Episode Summary: On a rainy night in March, 1864, civil unrest erupts in the streets of Jacksonville, Florida. Black Americans, sick and tired of the racist treatment, take to the streets to protest. Amidst the protesting, a group of young, white men who were cruising around with the intent to stir up trouble, ended up taking the life of Johnnie Mae Chappell. A mother of 10 children and devoted wife, she was out not too far from her home looking for her wallet she lost on her way home to the grocery store. This episode of Criminal Intent looks into the story of the investigation and her family’s continued quest for justice.

Music Credits

Podcast theme (Epidemic Sound): Situational Analysis – Guy Copeland

Interstitial Music (Epidemic Sound):

Accralate- Kevin MacLeod

Superior – Silver Maple

Anticipation – David Fesliyan

Night on the Docks – Kevin MacLeod

Memento Mori – Alec Slayne

Unknowing – John Barzetti

They’re All Involved – Gerard Franklin

No Traces – Spectacles, Wallet, and Watches

Ending theme:

Who Will Save My Soul – CO.AG

Sources

Web Articles:

PBS: Frontline’s Unresolved – Johnnie Mae Chappell

U.S. Department of Justice: Johnnie M. Chappell – Notice to Close File

Jacksonville.com: A fight for justice: The Johnnie Mae Chappell Story

Jim Crow Museum – Johnnie Mae Chappell

Jax Psycho Geo – Lynching of Johnnie Mae Chappell

NBC News: Seeking justice for a racial killing, 40 years later

SPLC Center: Remembering Johnnie Mae Chappell: A Jim Crow-era injustice resonates in period of Black Lives Matter

Qualitative Criminology: An Analytical History of Black Female Lynchings in the United States, 1838-1969 

Dunn History: The Murder of Johnnie Mae Chappell (1974) by Marvin Dunn

Jacksonville.com: Jacksonville will erect marker where white gunman killed black woman in 1964

Mississippi Today: On this Day – March 23 1964

News 4 Jax – 58 years since racially-motivated killing, Jacksonville man feels slightly closer to justice

News 4 Jax – ‘Right thing to do’: Proposed anti-hate law amended to be named after woman killed in racist attack

First Coast News: 50 years later: A call for justice for Johnnie Mae Chappell

L.A. Times: Justice elusive 40 years after slaying

The Jaxson Magazine – 4 racial protests and riots from Jacksonville’s past

Jacksonville Public Library: Jacksonville Civil Rights Timeline

Articles from newspapers.com:

Indiana Gazette: Family continues to wait – Word, Ron (January 4, 2003). p. 7.

Video/Documentary:

Wanted Justice (2011) Johnnie Mae Chappell (Keith Beauchamp)