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The Case of False Confessions - Chris Tapp
📻 Episode #129
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Apr 29, 2020
About This Episode
How could a layperson see all the problems with this interrogation when the police couldn’t?
The Case
How could a layperson see all the problems with this interrogation when the police couldn’t?
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us about Chris Tapp, just 20 when he endured a mind-bending, 25-hour interrogation that transformed him from an innocent man into a confessed murderer. Fortunately for Chris, he found an indomitable champion... in the victim’s mother, Carol Dodge. Carol convinced police to use a revolutionary new method of DNA identification to exonerate Chris and find her own daughter’s killer.
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00:03:49“Speaker 2: she had a reputation of not taking guph from anybody. Speaker 2: I mean, she would have been the kind of victim Speaker 2: to have fought back, and she did have a few Speaker 2: defensive wounds on her arms and her wrists. The police Speaker 2: theorized that she had been attacked in her sleep and”
00:14:37“Speaker 1: when the time came for sentencing, Carol Dodge begged the Speaker 1: judge to give Chris the death penalty. When the judge Speaker 1: gave him life in prison instead, Carol broke down, sobbing Speaker 1: to her justice hadn't been served. Carol Dodge was right, Speaker 1: justice hadn't been served, but the failures here were more”
00:25:00“Speaker 1: the perfect suspect. Now all police needed was a complete Speaker 1: DNA match. They started tailing Drips and they found their Speaker 1: opportunity when he threw a cigarette butt out his car window. Speaker 1: Police recovered that cigarette butt, and there it was a Speaker 1: DNA match to the evidence left in Angie's bedroom all”
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