Christopher Tapp confessed to Angie Dodge’s murder, but the DNA at the crime scene did not match him. That contradiction became the key to uncovering one of Idaho’s most painful wrongful-conviction cases. The documentary follows the 1996 Idaho Falls murder, the interrogation that produced Tapp’s confession, and the forensic evidence that investigators initially failed to use correctly. New DNA testing eventually cleared Tapp and connected Brian Dripps to the crime. The case raises a difficult question: why did the confession carry more weight than the biological evidence? If you enjoy true crime investigations involving exonerations, interrogation failures, and forensic breakthroughs, this story belongs on your watch list.

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