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Speaker 1: Hey there, it's Laura and I writer. I am here

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Speaker 1: with an update on a case we shared with you

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Speaker 1: back in season one of False Confessions. It's the story

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Speaker 1: of a mother, Carol Dodge, and her relentless pursuit of

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Speaker 1: justice for her daughter Angie. Now, when we first aired

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Speaker 1: this story, the real perpetrator had been identified Brian Drips,

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Speaker 1: But since we aired this story, Brian Drips has been

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Speaker 1: tried and convicted, sentenced to twenty years to life for

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Speaker 1: the murder of Angie Dodge. But while Brian Dripps was

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Speaker 1: living as a freeman for twenty years, it was Chris

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Speaker 1: Tapp who suffered in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

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Speaker 1: No amount of money can ever make up for what

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Speaker 1: Chris lost. But I'm glad to tell you that the

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Speaker 1: State of Idaho settled Chris TAP's wrongful conviction case for

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Speaker 1: over eleven million dollars. To Chris and Carol were replaying

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Speaker 1: this story in your honor. Welcome to Wrongful Convictions Confessions.

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Speaker 1: I'm Laura and I Writer.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Steve Drissen.

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Speaker 1: Today we're going to tell you about an Idaho man

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Speaker 1: named Chris Tap. Chris was just twenty years old when

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Speaker 1: he endured a mind bending twenty five hour interrogation that

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Speaker 1: transformed him from an innocent into a confessed murderer. Fortunately

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Speaker 1: for Chris, he found an indomitable champion in the victim's mother.

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Speaker 1: She convinced police to use a revolutionary new method of

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Speaker 1: DNA identification to exonerate Chris Tap and find her own

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Speaker 1: daughter's killer.

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Speaker 2: There are certain special people you meet in your life,

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Speaker 2: people that I like to say are more evolved than

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Speaker 2: the rest of us, people that really inspire you. And

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Speaker 2: Carol Dodge is one of those people. It's one of

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Speaker 2: the few times in my career as a lawyer where

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Speaker 2: someone from the victim's family has asked me to investigate

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Speaker 2: an injustice and for a crime victim who was so

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Speaker 2: invested in Chris's guilt that she wanted him to get

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Speaker 2: the death penalty, to evolve to a place where she

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Speaker 2: was thinking he might be innocent. That just blew me away.

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Speaker 2: How was it that a lay person could look at

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Speaker 2: these interrogation tapes and see all of the problems, all

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Speaker 2: of the coercion, all of the leading questions, all of

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Speaker 2: the fact feeding. When law enforcement officers on the Idaho

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Speaker 2: Falls Police Department couldn't see it themselves.

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Speaker 1: And it shows that wrongful convictions affect more than just

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Speaker 1: the defendants. It's also the victim's families, the survivors of

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Speaker 1: these horrible attacks, who are being fed aligne about an

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Speaker 2: It wasn't easy. She had help from a lot of

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Speaker 2: other people, but it was her persistence and her desire

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Speaker 2: for knowledge that ultimately changed the course of this say.

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Speaker 1: Kristap's story starts in Idaho Falls, a town of about

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people in southeastern Idaho, about two hours

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Speaker 1: north of Yellowstone National Park. Idaho Falls is a beautiful place.

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Speaker 1: There's mountains on the horizon and the Snake River cut

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Speaker 1: was wrecked by terrible ugliness nearly twenty four years ago.

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Speaker 1: In June nineteen ninety six, Idaho Falls resident Angie Dodge

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Speaker 1: year before, a head of schedule with honors, and life

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Speaker 1: was just beginning for her. She was working two jobs,

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Speaker 1: She'd found Angie Dodge lying face up on her bedroom floor,

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Speaker 2: At the time, Chris was twenty years old, maybe a

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Speaker 1: This group of friends called themselves the river Rats crew,

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Speaker 1: Not only was Chris Tap a river Rat, but one

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Speaker 1: come the interrogations, not one, not two, but eventually nine

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Speaker 1: Chris on Tuesday, January seventh. The officer starts by asking

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Speaker 4: Straight up and truful with you.

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Speaker 1: But the police have an unsolved murder on their hands,

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Speaker 1: and Chris's possible knowledge about Ben Hobbs was the only

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Speaker 5: Saying this, but I kind of close to you. I've

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Speaker 1: And the police suggests that if Chris tells them something

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Speaker 3: Will get everything the kid.

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Speaker 1: Chris continues to insist that he doesn't have anything to

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Speaker 2: It was extremely painful to watch because you see someone's

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Speaker 1: They also tell Chris that by covering for his friend,

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Speaker 1: the same as the crime. In other words, Chris Tap

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Speaker 5: Are looking at it. The possibility getting charged with the

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Speaker 5: is life, a person footnot row, and save your time period.

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Speaker 1: Chris is terrified and so he starts to make things

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Speaker 2: The school resource officer tells Chris at one point that

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Speaker 2: he really wants Chris to help in nailing Ben Hobbes

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Speaker 2: so that he could drop kick Ben Hobbes through the

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Speaker 1: Toxic masculinity, anybody, Huh.

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Speaker 1: Detectives keep pushing for more details, and they help Chris

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Speaker 1: But the cops still don't seem convinced, and they start

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Speaker 1: So the next day, January eleventh, they arrest Chris and

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Speaker 2: And that threat or suggestion of the gas chamber that's

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Speaker 1: Pretty soon, the promise of help gets more real too.

