To: Janice Shell who wrote (1151 ) 12/18/2003 9:33:06 PM From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell Respond to of 1397 Remember that according to the official police version, Jovin was last seen "walking north on College Street towards Elm Street." There is, and has never been, an acknowledgement she ever made it several blocks away (i.e. reached Elm and then turned left for two blocks). Thus, as far as the public is concerned, there was never a reason to support any suspicious activity in the area of the Krauszers convenience store that fateful night. This is unfathomable to me. Also recall that the witness who saw Jovin right before she dropped off the keys to the borrowed car at the police substation said she didn't have a soda, nor a backpack it might have been hidden in. The woman who then saw Jovin after that also never reported she was carrying a soda bottle. If someone gave it to her they'd have had to do so in the next two-three blocks or so. No witness has ever reported doing so, so either she bought it or, I suppose, you could argue (although I wouldn't) that the killers gave it to her. Clerks at busy convenience stores (as Krauszers would have been at around 9:35pm on an unseasonably warm Friday night marking the beginning of reading period at Yale) aren't necessarily going to remember each and every customer they serve, especially someone who might just have been buying a soda. I did confirm that at one point the police did come into Krauszers to ask questions, so unless they are withholding something else, it's unlikely anyone there remembered seeing her. Interestingly, Krauszers did have a video surveillance system that would likely have captured her on tape if she were there, but the police apparently didn't impound the tape prior to it being recorded over. - Jeff