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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 (1235)	12/9/2007 1:29:16 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

Re: 12/9/07 - New Haven Register: Probe revived of unsolved slaying Posted on Sun, Dec 9, 2007 Probe revived of unsolved slaying After nine years the unsolved slaying of a Yale student, Suzanne Jovin, 21, is receiving a fresh look, reviving hopes that her killer will eventually be caught. With the new hope comes confirmation of long-standing complaints that the investigation has been neither smooth, clearly directed nor comprehensive. It has unfortunate parallels with the handing of the notorious and long unsolved murder of Concetta "Penny" Serra, 21, in the Temple Street Garage in 1973. In that case police, who failed to check a blood sample, arrested the wrong man. It was not until 29 years later that a prosecution by Assistant State’s Attorney James Clark ended with the 2002 conviction of Edward Grant, a Waterbury auto body mechanic for the killing. A team of four retired, highly experienced state police detectives is now working with Clark on the new investigation of Jovin’s slaying in the East Rock neighborhood on Dec. 4, 1998. In Jovin’s case, city police focused immediately on a suspect, a Yale instructor, although there was no physical evidence, only unfounded suspicions, that linked him to the crime. In 2003 when the stalled murder investigation was 5 years old, State’s Attorney Michael Dearington rejected suggestions that it be transferred to the chief state’s attorney’s cold case unit. The next year, it was transferred although little seems to have been done. Jovin’s slaying was not listed as an unsolved crime on the Division of Criminal Justice’s Internet site, nor was the $150,000 reward, including $100,000 from Yale University. Asked about the investigation last month, both Dearington and Chief State’s Attorney Kevin Kane insisted that the cold case unit continued to actively investigate it. In fact, the investigation had been sent back to New Haven in June because, as Clark explained this month, the unit "has many, many cases and not enough staff." Even with a revived investigation, there is no assurance that it will produce an arrest. It was more than two decades before police got the break — a match between a fingerprint in Serra’s car and one of Grant’s from a 1994 arrest — that led to his conviction. The oldest cold case listed on the Criminal Justice Division’s Web site is the 1982 disappearance and presumed death of an Old Saybrook woman. In revealing the new investigative team and turning to the public for help, state investigators can only benefit. The telephone number for the investigators is (203) 676-1575; the e-mail address is jovincase@gmail.com. nhregister.com