Wrongful Conviction Podcast Summaries

True Confession

Dateline NBC

Jun 12, 2026

Carol Dodge spent decades fighting for the truth after her daughter Angie’s murder. Her persistence led to the exoneration of a man wrongly imprisoned for twenty years, proving that <<the most unlikely ally for justice was the victim’s own mother>>.

Key insight: Christopher Tapp became the first person in the world to be exonerated by genetic genealogy after a mother's refusal to accept a false confession.