Georgia : Blake Chappell
My case this week is an unsolved murder. It takes place in a few different greater Atlanta suburbs: Senoia, Jonesboro, and Newnan. These three are all within a 75-mile radius. The majority of these cases happen in Newnan, so let me tell you a little bit about this city inside Coweta County. Newnan is 40 miles southwest of Atlanta with a population of around 42,000 with a crime rate more than 3 times higher than the state average. The chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime is 1 in 80 in Newnan and 1 in 250 in all of Georgia. Newnan hosted one of the most talked about trials in 1948; the trial of John Wallace. He was the first white man to be condemned to death by the testimony of African Americans. A book and movie that starred Johnny Cash and June Carter were made about this trial titled Murder in Coweta County. Two field workers were forced to burn the body of a white sharecropper named Wilson Turner and testified against their boss. More recently, Newnan was hit by an EF4 tornado that was the strongest on record in Georgia since 1950.
I had the opportunity to speak with case advocate LaChanda over the phone about Blake’s story. This is that interview.
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Sources:
https://uncovered.com/cases/blake-chappell/sources
https://www.voicesforjusticepodcast.com/post/blake-chappell
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82425713/blake-tyler-chappell
https://www.facebook.com/groups/justiceforblakechappell
https://times-herald.com/news/2021/09/who-killed-blake-chappell
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/website-aims-to-find-new-leads-in-unsolved-georgia-homicides
https://thecitizen.com/2011/12/22/senoia-teen-identified-murder-victim/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePjNwetXv_E&feature=youtu.be&themeRefresh=1
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97055038/the-atlanta-constitution/
