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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin?
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To: IEarnedIt who wrote (78)12/15/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (1) of 1397
 
Re: New crime scene information!

I spoke at length to someone present at the crime scene the night of the murder. My first question was about the position of the body. She said Suzanne's feet were in the road and she was lying on her stomach across a patch of grass. She didn't recall her hand position. I directly asked if she thought Suzanne were stabbed where she lay or if she thought she were pushed/pulled out of car. She said she very much believes she was not murdered at that spot, that she was pushed/pulled from a car. She also said the area was too well lighted, too many people out that night, etc. for something like that to happen totally unnoticed.

I then asked if she noticed whether Suzanne were wearing a backpack. She said she was not. I asked if she noticed any other potential personal effects lying nearby and, again, she said she had not. I asked about her clothing and she described what we know from reading the news accounts. I asked her to further describe "boots" and she said "soft boots, like you would walk in."

I next asked whether she saw any blood at the scene. She said she did not see any blood but that being night time she can't say for sure there wasn't any. However, she also said when she looked at Suzanne she looked like she had merely fainted-- not that she was savagely murdered. I asked if she were there after they removed Suzanne's body and she said by that time she had left. She said the next day the police removed a small patch of grass which would have been underneath her. They also hosed down the street but none of her friends ever mentioned seeing any blood in the street ever. My guess here is maybe there were a drop or two.

I asked about whether she presumed Suzanne were dead when she saw her. She said there were police cars and an ambulance but that no one was working on her (i.e. no mouth to mouth) nor paramedics running around. She said it must have been quite some time before they loaded her into the ambulance; there was no urgency to whisk her away to the hospital. Hence, it was obvious she were dead at the scene.

I asked if she knew anything about the scream that someone reported hearing at 9:45pm. She said she was shocked that later on her daughter told her she had also heard a scream at about the same time. When she asked her daughter why she hadn't told her about that earlier the daughter replied "I hear screams outside all the time." The implication here is that there was nothing about this scream that made her think it out of the ordinary.

I then told her about my theory of how the murder might have happened. She then told me a story about her son who one day was attacked at the local high school. When she went to see the principal about it she was told a bunch of kids decided it was "get the kid in the white shirt day". Luckily her son was able to get away unharmed. The point of the story was that she understood that sometimes random violent acts do occur. In New York City there's even a name for when packs of kids go out looking to commit random violence: wilding.

Lastly, she said that people in the neighborhood can't even believe the murder happened at all, like it was some bad dream. They don't talk about it much and just wish it gets solved and goes away, but fear it may never get solved. I said that when people start nosing around in the right direction, someone will get nervous and squeal. The trick is for the New Haven police to start asking the same questions we all are asking here.

- Jeff
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