9/8 Annie Marie Le missing from Yale University (BODY FOUND)

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 Tuesday, October 6, 2009  11:03 a.m.
Raymond Clark III appears in court
BY ESTHER ZUCKERMAN

The man accused of murdering Annie Le GRD '13, Raymond Clark III, appeared in Connecticut Superior Court on Church St. for under 10 minutes this morning. During the short hearing Judge Roland Fasano scheduled a tentative hearing of probable cause for Oct. 20 at which time the court will also hear motions regarding the sealing of the warrants in the case.

No plea was entered during the appearance, though the court granted the lawyer for the Hartford Courant, Paul Guggina, the motion to intervene.


http://www.yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2009/10/06/raymond-clark-iii-appears-court/

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http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/ray-clark-stays-quiet-hearing-annie-le-murder/story?id=8759862


Ray Clark Stays Quiet During Hearing for Annie Le Murder Case
Clark Is Expected to Plead Not Guilty, His Lawyers Say
By EMILY FRIEDMAN, DON ENNIS and LINDSAY GOLDWERT
NEW HAVEN., Conn. Oct. 6, 2009

Raymond Clark, the 24-year-old Yale University lab tech charged with the murder of graduate student Annie Le, stood mutely before a New Haven judge this morning and did not enter a plea.

Lawyers for Clark said later that their client will plead not guilty.

Clark entered the courtrooom wearing an orange jumpsuit and white sneakers and looked around nervously as he crossed the courtroom. When he reached the defendant's table he stood, looking straight ahead and down for the entirety of the five minute hearing.

The suspect never sat or spoke or made eye contact with anyone.

Clark's refusal to speak appears to be a continuation of his reaction since his arrest. Police said that after he was taken in custody, he refused to speak to them to offer either a defense or a motive.

Clark's attorney, Joseph Lopez, said that the defense has yet to see any evidence but is expecting "boxes and boxes" of it.

Asked how Clark was doing, Lopez said, "as well as can be expected." They ended today's hearing after setting a date for a hearing on Oct 20, when it will be decided whether a probable cause hearing will be held. It is possible that Clark will enter his plea at that hearing.

A probable cause hearing, if held, will be the first opportunity for the defense and prosecution to introduce evidence and witnesses. The judge will also decide at that time whether to unseal warrants in the case.

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  NEW HAVEN — -  Publicly, police and prosecutors have said little about the evidence linking lab technician Raymond Clark III to the death of Yale University graduate student Annie Le. Court documents with substantial details about the arrest and investigation are sealed from public view.

Later this month, a Superior Court judge will hear arguments for and against keeping those details secret.

Judge Roland D. Fasano on Tuesday granted The Courant's motion to intervene, giving the newspaper a chance to argue against a request from Clark's public defenders to extend seals on the arrest and search warrant affidavits. Those documents contain information that led police to arrest Clark in connection with the slaying of Le.

"The public has a right to be heard," Paul R. Guggina, the Courant's attorney, said during Tuesday's brief court hearing for Clark.

Clark, 24, of Middletown, appeared in court wearing an orange prison jumpsuit. He did not enter a plea to a murder charge Tuesday but Beth A. Merkin, one of Clark's attorneys, said Clark plans to plead not guilty. Fasano scheduled both a hearing on the sealing motions and a hearing on probable cause for Oct. 20.

Probable-cause hearings, mandatory under state law in cases punishable by death or life in prison, require judges to determine whether sufficient evidence exists to proceed with the prosecution. Judges rarely rule that probable cause is lacking. Defendants usually waive such hearings.

Le's body was found Sept. 13 concealed in a crawl space at 10 Amistad St., a Yale research building where Clark worked and Le did research. The discovery was made on the day that Le, 24, a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology from Placerville, Calif., was scheduled to get married.

The state medical examiner said that Le died of traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression. Sources told The Courant that authorities used forensic evidence, including DNA samples taken from the crawl space where Le's body was hidden and from evidence found in a ceiling, to link Clark to the crime. Police also used computer records showing that Clark was the last person to see Le alive in a room inside a laboratory, the sources said.

Clark has not talked to police about the case. Sources have told The Courant that the crime stemmed from a work dispute between Clark and Le.

On Sept. 17, the day of Clark's arrest, a judge approved a request from prosecutors to seal the arrest warrant affidavit for 14 days. On Sept. 24, public defenders Merkin and Joseph E. Lopez asked that the seal be extended, saying releasing it would hurt Clark's chances of getting a fair trial and an impartial jury.

