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

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (826)	9/18/2000 2:56:46 PM
From: Puck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

I'll post any ideas I have, however far fetched, that might have some merit for consideration. I think involving an investigative reporter, or writing about the case yourself in published periodicals, could not hurt and might help. I would inquire with Vanity Fair to see if they might be coaxed to do a follow-up article. Someone should probably call Unsolved Mysteries to see if they would be interested airing the story. Perhaps a website dedicated to the case should be created. I'm an aspiring playwright with a background in certain periods of poetry, twentieth century fiction, Shakespeare, and Yeats. What do you think about the idea of my attempting to dramatize Jim's experience in the hope that my effort might draw more publicity to the case? I would present the story entirely from Jim's point of view, which has been pretty much overlooked by the media and certainly not widely considered, as well as attempt to probe some of the more suspect areas of the police department's conclusion using only known facts but with a keen appreciation that how such facts are presented can influence an audience. It might be a play in two parts, like Oleanna , introducing the main character, except the police investigators, before the crime and then a jump forward in time to events as they unfolded afterwards. Such a story might echo Kafka's The Trial as well. Attempting to exonerate a man accused in the absence of any substantive evidence and much police bungling would be a worthy subject for any play.