The Crimes of Robert Lee Haggart
In the early morning of Saturday, September 24, 1977 Doris Arndt was seen leaving a bar near her home of Midland Michigan and was never seen alive again. I heard Doris described as the "Norma Rae of Midland." If you do not know the reference, it refers to a movie called, of course, Norma Rae. The movie was based off a book from 1975 written by a woman named Crystal Lee Sutton. She worked in a textile factory and a fighter for unions, which was a rare thing for a woman, but apparently Doris Arndt had those qualities herself. Doris was married and had two children but she had a rather unconventional marriage it seemed. Doris and her husband John apparently loved each other but had discovered that one thing they could not do together was go out to bars. They had been together for over a decade and it just seems that every time they went out together the night ended badly, so they each had their own set of friends that they went out with. On the night o...