“Making a Murderer” – The One You Won’t See on Netflix Because the Bad Cop Was Also the Mayor

by William N. Grigg

Idaho Falls, ID — Christopher C. Tapp has been imprisoned for nineteen years — nearly half his life — for a murder he didn’t commit, after being forced to confess through the use of threats and psychological duress. This is the conclusion of a non-profit activist organization called “Judges for Justice,” a group of retired judges and criminal investigators who review suspected cases of wrongful conviction.

A newly released video documentary available on YouTube (see below) analyzes the methods used by Idaho Falls Police Detective Jared Furhiman and his colleagues to extort the confession from Tapp in January 1997. Somber in tone and devoid of sensationalism, the Judges for Justice documentary deserves at least as much attention as the Netflix investigative series “Making a Murderer.” Unlike Manitowoc, Wisconsin resident Steve Avery, Chris Tapp of Idaho Falls had no previous criminal record when he was manipulated into a false murder confession in 1997 – zero forensic evidence links him to the heinous crime.  The new documentary by the non-profit advocacy group Judges for Justice examines, in infuriating detail, the corrupt and illegal methods used to extort that confession from a terrified young man who had nothing to do with the crime.

The only evidence against Tapp is a confession he has since recanted. An abundance of physical evidence was deposited by the killer at the scene, including semen, hair, fingerprints, and skin cells. None of it offers a match to Tapp. Carol Dodge, the mother of the murder victim, has spent decades trying to learn the truth about what happened to her daughter and has become one of Tapp’s most outspoken advocates – primarily because she wants investigators to identify and prosecute the man who actually committed the crime. On her own initiative and at her own expense, Mrs. Dodge collected and reviewed scores of hours of video-recorded interrogations, which left her convinced that Tapp had been railroaded — and also left her mortified by the knowledge that her daughter’s killer was left at large.

“I am at the mercy of the city of Idaho Falls and the prosecution to find the one and only killer of my daughter,” Mrs. Dodge despairingly observes. “They need to do their job.”

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