"No Good Explanation"

When Chris sits down for his polygraph on January 18th, it's the third time he's been hooked up to the machine, the third time his reactions have been charted and assessed for deceptiveness.

The officer running the polygraph starts off by telling Chris that during his first polygraph, he was so deceptive that he was going off the charts.

But during his second, the officer says he was getting close to being completely truthful.

Now, the officer urges Chris to be more truthful.

About 10 minutes in, after the same questions Chris had been asked during his other polygraphs, did he kill Angie? Was he in the apartment when she was killed? The officer asks, "Were you, Jeremy, and Ben there?" Remember, no evidence ties Ben Hobbs to Angie's rape and murder.

Even though his name will continue to come up in these police interviews, he'll never be charged in the case.

So police start to turn their attention to another young man who spent the summer of 1996 hanging out at the Snake River, Jeremy Sargis, a friend of Ben and Chris.

At first, when the officer asked Chris if Jeremy was there, Chris says no.

But 20 minutes into the polygraph, the officer insists, "Tell me the other person who's there." And Chris replies...

Maybe Jer was

Maybe Jer was.

This was another big shift in Chris's version of the night Angie was killed.

He was now saying that maybe there was another person there during the crime, and maybe that person was his friend, Jeremy.

You can't help Jeremy at all? No.

You can't.

He's already [beep].

So it's you, Ben, and Jeremy.

Jerk.

Let's just put Jer there

"Let's just put Jer there," Chris says.

At first, Chris doesn't seem fully confident that Jeremy was there.

He says he's only speculating.

But as the officer asks him more and more, Chris provides more and more details on what he claims Jeremy did.

By the end of the hour-and-a-half-long polygraph, Chris now claims Jeremy held Angie down while she was stabbed.

The officer tells Chris, "You've done great this morning." After the polygraph, the officers conduct another interview with Chris.