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Speaker 1: Chris gets a lawyer, and that lawyer negotiates an immunity agreement.

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Speaker 1: Under the deal, Chris would escape charges if he provides

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Speaker 1: information about who raped and killed Angie Dodge. But it's

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Speaker 1: they suggest he can go home. They'll leave him alone,

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Speaker 1: and we can't help you now. Chris has no choice,

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Speaker 1: but to tell lies placing him inside Angie's bedroom, and

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Speaker 1: Is even though Chris now has agreed to say he

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Speaker 2: Things were starting to congeal around the idea that Chris

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Speaker 1: What the team really needed was more forensic testing to

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Speaker 1: Under previous Idaho law, defendants like Chris could only seek

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Speaker 1: TAP's lawyer filed a post conviction petition alleging that new

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Speaker 6: I'm the opinion editor of the Post Register in Idaho Falls,

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Speaker 1: Even the Innocence Project in New York had joined the fight,

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Speaker 6: An example of her tenacity you can actually see in

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Speaker 6: They're referred to as the Carol Doors.

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Speaker 1: Eventually, prosecutors decide that they're not yet ready to exonerate Chris,

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Speaker 6: You see all the evidence stack up and it becomes

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Speaker 2: It was a bittersweet moment. Dodge was relieved that Chris

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Speaker 1: Usually, in these cases, the DNA profile eventually gets matched

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Speaker 1: on July seventeenth, twenty nineteen. Since then, Chris Tap and

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Speaker 1: Carol Dodge have become close. They've even appeared on television

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Speaker 1: together to tell their intertwined stories of injustice. For his part,

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Speaker 1: Brian Drips is currently incarcerated in Idaho Falls, where he's

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Speaker 1: awaiting trial on first degree murder and rape charges. He's

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Speaker 1: a long, slow crawl. Carol and Chris know this better

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Speaker 6: Assuming Brian Drips is eventually convicted, she will have not

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Speaker 6: only freedom innocent man, but driven the effort to catch

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Speaker 6: the guilty one. She's been the driving force behind this

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Speaker 6: whole thing, both the exoneration of Chris Tap and the

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Speaker 6: apprehension of Brian drips.

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Speaker 2: Slowly but surely, over many years, she was able to

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Speaker 2: get the Idaho Falls Police out of the Chris tap box.

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Speaker 2: She got them to see the truth.

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Speaker 4: Keryl, Yeah, Hi, how are you today, Steve.

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Speaker 7: I'm really sad. I was just sitting here thinking with

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Speaker 7: the cost of justice, those all the things that I

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Speaker 7: sacrificed because of people that could have done the right

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Speaker 7: thing at the very beginning.

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Speaker 4: It's so important that you say that. People really don't know.

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Speaker 4: It's been a real price to your twenty three year.

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Speaker 7: Search for the troops. And I never allowed any of

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Speaker 7: the authorities to tell me. Now, for the time they

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Speaker 7: told me that something couldn't be done, I would just say,

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Speaker 7: we'll watch me.

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Speaker 4: There things that your work has done which you probably

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Speaker 4: can't even see or appreciate yet that I hope gives

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Speaker 7: It does.

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Speaker 3: I love you.

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Speaker 7: I love you too, and thank you.

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Speaker 3: Hello.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Chris, it's Laura. How are you good, Laura?

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 6: I'm good. I'm good.

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Speaker 1: So tell me about what you've been doing with your

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Speaker 1: time as a free man. I understand I've got a family.

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Speaker 3: I do. I have an amazing family. Lucie I got

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Speaker 3: out in March of twenty seventeen. I met my wife

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Speaker 3: two months later in May, and well would romance and

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Speaker 3: we were married in July. I have three beautiful step

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Speaker 3: I got a sixteen year old, and I almost got

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Speaker 3: a fifteen year old boy. Tell me a little bit about.

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Speaker 7: What it's meant to you to have Carol Dodge sight

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Speaker 7: for you.

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Speaker 3: Oh Carol Dodge, I love her dearly more than most

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Speaker 3: people will ever know. The actual true killer of her

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Speaker 3: daughter would be caught, and I wouldn't have the exoneration

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Speaker 3: that wasn't for Carroll Dodge.

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Speaker 2: Chris, it was a great honor for me to play

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Speaker 2: even a small role in your exoneration, and being in

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Speaker 2: that courtroom when you were finally cleared was one of

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Speaker 2: the highlights of my career. You've been given a gift,

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Speaker 2: and I hope you take this gift, and I know

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Speaker 2: you will, and that you live a life that is

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Speaker 2: honorable and.

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Speaker 1: Worthy to Chris Tap and Carol Dodge, two of our heroes.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for letting us share your story. Wrongful conviction, false

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Speaker 1: confessions is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in

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Speaker 1: executive producer Jason Flamm and the team at Signal Company

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Speaker 1: Number one Executive producer Kevin Wardis, Senior producer and Pope

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Speaker 1: and additional production and editing by Connor Hall. Special thanks

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Speaker 1: to Jogi Hammer for additional script editing and for wrangling

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Speaker 1: and writing like a mad Woman. Special thanks to Mike

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Speaker 1: Heavey for organizing and editing Chris Tabs interrogation videos. Our

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Speaker 1: music was composed by Jay Ralph. You can follow me

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