He was editor at The Riverfront Times, the alternative newsweekly in St. Louis, for 11 years.
Two media outlets looked into the case a half-century apart, Ebony in the 1950s and The Riverfront Times in the 2000s.
St Louis's alternative weekly newspaper, The Riverfront Times revisited the case in 2007, well over 60 years after his disappearance.
Riverfront Times was unable to locate Sylvia Robinson to comment for this story, and her husband, Joe, died in 2000.
Riverfront Times Best of St. Louis (2006, 2005, 2003)
Randall Roberts of the Riverfront Times called it "one of the best singles of the '90s".
The photo was then published when The Riverfront Times ran Chapman's story.
In 2003 and 2004, his band won the title of "Best Pop Band" from the Riverfront Times.
In a 2012 interview by the Riverfront Times (June 14-20, Vol.
In 2006, it won the Riverfront Times best film festival.