The Snare

Six months after the 1996 murder of Angie Dodge, Idaho Falls police homed in on a suspect, who later implicated his friend in the crime. After a sham polygraph and 100 hours of intense questioning, Christopher Tapp confessed to his involvement in the killing, despite the lack of evidence implicating him. After Tapp’s conviction, Angie’s mother remained fixated on DNA at the scene pointing to an unknown suspect. When Carol Dodge sifted through all the evidence in her daughter’s case, she was convinced the wrong man was in prison. It would take years of persistence and a discarded cigarette butt to bring justice for everyone affected. 

In “The Snare” from ABC Audio and 20/20, host Maggie Rulli recounts the wrongful conviction of Christopher Tapp and the efforts by Carol Dodge to find out who really killed her daughter. Using material from the TV news magazine, the podcast takes listeners into the interrogation room where the false confession happened, and into the undercover sting to snare a new suspect in Angie’s death. 

OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "THE SNARE" BEGIN IN THE FINAL 11 MINUTES OF THE EPISODE.

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