In Episode Five, we meet Steve Mitchell—a country boy from Buford who was dismissed for decades as a crackpot, a man whose extraordinary claims weren’t worth believing.

Then Henry Ball started checking the record.

Police reports. Internal documents. Undercover drug operations. Surveillance evidence. A burned-out home. A bag full of cash used to test Michael Chapel.

Piece by piece, Ball uncovered evidence corroborating the story authorities had spent years trying to discredit and bury.

They called Steve Mitchell crazy. Henry Ball found the records that proved he is anything but.

On the night Emogene Thompson was murdered, her son Michael was one of the last people known to have seen her alive.

Episode 4 takes a closer look at the questions surrounding that night: conflicting timelines, a car that may not have been where Michael Thompson said it was, an unexplained late-night phone call, a missing purse, and witnesses whose accounts would not surface until after Michael Chapel was convicted.

What was known that night? What was overlooked? And what would emerge years later?

Nearly thirty years after Emogene’s murder, one of the people at the center of that night told a very different story.

In this episode, we slow down the night of April 15, 1993, minute by minute.

When did Chapel leave the fire station? Where did he go next? And did he actually have enough time to commit the murder the state said he did?

Using trial testimony, original police interrogation audio, witness interviews, and case records, Episode 3 examines the timeline at the heart of Michael Chapel’s conviction and the accounts that call it into question.

When the minutes matter, what does the timeline really tell us?