In the car she would have no choice. In the outdoors the most likely opportunity for survival would be to flee.
That wasn't what I was hoping to impart. What I was trying to say was that out of the car Suzanne would have had a greater range of motion, i.e. if she were caught or decided to fight she could kick, roll over, curl into a ball, etc. which would be much more difficult to do in a car. It's much easier, IMO, to subdue someone and inflict localized wounds if they are restricted in their motion.
She did..they argued. Why would she take physical action if she thought she could escape. Physical action would have favored the stronger party with the weapon.
Jumping out of a car and running is what I meant by physical action. I didn't mean to imply Suzanne would choose to stay and fight.
Is the location of the found body at the corner of Edgehill Rd and E Rock Rd? Do we know more precisely where the body was found at this intersection?
The "xxx" is where Suzanne was found. There are shrubs surrounding the house on that corner so that area is somewhat shielded from view.
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As Whitney Ave is not south but EAST of the found body. Was the argument at Whitney and Edgehill? or was the argument south at Huntington and Edgehill? What is the source of this info? Can we clarify which street intersection the argument took place?
Yes, you are right about the direction. I should have said "down one block" which technically would be east. Here is a crude map I drew which better explains things:
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Here is a "real" map of the area. Whitney is obscured by a purple line:
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The source of the location of the argument being one block down from the crime scene is a statement given by that witness. As for the time, what 20/20 reported is not what the New Haven Register reported:
At 9:40 p.m., East Rock Road was disrupted, and witnesses would later tell police they heard a man and a woman arguing.
At 9:45 p.m., the witnesses would say, they heard a woman screaming and, 10 minutes later, an emergency 911 call was made to police.
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The last words and when they were supposedly uttered relative to the screams and the argument was all taken from 20/20 and new to me as well. Considering 20/20 did virtually no investigation on their own (they merely repeated what they were told), who knows how accurate they are. I suspect the main reason they mentioned those things without saying anything about the likelihood of them having any relevance to the murder was simply because they made good television.
However I believe the evidence that I am aware of better suits the outdoor event. How do you explain the argument, the screams and the statement in an upscale quiet neighborhood if the murder were committed somewhere else? I can see disregarding one but three is too much to ignore IMO.
First of all it was unusually warm out and people were out and about. The streets are wide, well-lit, and there are big sidewalks. There are many reasons people scream. As I said before: 1) if someone is alert enough to scream they are alert enough or instinctual enough to offer some sort of defense, 2) I'm pretty sure if someone were screaming outside my window from being stabbed I could differentiate their screams from someone yelling at their dog. Apparently no one bothered to call the police nor felt compelled to go outside and check on the screaming. What does that tell you?
If she were running from the killer she had her back to him. He did not necessarily tackle her. He could have caught up to her..grabbing her left shoulder with his left hand to slow her down..then with his right hand put the knife to her throat...scream and I'll kill you...she would be frozen..then slit the throat...OR the first thrust as he caught up to her could have been a stab through the neck to the jugular causing her to weaken quickly.
No. Doesn't make any sense, IMO. If you're running it's hard to stop dead in your tracks even if you want to. With blood pumping from running if someone slits your throat the blood would go everywhere as Janice indicated. Again, I'm not saying you are wrong, just that the probability is lower, IMO.
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