Christopher Tapp

And she's like, what?

It was true.

Chris Tapp was 47 years old.

Days later, Carol and Destiny sat side by side as Taps shocked family and friends gathered in Idaho Falls for his funeral.

All of his old, closest friends are hurting really bad right now.

And then?

January 2024, like a bolt from the blue.

This from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Through the course of the suspicious death investigation, LVMPD homicide detectives have learned Tapp was in an altercation inside a room at a resort before being located and transported to the hospital.

The Clark County Coroner's Office has since ruled Tapp's death a homicide as a result of blunt force trauma to the head.

In March of 2024, Daniel Rodimer, a former professional wrestler, was charged with murdering Chris Tapp during a party at the resort.

Rodimer pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.

I don't know if there's a way to make sense of this.

It's just so incomprehensible.

One day, years ago, we encountered a grieving mother who was trying to do something we had never heard of before.

free the man convicted of killing her daughter.

And she, this force of nature, against all odds that seemed insurmountable, succeeded.

But life and history are stubbornly unmoldable and weren't finished yet with the story of the river kid, Christopher Tapp.

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