By Chuck Hustmyre
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The Blue Mill Inn
In October 1978, union workers at the Chemtron Corporation chemical plant in Holland, Mich. went on strike. Chemtron executives contracted with the Wackenhut Corporation to provide extra security to protect the plant's property and its non-union, non-striking workers.
About 70 out-of-town security guards took up temporary residence at the Blue Mill Inn motel in Holland, just a few miles from the plant. Twenty-one-year-old Laurie Swank was the motel manager. Swank's roommate, Janet Chandler, worked the overnight shift as a front desk clerk.
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| Laurie Swank |
The security force supervisor, Arthur Paiva, from nearby Muskegon, Mich., stayed in a guest house at the Chemtron plant.
Before long, relationships formed between female staff members at the Blue Mill Inn and a group of hard-drinking, hard-partying security guards.
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| Blue Mill Inn |
"Some of the guards became intimate with the motel manager, other desk clerks, and housekeeping staff...," Detective Sergeant David VanLopik of the Michigan State Police wrote in an 11-page affidavit he filed in 58th District Court in Holland, Mich. on Sept 19, 2006. "Many of these relationships were sexual and non-monogamous in nature."
In a separate affidavit, as reported in the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette, Holland Police Detective Robert Borowski wrote, "(Chandler) developed personal relationships with the guards during their stay at the Blue Mill Inn and many of these relationships were sexually intimate."
Motel employee Cheryl Ruiz told Detective Borowski that one of the Wackenhut guards showed her nude photographs he had taken of Chandler. In the photos, Chandler was bound and gagged with a man's tie.
According to Borowski's affidavit, Ruiz told the detective that the guard, James Nelson, frequently groped Chandler in public and made comments about sexual acts he wanted to perform with her.
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