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Podcast: Wrongful Conviction Podcasts
Episode: #362 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Chris Tapp - UPDATE
Description: How could a layperson see all the problems with this interrogation when the police couldn’t?
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us about Chris Tapp, just 20 when he endured a mind-bending, 25-hour interrogation that transformed him from an innocent man into a confessed murderer. Fortunately for Chris, he found an indomitable champion... in the victim’s mother, Carol Dodge. Carol convinced police to use a revolutionary new method of DNA identification to exonerate Chris and find her own daughter’s killer.
Since this episode originally aired, the real murderer, Brian Dripps, was tried and senten...