Christopher Tapp

Russ Baldwin had bounced around the country from coast to coast with only occasional visits back to Idaho Falls.

Jeremy Sargis, wrongly accused by his friend Chris of taking part in the murder, had gone into a kind of exile 500 miles from Idaho Falls.

My friends, my support group had kind of disbanded and

I was kind of alone.

But your family was there.

That's your home.

You grew up there.

Absolutely.

What was it like having to leave and try to find a new life somewhere else?

The rookie cop who'd manned the door at the murder scene, Bill Squires, was now a sergeant and still convinced that Chris Tapp's confession and conviction were righteous, as they say.

You would just never expect somebody to confess to something repeatedly that they didn't do.

Yeah, there's no doubt.

We've got a suspect here and they're admitting to this.

Why would we do anything differently?

Carol Dodge, of course, could think of a lot of reasons to do something differently.

was convinced those detectives had blown the case completely and had browbeaten an innocent man into a false confession.

She needed help now, and so she looked and looked until she found him, the man who might make all the difference.

Carol Dodge had to look a long way from Idaho Falls to find the one she needed.

The one who could help her convince the police there was something very wrong with the Chris Tapp conviction.

She looked all the way to Chicago, in fact, where she found him.