GUILTY MI - Janet Chandler, 23, raped & murdered, Holland, 31 Jan 1979
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Publicity surrounding the Janet Chandler murder this week is generating more leads for police to track down.
"I can't believe the phone calls we have been getting from people across the United States," said Holland police Detective Roger VanLiere, one of four detectives that cracked the 27-year-old murder.
VanLiere said detectives have taken several calls from people who, over the years, had contact with one or more of the five people arrested this week for the 1979 murder.
"They're giving us new information and also confirming what we already knew," he said. "We have to follow up on these (calls) and see where it leads."
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Publicity surrounding the Janet Chandler murder this week is generating more leads for police to track down.
"I can't believe the phone calls we have been getting from people across the United States," said Holland police Detective Roger VanLiere, one of four detectives that cracked the 27-year-old murder.
VanLiere said detectives have taken several calls from people who, over the years, had contact with one or more of the five people arrested this week for the 1979 murder.
"They're giving us new information and also confirming what we already knew," he said. "We have to follow up on these (calls) and see where it leads."
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You're not wrong there! Jeez, imagine that many people being witnesses to the horrible crime , and yet the truth never came out for all that time! I find that quite unbelievable, and disappointing , if thats the word , for the fact that no one looks to have said anything before. I mean 15 to 20 people attended this "party". Well I am glad the suspects have finally been arrested and now justice may get served.michelle said:
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Three years after the 1979 killing of Janet Chandler, one of the suspects tried to strangle a co-worker in Cincinnati who resembled Chandler, police said in court records.
James Nelson, 59, who was sent to prison for the Ohio attack, is one of six people charged in Chandler's murder.
The search warrant affidavits filed by Holland police Detective Robert Borowski in West Virginia noted similarities in appearances between Chandler, Nelson's ex-wife and the victim in the Cincinnati incident, the affidavit said.
The affidavits also reveal for the first time that Nelson told police he was in his second-floor motel room talking to Chandler on the phone when she was abducted from the hotel.
"The question arises, why wasn't Nelson able to be a better witness, or come to the victim's aid, before she was taken from the motel?" Borowski wrote in the affidavit to search his home. Police later concluded that Nelson and other suspects schemed to abduct Chandler, gang rape her and kill her.
The affidavits also reveal that two former maids said Nelson sexually assaulted them in his room at the Blue Mill and told them to keep silent or he would come back and get them.
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Three years after the 1979 killing of Janet Chandler, one of the suspects tried to strangle a co-worker in Cincinnati who resembled Chandler, police said in court records.
James Nelson, 59, who was sent to prison for the Ohio attack, is one of six people charged in Chandler's murder.
The search warrant affidavits filed by Holland police Detective Robert Borowski in West Virginia noted similarities in appearances between Chandler, Nelson's ex-wife and the victim in the Cincinnati incident, the affidavit said.
The affidavits also reveal for the first time that Nelson told police he was in his second-floor motel room talking to Chandler on the phone when she was abducted from the hotel.
"The question arises, why wasn't Nelson able to be a better witness, or come to the victim's aid, before she was taken from the motel?" Borowski wrote in the affidavit to search his home. Police later concluded that Nelson and other suspects schemed to abduct Chandler, gang rape her and kill her.
The affidavits also reveal that two former maids said Nelson sexually assaulted them in his room at the Blue Mill and told them to keep silent or he would come back and get them.
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For 27 years, a Holland woman said she has feared the men who allegedly gang-raped and killed her co-worker, Janet Chandler.
The recent arrests of five former security guards and a manager at the Blue Mill Inn brought little comfort and mostly bad memories.
The former maid dated one of the guards, Anthony Williams, she said, speaking Monday to The Press on condition of anonymity...
James "Bubba" Nelson -- "the one who really tormented me" -- sexually assaulted her and threatened to harm her if she said anything, she said.
Arthur Carl Paiva, she said, told her, "If I ever tell anybody, that nobody would even know that I existed."
She feared for her life after her name recently surfaced in court papers filed in West Virginia, where two of the suspects live.
"I'm so scared, I'm so scared, I'm so scared," said the woman, whose story is corroborated by newly unveiled court records detailing similar accounts she gave police.
