Given that hypothesis, we needn't think he went to the rink at all. Apparently no one saw him there. If hw was somewhere else between a little before 8 and about 8:20, where was he, and why did he go there? Remember, we have only his word for all this, and no oorraboration of the fact that he actually did reach home by about 8:20.
He could, theoretically, have gone to Suzanne's apartment and waited outside; she wouldn't have been home yet. But if there's an active police substation on the ground floor, he might not have wanted to do that. He could, of course, have driven off and come back. Said he wanted to talk. Suzanne replies: "Just a sec, I have to go upstairs, check my email, do a couple of things. I'll be back in ten minutes." Plausible enough, except that it didn't happen that way.
She was seen on the campus by Peter Stein, and presumably by the people to whom she dropped off the keys.
But what about the last witness? The one who said she saw her on College Street? Was she telling the truth? If not, Suzanne might well simply have walked back across campus to her apartment, found Jim waiting outside, and....
In that case, though, he'd only have had about ten minutes, 15 at most, to kill her and dispose of the body. And there's still the question of the car: his own wasn't used. |
