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On Dec. 4, the investigation of the murder of Yale student Suzanne Jovin entered its eighth year.
There is a cold case unit in the office of the chief state's attorney. Its mission is to work with the state police and local departments to investigate homicide cases that have gone unsolved for a long time. Yet after seven years, the unit still has not been brought into the Jovin investigation.
But when asked in 2002 whether the unit should participate in the investigation, Chief State's Attorney Christopher L. Morano said his predecessor, John Bailey, and New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington had discussed the matter and decided it should not. He saw no reason to change that decision.
When asked again for a recent Courant article, Morano said the unit would be willing to participate. But he said the New Haven police and local prosecutors haven't asked for assistance. Why not? If the state has resources that could assist the Jovin investigation, why aren't they being used?
New Haven's continued control of the case may have biased the investigation toward certain theories about what happened - and certain suspects - and away from others. For several reasons, the police have operated on the assumption that Jovin knew the murderer and that he probably lived in the New Haven area. But what if she didn't know him? What if he lived outside New Haven?
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-cameron1230.artdec30,0,1989342.story
There is a cold case unit in the office of the chief state's attorney. Its mission is to work with the state police and local departments to investigate homicide cases that have gone unsolved for a long time. Yet after seven years, the unit still has not been brought into the Jovin investigation.
But when asked in 2002 whether the unit should participate in the investigation, Chief State's Attorney Christopher L. Morano said his predecessor, John Bailey, and New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington had discussed the matter and decided it should not. He saw no reason to change that decision.
When asked again for a recent Courant article, Morano said the unit would be willing to participate. But he said the New Haven police and local prosecutors haven't asked for assistance. Why not? If the state has resources that could assist the Jovin investigation, why aren't they being used?
New Haven's continued control of the case may have biased the investigation toward certain theories about what happened - and certain suspects - and away from others. For several reasons, the police have operated on the assumption that Jovin knew the murderer and that he probably lived in the New Haven area. But what if she didn't know him? What if he lived outside New Haven?
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-cameron1230.artdec30,0,1989342.story