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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (656)	3/14/2000 11:06:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 1397

Zeuspaul, excellent observation. 20/20, quite inadvertently, set the record straight by rerolling the tape of that incident. It quite clearly shows that the first time those words were uttered was by a TV reporter, not Jim. JOHN MILLER (VO) ...Remember this news clip of Jim Van de Velde, being confronted by a local reporter? REPORTER And there's no way you would ever harm her? JIM VAN DE VELDE No. Message 13108310 It's quite sad for me to go back and reread the New Haven Register story from 12/10 and see how vehemently Jim denied everything and how everyone just glossed over it. As for your original question, paragraph two reads: "I never hurt her," James Van de Velde, a lecturer in the political science department and Jovin's senior thesis adviser, said Wednesday. In paragraph's 13 and 14 the story is reported a bit differently: Van de Velde said police questioned him for about 3 1/2 hours Tuesday night. Among the questions Van de Velde said police asked him was: "Did you kill her?" "Of course, I said no. I never hurt her," said Van de Velde. "At no time did they refer to me as a suspect." The Hartford Courant then ran an article entitled "Case Highlights Quandry About Naming Suspects". In that article, in paragraph three, they wrote: The New Haven Register on Wednesday reported that a "Yale educator who taught Suzanne Jovin is the lead suspect in the police investigation into her murder." The following day, the newspaper named and quoted the Yale lecturer, who had been Miss Jovin's senior thesis adviser, as saying he is innocent and "never hurt her." As you've pointed out, unless you know context, trying to read into quotes in the paper is senseless. As a better example, Jim was e-mailed questions by a Hartford Courant reporter allegedly in response to a letter the Jovin family had written them. Jim responded in detail and the Courant took things totally out of context to suit their story. In response, and to set the record straight, Jim allowed the Yale Daily News to print his original reply in its entirety, which, to their credit, they did. Lastly, while on the topic of reporting discrepancies, here's how the Hartford Courant reported, on 12/10/98, about that supposed argument: While interviewing people in the neighborhood, police were told that a couple of "angry voices" -- including that of a man -- were heard at 9:48 p.m. Did "angry voices" somehow escalate into an "argument" over the past year? Why? - Jeff