Episode 387 - Janet Chandler: Murder at The Blue Mill Inn
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Wondery | RedHanded
4.5 • 18.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The body of a woman – a hotel night clerk – is found frozen in the deep winter snow of Van Buren County, Michigan. A tragic discovery; but the tale it went on to tell revealed a series of ever more barbaric and gruesome details: of no-holds-barred sexual games, crises of faith, and utter betrayal.
The web was so tangled that it took police more than three decades to uncover the full, shocking truth.
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| 0:08.8 | In the 1980s, a rosé swept the country. |
| 0:12.2 | Hey, Mike, I really like this White Zindon. |
| 0:14.1 | Well, good, good. |
| 0:14.7 | Now put it down. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm going to try another one. |
| 0:16.3 | White Zin became America's top-selling wine. |
| 0:19.1 | But most don't know that this sweet drink has a sour history. |
| 0:23.9 | What began in 1986 with counterfeit bottles, |
| 0:26.9 | A big fraud, a multimillion dollar fraud, |
| 0:29.5 | sent investigators chasing one of the most powerful families in the business, |
| 0:34.1 | the Lachartis. |
| 0:35.3 | But the closer the feds got to them, the more dangerous things became. |
| 0:39.3 | It's a story of deceit. |
| 0:41.3 | At the time I was paranoid. |
| 0:43.3 | Threats. |
| 0:44.3 | You touch my kids. I will kill you. |
| 0:46.3 | And murder. |
| 0:47.3 | With a 22 caliber bullet to the head. |
| 0:50.3 | What started with a scheme to mislabel wine, spilled into a blood-soaked battle for |
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