Officer Michael Chapel was described by the prosecution as lying in wait for Emogene Thompson in the Gwinnco Muffler Shop driveway with the intention of murdering her and stealing her purse that supposedly contained $7,000.

Once the victim was in the driveway, Officer Chapel was supposed walked to her door and immediately delivered what the prosecution called shot number 1 to the head of the victim. As the victim slumped to the right in the driver’s seat, Chapel then delivered shot 2 to the victim described by the prosecution as a contact “coup de gras” shot to the neck.

Chapel then calmly retrieved the victim’s bloody purse that he knew contained $7,000, returned to his own vehicle, threw the victim’s purse into the passenger seat and exited the area.

If the two had planned a meeting in that driveway, the question of why Chapel had to turn on his blue lights to stop her and order her into the driveway was never answered.

We will now see how well the prosecution’s hypotheses hold up in view of the evidence collected at the scene, primarily of the blood evidence photographically collected by the crime scene technicians at the scene.