Tomorrow, April 1, the Grey Eagle will be hosting the annual Freedom Ball. The event is from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM and costs $12. The ball is put on every year to benefit Glen Edward Chapman, who was exonerated and released from Death Row 2 years ago.
Glen Edward Chapman was sentenced to death for two 1992 murders, but he walked out of prison on April 2, 2008, a free man after Catawba County authorities dropped all charges against him. Chapman was convicted in 1994 of the murders of Betty Jean Ramseur and Tenene Yvette Conley in Hickory. A judge granted him a new trial in late 2007 after learning that detectives in the case had withheld and covered up evidence that pointed to Chapman’s innocence and that one investigator had perjured himself at Chapman
