Re: 3/27/01 - Hartford Courant: Jovin Reward To Be Raised
Jovin Reward To Be Raised
By GARY LIBOW
The Hartford Courant
March 27, 2001
NEW HAVEN - A substantial reward will be announced today in an effort to jump-start the stalled investigation into the 1998 slaying of Yale University senior Suzanne Jovin.
The reward would supplement $50,000 already set aside by the state to help apprehend the person or persons responsible for fatally stabbing Jovin, 21, on Dec. 4, 1998. Passersby found Jovin suffering from 17 stab wounds in the city's East Rock neighborhood. No arrests have been made in connection with the case.
Police spokeswoman Judith Mongillo said State's Attorney Michael Dearington, Ellen Jovin of New York, the victim's sister, Police Chief Melvin H. Wearing and Yale University Police Chief James Perrotti will attend the 2 p.m. press conference at the department's police training academy on Sherman Parkway.
Mongillo said Ellen Jovin and Dearington are scheduled to speak.
Tom Conroy, a Yale spokesman, declined to discuss the reward Monday.
Two years after Jovin was killed, Yale retained a private investigator to crack the high-profile case, stymied by scant forensic evidence and no eyewitnesses.
James Van de Velde, Jovin's former lecturer and senior thesis adviser, has been the only person named by New Haven police as a suspect, but police have not disclosed why he is considered a suspect.
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