This final photograph of Chapel’s raincoat shows that the raincoat was manipulated and placed both on its front and back in order to photograph all the bloodstains on the garment, and would include those on the sleeve and under the arm of the raincoat. Notice the flakes of blood still remaining on the table in the area bounded in white.

As mentioned in the first few narrations in this series, there were six witnesses that viewed this demonstration. Only two, Jennifer Wilson and Keith Goff, employees of the GBI and prosecution witnesses were to take the witness stand. Only Keith Goff was asked this incident, and he testified briefly to handling the garments without gloves and that “there may have been dried blood flakes” on the table. These two questions and answers were slipped in so quickly that the implications of this testimony were quickly lost on both the judge and the jury.

None of the four prospective defense witnesses, Johnny Moore, Elizabeth Rogan, Reese Smith or Investigator Dennis Miller all who viewed the entire procedure, and had to have been aware of Dennis Miller’s memo were ever called to the stand to testify to the contamination of Chapel’s raincoat with the blood of the victim at the GBI Crime Lab.

After the trial, several jurors stated to the press that Chapel’s bloody raincoat was a huge factor in their decision to convict.