Episode 1 — A View to Kill

On a stormy night in April 1993, Gwinnett County police officer Michael Chapel's life changed forever.

Within hours of the murder of Emogene Thompson, Chapel went from respected police officer, Marine veteran, husband, and father to accused killer. The case would become one of the most sensational murder prosecutions in Georgia—and send Chapel to prison for life.

But more than three decades later, questions that never went away have become harder to ignore.

In the premiere of A Thin Blue Crime, the people who knew Chapel before the headlines tell the story of the man they knew, the accusations that quickly surrounded him, the trial that convicted him, and the small group of people who refused to accept that the case was over.

Then, years after the conviction, an investigation that began almost by accident starts uncovering evidence, witnesses, and contradictions buried in a case everyone else had left behind.

And for the first time, you'll hear from a man who says he was there the night Emogene Thompson was murdered—and saw what happened.

This is where the story begins.

A Thin Blue Crime: A View to Kill.