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For 27 years, a Holland woman said she has feared the men who allegedly gang-raped and killed her co-worker, Janet Chandler.
The recent arrests of five former security guards and a manager at the Blue Mill Inn brought little comfort and mostly bad memories.
The former maid dated one of the guards, Anthony Williams, she said, speaking Monday to The Press on condition of anonymity...
James "Bubba" Nelson -- "the one who really tormented me" -- sexually assaulted her and threatened to harm her if she said anything, she said.
Arthur Carl Paiva, she said, told her, "If I ever tell anybody, that nobody would even know that I existed."
She feared for her life after her name recently surfaced in court papers filed in West Virginia, where two of the suspects live.
"I'm so scared, I'm so scared, I'm so scared," said the woman, whose story is corroborated by newly unveiled court records detailing similar accounts she gave police.
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"Just a lot of pain," is how Dennis Chandler described the family's feelings. He stood outside Ottawa County Circuit Court, where Robert Lynch, 67, of Three Oaks, had just been sentenced to 25 to 40 years in prison for his part in killing Janet Chandler.
A gray-haired Lynch, wearing a red jail smock and shackled around the waist, had expected the sentence, part of an earlier plea agreement. He said he has spent months working with police to "get the right people" in the killing. When he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in December, he said he hoped the Chandlers could find peace.
Five others are charged in Chandler's death: James "Bubba" Nelson, 59, of West Virginia; Anthony Eugene Williams, 55, of Wisconsin; Arthur "Carl" Paiva, 54, of Muskegon; Freddie Parker, 50, of West Virginia, and Laurie Swank, 48, of Pennsylvania.
Parker awaits extradition, while Swank, Chandler's former roommate and boss at the hotel, has testified against the others and plans to plead guilty to second-degree murder. She would be sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison under the deal. The other three await trial.
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"Just a lot of pain," is how Dennis Chandler described the family's feelings. He stood outside Ottawa County Circuit Court, where Robert Lynch, 67, of Three Oaks, had just been sentenced to 25 to 40 years in prison for his part in killing Janet Chandler.
A gray-haired Lynch, wearing a red jail smock and shackled around the waist, had expected the sentence, part of an earlier plea agreement. He said he has spent months working with police to "get the right people" in the killing. When he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in December, he said he hoped the Chandlers could find peace.
Five others are charged in Chandler's death: James "Bubba" Nelson, 59, of West Virginia; Anthony Eugene Williams, 55, of Wisconsin; Arthur "Carl" Paiva, 54, of Muskegon; Freddie Parker, 50, of West Virginia, and Laurie Swank, 48, of Pennsylvania.
Parker awaits extradition, while Swank, Chandler's former roommate and boss at the hotel, has testified against the others and plans to plead guilty to second-degree murder. She would be sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison under the deal. The other three await trial.
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What I don't understand is that supposedly there existed many people who knew about this over the years and not one of them came forward until now???
This took place over 20 years ago and no one had the conscience to talk before now?????
IMO if you knowingly let a brutal killer walk the streets without reporting it for 20 years then your as bad as they are.
You are allowing a killer / rapist to potentially harm others.
And I am not buying the "I am afraid" BS either... Maybe 20 years ago when your young but not as an adult. We are not talking about the Mafia here.
Wouldn't a person with that knowledge feel so much safer once the
was put into prison??
IMO it was not fear it was "birds of a feather".
This took place over 20 years ago and no one had the conscience to talk before now?????
IMO if you knowingly let a brutal killer walk the streets without reporting it for 20 years then your as bad as they are.
You are allowing a killer / rapist to potentially harm others.
And I am not buying the "I am afraid" BS either... Maybe 20 years ago when your young but not as an adult. We are not talking about the Mafia here.
Wouldn't a person with that knowledge feel so much safer once the
was put into prison?? IMO it was not fear it was "birds of a feather".
I don't know. I think it could be fear that held their tongues. Think how many witnessed the crime, the police wouldn't arrest all of them. In small towns like that, a "fink" is severly punished, and they might be afraid one of the other witnesses would make them pay for ratting them out. They don't have to fear only those who committed the crime either, they have to fear those peoples' family and friends. That's a lot to defy to do what's right. I don't know many who would have the courage to do so, considering that everyone in a small town at least knows you casually, and can find someone willing to fill them in so they can hunt you down.
