Zeuspaul, if we say that Suzanne would have put up a fight in a car then she'd have put up a greater fight outdoors. After all, one doesn't exit a car in an unfamiliar neighborhood at 9:45 or so at night (or if she were familiar with the area, then a place two miles from home) unless one senses danger. Recall this scenario is based on someone we are assuming Suzanne knows and perhaps made plans to meet. We have also assumed Suzanne is strong-willed and athletic. Therefore, she most likely would have put up a verbal fight before taking any physical action.
If we want to shoehorn in the three statements by the witnesses, we'd have to posit that the argument took place at 9:45pm one block south of the crime scene. We'd have to assume the windows were rolled down so that someone could hear them from inside a house. We now have a five minute gap until the five screams were heard a block north (although I don't know for sure the location). How do we explain this? Well, I suppose we now have a fearful Suzanne exiting the car, probably running away from the scene. As I said before, at this point we have a huge gotcha. One block south in Whitney Ave., a heavily traveled main road that leads to Yale. All Yale students know that road. It makes no sense for someone fleeing a scene to head north into a residential area.
I guess we'll assume she was disoriented or in a state of panic and gloss over this for now. So let's return to a fearful Suzanne walking fast/jogging/running north. According to your scenario, the killer now gets his knife and heads after her. Are we saying Suzanne wouldn't have seen this and reacted? I see either two possibilities here. Either she was very fearful in which case she would have started running (perhaps screaming; the five screams?), or she was just angry and thus would have probably turned around and confronted the person.
I think because of the lack of defensive wounds we can rule out the latter as she'd have been facing the killer in order to confront him. If the former, then we have a fearful Suzanne obviously aware of a problem running and screaming with her back to the killer. But, wait, if this is true, how do we fit in the so-called "last words"? Either she is struck from behind totally unaware or she is aware enough to speak loud enough that a passerby heard her. If she's this aware of what's happening then it seems reasonable to me she was aware enough to at least put a hand up in defense and most likely yell bloody murder so to speak.
Yet, somehow, we have her screaming, uttering last words, being felled by a single blow in her tracks, no staggering, no momentum, no blood spurting out all over the place from this, by definition, debilitating wound, no grass stains from a fall on her clothes, no grass stains on her face from 17 blows to the head, no marks in the grass from perhaps the knees of the killer, etc., no attempt to turn her over and stab her in the heart, her whole body laying there and fully accessible yet all the wounds are localized, etc. And when all is said and done the neighbors who saw the body couldn't even tell she was dead. They said she looked like she had fainted.
No, this doesn't make sense. I think a car pulled up, stopped by the side of the road. Someone picked her up under the arms and just gave a heave. That's why she was positioned in that odd spot and at a ninety degree angle to the road with her feet in it. That's why the crime scene was not bloody and not otherwise torn up or disturbed. IMHO.
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