JD,
I think you have a good point here...
<<Since we are assuming that SJ could have gone back to apt via the campus and not Elm Street and since PS was the last person to have spoken with SJ, what other proof is there that he is not the one?? >>
I started wondering, why did PS call his mother, especially on a Friday night? I went back and looked up the link CJ provided earlier.
yaledailynews.com
<<By 9:15, Jovin had made her way to Old Campus, where she met friend Peter Stein '99, who was out for a stroll. Jovin told him she was headed to Phelps Gate to turn in the keys to the station wagon.
"She did not mention plans to go anywhere or do anything else afterward," Stein said. "She just said that she was very, very tired and that she was looking forward to getting a lot of sleep."
Stein is relatively positive about the 9:15 time estimate. After parting with Jovin at Phelps gate, Stein wandered around for another 10 or 15 minutes, and then went home to call his mother. Stein said police later checked his phone records and found that he placed the call around 9:30, exactly the amount of time he needed to corroborate his estimate.
Stein was the last person to report seeing Jovin alive. At some point in the next half hour, Jovin would be brutally stabbed and left for dead in a residential neighborhood north of campus.>>
Since there is a phone record of the call from his apartment to his mother, the only way I can see this working out is if he either..
1) Killed Suzanne then hid her body in his car and went home to call his mother to establish an alibi. He spoke briefly with his mom and then drove his car to the quiet neighborhood where he pushed out the body from the car and drove away.
2) Same as 1 except he did not actually kill her until after he spoke with his mother. In that case, he would have had to subdue her without leaving any evidence that she was bound -- maybe using pantyhose to tie her up or some form of drugging.
Viv |
