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

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (136)	1/9/2000 12:49:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 1397

Okay guys, I've been catching up on the thread, and now I'll begin to comment. Didn't want to earlier, as there's no point being redundant. In general, knives are perceived as a much more "intimate" way to kill someone, which implies a knife would be far more likely in a crime of passion than a gun. That's not really how I perceive it. And it would be interesting to see statistics, say, about muggers. How many use guns, how many use knives? As someone's already pointed out, knives are easier to come by, cheaper, and relatively untraceable. They're also silent, though of course the victim may not be. I have several friends who were mugged by armed assailants. In each case the weapon was a knife, not a gun. As for the number of stab wounds: its just as consistent with a killer who was nervous, or who panicked, as with one attacking in a fit of passion. "It pains us terribly to imagine that she may have met her fate as a victim of her very positive, but critical outlook"...is a most BOLD and most UNUSUAL statement to make after hearing about the death of your daughter. I agree that this is significant. Doesn't matter whether at the time the Jovins were convinced Jim had done it or not. This appears to have been their sincere assessment of their daughter's character. Very outspoken people sometimes give offense when they don't mean to, and fail to realize that they've done so. (I could offer some personal testimony here.) If that's the kind of person Suzanne was, she may have had a number of enemies, and not been aware of the fact. If one were seriously unbalanced, she could have been in danger. One of the things that puzzles me most about the crime is that an enormous amount of blood must have been shed. The fact that no blood, or very little, was present at the place Suzanne was found suggests that she was by then completely exsanguinated. We're talking two gallons of blood. Where did it go? More on this later.