December 4, 1998, New Haven, Connecticut.

21-year-old Suzanne Jovan, a senior student at Yale University,

leaves her apartment in order to return a set of keys to a building located on the old campus.

Before she can return home, Suzanne is found murdered in a residential area located nearly two miles

from the campus, and it turns out she has been stabbed 17 times and had her throat slit. Suspicion

soon turns toward a Yale lecturer named James Vandeveld, but he maintains his innocence, and there is no evidence linking him to the crime.

Over the years, a number of different leads emerge, including a promising alternate suspect,

but Suzanne's murder is never solved. After that, the trail went cold. Hello, everyone, and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be exploring a crime which took

place just off the campus of Yale University, the 1998 murder of Suzanne Joven.

That voice you just heard narrating our intro was Karen Lebo, the latest winner of our most recent trail went cold listener voiceover contest, so thank you very much, Karen. This is a recurring monthly contest which we've been carrying on for eight years now, so if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so, I will be

providing instructions near the end of this episode. Anyway, the murder of Suzanne Jovin was the case

which Karen suggested I cover when she originally entered this contest, and since she is not the only

listener who has requested it, I thought now would be a good time to finally do an episode. This is a very

controversial case, as Suzanne Jovin was a talented and popular senior student at Yale University,

who wound up being brutally murdered after she was stabbed no less than 17 times. After leaving her

apartment one evening to return a set of keys to a building located on

Yale's old campus, Suzanne wound up being fatally attacked in an upscale off-campus residential area.

It's unclear why she wound up at that particular location, but when you look at the timeline and track

Suzanne's known movements that night, it seems very likely that she would have needed to enter a vehicle at some point

in order to travel to the murder scene.

There's a good chance this vehicle was driven by her killer,

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