Christopher Tapp

Thank you.

There comes a time in every tale to meet the person at the center of the story.

And here he is, Christopher Tapp.

No longer the aimless pothead you've seen on those videotapes from 1997.

At the time of this interview in 2012, he was a man of 35 who'd done more than a decade of hard time.

As people look at you, what do you most want them to know about you?

I've been so wronged all these years.

You're an innocent man?

Yes, sir, I am.

Of course, everybody in prison is innocent, right?

If you look at the whole entire case, the DNA, none of it points to me, none of them.

On that point, there is little dispute, of course.

But how did Chris Tapp get here?

That's a familiar story to many families.

The sweet little boy shown in all these pictures of a typical childhood started smoking marijuana at 13.

Then at 16 turned to meth.

Chris dropped out of high school, hanging out down by the river in Idaho Falls with all those kids his mother warned him about.

That, he said, is how his name came up after the murder of Angie Dodge.

Did you think anything of that?

I had no rhyme, no reason to be scared.