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

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (167)	1/9/2000 3:36:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Jim is driving around looking for Suzanne. Why would he assume he'd find her by driving around?" The Yale campus is pretty big; his chances of running into her wouldn't be very good. It'd be far more logical for him simply to call her. When would he have done this? I should think he didn't know about the pizza party, so he may first have called earlier in the evening, then perhaps several more times. Did Suzanne have an answering machine? Most people do. If so, were there any messages on it, or any hangups? But even if he then decided she must be out, I don't see why he'd go looking for her. Why would she necessarily be alone, on a Friday night? More likely to be with a group of people or with her boyfriend. He may, of course, not have known she had a boyfriend, but going out on a date on weekend nights is entirely expectable behavior for college students. Jim drives to the crime scene... Not, I think, the place where she was found. Way too dangerous for him to make any move there. We assume that the guy's not a trained killer, so he couldn't have hoped to hit the right spot on the first try. And evidently didn't believe he had done, or he wouldn't have kept at it. Suzanne has a winter jacket on which catches most of the blood. Remember, it was an unseasonably warm night. Jeff told me she was wearing jeans and a lightweight brown sweater; no jacket. There're other reasons to assume she wasn't wearing a jacket, but more on that later. And I still believe he'd have got much more blood on him than you propose. Probably he'd have rubbed some of it off on the car when he got back in, yet the cops found no such traces.

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (167)	1/9/2000 5:13:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Jim is driving around looking for Suzanne. He has decided he must convince her to not report him to the dean on Monday. For this scenario to be plausible, we'd have to assume a) there was evidence Suzanne was going to report Jim, b) Jim had knowledge of this evidence, c) Jim thought that despite a "clean" record over many years at Yale and despite stellar student evaluations, one student saying they didn't approve of him might cost him a job (note: the New Haven police, parents, students, etc. rule out a sexual relationship), and d) the risk of being caught killing someone was worth it to save his job. In response: a) No one, not even Suzanne's parents, have said Suzanne was planning to report him. Therefore, to make this part "work" we would have to assume only Suzanne knew she planned to do this, and didn't even write about this in her diary. b) If Suzanne didn't tell anyone, why tell Jim? I'd think he'd be the last person she'd tell. Also, Suzanne just handed in her thesis that afternoon. She left a note on it to have Jim e-mail her the next day. Somehow I doubt she said "give me an 'A' or I'll report you." c) I think we agree that without some racial, sexual, or violent action on Jim's part toward Suzanne, the likelihood of him being fired over a dispute with a student are nil. If such an action occurred, Suzanne would have at least told someone about it. She apparently didn't. d) Huge risk vs. reward, no evidence of risk to begin with, no evidence of planning (first thing someone who planned such a thing would do is establish an alibi), etc. Again, your scenario is certainly possible, but very very improbable, IMO. - Jeff