This episode is rated a 5 (on my Serious Crime Scale). On December 4, 1998, 21-year-old Yale student Suzanne Jovin was stabbed 17 times and left for dead in an upscale neighborhood in New Haven, Connecticut. Police zeroed in on one and only one suspect: Suzanne’s thesis adviser and a lecturer at Yale University, Dr. James Van de Velde. But Dr. Van de Velde was never arrested. At least two prominent and very experienced investigators determined that there was no way he was involved in the murder, but local police dismissed the two investigators’ theories and evidence and nevertheless persisted, trying to prove that he killed Suzanne. Now, over 20 years later, Suzanne’s murder has still never been solved, and other suspects have never been publicly announced or identified.

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