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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1270)9/14/2009 9:51:27 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1400
 
If this were someone random (e.g. Le walked in on an attempted robbery or someone was roaming around looking for a victim), the killer would have likely just fled. Why stick around and risk having yet another person see you you'd also then have to kill? Given the location (video cameras everywhere, card access needed to get into the building and basement), it's more like "oh #$%^, what did I just do" and then panic. Hide the body, hope no one notices, then return and get rid of it when the opportunity presents itself. What else could possibly be going through a killer's mind at that point?

As a parallel to the (albeit rare) runaway bride scenario, a very good college friend of mine who was terribly awkward with girls had a huge secret crush on a woman engaged to be married, apparently encouraged by the way she confided in him over coffee after work. A couple of days before the wedding he snapped. He didn't kill her, just had to be hospitalized for an extended period of time. Years later he was still nuts. Hard to fathom another she-knew-her-killer scenario besides the "he's-not-right-for-you" confrontation turns bad approach.

- Jeff