Guggina, in his objection, argued that sealing court documents is "not a matter of course." State law gives the public the right to access judicial documents, he argued, unless those seeking to block access show that there is an overriding interest in keeping the affidavit secret, and if there is such an interest, that a sealing order is the only remedy and the order is "narrowly tailored to provide the public as much access as possible."

Following Tuesday's hearing, judicial marshals whisked Clark from the New Haven courthouse in a motorcade of unmarked police cars and state Department of Correction vans, all with sirens blaring. Neither Le's family nor members of Clark's family attended the hearing.

Clark is being held, with bail set at $3 million, at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield.

Also Tuesday, a spokesman for Yale said that the university was investigating whether employees in the Yale University health service inappropriately accessed Le's health records. The university audits access to such records, and employees who access them without proper authority can be disciplined, Yale spokesman Tom Conroy said.

The Yale Daily News reported that several employees were reprimanded for accessing Le's records. Conroy said he could not confirm the report because matters involving personnel are confidential.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-yale-murder-clark1007.artoct07,0,6039951.story

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Slain Yale student memorialized by university

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http://www.wfsb.com/news/21347764/detail.html
Raymond Clark Due In Court
Attorney Says Ex Lab Tech Will Plead Not Guilty

POSTED: 9:39 am EDT October 20, 2009
UPDATED: 10:30 am EDT October 20, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The former Yale University lab technician charged in the death of graduate student Annie Le is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.

The attorney of Raymond Clark III said his client will plead not guilty after deciding whether to waive his right to a probable cause hearing.

Clark is accused of strangling 24-year-old Le and hiding her body behind a laboratory wall where they both worked. Her body was found five days later, on her would-be wedding day.

Clark was charged with murder in connection with Le's death.

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http://www.knx1070.com/Plea-in-Yale-Murder-Case-Postponed-Again/5483597

Posted: Tuesday, 20 October 2009 2:42PM

Plea in Yale Murder Case Postponed Again

(CBS/AP) - A Connecticut judge has rescheduled a probable cause hearing for a former Yale lab technician charged with killing a graduate student.

 

The delay means that - for the second time - Raymond Clark III did not enter a plea Tuesday in New Haven Superior Court.

 

The judge postponed the hearing so the defense could get an inventory of items taken with search warrants and forensic analyses could be completed.

 

Clark is next due in court Nov. 3.

 

He is accused of strangling 24-year-old Annie Le (LAY) in September and hiding her body behind a wall in the laboratory building where they both worked.

 

Police say Clark strangled the 24-year-old Annie Le and hid her body behind a wall in the laboratory building where they both worked. Authorities have not released a motive. Le's body was found on what was to be her wedding day.

 

People charged with murder in Connecticut have the right to a probable cause hearing, in which both sides can introduce evidence and call witnesses. A judge then decides whether the case can move to trial.

 

Several media organizations have asked the judge to unseal an arrest affidavit that details the charge against Clark - a separate matter he was expected to address today. That ruling has also been postponed.

 

Le was a pharmacology graduate student who vanished Sept. 8 from a Yale medical lab building. Her body was found in the building five days later, on what was supposed to have been her wedding day.

 

Police have not talked about a motive in the slaying, largely because Clark has not talked to authorities. Investigators and Yale officials have called Le's death a case of workplace violence, but have not elaborated.

 

Co-workers have told police that Clark was controlling and viewed the laboratory and its mice as his personal fiefdom.

 

As a technician, Clark's duties included cleaning mouse cages and the floors of the lab.

 

Le's work involved experiments on mice that were part of research into enzymes that could have implications for treatment of cancer, diabetes and muscular dystrophy.

 

She was reported missing Sept. 8 from the medical school research building about a mile from Yale's main campus. Security cameras last recorded her entering the building that morning, and investigators were initally baffled that there was no record of her leaving.

 

Her body was found five days later in the basement laboratory in a wall chase - a hidden access that allows utility pipes and wires to run vertically between floors.

 

Investigators, who had been keeping around-the-clock survellieance of Clark, labeled him a person of interest two days later and got a court order to take forensic evidence from him and search his apartment. Clark was arrested Sept. 17 after DNA evidence linked him to Le's body.

