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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin?

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To: CJ who wrote (368)1/28/2000 5:33:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (2) of 1397
 
Re: Update

I (as always) have lots to say but nothing too exciting to report.

1. Stolen car report

I finally got a list of all cars stolen in CT between 11/20/98 and 12/4/98 inclusive, and all cars found between 12/4/98 and 12/31/98 inclusive. The number of cars involved were 19 and 16 respectively.

The problem with the lists is that although each car has an incident report assigned to it, a car would get one number for being reported stolen and another for being found, and thus there is no way without getting detail on each incident to match cars up and see if their path might cross through New Haven. If I eliminate cars stolen or recovered outside the area from New Haven to Bridgeport, there is only 1 car stolen and 6 cars recovered. The car stolen was reported missing from Bridgeport on 11/29. Of the cars recovered, 5 were found in Bridgeport (on 12/9, 12/16, 12/16, 12/23, and 12/29) and 1 in New Haven (on 12/11).

My hope was to find a car stolen closer to 12/4 figuring you don't steal and hold a car for an extended period of time, and even if you did, you tend not to keep cars in which someone has been murdered very long. I suppose you could change the plates and file off serial numbers if you wanted to. Perhaps someone can shed more light on this subject as to how probable certain things are regarding stolen cars.

My next task is to track down the actual police report of each of the six stolen cars and see if the owners or police found blood in any of them (assuming I can locate the owners). This will take some time.

2. E-mail regarding GRE books

I was told that Suzanne's e-mail regarding the GRE books she left in the lobby started off with something like "Sorry it took so long to get back to you..." There was nothing in her message saying she was or was not going to be home that evening. I still can't find anyone who knows what the original e-mail said.

I think it reasonable to assume that you don't leave books in a lobby unless you think someone will come by that night. I'm also leaning towards the thought Suzanne's reply makes it more likely she knew she was going to be out that night. My reasoning is that leaving books in a lobby is an impersonal thing. Whether Suzanne were lending or returning the books I'd think there'd be some sense of guilt associated with not responding as fast as she'd have apparently liked. Therefore, if she were going to be home I think she'd have wanted to offer a humble personal apology. She wasn't, so she left the books downstairs, IMO.

3. Mysterious person who last saw Suzanne.

I know someone who says they know someone who should know who this person is. They said they'd call me after making sure it was OK for me to talk to them. I've heard no word back.

- Jeff

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