By Chuck Hustmyre
September 21, 2006
HOLLAND, Mich. (Crime Library) — Law enforcement authorities on Wednesday announced the arrest of five additional suspects for the brutal 1979 rape and strangulation slaying of 23-year-old Janet Chandler.
The new arrests bring the total number of suspects charged in the killing to six. They include five men and one woman.
The arrests came after an intensive two-and-a-half-year cold case investigation.
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| Janet Chandler |
The long-dormant homicide investigation was re-opened in April 2004 after a local public television station aired a documentary film titled "Who Killed Janet Chandler?"
David Schock, who at the time was an associate professor of communication at Hope College in Holland, made the film with a group of students as part of a class project.
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| David Schock |
Schock first learned about the case from a friend with the Holland Police Department during the spring of 2003. Afterward, Schock said, he couldn't stop thinking about the decades-old, unsolved homicide his friend had told him about. "He might as well have carved it on my heart," Schock told Crime Library Wednesday. "It just wouldn't let me go."
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