Much publicity on this one. Strange case. Small area, narrow time frame. Camera coverage was pretty good and her destination and probable routes known. She had a cell phone with her and two different antenna arrays showed her travels.
After a flurry of publicity about the landlord, the cops have now settled on a Dutch citizen variously described as an architect or computer technician at the firm where Jo worked. It seems he is a specialist in the design of ergonomic work spaces.
No answer yet to the missing pizza mystery.
As an employee of the same firm would she have opened her door to him? Was he already inside the apartment when she came home? Or did he breach that common door?
Early reports are contradictory as to whether the suspect was then an immediate neighbor of the victim or whether he lived a few hundred yards distant. Some of the confusion may be due to the possibility that he broke up with his girlfriend just prior to the murder and this may have occasioned a geographical change. It seems that the anonymous call to the police was from the suspect's former girlfriend who is a financial analyst, however, she denies both the call and the break-up and affirmatively states she is standing by him. The suspects family members in Holland state he behaved normally on his Christmas visit and is a non-violent, honest man.
It seems the common doorway may have been a possible means of entry but I wonder how the police think the scene was too uncluttered for an assault to have taken place there. The police are forensically examining the slightly distant digs of a woman now on holiday in Chile. How would he have transported her to that location? Would he have been transporting her corpse or could she have merely been unconscious. It seems the traces of saliva indicate to the police an attempt at rape. Saliva on her breast does not prevent the attempted rape from being post-mortem but such things are not indicated by any other evidence and are generally rather rare.
Strange case and yet its a small geographic area with lots of cameras. Even the time of the initial attack seems to be now known due to reliable reports of screams and noise. A distinctively dressed victim who would show up on camera as well as being noted by passersby for her youth and beauty and yet the police had difficulty in tracing her path despite knowing her destination. A police belief in a third crime scene because her home is not sufficiently in disarray, yet some question as to both reason and manner of transportation. Was the perpetrator so forensically aware that he chose to transport her in a suitcase to the apartment of the woman now in Chile? An impulsive crime perhaps but one wherein the perpetrator kept calm and thought about evidence and the fact that he would be a prime suspect since he was a next door neighbor. I wonder if the common doorway was visible as such on each side of the common wall? Had some prior tenant placed decorations over the door making the victim not realize there was a point of potential entry?
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