In her most recent Facebook status, Yale student Annie Le wrote, "less than one week til the big day!" She and her fiancé were to be married on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, the same day her body was found in the lab building where she worked.
Raymond Clark, who has been charged with murder ing the Yale University student Annie Le.
Raymond Clark III (c.) is arraigned at Superior Court in New Haven, Conn. on Thursday, in connection with the murder of Annie Le, a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a lab wall Sunday.
The body of Annie Le, 24, a Yale University medical school graduate student, was found behind a wall in a university lab building on the day she was to be married, Sept. 13, 2009. Le disappeared on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, after she was last seen at her New Haven, Conn. laboratory. She is seen here in a Facebook photo.
Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen at her laboratory in New Haven, Conn. Le, seen here in Jamaica in a Facebook photo, left her purse, cell phone, credit cards and money in her office the day she disappeared.
Annie Le grew up in Placerville, Calif. She received her undergraduate degree in bioscience from the University of Rochester in New York in 2007. She is seen here in a Facebook photo.
Jonathan Widawsky is in New Haven with the family of his fiancée, Annie Le, whose body was found behind a wall in the lab building where she worked. The couple, seen here in a Facebook photo, planned to be married on Sept. 13, 2009, the same day her body was discovered.
Annie Le, a doctoral student in pharmacology at Yale University, left her purse, cell phone, credit cards and money in her office on the day she went missing, Tuesday, Sept. 8. She is seen here in a Facebook photo taken in Jamaica in 2008.
Annie Le wrote an artice on campus safety in a graduate publication, in which she warned students to be aware of their surroundings. She is seen here with her fiancé, Jonathan Widawsky, in a Facebook photo.
Annie Le was conducting research in the pharmacology department at Yale University before she vanished on Sept. 8, 2009. Her mentor, Rocky Tuan, described her as bright and hardworking. "Everybody got along with her. She's always smiling, laughing," he said. She is seen with her fiancé, Jonathan Widawsky, in this Facebook photo.
While at the University of Rochester for her undergraduate studies, Annie Le did a summer project at the National Institutes of Health. She said her career goal was to work as an NIH investigator or as a professor. Le's body was found behind a wall in a secure lab building where she worked on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. She is seen here with fiancé Jonathan Widawsky in a Facebook photo.
Annie Le, seen in this Facebook photo, had not contacted her family, co-workers or friends since she went missing on Tuesday, Sept. 8. Her fiancé, Jonathan Widawsky, left, is in New Haven with the victim's family.
Friends of Jonathan Widawsky, left, told "The Early Show" that his fiancée, Annie Le, right, who was found dead in a Yale building, visited him as recently as Sept 4. They said the couple, seen here in a Facebook photo, seemed really excited about their upcoming wedding.
In her most recent Facebook status, Yale student Annie Le wrote, "less than one week til the big day!" She and her fiancé were to be married on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, the same day her body was found in the lab building where she worked.
Annie Le, a 24-year-old Yale University graduate student whose body was found dead after shew went missing, wrote an article about campus safety in the February issue of "B magazine," a graduate student publication. She is seen here with her fiancé, Jonathan Widawsky, in a Facebook photo.
Annie Le and Jonathan Widawsky, seen here in a Facebook photo, were to be married Sunday, Sept. 13, the same day her body was discovered behind a wall in the laboratory building where she worked at Yale University.
Annie Le disappeared from the Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn. on Sept. 8, 2009. She was to be married Sept. 13, the day her body was found on campus. She is seen wearing a "Bride" tiara as she hugs a friend in this Facebook photo.
According to friends and co-workers, Annie Le was excited about getting married to Jonathan Widawsky. Le, a Yale graduate student, went missing five days before her wedding and her body was found on the day she was to be married. She is seen here in a Facebook photo wearing pink tiara labeled "Bride."
On Annie Le’s Facebook page she gushed about plans for her wedding with Columbia graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The couple poses in this Facebook photo taken on their anniversary, which the couple celebrated in Jamaica in 2008.
Annie Le, whose body was found Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, wrote on her Facebook wedding blog that she was very excited for the event and had even purchased four different wedding dresses. In this photo, Le and fiancé Jonathan Widawsky celebrate their anniversary in Jamaica in 2008.
Annie Le, right, was engaged to graduate student Jonathan Widawsky, left, who is doing physics research at Columbia University in New York. Le had not contacted her fiancée since she went missing on Tuesday, Sept. 8, just five days before their scheduled wedding. Both are seen here in a Facebook photo.
The murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le continued to draw extensive media coverage early Friday, one day after police arrested lab technician Raymond Clark III and a judge set his bail at $3 million.
Police charged Mr. Clark with Le’s murder after his DNA was found in the wall of a Yale building where her body was found stashed last Sunday.
Clark, who worked in the building, attempted to hide lab-cleaning equipment spattered with blood even as investigators were interviewing employees and students in the lab. That, combined with the DNA match, wounds on his body, and computer records showing he was the last person to see Le alive, led to Clark’s arrest, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Police have not revealed a supposed motive for the crime, which they have referred to as an incidence of “workplace violence,” not urban crime.
That is of particular import to Yale, where safety is often a concern among students. Yale has attempted to tamp down security worries following the murder, including in a letter sent from university President Richard Levin to the Yale community Thursday:
Mr. Clark has been a lab technician at Yale since December 2004. His supervisor reports that nothing in the history of his employment at the University gave an indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible….
Raymond Clark was absent from work when Annie Le was reported missing and stayed in a motel.Colleagues said Clark has a bad temper and a 'control freak'.That behavior aroused investigators' suspicions about Raymond Clark III, but the final piece that led to his arrest Thursday was the discovery that evidence in the ceiling and in the crawl space where Le's body was found contained the DNA of both Le and Clark, according to the law enforcement official, who spoke to the Hartford Courant on condition of anonymity.This incident could have happened in any city, in any university, or in any workplace. It says more about the dark side of the human soul than it does about the extent of security measures. Nevertheless, safety is a very high priority, and we will shortly be soliciting suggestions from the community about how we might further improve campus security.
Why Police suspect Raymond Clark III as the suspect ?
Clark, 24, was charged with murder.
New Haven Police Chief James Lewis did not offer a possible motive for the killing but called the attack "an issue of workplace violence."
They found a single bead from a necklace she was wearing in the lab area where she was last seen. They also found tiny blood droplets in that area.
Clark had scratches and bruises on his arms and back. When he was interviewed by FBI agents, Clark said the scratches were cuts from a cat and from playing softball.The sources said some of the scratches may have been defensive wounds.
Police believe Clark tried to clean up the crime scene after disposing of Le's body, sources said. The computer record of his movements between laboratories using his swipe card show he left the building several times and also moved among several rooms, including some that he had no reason to be in.
Authorities arrested Clark Thursday at a motel in Cromwell, Conn., where he had been staying since Wednesday.
Late Tuesday night, police searched Clark's Middletown apartment and collected hair, fingernail and saliva samples from him. Clark cooperated and was released to his attorney.
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