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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 (137)	1/9/2000 1:03:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

I agree: it's extremely important to establish whether a car was used or not. I feel that what evidence there is strongly suggests that a car had to be part of the picture. If we assume that, then there are two possibilities. 1. Suzanne was killed inside the car, and her body was dumped in a residential area by the killer/s. 2. Suzanne was killed outside the car, obviously in an isolated place, then put into the car and driven to the place where she was found. Objection to the first: I really don't think it'd be that easy to do. I agree with Kerry: most cars today have headrests, and that would have made for real problems. Someone should try a re-enactment in his own car. Even if it were an old car without headrests I don't think it'd be all that simple. Objection to the second: Where's the isolated place? Given the time constraints, it'd have had to be near the campus. The Mall? Can you drive into it, or are there only footpaths? Despite these difficulties, I still think a car must have been used. How else would the killer/s have got away? They'd have been covered in blood. To return to Jim: if a car was involved, he can pretty certainly be eliminated as a suspect. His own Jeep wasn't used. Blood traces can't be eradicated, no matter how hard you try. So if we want to imagine that he did it, we have also to imagine he stole a car and later disposed of it efficiently. Did he have any experience with this sort of thing? When I was a teenager it was easy to hotwire the ignition, but I'm told things have changed since then. Professional car thieves use master ignition keys. And then there're those pesky alarms. And, as noted, the problem of getting rid of the vehicle afterwards. Was Jim capable of doing all this? I doubt it, unless it can be proved that he knew how to steal cars. Timing would have been fairly critical, and you know how it is when you try something new: it always takes longer than you think it will, and you always make some dumb mistakes.