"The brown van . . . the bottle . . . that’s Homicide 101 — we passed that test," said Wearing... "There’s a reason the officers here are under my tutelage — because I’m the best. We don’t need his (Van de Velde’s) help solving investigations."
ROFLMAO!*
Let's try a little Homicide 101 of our own here...
First, according to a press release put out by the New Haven police themselves: "Other witnesses have said that as they approached the corner of East Rock and Edgehill Roads, they saw a tan or brown van stopped in the roadway facing east, immediately adjacent to where Suzanne was found." (source: cityofnewhaven.com In other words, more than one person saw a tan or brown van parked exactly at the odd spot Suzanne Jovin was found. Yet, somehow, more than two full years go by before the police think this information is important enough to bring to the attention of the public! Maybe they teach that stuff in Homicide 201.
Second, the fact that Suzanne's fingerprints were found on a Fresca bottle near her body -- a bottle that witness Peter Stein emphatically said she wasn't carrying when he ran into her on the way to dropping off keys on the old campus (and given her clothing would have been highly impractical for her to have concealed) -- obviously implies that at some point on her walk back home she must have purchased it. The only store open at the time and within walking distance that sold bottles of Fresca was Krauszer's Market. If Suzanne was indeed on her way back home (meaning, gasp, she was telling the truth about wanting to relax at home that night), given the roundabout route we know she had begun to take, she'd have walked right by Krauszer's at a time that perfectly fits the timeline of the crime (I'll discuss the timeline in a future post). The manager at Krauszer's personally told me the police had questioned his staff about such a purchase. Yet, to this day, the police have never asked the public's help in reporting any suspicious activity in and around the York and Elm Street intersection on the night in question. Forget Homicide 201; perhaps Wearing should have taken Common Sense 101.
Lastly, as regards "tutelage", perhaps "teacher" Wearing momentarily forgot that his (former) top "student", Captain Brian Sullivan, was charged with withholding evidence in another high-profile murder case after a very rare Grand Jury investigation. There are I'm sure many very good cops on the New Haven police force. The problem is that when one of them speaks out to set the record straight, such as Detective Keith Wortz, Wearing goes after the whistleblower instead (see: siliconinvestor.com. One day soon we'll learn the truth about the abominable Jovin murder investigation. Given that Wearing seems to be taking credit for it right now, it should be interesting to see who he tries to blame when the house of cards collapses at his feet.
- Jeff
*ROFLMAO = "rolling on floor laughing my ass off", a very common Internet acronym |
