Re: Convenience store/parking lot theory
For this theory to work, Suzanne would have had to have chosen the convenience store on Broadway, not York St. She first would have had to have bought some items via a check and then cut across the parking lot on her way home.
The problems in general with any theory that involves the use of a checkbook is a) the fact she had a checkbook is unsubstantiated, b) she had just come back from a dinner party for which it seems logical she had done some shopping, and c) if Suzanne had written a check that night I'm pretty sure we'd all have been told that. After all, that would be as good as a confirmed last sighting and the police would undoubtedly want anyone who may have been in the vicinity to come forward with any and all information they had as you never know what small detail may prove important. So, I'd say given all of the above, while Suzanne may have been on her way up Elm, or even to a store, it doesn't appear she made it that far and thus it is less likely she would have been near the parking lot.
Still bugged on what the parents were quoted as saying.
So am I, but from the point of view of what "assurances" the police might be telling them which now seem likely to be based solely on wishful thinking. As I said earlier, they have little reason not to put all their faith and trust in the police which means they implicitly believe things like (I'm just making this up of course) "Ma'am, my police instincts from 20 years on the job tell me we have the right guy. He'll slip up. They all do. We just need to turn the screws a bit more." At some point they'll realize that a car must have been used and that not only did the police not find any evidence Suzanne had been in Jim's car -- ever -- (nor evidence he tried to wipe the car clean, rent or steal a car, etc.), but that the police are afraid to release this information to the public for fear of public ridicule for pursuing an innocent man.
I think the dam might break after the police release the infamous cat hair analysis. The only possible reason I can think that the police are making hay over this is that they (and, yes, the Jovins) are praying some fibers they might have found in Jim's car match fibers they might have taken from Suzanne's sweater. Again, this is only a guess. If so, it obviously confirms they have no human hair to match, no fingerprints to match, no blood to match, no clothing fibers to match, etc. because if they did here a year later we'd have heard about it by now and probably had an arrest and/or front page headlines about a break in the case. Once this last bit of possible evidence Suzanne might have ever been in Jim's car proves to be wishful thinking, I can't imagine how the police will be able to justify having Jim as a suspect any longer. At the very least, I expect a firestorm where people demand to know just what the police ever had or ever told Yale or the Jovins what they thought they had in the first place. Only then will we know why the Jovins have said the things they have said such as what you have cited.
- Jeff |
