

I'm comfortable talking to the
police without representation."

But as long as
he keeps coming down

and wanting to talk
to the interrogators,

what's wrong with that?

It's legal.
This is all perfectly legal.

Absolutely.

But is it fair to say
that rarely, if ever,

does a suspect do himself
or herself any good

by showing up to talk
to you folks without a lawyer?

Even if they're
completely innocent.

As an interrogator,
I won't agree with that.

And the reason why I won't
agree with that

because it's better
for the victim for me

to be able to extract
the truth from you.No, no, I know that.

But your son gets arrested,
do you say,

"Son, you just go ahead

and tell those officers
everything you know."

I teach all my kids,
"Look here,

anybody ever pick you up,
shut your mouth."

-Right.
-Wait until you get an attorney.

My husband kept
taking him down there.

I says, "That's ridiculous."
I says, "You don't do that."

And he says, "Well, I know

that he doesn't have
nothing to hide."

And it just kept escalating.

And I understand that.

They took me in for
questioning so many times.

It kept going on and on.

And he came home one day,
and he says,

"Mom, things ain't
going right."

I says, "You're not going
down there anymore."

And he says, "I promised 'em."

I said, "I don't care
what you promised them."

I says, "You're not going
down there anymore."

Saturday, Fuhriman came, and he
says, "Where's Christopher?"

And I just flat out
told him, I said,

"Christopher's not
going down there."

He just says,
"Well, you know your son is up

to his eyeballs in this."

I says, "No, he isn't."

And he says,
"Well, what do you know?

You're just the mother."

I said, "We'll be there Monday
morning with a lawyer."

So that's when they got
the warrant out for his arrest.

I chose the attorney
through the phone book.

You know, it was a Saturday,
so it's really ...

I just started calling
lawyers in the phone book,

and someone answered the phone.

But during an interrogation,

my attorneys would either
be down the hall

or in another room

watching everything going on
in a closed circuit TV.

Sometimes they weren't even
there in the police department.

So I had nobody to help me.

Chris' own attorneys
were a disaster.

Basically,
once he had his attorneys,

they let the cops do
whatever they wanted to do.

-Right, he was ...
-And they weren't even there.

They weren't in
the interrogation room.

They were, like,
"Call us if you need us."

You know, they weren't there for
him the way they should have.

Chris would have been
perfectly willing

to follow his lawyer's
advice to shut up.

If they gave him advice.
Right.

If they had given him
that advice.

But he really should have
had better, smarter counsel,

and they really
should have known better.

This isn't like
lawyering 7.0.

No.

I mean, we learn this
in our first years, right?

Mm-hmm, absolutely.

Shut up, don't talk.

I volunteered to take
the first polygraph.

I had nothing to fear or hide,

so I was, like,
"Yeah, I'd take a polygraph."

I had no fear whatsoever
to take a polygraph.

-Now, what did you notice?
-Wow.

You know, he said,
"I really didn't do anything.

I'm scared," you know?

That right there should
have been an indicator of,

"Wait a minute, let's ...
let's back off this guy."

You know, his leg is crossed,
he's slumped down in his seat.

You know, he's trying to be open
to them.

But this guy's totally afraid
of these guys, so ...

"Gas chamber"
probably does that.

Absolutely, you know?

I mean, you know, even in my
years in the federal government,

you know, we routinely had
to take a polygraph,

and I can tell you,
it's ... it's intimidating.

I mean, it's an intimidating
process when you go,

"Okay, hey, this machine's
gonna tell

whether I'm, you know,
lying or not."

I really started
second-guessing myself

because, you know, I thought
the polygraph was,

oh, it knows the truth.

It ... It's not lying.

It's ... 'Cause that's ...

You know, it's supposed to be
a truth machine.

This is the worst
coerced interrogation

I have ever witnessed.

And I've viewed
thousands of hours of these.

Chris was offered
an immunity deal,

which was used as a cudgel
to manipulate Chris.

The immunity agreement
gave him a license

to implicate himself
in the crime.

As long as he gave
truthful information,

that was his safety net.

That immunity deal and the
polygraph were used together

to get Chris to say whatever
the police wanted him to say.

They had two people they were
already convinced were there,

were involved,
were present in the apartment.

