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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 (847)	12/7/2000 6:49:07 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Re: 12/7/00 - NH Register: Private eye is mum on Jovin case Private eye is mum on Jovin case Register Staff December 07, 2000 [picture] Rosenzweig NEW HAVEN — Yale University has hired a former chief investigator with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to help solve the 1998 murder of Yale senior Suzanne Jovin, according to sources. Andrew Rosenzweig, who is retired and now owns and operates a bookstore in Newport, R.I., is known for his expertise in so called "cold" cases, those in which physical evidence is minimal and official police leads have been exhausted. Reached by telephone Wednesday at his shop "Book ’Em," which specializes in detective novels and mysteries, Rosenzweig would neither confirm nor deny his involvement in the well-publicized case. "I won’t confirm it — I won’t talk about it," Rosenzweig said. "If you want to know anything about (the Jovin investigation), I think you should call Yale." Individuals familiar with the Jovin investigation told the New Haven Register Rosenzweig was tapped for the job because of his success at solving cases that have stymied police for a decade or more. Rosenzweig was the subject of a New Yorker magazine profile that ran in February of this year. New York City newspapers also have written stories about his role in cracking unsolved murders. The New Yorker piece gives an account of how Rosenzweig solved a double-murder investigation in 1997 involving Frank Gilbert Koehler that had been on the books for 27 years. He then reopened the case of a woman who mysteriously disappeared in 1985. Her husband, a plastic surgeon, Robert Bierenbaum, was indicted for her murder 14 years later. The New York Post ran the story of his 1999 surrender on the front page below the headline: "Nabbed." In the New Yorker article Rosenzweig describes himself as "the most tiresomely methodical dot-the-I’s-and-cross-the-T’s investigator they’ll ever meet." Yale spokesman Tom Conroy declined to comment Wednesday on Rosenzweig’s possible involvement in the Jovin investigation. Yale President Richard C. Levin issued a statement Monday saying the university would not discuss any aspect of the case. Police Chief Melvin H. Wearing also refused to discuss the matter Wednesday. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said this week that if Yale did hire someone to conduct a probe, the investigator would have the full cooperation of the police. Jovin’s murder attracted international media attention. She was found near death on Dec. 4, 1998, at the intersection of Edgehill and East Rock roads, the victim of 17 stab wounds in the back and neck. In January 1999, police named a former Yale lecturer, James R. Van de Velde, as a suspect in the murder. He has not been charged. His lawyer, David Grudberg, has said his client would welcome the involvement of another investigator not connected to the police. Retired state police commissioner Henry Lee, formerly the state’s chief forensic scientist, said Wednesday that "cold cases" can be rejuvenated months and sometimes years later. "If the person looking at the case has a lot of time to spend on it and he asks the right questions, anything can happen," said Lee. "The police also would have to cooperate fully and share whatever information they have." At least one officer involved in the initial investigation is believed to have been contacted by an outside detective. Sources in the police department say the investigator has been interviewing officers connected to the Jovin case for at least three weeks. ©New Haven Register 2000 zwire.com