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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 (1028)	12/10/2001 12:16:24 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Re: 12/8/01 - NY Times: Suspect in Yale Murder Sues Police December 8, 2001 Suspect in Yale Murder Sues Police By PAUL ZIELBAUER NEW HAVEN, Dec. 7 — James Van de Velde, the only person the police here publicly identified as a suspect in the three-year-old unsolved murder of a Yale University student, filed a lawsuit against the police. The suit, filed in Federal District Court here today, charges the New Haven police chief, Melvin H. Wearing, and four detectives involved in the investigation with leaking Mr. Van de Velde's name to local news media and for destroying his professional and personal life. The student, Suzanne Jovin, was found stabbed in a neighborhood near the campus on Dec. 4, 1998. Mr. Van de Velde, 41, a former naval intelligence officer who was then a Yale lecturer, had been her senior thesis adviser. Mr. Van de Velde has maintained his innocence since. Without any obvious advance in the investigation, Mr. Van de Velde said his anxiety turned to anger over the harm done to his reputation. The New Haven police have never charged him or anyone else. After Yale did not renew Mr. Van de Velde's contract, he got a job at the Pentagon. Chief Wearing and the New Haven Police Department declined to comment on the suit today. Mr. Van de Velde issued an e-mail statement. "I refuse to remain a victim of the New Haven police," it said, in part. Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company nytimes.com