Now they needed
the third person.

The third person who the police
seem to have constructed.

Because they're still trying
to find somebody

that would match that DNA.

Right.

Instead of saying, "We were
barking up the wrong tree,"

they doubled down on Ben Hobbs,
Chris Tapp,

and Jeremy Sargis.

I know it sounds real bad,
but I gave up my best friend,

Jer, that was one of my ...

one of my greatest friends,
you know.

Just stupid.

He'd ask a question and then,
you know, after everything,

"Hey, you're being
truthful about this.

Hey, you're being
truthful about that."

And I'm, like,

I don't understand
how I'm being truthful.

They claim that he lied
about the involvement

of a person Chris only named

because he was told
to name him by the detective.

So they rescind his
immunity agreement.

So any confession
that he makes after that

is about trying to get back
his immunity agreement.

The whole early part
of the investigation

is about getting Chris to
implicate both Ben and Jeremy.

When that doesn't work,

they need to get him
to implicate himself.

So they feed information
about the crime to Chris,

that only the true
perpetrator would know.

If Chris could have
identified the house,

if Chris could have identified
where the assault took place,

the position of her body,

the police would have known
he was guilty.

But he couldn't,
and so these investigators

fed him those facts.

Ultimately, what do
the investigators do?

They took him
to the crime scene.

When they took me
to the apartment,

I felt really scared.

Not scared of going inside.

I was just ... I was scared
'cause I didn't know

what else to give 'em
or ... or ... or to say to 'em.

It was the first time I've ever
been inside the apartment,

and I was just scared.

Then, while we're in
the apartment, they said,

"Well, hey,
walk us through this."

I tried to walk 'em through it.

But, then they said,
"Well, no, you're not right.

It was like this, right?

It was ... It was this way,
and it was that way."

To the point where
I'm getting frustrated,

I'm getting, you know,
there's tears in my eyes

because I just don't know
what to do.

What's important about
the crime scene visit

is, it's not recorded.

They recorded almost
everything with Chris,

but in this critical timeframe,
where Detective Fuhriman claims

that Chris finally started
to involve himself

in the crime, is never recorded.

Why?
Why didn't he record it?

It's ... It's absurd,
and it leads me to believe

that Detective Fuhriman
fed him additional facts

during that encounter.

At that point,
in my head, going to prison,

I didn't think of anything else.

You know, I'm done.

So, I would do
whatever they wanted.

False confessions
are the product

of standard psychological
interrogation tactics

that can overwhelm anybody.

Everyone has a breaking point.

They don't understand
that police officers

are allowed to lie to them.

And when told that there
is overwhelming evidence

against them,
it can cause

a crisis of confidence
in their own memories,

and the truth, of course,

becomes whatever
the officer wants to hear.

All right, guys.

Danny Smith is an investigator
who can help us kind of work

and navigate through next steps.

-Good morning!
-Good morning, Danny.

Hi, how is everybody?

Very good.

Hey, Danny, what's some
of your background?

You know, you have the
background in law enforcement?

I actually am
a retired homicide detective

from Los Angeles County.

I spent a little over
21 years with

the L.A. County
Sheriff's Department.

We've been talking
among ourselves

about how this investigation
seemed suspect-focused

rather than
crime-scene focused.

If you go down there and
walk the crime scene yourself,

you may very well
glean something

that nobody else
paid much attention

to because that really
didn't seem to be their focus.

Yeah, it's imperative
to ... to see the crime scene.

You always can pick up
new details.

So, you know, I'm ... I'm hoping
to take a look at this,

and then give you guys
a better feel

for what actually
we're looking at.

I-I'm interested
in what Chris Tapp himself

has to say upon reflection
as to what happened to him,

how he views it
20 years later.

You know, we have a plan where
we're going to be able

to interview him at the prison.

Well, I know you guys in L.A.,

you're some really good
homicide detectives,

so glad to have you on board.

Thank you.

This is
gonna be a good one.

Yeah.
I'm real confident about him.

I love Idaho.
It's a great state.

You know, a lot of cops
have moved up here.

We've joked about it.

The crime rate
is very, very low,

you know,
considering where I'm from.

So, it's a great place to live
and have your family.

But the only down side is
that people who investigate

the murders when they do occur,
they have a lot less experience.

