The Southern Voice has covered the Mike Chapel case for over a year now, sharing arguments from both the Mike Chapel is Innocent group and from former Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter. Today, Danny Porter visits two parts of one of the accusations the Mike Chapel is Inocent group presents, that of a handgun found at the All-American Inn.
Danny Porter- I’ve grown weary of the false information being published or broadcast as truth. I’ve also grown weary of the threats of disbarment, imprisonment, and assisted suicide, so I decided to actually do the research and actually put out the truth.
The “All-American Inn” gunIn his book, Henry Ball asserts that a gun was found attached to the American Inn, a den of drug activity, gambling, and prostitution, which was frequented by Michael Thompson for drugs and by Emogene Thompson. He states that the gun was found by hotel workers and turned over to a GCPD officer. Then, Ball asserts that the gun was never examined, was never logged into evidence, and then quickly destroyed at the direction of John Latty. The speculation is that the gun is the “real” murder weapon and was quickly destroyed to protect the vast police conspiracy whose only goal was to convict Chapel.
The first group of attachments debunks this theory. It is GCPD report numbered 93-042905 authored on 12-04-93. It tracks the recovery, examination, and eventual destruction of the gun.
Most importantly, it reveals that the gun was an Arminius Titan .38 revolver. The murder weapon was conclusively identified as a Rossi or Charter Arms .38 or .357 revolver. Therefore the gun found in December at the American Inn could not be the murder weapon rendering all the speculation about suspects simply irrelevant.
I received this report about two days after I made the request. Based on this, either Ball and Kipe didn’t do their due diligence, finding a readily available public document, or they knew that what they published or broadcast was false, and they were content to allow false information to be disseminated because it served their purpose of creating controversy.
Click here for the page with twelve articles about the case, including interviews with Danny Porter and Mike Chapel, well before they were interviewed for the recent podcast.
The “found on the roadside by the crackhead son of a police officer” gun
During the course of the investigation, a gun was turned over to GCPD by a person named Kenneth “Peanut” Cantrell. Cantrell claimed that he found the gun on the side of the road in Buford. It was taken into evidence by the police and was available for inspection by the State and the defense.
Recently, there have been posts by Chapel supporters basically saying things like “The convicted crackhead turned the gun over to his crooked cop father, Capt. Lewis Cantrell”.
Attachment 2 is a copy of the obituary for Capt. Lewis Cantrell. It clearly shows that Capt. Cantrell’s son is named Keith, not Kenneth or Peanut.
Again, either Ball or Kipe didn’t do their due diligence and then put an end to all the false speculations on a board Ball runs, or they’re willing to falsely besmirch the reputation of Lewis Cantrell, who was a decent man and decent, honest cop.
Attachment One-The All-American Inn gun (12 pages) images are from GCPD file copies and may be seen more clearly on mobile devices.
Attachment Two-“Found on the roadside” gun (1 page)
