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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin?
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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (510)3/4/2000 7:55:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett  Read Replies (3) of 1397
 
Analysis of the knife.

According to the police the knife had a blade length of 3-1/2" to 4-1/2" and was made from carbon steel. This is rather large for an ordinary pocket knife and too small to be a hunting knife. It sounds to me like it was one those large folding knives with a blade that locks when opened and is usually carried in a small "holster" on a man's belt. I'm sure you've seen hundreds of men wearing them.

I mentioned the locking blade because that is very important. Trying to stab someone (or something hard like a skull) with an ordinary folding knife is very dangerous to the person wielding the knife. When you stab something hard the blade has a tendency to fold back into the handle and severely cut that person's hand. I know this from personal experience. A knife that locks in the open position will not do that. You must depress a lever on the back of the handle in order to close the blade. I happen to own one of these knives.

I don't know where the cops got the idea that the killer had to know Suzanne just because the killer stabbed her 17 times. The killer stabbed her 17 times simply because she did not die right away after the first three or four stabs to the head and back. She was probably screaming and trying to run while he was stabbing her. If he had cut her throat first she would have sunk into unconsciousness in less than 30 seconds. Severing the carotid artery shuts off all oxygen to the brain. Also the blood would have poured down her windpipe and prevented her from screaming.
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