I was at L.A. County
Sheriff's Department

Homicide Bureau for
7 years, 21 years on the job.

And with the L.A. County
Sheriff's Department,

homicide's an elite unit.

And, you know, I just was
in an environment

where you ... you couldn't help

but become a seasoned
homicide investigator.

You have to stand in a lot of
crime scenes to really get to

where you know how to
process a crime scene

and how to interpret
a crime scene.

As I've worked as a private
investigator in Idaho,

I don't investigate
a lot of death cases.

There's just not
much call for it,

but, you know, when I'm back
into the mode

of a homicide detective,

I-I have to tell you, I mean,
it's ... it's invigorating

because it was my calling.

-Chris.
How you doing?

I'm Danny Smith.

-How you doing?
-Good, how are you?

-Good. You?
-Good.

You know, you ...
you learn to adapt in prison.

I tell people all the time,

I had to become
something in prison

that I wasn't when I was free.

'Cause you have to learn
how to survive in here.

I've thought about
the interrogations

for the last 20-some years.

Okay.

I feel anger towards Fuhriman

and the whole Idaho Falls
Police Department.

I did.

I can't lie.
I still ... to this day,

I still get mad
every once in a while.

But I understood why
they did what they did.

One is because I was able
to get so easily tricked.

And two, it's ... it was
an unsolved-murder case,

so they were trying to do
whatever they had to

to solve this case.

It didn't matter
if it was right or wrong.

They did what they had to do.

It does matter
if it's right or wrong.

-No.
-Tell me the other person

who was there so we can
get an idea.

Then I can run this
and we can get that happening.

Maybe Jer was.

That's what I want to know.

I want you to tell me
like we talked about.

So it's you and Jer ...
Jeremy?

Yes, sir. And Jeremy.

Okay.

Hurts.
Hurts a lot.

It hurts a lot to see that ...

I...

My friends, I threw them
underneath a bus...

for no reason.

Just 'cause that's what
they wanted me to do.

I can't believe I got
tricked into doing

and saying the things
that I did.

And it's sad that I had to waste
20 years of my life in prison

for something
I had nothing to do with.

And grow up and miss everything.

I thought Chris' interview

was interesting
in a number of ways.

His body language
indicates to me

that he was telling the truth.

He was very, very direct,
very honest.

There was no signs
of deception whatsoever.

After they charged me

with the actual crime
of murder,

I met a federal inmate,

and he said his attorney
had never lost a murder case.

So I was, like, "Oh, wow,
that's the greatest thing

in the world."

That's how I got Booker.

I told my mom he'll be able
to win for us.

It's gonna be all right, Mom,
just give him the money,

and everything will be
all right.

So mom got another mortgage
on the house

to get him all the money.

My husband had a heart problem,

and so he couldn't work.

So I had two jobs just to keep
a roof over our heads

and pay for Robert Booker's fee.

So I could only go a couple
of times

to Christopher's trial.

Once Chris realizes
he's made this confession,

he wants to go to trial to say,
"I didn't really do this crime."

But there's a confession, so ...

-So he hires a new lawyer.
-Right.

And they try to get
the confession

suppressed, you know,
on the grounds

that it was obtained
unlawfully.

And if the confession gets
thrown out, there's no case.

Yeah.

Because you don't have
a murder weapon,

you don't have an eyewitness,
you don't have DNA.

But the confession
doesn't get suppressed,

and they go to trial
with the confession.

Did Christopher Tapp do anything
in his interview

of the 7th or the 10th
which suggested

to you that Christopher Tapp
understood

the seriousness
of what you were doing?

I don't know
what he was thinking.

Booker was very articulate.
He was a very smart man.

And during the trial, I thought
Booker was doing all right,

proving the points.

What other evidence is there
that there were two

or more people
holding the victim down?

But my confession
was a little much.

A confession is probably the
most powerful piece of evidence

in a court of law.

More powerful, even,
than DNA evidence.

There are cases,
and Chris' is one of them,

where the DNA evidence doesn't
match what Chris says happened.

We don't know whose DNA
was left at the crime scene.

That should be enough,
under most circumstances,

to lead prosecutors
not to charge somebody.

And under most circumstances,
to lead a jury not to convict.

