Re: My call to the Jovin Hotline
As it seems obvious the New Haven Police have pretty much based their Jovin murder investigation on the hopes the killer falls into their laps, I figured I'd do whatever I could to help this novel strategy succeed. As I have already gotten the Yale radio station, WYBC, to read PSA's, I thought maybe putting up more reward posters might help. So, last Tuesday (at about 4pm) I called the Jovin hotline and left a message (on an answering machine) asking someone to call me about how to go about doing this. I.e. do the police have posters I can pick up? Where am I allowed to put them, etc. Well, here we are on Friday around 11am and no one has called me back. Does anyone monitor that line? Does anyone care? Do people get put off when they get an answering machine and just hang up?
The people I feel most sorry for are the Jovin family. I'm sure they are being assured by the New Haven police that they are doing everything in their power to solve this murder. I can't imagine the sick feeling they must get reading the recent stories about a grand jury being convened to "investigate potential criminal wrongdoing" by some of the very same people who investigated the murder of their daughter.
Here's one part of the Register article that stands out:
Sullivan, in his interview with internal affairs, said he asked Kendall to forward the new evidence to North Haven police, sources said.
Sullivan also stated he met with police Chief Melvin H. Wearing, and they decided to end the department's involvement in the investigation because they had expended enough manpower and money on another agency's investigation.
In Kendall's statement to internal affairs, he said he intended to forward the information but got involved in investigating other murder cases -- including the high-profile murder of Yale senior Suzanne Jovin -- and forgot.
zwire.com
So, does this mean the New Haven police have "forgot" to check the Jovin hotline because they are off investigating other murders? Even worse, do they even have time for such things now that they have a grand jury investigation for which to prepare?
I think the stories we are hearing about now are just the tip of the iceberg. IMO, it's only a matter of time before a detective in the Jovin murder investigation comes forward to reveal similar incompetence.
- Jeff |
