MICHIGAN 1979 Cold Case Solved After 27 Years — A College Class Cracked It

MICHIGAN 1979 Cold Case Solved After 27 Years — A College Class Cracked It ----- ust after two o'clock in the morning on January 31, 1979, a man called police in Holland, Michigan, to report a robbery at the Blue Mill Inn. About five hundred dollars was missing. So was the night clerk, 22-year-old Hope College music student Janet Chandler. Her jacket was still on her chair. Her cigarette was still burning in the ashtray. A day later, a snowplow driver found her beside Interstate 196, thirty-five miles away. That winter the motel was full of out-of-town security guards brought in for a bitter strike, and many people knew something. For twenty-seven years, not one of them said a word. The silence broke because of a class project. In 2003, Hope College professor David Schock and his documentary students made a film about the forgotten case. Within months, the Michigan State Police and Holland police formed a cold case team, carried out more than 300 interviews in 18 states, and listened again to that 1979 robbery call. One detective said it sounded staged. This documentary covers the full story: Janet's life and the winter of the Chemetron strike, the night she disappeared, the first investigation and the wall of silence, the student film that reopened the case, the detective known as "The Closer", the confession, the six people charged, the 2007 trial in Grand Haven, the sentencing, the appeals, and what twenty-seven years of silence cost a family. Every case on this channel went cold, and every one of them ended with a name. 🔔 Subscribe to Crime Watch Investigations for a new solved cold case every week. ColdCase #JanetChandler #TrueCrime #ColdCaseSolved #Michigan #HollandMichigan #HopeCollege #Documentary #Justice #CrimeWatchInvestigations 📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Dateline NBC, "Conspiracy of Silence" (2008) The Grand Rapids Press / MLive trial coverage (2007) WOOD TV8 coverage (2009–2013) Hope College news releases on "Who Killed Janet Chandler?" (2004, 2008) Associated Press / Fox News, verdict report (November 2007) Wikipedia, "Murder of Janet Chandler" 📺 FURTHER VIEWING "Who Killed Janet Chandler?" (Hope College / David Schock, 2004) Dateline NBC, "Conspiracy of Silence" (2008) This video is a factual documentary made to remember the victim and the people who worked her case. It contains no graphic content. Tags janet chandler, janet chandler case, janet chandler documentary, cold case solved, michigan cold case, holland michigan, hope college, blue mill inn, 1979 cold case, cold case team, conspiracy of silence, who killed janet chandler, david schock, true crime documentary, solved cold cases, crime watch investigations, wackenhut guards, cold case documentary, michigan state police cold case, justice for janet