But the jurors can't understand
why any rational person

would confess to a crime
that they didn't commit,

especially a crime that
could land them on death row.

I want to thank everybody.
I want to thank the jury.

You were Angie's voice,
and the verdict was God's will.

And thank you, everybody,
for standing by us

and for all of your prayers and
your comfort and your support.

It's hard to watch those videos

and come up
with an explanation.

It's hard to explain
what Christopher was thinking

when he was going along
with the leading questioning.

And it's clear
that the jury thought

that he was unfolding the truth

rather than responding
to leading questions.

I believe that Christopher
is completely innocent.

I don't believe
that he was there.

It is definitely the most
difficult verdict

I've ever had to be a part of.

There's not much to say
to a kid

who is being faced
at this point

with the possibility
of the death penalty

or life in prison.

I just couldn't believe
they wanted the death penalty.

And that was my most scared
moment of my life

because I thought, if they give
this kid the death penalty,

I mean, I've done lost him.

Then Carol Dodge and
Brent Dodge got up to the stand

and telling me what a worthless
piece of shit of a son

that I had, you know?

That didn't hit good.

I understand how Carol felt.

But I hope that she understands
how I felt at the moment.

Long before they arrested him,
I knew Chris Tapp was involved.

And I came down here, and I-I
did everything I could think of.

Doesn't anybody understand
what is going on in this town?

Won't anybody wake up?

This town needs to wake up!

Take your blinders off,
for hell sakes.

You did a wonderful job,
but my daughter's dead.

It's ... It's deaf ears.
Arrest me.

-No.
-Arrest me. Take me in.

And my personal perception
is that's the real

piece of the puzzle that we need
to put together next.

Once that's together, then this
whole case will be resolved.

We're headed up to Idaho Falls.

I'm gonna have the opportunity
to meet Angie's mom, Carol.

She has inundated herself with
this case for the last decade,

at least, and is
very, very knowledgeable

about every aspect
of the investigation itself.

It's going to be real
interesting to meet with her.

Three weeks prior
to Angie's death,

her and I'd had a disagreement,

and that's when she moved
out into her apartment.

But the night before,
she came to the house,

and she said that she had
done something really stupid.

And because her and I
had had our disagreement,

I didn't want to pry.

And that's the last time
I saw her.

So, my ... my journey
for over 21 years

has really been focused into

why she was killed
and who killed her.

Because when Chris Tapp
was arrested,

I was still looking for
whoever left the DNA.

Go straight.

Now I want you
to take a right.

Okay.

And then I want you
to take a left on J Street.

Okay.

Make another turn here.

You are in complete
disagreement with my GPS.

I don't follow GPSs.

Okay,
turn up this little road.

Chris in his
videotaped confessions

talks about a guy
in this area.

And I actually sat right here,
'cause I parked right here,

and I videotaped
that house right there.

These two houses
were cooking meth,

and I actually sat in my truck
and filmed 'em.

Thinking, this is
the most craziest thing

in the whole world.

And the next day, I'd go turn
all my information in.

The cop says, "Carol,
you're gonna get killed."

Right. And so they had to have
a cop follow me.

I didn't know he was
following me.

But they had
an undercover car following me,

just to protect me.
Wow.

Because man,
I-I had no fear.

I'm telling you,
I had no fear.

Right.

Every night I lived
out on the streets,

and I every day
would report back

all the findings of all the
drug houses that I came about.

All this time,
they kept saying,

"Carol, we don't know
who killed your daughter."

How many years
were you out here?

Three years,
until '99.

But I've never
really stopped looking.

I just stopped living
out on the streets.

Right.

I'm telling you, it's the most
craziest damn story

you ever heard
in your life.

Yeah, I mean, most people
wouldn't believe it

if they made
a movie out of it.

I think this is gonna end
where nobody's ever looked.

I think there's
a good chance of that.

When I lived
out on the streets,

I met the toughest
and the roughest.

I have people out there
in that world

that would do anything
in the world for me

with a snap of a finger.

And I got a call one night

from a prison inmate.

Said ...
And he was in Texas.

He said, "You'll never believe
who arrived here tonight.

Chris had arrived
in Texas.

What do you want
done with him?"

And I said, nothing.

I said, "I just want
the guy's name.

