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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 (889)	1/28/2001 1:29:21 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Correction: The New Haven Register did run my editorial reply, albeit an edited version-- on January 4. I did get a call verifying I wrote it but was told that didn't necessarily mean it would be published. I obviously missed it the day it eventually was. Oops! Even though I'm not thrilled it was edited (for example, they excised my criticism of the Register's front page headline stories on the cat hair), I give the Register much credit for running it in the first place. Here is the letter as it appears on-line: ----- LETTER Assumptions inaccurate in Jovin investigation Letter to the Editor January 04, 2001 How many things can one get wrong in one editorial? In the Register’s editorial about the murder of Suzanne Jovin we had a chance to find out. The Register begins by asserting Jovin was "stabbed to death in the East Rock neighborhood." No, she was found stabbed to death there. The editorial goes on: "It is not even known why Jovin was walking in the neighborhood." Huh? No one has ever reported seeing Jovin walking in the area, and the odds Jovin walked the 1.9 miles there are next to none. The position of her body perpendicular to the curb, feet just touching the road, with no trail of blood, strongly suggests she was pulled, wounded, from a car. The Register goes on to categorize gross ineptitude by the New Haven police as "setbacks." A grand jury recommended prosecutors arrest the former lead investigator of the Jovin murder, Brian Sullivan, on charges he hid evidence from another police department in a murder case. Does the Register view this as just an unfortunate coincidence? What about April 19, 1999 when Sullivan told the Register the police had found "forensic evidence" in front of James Van de Velde’s residence, which if not for a tip from a treasure hunter we might never have known was in fact a driver’s manual tossed from Van de Velde’s car during a break-in. Why no editorials by the Register about how it was blatantly manipulated by Sullivan to make it appear the police were closing in on their suspect? The Register quotes the police as saying they "believe Jovin knew her killer. The fact that she was stabbed 17 times suggests a violent, personal passion." Exactly who said this? Might it have been one of the four originally assigned as investigators who no longer remain on the case? Might the fact the primary reason Yale has hired a private investigator be because Yale also recognizes those same policemen had totally botched the investigation? The Register points out that Yale’s other two murders involved "muggings that went awry," yet somehow concludes that "robbery does not appear to have been a motive in Jovin’s death." Based on what? Jovin’s wallet was back in her apartment. Who is to say she wasn’t killed because someone got enraged because she wasn’t carrying it? Here we have an editorial lamenting about how a two-year murder investigation has gone absolutely nowhere, yet somehow concludes "the answer to the mystery of Jovin’s death may be found on the Yale campus." One thing is certain, wherever answers are to be found, one place they won’t be is in the Register. Jeff Mitchell Westport ©New Haven Register 2001 zwire.com ===== BTW, anyone wishing to reply to anything I write but who doesn't have access to Silicon Investor can write me at jmitchel@optonline.net. No, I won't publish anything I get privately unless I get your explicit permission. - Jeff