Jovin was wearing a light sweater. I believe that if she'd been tied up, and had struggled, the rope would have left bruises.
She was wearing a fleece pullover. I agree that the most effective way to tie up someone is rope over skin but that takes time to do, not to mention, as you point out "can't be easy... when they're fighting back", so who knows. There are no reports of any rope burns so either they were not there, missed, or such information is being kept secret. So I'd say with all these variables it would be hard to draw a likely conclusion. It may well be that if she were tied up with rope over clothing that that allowed her to get free enough that, combined with screaming, she became too risky to keep alive.
Or...did he knock her out? Did Regan do that to any of his other victims?
He apparently just forces himself on people. A reporter told me Regan was a very good wrestler and a strong man, so perhaps he just assumed women would submit to him rather than fight. I've not read where he used a weapon to subdue anyone. He likely planned to strangle/suffocate them. Had Suzanne been the victim of someone simply intent on murder, I would think the murder weapon would have been either a gun or a knife much more substantial than the flimsy carbon steel one used to kill her.
Regan, at least recently, took photographs of women that he likely fantasized over "dominating." I would think if he took photographs from years back he still has them, so if I were the police I'd be trying to match them up with cold case victims. If there are pictures of Yalies circa 1998, that would be a smoking gun, IMO.
- Jeff |
