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

To: VivB who wrote (266)	1/11/2000 9:30:00 PM
From: IEarnedIt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1397

I believe I was the first one on this thread to bring up the possiblity of the killer being professional and related to terrorist. None of the questions you have asked have been answered. I don't think that Jeff would have anyway of knowing the answeres to them either. Could be part of the why it was dropped so quickly but my very first thought regarding this case was that it was tied to the paper somehow and I keep going back to that thought. Your post brought it up again. IMO there are just too many parts of this crime that fit the scenario. 1. The statement by the parents 2. The witness that saw SJ walking with one man in front and another behind 3. The time element from last seen to dead 4. The throat slashed (now known as something that would prevent profuse bleeding) 5. Stalking could easily have been continuous with the actual time of attack being more or less random 6. The call to the police would have to have been made fairly rapidly after SJ was ejected from a car (yes, I feel a car was used) and this is also why I'm interested in knowing who made the call --local resident? or 911 from a phone booth or some such?? 7. The no apparent motive. i.e. money, sex, etc. 8. The lack of self defense wounds. JD

To: VivB who wrote (266)	1/12/2000 2:10:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

I think that the possibility that her death might be related to the topic of her research project has been too easily dropped... Suppose she stumbled onto information she shouldn't have and the site, message board poster, chat room user, whoever, traced it back and figured out who she really was? OK, let's run with this... I'm with you on the part about this mystery person "flying under radar" in that he wasn't significant enough to mention in her diary or to friends. I'd say 30% chance that had such a person existed, Suzanne might not have mentioned him to family and friends. Not likely but certainly more than just possible. The next question is whether that person would be significant enough for Suzanne to mention to her thesis advisor. I'd have to say there's a 90% chance against Suzanne keeping this from her thesis advisor. Not that there was any need for her to discuss it at any great length, but at least I'd think she'd have said something like "Professor, how reliable do you think the information you read on those chat boards really is?" [He'd, of course, have replied that most people who write on such boards, especially late at night, are certifiable ;^).] But, for sake of argument, let's assume she told no one. I think we both agree that the odds of a single, female, college senior setting up a planned top-secret meeting with a purported terrorist informer they met on a chat board is remote... and thus, as you suggested, this leaves left only the scenario that the informer made an attempt to find her. What we are left with is the "stalker" scenario. Did he follow her home in his car from the pizza party? When she went in her apartment, did he park outside and watch her through the window? Did he plan to kill her in her apartment, which was above a police substation? When she walked out to return the keys, the only way to follow her would be on foot. If he followed her on foot then how did he get through the locked gates; was he a few steps behind, did she hold the gates open for him? How was he able to get her back to his car? Should we assume he was just driving around Yale for days and days looking for her and when he saw her he pounced? If he went to such lengths to kill her, wouldn't he have been more "polished", i.e. used a bigger, sharper knife, a gun, etc.? Why dump her body in New Haven. Why not take her somewhere where no one would find her... at least for a great while? And, lastly, your premise is that at least the terrorist informant perceived that Suzanne knew something important she should not have. Wouldn't he want to know this for sure? Wouldn't he want to perhaps kidnap her, grill her for hours, perhaps torture her to make sure she really truly hadn't told anyone? So, again, we are left with most definitely a workable scenario but not one, IMO, that is probable without being able to find at least reasonable answers for the above questions. - Jeff