Sun Dec 01 12:50:07 1996
The following 20 point banner headline across the entire top of the
second page of the Gwinnett "Weeks in Review" section of the
Constitution reads as follows:
"FOUNDATION LOOKING INTO CHAPEL MURDER CASE"
The article is as follows:
"A nonprofit foundation whose mission is to support police officers charged with breaking the law is investigating the murder and armed robbery conviction of a former Gwinnett police officer.
Eren Chapel, the wife of Michael Chapel, who was convicted in 1995 of murdering and robbing a Sugar Hill woman two years earlier, has asked the National Police Defense Foundation to help her husband prove he is innocent.
After conducting a preliminary investigation, the foundation agreed to assist Chapel, who patrolled Gwinnett streets for eight years before he was arrested.
Chapel was sentenced on Sept. 10, 1995, to two life terms in prison plus five years, the maximum penalty short of the electric chair. Jurors said after the trial that the prosecution proved Chapel had lured 53-year-old Emogene Thompson to a Peachtree Industrial Boulevard muffler shop to rob her of $7000 and shot her in the head.
The foundation has started a fund to raise money to conduct a full investigation into Thompson's murder."