 

He has been jailed since his arrest. A judge set his bond at $3 million.

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Clark May Enter Plea In Le's Death
Former Lab Tech Charged With Murder

POSTED: 10:39 am EST November 3, 2009
UPDATED: 10:54 am EST November 3, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A former Yale University lab technician is expected to face a judge in connection with the death of graduate student Annie Le.

Raymond Clark III, 24, is expected to make a plea in the murder of Le.

A judge may also release more information on the battle over releasing details in the case. Documents have been sealed since Clark's arrest in September and an attorney for several media companies is expected to argue on Tuesday that the documents are public records and should be released.

Le's body was found inside a wall in the Yale laboratory where both she and Clark worked. Her body was discovered five days after she disappeared, on her would-be wedding day.

On the day of Clark's arrest, a judge approved prosecutors' requests to seal the arrest affidavit for 14 days. Clark's attorneys then asked that the seal be extended, saying any information would hurt his chances of getting a fair trial. Clark's attorney wants the documents to remain sealed.

Prosecutors in the case said Le's family would also like the records to remain sealed for privacy.
http://www.wfsb.com/news/21507390/detail.html

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/state/n030347S35.DTL

Ruling expected on release of Yale killing files
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
(11-03) 11:30 PST New Haven, Conn. (AP) --

A Connecticut judge says he expects to rule later this week on whether to unseal documents detailing the case against a former Yale employee accused of murdering graduate student Annie Le (LAY').
Raymond Clark III is charged with murder in Le's death, but has not yet entered a plea.

His attorney appeared on his behalf Tuesday in court in New Haven, where Judge Roland Fasano continued the case to Dec. 21.

Clark was a lab technician in the Yale medical research building where Le's body was found stuffed behind a wall on what was supposed to be her wedding day on Sept. 13.

News organizations have asked Fasano to unseal documents detailing the case. Prosecutor oppose the request, citing the privacy rights of Le's family and the need to ensure an impartial jury.

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Accused Annie Le killer Raymond Clark skips court to stay in cell
November 3, 2009
The accused Yale killer Raymond Clark III did not appear at a court hearing Tuesday at which a judge said he would decide later this week whether to unseal evidence authorities say proves Clark strangled Annie Le and hid her body in a laboratory wall.

In a jailhouse visit Tuesday, Clark and his public-defender attorney Joseph Lopez met for several hours, when Clark decided he'd stay in his cell rather than make the trip from the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in South Suffield, Conn., Lopez said.

Clark, 24, has not entered a plea, but his lawyer says he will eventually plead not guilty. Clark has been jailed on a $3-million bond since being arrested Sept. 17 on a murder charge in the death of Annie Le, the Yale pharmacology graduate student whose slain body was found on what was to be the day of her Long Island wedding to a Huntington man.

"He's going along with our advice," Lopez told Judge Ronald D. Fasano, referring to the decision not to attend Superior Court in New Haven.

Fasano said his decision on whether to unseal the four arrest and search warrants - a decision in response to a motion filed by media organizations - would come this week.

The hearing Tuesday afternoon lasted less than 5 minutes.

The case was rescheduled for Dec. 21 at 2 p.m.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/accused-annie-le-killer-raymond-clark-skips-court-to-stay-in-cell-1.1566135

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Yale Student’s Accused Killer Loses Document-Seal Bid (Update2)
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Yale University laboratory worker Raymond Clark, charged with the murder of 24-year-old graduate student Annie Le, lost a bid to keep under seal arrest documents in his case.

Connecticut Superior Court Judge Roland Fasano ruled against Clark in a decision issued today. Fasano said a portion of the documents must be released. Some information will remain confidential.

The judge ruled that a redacted version of the arrest warrant and affidavit will be released Nov. 12. The sealing of the search-warrant affidavits was previously extended to Nov. 17 and they won’t be released until then.

“Clearly, in most cases, Connecticut courts do not seal or limit disclosure of arrest and search affidavits beyond the investigative stages,” Fasano wrote in his decision.

Prosecutors also asked that the documents remain sealed. New York Times Co., the Associated Press, Tribune Co.’s Hartford Courant and Journal Register Co.’s New Haven Register opposed the sealing motion.

Clark, 24, who’s being held on $3 million bail, is accused of strangling Le five days before her wedding day. He was arrested Sept. 17 at a motel about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of the Yale campus in New Haven. He cleaned mouse cages in the Yale lab building where Le worked and where Le’s body was found. He hasn’t entered a plea in the case.

