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The Daily Crime

"Like he disappeared off the face of the earth"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3627 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On Oct. 15, 2011, 17-year-old Blake Chappell left for a school dance with a smile on his face. He never returned home. WXIA reporter Savannah Levins shares what happened that night, and where the investigation stands as the ten-year anniversary approaches. For more on this story, visit: https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/the-reveal/newnan-teen-blake-chappell-killed-after-homecoming-remains-unsolved-decade-later/85-fd4861b6-fd88-459e-90c6-705e3380b53c To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up. She's willing to relive these incredibly difficult moments and revisit these,

0:07.8

you know, incredibly difficult questions because she wants justice. For Vault Studios, I'm

0:13.4

Reid Redmond. You're listening to The Daily Crime. On the night of October 15, 2011, Melissa Becker sent her 17-year-old son, Blake Chappelle off to a school dance with a smile.

0:33.8

He never came home.

0:35.3

A 17-year-old vanished after his homecoming dance, and he was found only in his underwear

0:40.7

in Aquita County Creek months later, and his killer is still walking free.

0:45.4

He was just an innocent child.

0:48.1

I just want to know why.

0:53.9

Savannah Levens with 11 Alive in Atlanta, Georgia.

0:57.1

And you're reporting you call Blake Chappelle the kind of kid who is friends with everybody.

1:01.5

What else have you been able to learn about Blake through your reporting?

1:04.9

Yeah, you know, all of Blake's friends and family said he's just kind of that kid with, you know, a huge heart, had no enemies in

1:12.9

the world, you know, loved his dirt bikes, loved his family, loved his friends, was friends

1:20.0

with everyone, as you mentioned. And that, you know, that's one of those things that makes

1:23.8

this case all the more mysterious.

1:32.7

So take us through then what happens on the night of October 15th, 2011,

1:35.6

the night of this homecoming dance at Blake's school?

1:41.4

Yeah, so Blake was, you know, just a typical 17-year-old kid going off to homecoming that night.

1:44.8

You know, he got all dressed up, all ready. He was going to spend the night at his friend'scoming that night. You know, he got all dressed up already.

1:48.3

He was going to spend the night at his friend's house that night.

1:50.8

He, you know, they had planned that all out.

1:53.3

So he leaves for the homecoming dance.

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