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

To: CJ who wrote (242)	1/11/2000 4:08:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1397

CJ, per your request: 1. The distance from Jim's former residence at the Bethesda Lutheran Parish House at 305 St. Ronan Street to the crime scene (corner of East Rock and Edgehill), according to my car's odometer, was .58 miles. 2. The BLPH connects to the Bethesda Lutheran Church. The house, while quite large, only has two apartments. Go up the stairs and take a right and you arrive at Jim's one-bedroom apartment. Go up the stairs to the left and you are at an apartment occupied by three people who each have their own bedroom. These bedrooms are actually on a third floor. Jim normally parks his car in the driveway at night as they tow cars parked on the street during the week. On Friday nights, as he did on the night in question, he parked in the street to allow more room for people attending church on Saturday to park. 3. Jim never asked the people in the other apartment if they saw his car parked on the street that night. He assumes that given the high-profile nature of the crime, had they been able to say one way or the other they'd have told that to the police. 4. How Jim learned of the crime has never actually been reported -- strange but true -- but you asked for it, so here goes: As reported in the New York Times Magazine, Jim did first hear of a murder on the 11pm news that night. At that point he did not know who had been murdered as no name had been released to the media. As also reported, he met Anna Ramirez to go jogging at 9am the next morning at the track at Albertus Magnus College (on Prospect near Canner), as planned. He had gone there on foot and she had ridden her bike. At around 9:20 the two started walking together back towards Jim's apartment (Anna was walking alongside her bike). It was he who mentioned the murder to her; while that area has its share of crime, a murder would have been a rare event. There was a New Haven Register vending box across the street on Canner so Jim stopped by there to read the headline. It was then that he learned the exact location of the murder. Once at Jim's apartment, Anna rode home. At about 10am Jim got on his own bike and rode to the crime scene. He admits it was morbid curiosity. I asked what he saw and he said he recalls seeing a Channel 3 news reporter and perhaps a man at some point. That was it. He didn't stay very long at all and then rode back home. The first time he heard who had been murdered was when he got an e-mail forwarded to him at his office from a student. I believe he said this was at 12:07pm but I didn't take notes. The interesting thing about the above is that it all came from a conversation I had with Jim earlier tonight based on your questions. However, the thrust of the discussion on my part was to determine why the New Haven Police have so steadfastly held to the idea Jim must have done it. Did he do or say something early on that might have set off alarm bells? Here are a few possibilities we came up with: 1. The police asked Jim when he first heard of the murder. He replied on the 11 o'clock news. He was not asked, and never has been asked by anyone when he first learned who had been murdered. He thinks perhaps the police might think they caught him in a lie, i.e. how would he have known about her murder that early, when in fact he didn't know! 2. He is also thinks maybe, facetiously, there was someone in the bushes taking pictures the next morning and there's a picture of him at the crime scene. I say "facetiously" because he didn't actually see anyone with a camera there, not even a Channel 3 cameraman (had Channel 3 actually gotten such footage, it would have been all over the news which is why the joke about the guy in the bushes). I asked if he would be nervous if I wrote about this and he said, in so many words, it's what really happened so sure. Lastly, as a disclaimer, I wrote this from memory, i.e. no written notes. - Jeff