That's all I want."

So, Chris wrote me
this letter.

"Dear Mrs. Dodge.

I do not know
who killed your daughter.

Honest to God,
I do not know."

He really doesn't know
who killed my daughter.

IFPD had me so programmed
for 13 years

that Chris was part
of my daughter's killing.

Then I started watching
the interrogation tapes

until I just wanted to put
my fists right through the TV.

And from then,
I was on a campaign to say,

they wronged him, they wronged
me, they wronged Vera.

They've got
the wrong person.

I want him out of prison.

Chris Tapp had been
through a number of attorneys.

I came into
the public defender's office,

and this was one of
the first post-convictions

that I ended up acquiring.

And I started with just
basically a manila folder

that had a petition
for post-conviction in it,

and nothing else.

And now I have several
banker boxes full of files.

I put in a lot more time,

and I do a lot more work
after hours on this case.

But it's absolutely
worth it.

Right.

These are the scene
photos that I have.

It's nice to have a fresh set
of eyes to look at this.

You seem to be
studying something.

What is it
that you're studying?

From what I see,
there's no blood much higher

than about 30 inches
on that wall.

I don't believe
that she was assaulted

while she was standing.

I think that if she were
ever on her feet,

that that room
would be torn apart.

That room is sterile outside
of that very narrow crime scene.Right.

That was weird to me. There's a lamp
on a dresser just ... just ...

Didn't even
get knocked over. I mean, within reach.

Yeah. There's not a fight
that goes on in there.

There's a very violent
and quick assault.

A blitz-style assault.

One of my theories on this
is I think she was asleep,

and that the suspect
came in,

and the very first blow was
to the left side of her head.

And then I think from that,
it went straight to the ground,

and she was quickly assaulted
with the knife.

So, I think that
that crime scene tells me

that there's not more
than one person there.

Right.

How did he get in
is the question.

So, as you're
looking at it now,

you can see how easy it would be
to climb up those stairs,

get on top of this railing
here on the ledge,

and then just get right on top
of the, roof to roof.

Yeah.

And get into that apartment
up there.

Yeah,
now that's easy access.

Much easier access
than I would have imagined.

Yeah.

The fact that we know
that that back door was open,

it's almost inevitable
that was the point of entry.

Yeah,
I agree with you there.

The killer's DNA is
on the hands, pubic hair,

the shirt,
and the sweat pants.

And Chris Tapp is
specifically excluded

from each one
of those pieces of evidence.

You can't have an encounter like
this and not leave evidence.

There's no physical evidence
that puts him there, period.

Yeah. I mean, it
just doesn't add up.

It's mind-boggling.

So you're convinced
it's a drug deal ...

or a ... not a drug deal, but ...
-No, I think it was a drug hit.

The police may have
approached her

about doing some
confidential informant work.

And I think
that they were, like,

"We're gonna send a message

to other
confidential informants."

Would it be worth looking at
these houses across the alley?

Absolutely.

There were lots of drugs
coming in and out of the area.

And so from Angie's
vantage point,

she could see what was going on
in these people's backyards.

-Right.
-Possibly to her demise.

I'm not gonna say
that that's not plausible,

but I have
a couple of doubts.

If they thought
that she was an informant

-and they were going to do her,
-Mm-hmm.

...you're 10 minutes
from the woods.

There's a lot easier ways than
to creep into someone's home

while they're sleeping
to kill them.

But there's too many drugs
going on in that neighborhood.

But there's a bit of a deranged
mental makeup to this.

The perpetrator leaving
his semen all over her.

I never heard of it
in a drug hit ever.

I've never, ever heard
of a sexual component

becoming part
of a drug hit.

-Okay.
-Period.

The case, as it stands,
has mostly been looked at

from the aspect of having
a drug connection to it.

But it's a sexual
assault murder,

and the two just
don't overlap in my experience.

It's going to be
something very different, so ...

I'm going to be having
a Skype call

with retired FBI profiler,
Gregg McCrary.

His expertise is in profiling,
and, um ...

and that's one of the things

the FBI has done
a phenomenal job with,

bringing that
investigative approach

into a, uh, absolute science.

I'd be very surprised
if this has any nexus

to drug dealing
of any sort.

