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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MNI who wrote (81)	12/16/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Another question, considering the lack of blood at the crime scene. Is it indicative that she was dumped much later after the stabbings? This would place the initial crime scene much closer to where she was last seen alive. How long does the blood take to coagulate? Was it the position in which the body lay and the position and nature of the wounds that made the crime scene 'cleaner'? I have some doubt that she was involved in the loud argument at Edgehill if she was stabbed in the neck in such a way that hampered her speaking loudly. I brought up the question about the German accent also since she may have also verbalized in German in the heat of an argument.

To: MNI who wrote (81)	12/16/1999 3:05:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 1397

MNI, the Suzanne Jovin murder occurred a year ago. The New Haven police have had plenty of time to thoroughly interview hundreds of people by now. I seriously doubt anything we are doing here will be messing up their investigation. I have great respect for the police, especially those in New Haven where things appear to be getting increasingly more dangerous. However, given my "familiarity" with the Jovin murder, it is my very humble opinion that those in charge of it have done irresponsible, reckless, and inexcusable things and deserve criticism and close scrutiny. I can't comment on the work of the many detectives on the case, but my guess is they are fed up with their superiors as well and one day one of them will speak out and spill the dirt. I agree with you about two people viewing a crime scene seeing things differently. I will endeavor to get yet another opinion. I also should know by tonight if Suzanne had any sort of accent. Recall that the scream came at around 9:45pm. If that were Suzanne, unless she had jogged a couple of 8 minute miles to get there, she'd have had to have been driven. Thus you'd expect any screams to have been muffled in a car. Also, more importantly, you don't scream unless you think you are in danger, such as if someone is about to assault you in some way. You'd think someone who was able to get off a scream would also be able to duck, throw their hands up, dive out of the way, etc. in order to avoid being stabbed. Again, there were no defensive wounds. Ineresting theory about anesthetics possibly being used. Definitely possible, but I would think (but don't know for sure) that toxicology tests would have discovered that, assuming any were done. Also, one normally associates chrloroform, knock out drops, extreme levels of alcohol, etc. with a sexual assault, which wasn't the case here. And, someone is knocked out and you want to kill them, there are probably better ways to do so rather than stabbing them 17 times through the skull I would think. Hitch-hiking is another interesting thought. I suppose maybe she had somewhere way off campus she wanted to go and needed a lift. However, she could have taken the Minibus that stops in front of Phelps Gate or gotten a cab, although I suppose she might have started waking further away and then realized she was too tired to continue. Perhaps a friend of hers might know if she was prone to hitch hike. Keep in mind though that her wallet was found back at her apartment, so this would probably have limited where she was going to where she would not have needed it, like a friend's house. Again, since no friend has spoken up saying Suzanne had intended to visit them that night, nor did Suzanne write of tell anyone of such, this theory depends on some super-secret meeting and/or person she was going to meet which I don't believe is the case. It also presumes that the person/people who did pick her up just happened to be carrying a knife and got intensely mad enough to use it. It's not that I don't think people can't get mad enough to kill in 20 minutes, it's just that I think they are probably already in such a mood and likely searching for someone rather than the other way around. I hope you hang around! - Jeff