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

To: IEarnedIt who wrote (361)	1/19/2000 4:39:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1397

I think the stock market provides a good analogy... A company tells the world how wonderful they are and makes wild predictions about their future prospects. They attract a bunch of shareholders who buy into the hype and refuse to look at things objectively. The company working out of a second floor office in a strip mall? Who cares; you have to start somewhere. The owner has had a string of failed companies? Who cares; he picked a hot sector. The owner is a convicted felon? Who cares; old news... everyone deserves a second chance. Besides, big news coming. And so on. At some point the shareholders start to get restless. Their phone calls aren't returned as fast as they once were, if at all, the segment isn't as hot as it once was, someone documents a bunch of lawsuits filed against the owner, that big news never seems to get here, etc. The tide turns. People start to listen. It's been more than year since Suzanne Jovin was brutally murdered. The New Haven Police started with nothing on Jim, and they still have nothing. People are starting to slowly ask themselves: gee, what if when Van de Velde said he didn't do it he was telling the truth? What if the reason he offered the police the day he was questioned the keys to his car and apartment and offered to take a blood test and lie detector test was that he really didn't have anything to hide? My sense is that 20/20 won't be covering any new ground. However, for those that refused to listen in the past I suspect it will seem like new. You are right in saying I'd like have been involved. I'd like to have gotten 20/20 to hire a few top-notch private investigators and try and see if they can make headway into solving it. The problem is that the New Haven Police hold all the cards and they've refused to cooperate with anyone. I honestly think what we're doing here, which is at least talk about the case from a crime as opposed to personal interest point of view, is the only place anywhere such is being done. That's truly sad. Will 20/20 change this? I have no idea... but perhaps we should solve the crime before then just in case... (gg) - Jeff