By Kevin Davis on April 27, 2020
At the age of 22, Christopher Tapp faced the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison—a prospect made even more frightening because he knew he was innocent. “I am not the monstrous animal everyone thinks I am,” Tapp said during his sentencing hearing.
Tapp had confessed to being involved in the rape and stabbing death of Angela Dodge, 18, in her Idaho Falls, Idaho, apartment in 1997. He later recanted, saying that under pressure from police, he made up a story that he and two others committed the crime. The jury didn’t believe him, and the judge sentenced Tapp to life in prison. His alleged accomplices were never prosecuted.
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