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

To: VivB who wrote (273)	1/12/2000 3:53:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1397

Possible use of a drug by someone who comes up from behind to immobilize Suzanne to make it easier to get her into the car. Pro: 1. Makes the abduction theory more plausible. 2. Makes the lack of defensive wounds more plausible. 3. Maybe she was killed because she started to wake up. Con: 1. Seems more consistent with a sexual assault than a robbery or murder. There is no evidence of a sexual assault. 2. Wouldn't toxicology reports show evidence of this? I'm assuming they would have checked and I'm assuming this is not something the police or family might keep secret. 3. How would one know about such a substance, where to buy it, and how to use it? Conclusion: Not the most probable scenario but definitely worth serious consideration. Why there is so little forensic evidence surrounding this attack. Several trained assassins working as a team would seem to be less likely to leave any stray forensic evidence than a lone killer committing an unpremeditated crime of passion or a gang of "wilders" out looking for a "Yalie" to kill. If Suzanne were killed in a car and her body pushed out on a street corner, all the evidence would be in the car and perhaps on the attacker. In fact, there might be a goldmine of forensic evidence in a car somewhere. The fact that apparently no one is looking for such a car (except me but I'll save that for when I have more to report) could explain why no car has been found. Occam's razor (the simplest solution is usually the best). *Unsolved crimes are more likely to occur when the killer does not know the victim. Trained assassins could have been "imported" for the actual crime and then vanished without a trace when it was over because there would be no personal connection to tie them to the victim... Trained assassins would a) know how to kill someone with single bullet or a well-placed knife wound, and b) know how to dispose of the body so there would be no chance of any evidence at all a murder even took place. Again, I think this is overthinking. It's like saying if you can't find your credit card it must be because someone stole it, let alone there was a plot hatched to steal it without leaving any evidence. Usually you just misplaced it. :) - Jeff

To: VivB who wrote (273)	1/13/2000 11:31:00 AM
From: CJ	Respond to of 1397

<I also wonder if the multiple stab wounds made to the back of her head with a small, common knife might have been made after death to disguise the true cause of death and make it look like a 'crime of passion.'> Viv -- If it was a "professional trained assassin" situation, I like your idea of the murderer(s) being from a different locale and disguising the true perpetrators by the multiple stab wounds. If the multiple stab wounds were made after SJ's demise, that would be a partial explanation for why there did not appear to be much external bleeding. It also makes sense that they would have gotten rid of the body wherever they were driving and not likely to be observed, without thought of the SES of the neighborhood. I hadn't thought of any of it that way. If there were two knives used, the autopsy report should show it. {{ I have a little problem with professionally trained assassins using a "small common knife" that might break in the victim's skull --and then leaving the broken part in her skull }}. Thanks for your good ideas.