By Chuck Hustmyre
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Schock approached Janet Chandler's parents and asked their permission to make a documentary film about their daughter's murder. "I could guarantee them nothing except this is going to hurt," Schock said. To his surprise, the Chandlers agreed.
Then Schock asked the Holland Police Department for help. At first the department refused, but Schock was persistent. "Little by little we got cooperation," he said. "It was very slow to start but it came."
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Schock won the Police Department's support by convincing police officials that he wasn't trying to find fault with the previous investigation or to blame anyone for its lack of a resolution. "We never set about to solve the case," Schock explained during an interview with Crime Library just hours after the most recent arrests were announced.
As they worked on the film, Schock said he told his students: "We are not the police, we are story tellers. So let's do what we do best, which is tell the story, and let the police do what they do best, which is the police work."
It took five months of working long nights and weekends to complete the project.
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