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

To: Carolyn who wrote (107)	12/23/1999 3:01:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Re: "New" information! I talked for an hour today to Suzanna Andrews, the woman who wrote the Vanity Fair article. Got some very good insight from her. A few major points: 1. Suzanne Jovin hadn't yet reached Elm when last seen This leaves open the very real possibility Suzanne took a left on Elm and was heading back toward her apartment (via a more roundabout route). If so, the implications are staggering. First of all, Elm Street would have been full of cars and people on a warm night with school in session. Second of all, she'd be much more likely to run into someone she knew (not just the killer(s), but people who would have been able to ID her at points along her walk). Third, assuming her intention was to take a totally different route back home (i.e. walking all the way up Elm to Park Street, where she lived), she'd have passed through what I consider a very dangerous, secluded stretch of road. Fourth, no matter who picked her up (friend or foe) would have had to at some point been driving in the opposite direction (back down Elm) in order to have driven Suzanne to where she was fatally stabbed (you have to take my word for it that another route from Park St to where she was found would have been highly unlikely), thus increasing the odds she might have been seen in a car. Had Suzanne turned the corner to walk up Elm, the probability of any sort of immediate entry into a car go way down. I have a hard time seeing an abduction happening on Elm Street. Unless she had crossed over the street (most people wait until they get further up), she'd have been walking against traffic making it unlikely someone would have stopped to offer her a ride. Lastly, Elm Street is not where you'd normally meet someone either secretly or at all. Phelps Gate, yes; Elm Street, no. 2. Suzanne never told anyone she had to work on her thesis that night Suzanne told her friends she had work to do and her friends were the ones who concluded she meant work on her thesis. This lessens the probability that her destination that night had something to do with her thesis. 3. She hadn't changed her clothes If Suzanne had simply planned to drop the keys off and come directly back to her apartment it would have probably taken her about a half hour. Now we know she didn't stop by to change her clothes. Then why did she stop by? Was it just to check her messages? If she knew she would only be out for a half hour wouldn't she have been able to wait that long? I'm guessing that because her apartment was on the way back from the parking lot where she had parked the car she borrowed that she figured "why not". I find it curious that her wallet was found in her apartment meaning that unless she routinely carries it, such as when driving, she had a reason for dropping it off. 4. There was no blood in the street The two people I talked to that had been at the crime scene both never mentioned seeing any blood in the street, or much if any blood at all, nor have any news articles mentioned a bloody crime scene. I guess the hosing down of the street must have been standard operating procedure. This fact, IMO, lessons the chance Suzanne was in motion (i.e. running) at the time. Edit: I just checked an early article from the New Haven Register. It says "there reportedly were no traces of blood between where she lay and the street." 5. No one knows how she was ID'd at the scene. The most direct route from Suzanne's apartment to Phelps Gate would have been to cross the street in front of her apartment and cut through Davenport College (Yale is divided into Colleges). To do so she'd have needed a Yale ID. [Important note to self: can any Yale ID access any campus gate, or just the College to which one belongs?] Had she forgotten her ID, it would have been a simple task to go back into her apartment to get it. Therefore, my thinking is the probability she had her Yale ID on her is high. So why haven't the police told people how she was ID'd? OK, time for another curve ball. There is a rumor that she had her checkbook on her. Wish I could say how reliable a rumor this is but I have no idea. 6. The argument someone reported hearing actually was heard on a corner a block away! The person who reported they heard an argument said they heard it on the corner of East Rock Rd and Whitney Ave. This area is one long block south of the crime scene. - Jeff