WW, I agree that your scenario makes sense for a secret meeting. The problem with such scenarios in general is that they always work since, by definition, there can't be any evidence that points to the killer... hence a perfect murder.
To figure out how probable your scenario is, we need to break it down and see how likely each sub event would be (a subjective exercise, of course). For example:
You wrote:
Note: secrets, by definition, are secret - why would we expect that she would tell anyone or write about it in a diary.
Here we need the opinion of a woman, preferably a woman who keeps or has kept a diary. We need to know how intimate woman get in them. If they were seeing a married man or doing something they shouldn't, might a diary be used like a confessional, i.e. an outlet for "guilt"? Are women likely to "censor" their diaries for fear someone "unauthorized" might read them?
As I mentioned earlier, what is secret now might not have been secret yesterday, or last week. Maybe last week the person in question was just some guy at a bar who had removed his wedding ring. A week later he might have confessed to being married and then asked for total secrecy. If so, would a woman go back and alter or rip out any past pages in her diary she wrote about him? I somehow doubt it.
For me to get past square one on any secret scenario I need to feel that a) woman are at least somewhat likely to self-censor what they write in their diaries, and b) Suzanne was not the type to share intimate details of her life in her diary, with friends, or with family. I may be wrong, but I get the impression Suzanne was not someone who internalized things.
- Jeff |
