IDAHO FALLS, ID — Christopher Tapp, who spent 20 years in prison before being cleared earlier this year of a 1996 murder, is back behind bars again.
Police say that Tapp has been charged with two misdemeanor counts related to a domestic-violence incident. Shortly after 1 P.M. Monday, Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a home on O’Bryant Street in Idaho Falls on a report of a disturbance.
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Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sergeant Bryan Lovell said that Tapp and his wife got into an altercation that had turned physical.
“During the altercation, it was reported that Mrs. Tapp attempted to get a cell phone to call police, but was prevented from doing do by Mr. Tapp. Deputies also observed minor injuries to Mrs. Tapp at the scene,” he said.
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Tapp, 41, was arrested and booked into the Bonneville County Jail for misdemeanor domestic battery and misdemeanor interruption of a telecommunication device.
Stacy Tapp, Chris’s wife, identified herself on the EastIdahoNews.com Facebook page as the second party involved in the case. She claimed that the incident was a “misunderstanding” and said law enforcement was out to get her husband.
She wrote in a post:
“Everyone is asking where I am…well I’m still here and still standing by what I said earlier about nothing happened. I’m not afraid of my husband nor have I been. When I said I was scared/affrad [sic] I said I was scared of the situation and what everyone has been saying. I told him I was scared that people are beleieveing [sic] what everyone is reporting. He never told me what to say rather the opposite. He told me to tell the truth and that’s what I’m doing. We both are truly the only ones that know what happened and both if us will tell you NOTHING HAPPEND [sic]. I never said I was gonna call the cops again rather the opposite I told him I have nothing to call them about. Again he is the one that called just to defuse a situation. Every married couple has their issues and has an argument here or there we are just like any married couple. I truly love him not affriad [sic] of him nor am I afraid of when he gets out.”
Christopher Tapp was originally convicted of murdering 18-year-old Angie Dodge after she was found sexually assaulted and murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment in June of 1996. After being interrogated for hours, he eventually confessed — but DNA evidence taken from the scene didn’t match Tapp or any of the other suspects in the case.
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For years, groups including the Idaho Innocence Project and even the victim’s mother, Carol Dodge, advocated on Tapp’s behalf. Last year, an Idaho judge vacated Tapp’s rape conviction and re-sentenced him to time served.
Tapp was released in March 2016.
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Main photo: Christopher Tapp [Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office]
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