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

To: Carolyn who wrote (104)	12/22/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1397

A secret meeting does not have to have romantic connotations. The reasons are numerous, but having something to do with her thesis is most likely. If Suzanne were going to discuss her thesis (ie. with a friend, a professor, a secret contact, etc.), I'd think she'd have brought at least a notebook. You could also argue that if this meeting were so top secret that she'd have told her friends who dropped by she was tired and about to go to sleep, and then taken a roundabout route to drop off the keys so as not to be seen, etc. When you think about it, the only way a truly innocent person can be convicted of a crime where no evidence points to them is if you use the "perfect crime" or "top secret" scenario. So far everything we've been arguing about her meeting someone she knew falls in that category. We have no evidence of a romantic interlude, no evidence she her meeting was for academic reasons, and no evidence she was simply going to meet a friend to chat. Once we go down this road, since no one has stated Suzanne was going to meet them but never showed up, we have to assume the person she was meeting was the one who killed her (otherwise we now have two top secret people!). Having someone walk at least part of the way to meet you where they could run into a number of people along the way is not in keeping with the top secret theme, nor is leaving the victim for dead in a well-lit residential area. Statistics show that the vast majority of murder victims knew their attacker. Obviously we have these statistics because said murders usually get solved. Said murders were solved because it is quite rare for two people to be top-secret friends, i.e. at least one other person doesn't know about the friendship. After a year you'd think at least one damning piece of evidence would have been produced, even if said evidence were in dispute. For example, had Suzanne had someone's name or number on a piece of paper in her pocket that would be damning, although certainly not a smoking gun and thus disputable. We've got nothing like that! More evidence, IMO, this was a random killing. :) - Jeff