To murder somebody is one thing,
but to be sexually aroused

and ... and apparently ...
a-apparently, he masturbated,

ejaculated over the body,
around the body.

That pairing is what's really,
I think, driving the crime,

and really what makes it
a sexual homicide

and not necessarily some
drug murder or anything else.

What would that tell you
in general about an offender?

Well, it tells you
about the underlying

sexual pathology
of this guy.

That somehow, sex and violence
have gotten paired.

And you're likely to see that
in other areas of his life.

Peeping, prowling,
weird relationships with women,

uncomfortable around women,
you know, maybe violence prone.

Maybe violent
toward women to a degree.

You're looking for somebody
with lesser crimes,

but kind of
in this arena.

But then again, you start
looking for weird guys...

They're not hard
to find sometimes.

-They're everywhere.
-Yeah, yeah.

So, would it be more likely
that the victim

was known by the offender?

Or do you think it was more
likely a complete stranger?

I would rule out
a complete stranger.

The idea that someone
just showed up

and knocked
at the door randomly

and found
an 18-year-old girl.

That's ... That's not
a high probability at all.

But there's
this second tier of folks

who would have been acquainted
with her for some lesser reason.

And it could be just from
some happenstance contact.

You know, somebody
tagged along to help her move in

or some delivery guy
or repair guy or ...

I think that's it.

I mean, we ... we got to
develop suspects.

'Cause whatever they've done
now, hasn't worked.

So we got to think new
about this thing.

You guys have a good
idea of everyone that lived

in that neighborhood
where Angie was killed.

You've lived there
for a long time.

-Yeah.
-55 years.

And do you guys
remember that day

pretty clearly,
and were you home?

Oh, yeah.
Yes.

Last night, it was
so quiet, it was unreal.

Usually dogs are barking,
and ... and, um, the neighborhood

was just as quiet
as it could be.

First thing we knew, we saw
an ambulance driving up,

and then police cars
just converged everywhere.

And the first officer
on the scene, he said,

"Back out of the way, you.
Get out of here.

You get your ambulances
out of here.

This is one time
we're not gonna screw up."

You've got
a great memory, huh?

Believe me, if I do anything
wrong, she remembers it.

Oh, yeah.

We haven't, you know, got
an awful lot of information

on ... on what really is
going on,

but it is very frightening.

So, this is Angie's apartment
right here.

Correct.

-This is our home.
-Okay.

Let's go up and down
this block...

-Okay.
-...both sides of the street,

and let's ... let's put names
to all of these homes.

This is
the Davenports.

This is Hefachers.
These ... This is the Hendricks.

-Hendricks.
-Mm-hmm.

This home on the corner
at the time of Angie's death

was vacant.

Wasn't that Dixie Dix?

-Mm-hmm.
-Dixie Dix.

I remember the story
about her

being in the basement
doing laundry,

and she heard a noise,
and she pulled the curtain back,

and there was a man
standing there masturbating.

But at the time,
the cops were so uninterested

in what we had to say.

They were just, like, "Okay,
we already got it figured out.

You know,
we're appeasing you.

Go ahead, tell us what you need
to so we can get on to our job."

That's ... That's kind of
how we felt

we were treated
by them at the time.

But we just hope you can find
him, please,

for the ...
for the Dodge family.

-Yeah.
-Mm-hmm.

Well, we're trying.

The one thing that I'm real
big on is a neighborhood canvass.

The police should have knocked
on every door on that block

and the block adjacent.That's right.

Until they've spoken with
every single resident

or visitor
in that time period.

You know, as I travel
throughout the country here,

looking at all cold cases
for the various departments,

it's reflective
all the time,

there's just not that real good
neighborhood canvass.

And any homicide
detective knows,

you solve cases
by neighborhood canvass.

Danny, we'll be out there
in a couple of weeks

helping you out,
hitting the ground running.

-How's it going, man?
-Good to see you.

-Good to see you, man.
-Good to see you.

How was your trip?
-It was good.

We've created a little bit
of a list here.

We're gonna put you guys
to work.

This ain't no vacation, man.

Sure, that's what
we're here for.

These are people
that lived right

in that neighborhood in 1996.

All right, let's see if
we can do some police work.

We're gonna get
the right guy on this one.

We have to.