I think we are making progress. We seem to have agreed that there is a greater probability Suzanne was planning to go out somewhere after dropping off the keys, as opposed to returning directly back home.
The next question is whether she was planning to do something or meet someone. For now, let's continue to focus on the latter; who might she have been planning to meet?
Here are the general categories:
1. A friend
2. A lover
3. A professor
4. A relative
5. A stranger
We need to narrow these categories down.
I think Suzanne's e-mail, or lack thereof, is a huge clue. We know the police read all her e-mail. They even have logs of when she logged on and off her computer that night. College kids, especially those at Yale, use e-mail extensively. The reason why Suzanne may have taken the time to check her e-mail at all that night is because it's just part of a college student's routine nowadays.
If there were any "suspicious" person Suzanne were corresponding with the police would know about it. That would be real potential evidence. They'd have said so publicly as they have absolutely nothing right now.
If Suzanne had received an e-mail telling her a place and time to meet that night and then deleted it: a) unless she knew exactly where on her hard drive such files are kept and the codes (filenames) that are used to identify them, I can't conceive of her using software to wipe such evidence away completely; heck, such e-mail might even be in her trash, b) the e-mail would still probably be on the server. This lack of e-mail trail makes me think a) the person was most likely not affiliated with Yale, and/or b) the relationship was a recent one that perhaps hadn't progressed to the e-mail stage. In either case, we're pretty much ruling out lots of "obvious" people.
The other important thing here is that if we assume Suzanne were meeting someone we'd have to assume that, most likely, said person killed her as no one has come forward to report Suzanne never showed up for a meeting they had planned. Sure, as we've discussed before, it's possible she was killed en route to a top secret meeting, but not very likely.
Is there anything I can do to help us get more information on this matter?
- Jeff |
