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

To: CJ who wrote (98)	12/20/1999 5:57:00 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Not necessarily. Do you walk around with a sheet of notepaper? I don't. If I am taking notes, I want a hard surface on which to write: a full notebook, or one which could fit into a pocket. I frequently clean out things, be it a purse, backpack, desk, whatever. Some things I discard immediately, some I save, some I think about, then discard. She could have found it, taken it with her, thought about it, then pitched it. It may or may not be significant. Unprovable at the moment.

To: CJ who wrote (98)	12/22/1999 3:06:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Re: If Suzanne Jovin didn't have anything with her, how did they quickly find-out her identity? We don't know what was found on Suzanne, but we do know from press reports that her wallet was found in her apartment. Since she was seen cutting across old campus my guess is she also cut through Davenport (a straight line from her apartment) which means she had to have her Yale ID to get through the gates. She might have just grabbed her ID and possibly some cash. If I were the police I'd have checked her bank withdrawals that day and receipts and see how much cash she had left in her wallet. We also know the police were in her apartment rather quickly calling people to identify her, so, again, it seems likely she had some ID on her. I suppose you could make the argument that in a robbery they might have asked her to empty her pockets, so you could argue it would be unusual for her to still have her ID on her. But you could also argue she took everything out of her pocket, showed it to them, and then put it back. I honestly don't think Suzanne knew her killer(s). I know I sound defiant on this but only because I want someone to make a strong case to the contrary. Sure one can make a feasible case, but not what I would consider a likely one. If there were one strong point in favor for a secret (romantic) interlude it would be because her boyfriend was out of town. For what it's worth, Peter Stein said flat out the "seeing someone secretly" idea was a bunch of BS. None of her friends think that was the case because "Suzanne was not that kind of person." One thing to consider is it would have been easy for Suzanne to say "thanks, but I've already got plans" or "I'm meeting a friend for coffee" if she were seeing someone "innocent", i.e. someone she didn't mind people finding out about. Thus, if we assume Suzanne was going to meet someone, the odds thus favor a secret one. If she had planned to go for coffee with the person, she'd have probably taken her wallet. So we are left with the most likely scenario that she was meeting a person at their apartment in private, which brings us to a passion play being the most likely scenario... so, again, we reach a most likely dead end. Even if we assume the opposite, that even though she had already been on an extended walk she was going to meet someone in a car for going out somewhere, we still have the problem of why she didn't bring her wallet. - Jeff