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December 13, 2022 47 mins

In December of 1998, a 21-year-old German woman studying at Yale turned in her senior essay and prepared for a pizza party. Later that night, a passerby called the police after stumbling upon Suzanne, unconscious and bleeding profusely in the street. She had been stabbed 17 times, and with a solid composite of her alleged killer, police narrowed in on someone from campus. This is the story of Suzanne Jovin.

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CASE SOURCES

1. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227444533/suzanne-nahuela-jovin

2. Hartford Courant: https://www.newspapers.com/image/177154299/?terms=suzanne%20jovin&match=1

3. Medium: https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-tragic-ivy-league-murder-of-suzanne-jovin-283811c93b6

4. Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1999/08/yale-murder199908

5. Yale Alumni Magazine: https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/2184-new-leads-in-a-cold-case

6. New Haven Register: https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Jovin-murder-mystery-continues-20-years-later-13438017.php

7. Thomas' letter to MLK Jr.: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/17967179/to-thomas-jovin

8. IEEE Explore, Donna Arndt Bio: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/38311186000

9. Ellen's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenjovin/

10. Rebecca's Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-jovin-36359a/

11. Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242997/Desperate-parents-Yale-student-hoping-justice-14-years-daughter-brutally-stabbed-death.html

12. Yale Daily News: https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/12/04/jovin-99-remembered/

13. New Haven Register: https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/Prosecutor-James-Van-de-Velde-no-longer-a-11435141.php

14. Yale News: https://news.yale.edu/1999/05/05/suzanne-jovin-be-memorialized-yales-elm-and-ivy-ceremony

15. Best Buddies: https://www.bestbuddies.org/


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