Jim is driving around looking for Suzanne.
Why would he assume he'd find her by driving around?" The Yale campus is pretty big; his chances of running into her wouldn't be very good.
It'd be far more logical for him simply to call her. When would he have done this? I should think he didn't know about the pizza party, so he may first have called earlier in the evening, then perhaps several more times. Did Suzanne have an answering machine? Most people do. If so, were there any messages on it, or any hangups? But even if he then decided she must be out, I don't see why he'd go looking for her. Why would she necessarily be alone, on a Friday night? More likely to be with a group of people or with her boyfriend. He may, of course, not have known she had a boyfriend, but going out on a date on weekend nights is entirely expectable behavior for college students.
Jim drives to the crime scene...
Not, I think, the place where she was found. Way too dangerous for him to make any move there. We assume that the guy's not a trained killer, so he couldn't have hoped to hit the right spot on the first try. And evidently didn't believe he had done, or he wouldn't have kept at it.
Suzanne has a winter jacket on which catches most of the blood.
Remember, it was an unseasonably warm night. Jeff told me she was wearing jeans and a lightweight brown sweater; no jacket. There're other reasons to assume she wasn't wearing a jacket, but more on that later.
And I still believe he'd have got much more blood on him than you propose. Probably he'd have rubbed some of it off on the car when he got back in, yet the cops found no such traces. |
