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The Case of False Confessions - Chris Tapp
📻 Episode #362
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 29, 2023
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.
Since this episode originally aired, the real murderer, Brian Dripps, was tried and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Chris served this man's time, and the state of Idaho recently settled Chris's case for $11.7 million dollars in restitution.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
Short excerpts from the episode's official published transcript, with timestamps — listen from these moments, or read the full transcript via the podcast's own platforms.
00:03:52“Speaker 1: where she lived by herself. But on the morning of Thursday, Speaker 1: June thirteenth, Angie didn't show up for her day job Speaker 1: at a local buse supply store. A friend stopped by Speaker 1: her apartment to make sure she was okay, but by Speaker 1: eleven o'clock that friend was frantically dialing nine to one one.”
00:14:28“Speaker 1: and the immunity deal is yanked off the table. Chris Speaker 1: Tap is charged with first degree murder and sexual assault, Speaker 1: and the county prosecutor announces that he'll seek the death penalty. Speaker 1: At Chris's trial, prosecutors show the jury one brief clip Speaker 1: from the interrogation Cherry picked from twenty five hours of videotape.”
00:25:16“Speaker 1: Brian Dripps is a biological Uzri who had been adopted Speaker 1: by his stepfather and grew up as part of another family. Speaker 1: By the time his name came up in late twenty eighteen, Speaker 1: Drips was fifty three years old, and it turned out”
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