<<Feel free to tear this scenario apart.>> :) Ok, Jim, here goes:
You wrote of three or four punks driving around, needing money for drugs/alcohol, and deciding to grab a rich Yale student to get money and access to her ATM card and funds. . Fine.
<< As they are driving down College St. they spot Suzanne. The driver pulls up behind her and stops. Two of the punks jump out of the car and grab her. (They assume she has a wallet in her pocket.) They quickly hustle her into the car.>>
For these reasons, IMO, that doesn't work:
1. It was a very warm night. People were out walking, walking dogs, playing, walking between the Yale-Princeton game at the Rink and Yale, going to parties and movies. College St. was filled with people.
2. As an illustration, the witness who saw Suzanne walking on College St. "close to 9:30" was a student who left the game early and was walking alone to a party. She passed Suzanne, "but didn't think much of it." In Suzanne's immediate path, she saw a Hispanic or black guy going north. Behind him, walking north, was Suzanne, and behind her, walking in the same direction was a nicely dressed blond man with glasses. (VF 08/99 - all quotes are from the same article.}
3. Suzanne's friends all said she would never willingly accept a ride with someone she didn't know; she was in excellent condition; and, and "physically quite strong." She jogged, played squash, skied, and took some aerobics classes. "Whoever killed her, her friends say, was very strong ...'If you were talking about things Suzanne knew about, she would knock you out if she disagreed.' "
4. From all accounts of Suzanne, if she was accosted by two punks jumping out of a car, she would have physically resisted and fought with them. The evidence is that there were not any bruises, scrapes, scratches, or defensive wounds or marks anywhere on her body.
5. In the next part of your scenario, you wrote that she was, "screaming her head off" in the car. Clearly, the "screaming her head off" would have started the moment she was grabbed while walking on College St., before ever entering the car, it would have been heard, and, presumably, she would have been helped.
The point being, on that night, it would have been highly unlikely for anyone, especially Suzanne Jovin, to be "grabbed" and "quickly hustled" into a vehicle on College St.
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<<The car speeds away and the punks soon discover that she is not carrying a wallet or an ATM card. In the mean time Suzanne is screaming her head off. One of the punks becomes so pissed off, because they came up empty, that he pulls out a knife and starts stabbing Suzanne. >>
Sorry, Jim:
6. Minor, but: A punk-filled car that is carrying a kidnapped female Yale student doesn't speed away to anywhere.
7. Think for a moment: These three or four punks, or even one of them, get(s) so "pissed off, because they came up empty," what are they going to do with this beautiful young woman they've just kidnapped? Stab her? No, at least not yet. They are going to drive to some remote area and sexually assault her. We know that never happened.
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<<They drive around for a short while trying to figure out what to do with her and decide to dump her body in an upper class neighborhood. Unless one of the punks starts bragging about the murder they will probably never be caught.>>
Very sorry, Jim; but, IMO, that dog won't hunt:
8. Suzanne was severely wounded, but likely alive, when she was at the intersection of Edgehill and East Rock. The police hosed the blood off the street the day following the murder. Mrs. Oxley, who lives across the street from where Suzanne was found, and saw her, lying face down on a grassy area between the curb and the sidewalk, before she was moved, said, "She looked to me as though she was trying...to get to that house and didn't make it,"
9. Punks don't dump bodies in upper class neighborhoods!! . . Punks know they are readily spotted in upper class, "mansioned" areas. Punks dump bodies in remote woods and river basins, abandoned and dilapidated buildings or at dumps.
10. <<Unless one of the punks starts bragging....>> While you may be regrettably correct that this crime may never be solved, for the past year, the tragic murder of Suzanne has had frequent local media coverage, and significant national coverage. It is somewhat inconceivable that none of the "three or four punks" would have talked about it during the year; and, more inconceivable, that none of the punks, nor any of the friends or family they told, have been arrested for other crimes, and wouldn't have used that information to bargain for a lighter sentence, or a dismissal, of the charges against them.
Where does that leave us? As you, Jeff, and some others theorize, Suzanne may have been murdered by someone she didn't know; however, IMO, it would have to be under a different scenario.
Time to leave. What's good for the goose .... so, feel free to rip and tear these points apart. :)
Regards,
Carol |
