The city of Idaho Falls, Idaho, has agreed to pay $11.7 million to a man who spent 20 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering an 18-year-old woman in 1996.
Christopher Tapp hugs his mother Vera Tapp, left, and Carol Dodge, the mother of murder victim Angie Dodge, after being freed during his post conviction relief hearing at the Bonneville Courthouse in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Tapp, who experts say was coerced into a false murder confession, is now free after spending half of his life behind bars.
“In addition to the settlement, the city pledges to review its policies, procedures and training , and to revise them, as needed, to prevent any recurrence of what happened in your case,” Casper wrote. Tapp, who was 20 at the time, was friends with the man and had emerged as a suspect himself. Representatives of the Innocence Project, which works to overturn wrongful convictions, said that investigators had threatened to pursue the death penalty against Tapp and offered him immunity if he confessed to killing Dodge, which he did and later tried to renounce.Tapp at first adamantly denied that he had any idea who had killed Dodge.
A genealogist who had been enlisted was able to create a new DNA profile for the killer from evidence collected at the crime scene. According to an arrest warrant affidavit from 2019, a family tree of potential suspects led to Dripps, who had lived across the street from Angie Dodge in Idaho Falls at the time of her murder but had moved to Caldwell, on the other side of the state. A discarded cigarette butt from Dripps matched the DNA evidence taken from the crime scene, the affidavit said.
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