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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin?
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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (264)1/11/2000 8:17:00 PM
From: VivB  Read Replies (2) of 1397
 
Jeff,

I came across this thread last night. I have some questions that I do not believe have been address yet. I have tried to read or scan most of the posts before adding any comments. Quite a while back, someone suggested that Suzanne might have stumbled into a situation and was killed because of what she'd seen. Someone else suggested that her death might be related to the terrorist figure she was investigating in her thesis. This suggestion seems to have been dismissed by most since none of her friends had any idea of a "secret informant" and all of the sources used in her thesis were "written" text.

I think that the possibility that her death might be related to the topic of her research project has been too easily dropped. She would not need to physically meet a "secret informer" to browse the Internet visiting web sites with ties to known terrorist groups. She could have easily visited chat rooms convinced that an anonymous web identity protected her from detection. She may have never intended to use this information in her actual thesis but it was merely "background information" to get a "feel" for the kind of person she was writing about.

Remember, this is the same class that had the "optional" assignment of cruising the Internet to find public information on bomb building. While it was stated that Suzanne did not participate in the "field trips," she may have done some of the Internet exercises. This is not necessarily the kind of information one might put in a diary. Suppose she stumbled onto information she shouldn't have and the site, message board poster, chat room user, whoever, traced it back and figured out who she really was? She could even have inadvertently "overhead" plans which had no particular significance to her at the time but were significant to the terrorist group. What if they thought she might be some kind of undercover informant monitoring their computer communications? Hadn't her advisor worked for the U.S. Government? Wasn't he still active in the Reserves. Might they have started watching and/or stalking her?

Do you know if any sort of check was done on her computer for "Internet History Files" to make a list of the web sites she'd recently visited? Did she have bookmarks in her web browser related to her thesis topic or the bomb building project? Was she using a type of computer which would allow sites to trace and monitor her web visits? Did she have any chat rooms bookmarked?
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