Tess Bierly, a junior at Duke University, interviewed Glen Edward Chapman as part of a journalism class, leading to this story. Bierly is majoring in sociology of crime, law, and justice with a minor in psychology. She focuses her work on exposing miscarriages of justice in the legal system.
As a boy, Glen Edward Chapman hated the sound of the ambulance. Each time one blared by his home in Hickory, N.C., he started crying and ran to find his mom.
He saw many throughout his childhood and developed an association between ambulances and death. This was his underlying fear…