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On january 31st, 1979 a student at hope college, janet chandler, was working the front desk at her hotel job when she was abducted raped and murdered. she was 22 years old. that brutal case remained unsolved for 25 years. the police had no suspects. nobody to arrest. 24 years after she was abducted in 2003 a group of journalism students at hope college in holland, michigan started to make a documentary about her case. about this cold case killing in an effort to re-explain just what happened to try to answer the case s unanswered questions, the students at hope college interviewed family members, interviewed local law enforcement about the investigation. and they did a documentary about it and their documentary aired on the local public tv station ....
An january 31, 1989, janet chandler was working at the front desk at her job and he was kidnapped, raped, and murdered. 24 years after she was abducted, a group of journalism students at hope college started it make a documentary about her case, this cold case killing in an effort to reexplain what happened. to try to also the case s unanswered questions. the students interviewed family members and local law enforcement about the investigation and they did a documentary about it and it aired on the local public tv station 25 years to the day that her body was discovered. that sparked new interest in the case. ....
Unanswered questions. the students interviewed family members and local law enforcement about the investigation and they did a documentary about it and it aired on the local public tv station 25 years to the day that her body was discovered. that sparked new interest in the case. they assigned four detectives to look into the newly reopened case. that documentary paired with the renewed and amped up police effort led to six people being convicted in her death. more than a quarter century after she had been killed. an amazing thing. it was also a very rare thing. a more famous example of documentary investigation changing the course of a murder case is the thin blue line. it is a phenomenal piece of film making. it is about the murder of a ....