Wednesday, March 14, 2012

4 Convicted in Student's 1979 Slaying

A jury convicted four men Thursday of kidnapping a college student from her job nearly 30 years ago, then raping and killing her, in a case that was revived after a documentary film about it.

Janet Chandler, 22, was abducted from the Blue Mill Inn in Holland, where she worked as a desk clerk, and taken to a home where she was gang-raped before being strangled, prosecutors said.

A snowplow driver discovered the body of the Hope College student a day later about 35 miles south of the west Michigan city.

Convicted of kidnapping, rape and murder were James Cleophas "Bubba" Nelson, now 60, of Rand, W.Va.; Arthur Carlton Paiva, 55, of …

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