OHSU PROVOST POISED TO
TAKE REIGNS AT PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
… who’s a recent Wesleyan grad reflects on the social networks she followed after the news of Johanna Justin-Jinich’s murder:
… [W]hen you’re part of a community, a crime produces shock, anger, a surplus of emotion, and you seek out information. This week, I learned how social networks offer a way through the clutter of “rational” reporting, sensationalism, and gossip that plague our tragedies, and are no substitutes for the proximity and empathy I was craving. These days, even after you leave a place, you get to keep your social bonds online. They lie dormant, ready to be reactivated with a few keystrokes, when you need them most.
Authorities say a body has been discovered in an area near where a University of Georgia professor’s Jeep was found.
The professor, George Zinkhan, is accused of killing his wife and two others outside a community theater last month.
The Athens-Clarke County Police Department said in a news release Saturday that the body is being taken to a state crime lab for positive identification.
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Update: Cadaver dogs
found the body. Did you
know about cadaver dogs?
UD didn’t. Here’s
cadaverdog.com.
They offer a course called
Advanced Cadaver.
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Another Update:
Fugitive murder suspect George Martin Zinkhan III dug his own grave and covered himself with debris before firing a single bullet into his head, investigators said Saturday.
“A person not accustomed to the woods would not have found it,” Athens-Clarke County Police Chief Jack Lumpkin said. “The body was beneath the earth… The body was purposely concealed in a manner not to be discovered.”
Searchers found two handguns in the grave.
Zinkhan’s well-hidden body was discovered Saturday by cadaver dogs — an Australian shepherd and a German shepherd — at 9:50 a.m. Saturday. The civilian Alpha Search and Rescue Team was working woods beyond the initial search area. Zinkhan’s temporary grave was in thick woods about 1,000 yards from an elementary school and about a mile from where his red Jeep Liberty was recovered more than a week ago. Zinkhan’s home in Bogart in Clarke County is not far away.
The police chief said this was the second time in his 35 years in law enforcement that he had encountered a suicide victim who buried himself first…
… reports police activity, but it’s not clear whether the man they’re arresting is Johanna Justin-Jinich’s killer.
The same blog, Wesleying, features, one post down, a surveillance photo of the killer — a very angry man with a gun in his hand.
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Update: The suspect has not in fact been found. Wesleying is a good place to go for the latest information on the search, and for details of daily life, at Wesleyan.
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Second Update: Horrible event, getting more horrible. Wesleyan is essentially locked down as the shooter — a madman who has made threats against Wesleyan students and Jews (Johanna Justin-Jinich was Jewish) — remains at large. Again, Wesleying has details. Their blog is overwhelmed with traffic, so you may need to be patient.
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Third: Bloomberg News:
Justin-Jinich filed an aggravated harassment complaint against Morgan when they were both students at New York University in Manhattan, WNBC News reported. The station said Justin-Jinich was 21 years old.
… was Johanna Justin-Jinich.
This is, I believe, her Facebook
page. This is her picture,
taken from Facebook.
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A little bit more about her, if I may. Jinich is a Sephardic Jewish name; her father (if I’ve identified him correctly) was born in Mexico and grew up here. The name is pronounced HEE-nich.
… Tenured Radical (we’ve never met; I feel closer to her now) describes what it was like to be on campus (she teaches at Wesleyan) while the killing was happening.
… in a bookstore near the campus. More details in a moment.
Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano said he did not believe the public was in danger.
“It was focused. This wasn’t random from what I can tell,” Giuliano said. “Somebody went into a bookstore and fired multiple shots at one person.”
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… [A] 20-year-old female student’s ex-boyfriend walked into the bookstore and shot her five times.
The sources say they know who the gunman is…
… in this morning’s New York Times that he insisted on reading them aloud across the breakfast table to UD.
1.) The managing director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is a notorious letch. A French satirist, Stéphane Guillon, describes a recent visit of his to Radio France:
To prepare for Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s entry into the building at Radio France, Mr. Guillon said, “exceptional measures have been taken in order not to awaken the beast,” including the banning of high heels and leather pants. The head of publicity would greet him in a burqa, and “at the sound of a siren, Stage 5 of the alert system, all female workers must be evacuated.”
2.)
… Germany takes a highly regimented approach to naming. Children’s names must be approved by local authorities, and there is a reference work, the International Handbook of Forenames, to guide them. Jürgen Udolph, a University of Leipzig professor and head of the information center there that provides certificates of approval for names that have not yet made the official list, said that “the state has a responsibility to protect people from idiotic forenames.”
… was in his ditched car.
Looks more and more likely that he’s made, as some wag said of Elvis, a good career move.
…[T]he red Jeep Liberty was found in Bogart, an Athens suburb in northwestern Clarke County. … [T]he vehicle was positioned in a way to make the scene look like an accident.
Not sure what this last bit means. Drove it into a tree?
Some sources have Zinkhan with a drug or alcohol problem. Isn’t it possible he did the deed high, then drove the car high, then crashed it not on purpose? And started running?
I know. He drove his kids to a neighbor’s house and calmly told the neighbor to watch them because there had been an emergency. But a person’s capable of remaining calm under the influence.
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Drove it into a ditch.
And, I mean, how far off was UD?
UD said he’d ditched the car by pushing it into a body of water.
She was close.
It was deep in a ravine.
[A police spokesman said] the Jeep was found in a ravine, “well off the beaten path.”
“You can’t see it from the road, which explains why we couldn’t find it.”
… at the height of spring, and as you know if you read UD with care, her town is an old, well-tended arboretum.
As the cab from the airport drove down Argyle Hill, the driver AND UD, who has had decades to get used to Garrett Park in the spring, both gasped.
It was the whiteness of the dogwoods pouring down the hill to Wells Park that got to UD and the cabbie. Massed, moving with the car and the wind, bright against the afternoon’s dreariness, the trees glittered like ocean foam.
Underneath them, white hosta flowers and white azaleas churned. Above, the ancient town evergreens ruled the waves.
More than enough compensation for my loss of the tropical sun.