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The Triangle Bar and All That’s Left of Old Lem Turner

Posted on July 10, 2022 | Leave a comment

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One block is all that’s left of Old Lem Turner Road where it met the Turner Ferry. Some seem to think the Triangle Bar has been here about that long. This is where Jesse Carver brought his granddaughter on the first night of her life in 1972, where J.W. Rich, who killed Johnnie Mae Chappell, all but lived for 30 years, where the Trout River Bridge burned in the Civil War. Stories still accrue.

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How One Corrupt Cop, Worshiped as a Hero, Went Down: The Story of J.C. Patrick

Posted on January 14, 2022 | Leave a comment

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J.C. Patrick, a colleague said, would serve a warrant on the Devil. Duval County’s chief homicide investigator always got his man. Unless paid not to. Patrick was the common denominator of corruption between the administrations of Sheriffs Rex Sweat and Dale Carson. This is the story of how his son took him down and how his reputation followed.

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The Lynching of Johnnie Mae Chappell

Posted on May 31, 2020 | Leave a comment

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We would never have known of the racist murder of Johnnie Mae Chappell if Duval County Chief Homicide Investigator J.C. Patrick had gotten his way. Justice was never served. For standing up to Patrick, good men lost their careers and sons later launched their own. Shelton Chappell, who was four years old when his mother was murdered, has seen the bullet. He spent decades putting the story together. With the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia in the news, Shelton wants to know what we’ve learned.

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