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Jovin Case Reopens With $150k Reward
by Melissa Bailey | Nov 30, 2007 4:08 pm
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Nine years after Yale student Suzanne Jovin was stabbed to death in East Rock, four ex-cops are taking a fresh look at the unsolved case.
The announcement came Friday in a press conference outside New Haven Superior Court.
Jovin was a senior at Yale University when she was killed at the corner of Edgehill and East Rock Roads on Dec. 4, 1998. The case has remained an unsolved mystery since then. After the case was transferred to the state cold case unit in Sept. 2006, some — including from a one-time “person of interest,” James Van de Velde, who was Jovin’s adviser at Yale and seeks to clear his name in the murder — have criticized the state’s lack of progress in the case.
Assistant State’s Attorney James Clark (pictured above at left) said his office has reopened the case by hiring a team of retired detectives, for a volunteer basis with a salary of only $1 per year, to give a renewed look at the years-long mystery.
Anyone who offers information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer is offered a hefty $150,000 reward — that’s $50,000 from the state plus $100,000 from Yale, according to Clark.
John Mannion (pictured) is one of that team of four state police detectives who’ve agreed to take on the case. He served the final five of his 21 years with the state as the commanding officer of the Central Major Crimes Unit. He and three colleagues started on the case six months ago, but their work was not publicly announced until this week.
“This investigation is re-vigored, renewed,” declared Mannion. Cops are looking for anyone who may have a “suppressed memory” of the incident, who may have heard or seen anything about her murder.
Michael Dearington’s State’s Attorney’s office will provide financial support to subsidize expenses of the investigation, but the office won’t be in charge of the probe, said Clark. Mannion declined to cite specifics on any progress that might have been made, but Clark said he’s the most optimistic he’s every been about the case in the last nine years: “We’re going to know everything there is to know by the time they’re done.”
Those with information are encouraged to call the investigative team at this private number: (203)676-1575, or at this email address.
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posted by: Mark on December 1, 2007 12:36am
Maybe they can figure out who bombed the Law School 4 years ago while they are looking.
posted by: Anna on December 2, 2007 12:48pm
I am not one of the folks who thinks that Yale is stingy for not spending down its endowment, but gosh, I would think they could contribute more than $100K to this.
posted by: nfjanette on December 3, 2007 11:31am
The expression “person of interest,” as used by law enforcement should more accurately be called “person we wish to publicly slander”. Neither the reputation of the slandered person nor the public is well served by such remarks.
posted by: Chris Gray on December 5, 2007 3:29am
When they came up empty on evidence, it seems to me that the powers that be figured to pin it on a college Dean, who served while the Master was up to a bit of other nasty business, so we’d figure they were just outsmarted by a fiendish genius, rather than merely clumsy, as is so often the case.
This is no episode of “Law & Order” or “CSI”. It is more on the order of “48 Hours” and those episodes always leave me wondering if justice was really served, as does our local criminal justice system.