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The jury found the defendants in the Janet Chandler murder trial guilty as charged.
Arthur Paiva was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder-kidnapping and felony murder-criminal sexual conduct.
Anthony Williams, Freddie Parker and James Nelson were all found guilty of second-degree murder, felony murder-kidnapping and felony murder-criminal sexual conduct.
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The jury found the defendants in the Janet Chandler murder trial guilty as charged.
Arthur Paiva was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder-kidnapping and felony murder-criminal sexual conduct.
Anthony Williams, Freddie Parker and James Nelson were all found guilty of second-degree murder, felony murder-kidnapping and felony murder-criminal sexual conduct.
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What's a good sentence for Laurie Swank, do you suppose? And those other women who stood and watched Janet humiliated, brutalized and then killed...their feminine voices ringing in her ears? The fine upstanding Ms Swank who has turned her life around...sure she will lose her life now as she knows it. But, OMG how do you punish that kind of betrayal. Just because Janet was pretty and popular. Mind boggling.
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This was on the second half of Dateline tonight. I wish I would have known ahead of time so I could have posted it sooner. I'm glad they got all the perps and got convictions for them. Finally, justice for Janet and her family. What a horrible case this was!
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/05/dateline_nbc_to_tell_of_janet.html
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/05/dateline_nbc_to_tell_of_janet.html
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Also, at the same link I clicked on Janet Chandler trial and it has the articles regarding the trial and all the convictions in late 2007.
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/janet_chandler_trial/
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/janet_chandler_trial/
I watched this part of Dateline tonight and was stunned that so many people could keep a secret like that. I think that happens in a lot of our cold cases. (I got this case mixed up with Barbara Winn's case which is the part I missed on Dateline tonight. Rats.)
I'm glad they finally got those awful men behind bars. I think the women should have been given some time too but I guess they needed their testimony.
I'm glad they finally got those awful men behind bars. I think the women should have been given some time too but I guess they needed their testimony.
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I think there is a thread on this one in Cold Cases that I had read before.
The part that gets me the most I think is that Janet had "gone out" with some of these guys. Her roommate and supervisor was involved! These weren't strangers, they knew her and associated with her every day. And it wasn't one, it wasn't just one with the others standing by watching, it was all of them. It wasn't just rape, it was rape, and torture and murder. It wasn't just something that happened, it was planned, many of the details were planned. This was one of the most brutal murders that I have ever read.
One of the reasons they couldn't solve this one was fear, people did fear what would happen if the suspects found out they had talked. But I think for many of the others, they feared they might have some guilt, perhaps they knew what was being planned and did nothing. But mostly the ones who knew were directly involved, they wouldn't talk because they knew they were guilty also.
The part that gets me the most I think is that Janet had "gone out" with some of these guys. Her roommate and supervisor was involved! These weren't strangers, they knew her and associated with her every day. And it wasn't one, it wasn't just one with the others standing by watching, it was all of them. It wasn't just rape, it was rape, and torture and murder. It wasn't just something that happened, it was planned, many of the details were planned. This was one of the most brutal murders that I have ever read.
One of the reasons they couldn't solve this one was fear, people did fear what would happen if the suspects found out they had talked. But I think for many of the others, they feared they might have some guilt, perhaps they knew what was being planned and did nothing. But mostly the ones who knew were directly involved, they wouldn't talk because they knew they were guilty also.
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I saw this tonight and omg, it was chilling to hear!! My heart goes out to the Chandler family. Every person in that house was guilty of her murder and I believe that's why no one ever broke their silence, if they pointed the finger at anyone else, it would also show their guilt as well.
It was sickening to know all these people were able to go on with their lives after the murder, I'm glad their being punished now but they had 28 years of freedom they never should have had. Her room mate had to be pure evil to have helped plan all this!
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It was sickening to know all these people were able to go on with their lives after the murder, I'm glad their being punished now but they had 28 years of freedom they never should have had. Her room mate had to be pure evil to have helped plan all this!
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