Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: Teen Missing Two Months, Found Naked, Shot in Back of Head

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🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Recorded LIVE at CrimeCon Nashville, 2024, in this Episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan explains how he challenges his class at Jacksonville State University to try and solve a cold case. Two years in a row, two different classes and students choose the unsolved murder of Blake Chappell. Blake Chappell tells his mother he is having the best night of his life with his girlfriend at the East Coweta High School Homecoming Dance. Within a matter of hours, Blake will find himself chased out of his girlfriend’s house in the middle of the night, walking down the road at 5 a.m. texting his girlfriend, and telling her police just stopped and talked to him. One last text to his girlfriend that he is getting cold, and his phone goes quiet. Blake Chappell is 17 and he never makes it back to his friend’s house. He just vanishes into thin air. It is October 16, 2011. Two months later on December 17, 2011, his nearly naked body is found floating in a creek, he has been shot in the back of the head. The case is still unsolved. But new search warrants were served in March 2024, will there be justice for Blake Chappell?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:13 Introduction Blake Chappel Case

00:04:40 Discuss of family financial issues

00:08:28 Blake finds ex-girlfriend who ran away

00:10:32 Blake beaten up by ex’s stepfather

00:12:26 Blake put in jail for finding his ex

00:17:35 Mother takes Blake and date to homecoming dance

00:20:48 Discussion of Blake activities walking in the night

00:24:24 Talk about Blake walking miles to see girlfriend

00:28:08 Talk about Blake texting girlfriend

00:31:49 Talk about Blake doesn’t make it back to Austin’s house

00:37:36 Discussion Blake shot in back of head

00:43:22 Discussion rumors about Blake’s death

00:48:12 Discussion Blake found wearing underwear, no shoes

00:52:34 Conclusion Joseph Scott Morgan lets his JSU class pick unsolved crime to solve

Two years in a row the case of Blake Chappel is chosen for the project

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0:00.0	Body bags with Joseph Scott Norton.
0:05.0	Three years ago I was asked at my university to start a coal case class and knowing what I know about coal cases and
0:20.0	knowing where we are in this world that we inhabit now in forensic science and in
0:26.3	investigations, I felt that it was incumbent upon me, someone that had been on
0:31.9	co-case squads in the past, that I should initiate this
0:37.0	class and introduce my students at least in an undergraduate level to the process of coal
0:41.6	case because it is highly complex.
0:45.0	And for me I wanted to introduce my children, my kids, at Jacksonville State University, fill up my children sometimes, to the methodologies
0:58.8	they're employed.
1:00.6	And I got to tell you something, two years in a row, independent of one another,
1:05.0	my students selected the same case without knowing about the other group
1:12.0	to present in class, to run down the leads, to try to understand
1:17.9	it, to try to make sense of it.
1:20.7	And I knew at that moment, Tom, when I had a second class that chose this same case.
1:27.0	I knew that it was something I needed to talk about on body bags and it's an absolutely heartbreaking case. So today we're going to talk about the
1:36.8	death, the murder of Blake Chappelle. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this
1:54.1	Welcome to CrimeCon 24 Nashville and thank you to our host here at Gaylord.
1:59.2	I really appreciate it and thank you for all of our fans that have turned out Dave all of our friends
2:03.8	we'd like to call you guys friends as opposed to fans we get such great comments
2:08.5	from you all encouragement which we need on a regular basis. And today, Dave, I want to discuss a case that is actually not too
2:19.1	far away from where we live in Alabama, just literally across the state lines over in a place called
2:25.7	Kawita County and it might be a case that I think that if we have if we have parents in this classroom I mean in this
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