Clark’s Lawyer

At an Oct. 20 hearing, Beth Merkin, a lawyer for Clark, told the judge she opposed the unsealing to ensure a fair trial with an impartial jury. John Waddock, a prosecutor, said Le’s family also wanted the documents kept under wraps.

Asked today whether she was disappointed by the ruling, Merkin said, “It’s hard for me to know until I see what he is redacting.”

Paul Guggina, a lawyer for the media companies with Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP in Hartford, Connecticut, argued that his clients and the public have a right to access the documents under the press freedoms of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. The case addresses important issues such as workplace violence and campus safety, he said at the hearing.

“We’re still reviewing” the decision, Guggina said in an interview after today’s ruling.

The case is State of Connecticut v. Clark, CR09-97102-T, Connecticut Superior Court (New Haven).

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a08.SWJuYhBw&pos=9

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November 6, 2009

NEW HAVEN — - A Superior Court judge agreed to release portions of an arrest warrant affidavit that contain information that led to the arrest of Raymond Clark III in the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le.

Judge Roland D. Fasano's decision, released Friday afternoon, says the information will remain under seal for 72 hours. Since courts are closed Wednesday for Veterans Day, the document -- with some portions removed -- will be released Thursday, a court official said.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/yale-annie-le/hc-web-le-documents-1107nov07,0,2002961.story

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The police affidavits also said:

Clark aroused investigators' suspicion by scrubbing the floor under a sink in the room where Le was killed. The detectives were surprised that Mr. Clark took out steel wool and a cleaning solution, because the floor appeared to be clean.

Investigators discovered a sock with two batches of DNA — his and hers — with her body. The sock was "similar" to another sock concealed in a ceiling panel where they found bloody work boots labeled "Ray-C."

There had been blood on a wall in the lab, but that it had been washed off.

A green-ink pen that he had used on a sign-in sheet that morning was under her body when police found it, hidden behind the wall above a toilet, five days after she was strangled, on the day on which was to have been married.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2009/11/police-suspect-in-yale-killing-hid-bloody-tissues/1

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Bloody trail in Yale slay

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bloody_trail_in_yale_slay_PH5d3P2y0BOpWto8PVeHNI

By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
AP
Last Updated: 7:19 AM, November 14, 2009
Posted: 4:28 AM, November 14, 2009

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- An animal research technician charged with killing a Yale grad student raised suspicions when he began scrubbing floors after the crime and tried to move a box of bloody wipes from the view of an investigator, according to an arrest warrant released yesterday.

The body of 24-year-old Annie Le was found stuffed behind a Yale research lab wall in September. An autopsy determined she was strangled.

Authorities say in the warrant that a green-ink pen found under Le's body had her blood on it, as well as DNA from suspect Raymond Clark, on its cap. Police have said Clark signed into the secure building with a green pen on Sept. 8, the day Le disappeared.

The warrant says DNA from both Le and Clark was on a bloody sock found hidden in a ceiling.

The document also says Clark moved a box of wipes to hide blood spatters on it. Clark had a scratch on his face and left biceps that he said came from a cat, according to the affidavit.

Joe Lopez, Clark's public defender, declined to comment yesterday.

Clark, 24, is charged with murder. Le vanished Sept. 8 from the Yale medical school research building where she and Clark worked, and her body was found five days later, on what was to be her wedding day.

Clark has not yet entered a plea, but his attorney has said he will plead not guilty.

Two days after Le disappeared, a graduate student showed a Yale police officer a box of "wipe-alls" on a cart in a lab that had what appeared to be blood splattered on it. The officer watched Clark move the box of wipes and turn the box so that the bloody spots were not visible, authorities said.

"Once Clark moved the box of wipes, he then leaned up against the cart and made small talk" with the officer, the affidavit states.

The blood spatter on the wipes matched the victim's DNA, authorities said.

Clark later came back into the room and began scrubbing the floor with SOS pads and cleaning solution even though the floor appeared to be clean, according to the affidavit.

The blood at the scene suggests there was a struggle, experts said.

Authorities said Clark changed his clothes at least once when the FBI was processing the scene, citing video surveillance of the building.

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Blood, DNA Link Suspect to Yale Student
Wednesday November 25, 2009

http://crime.about.com/b/2009/11/25/blood-dna-link-suspect-to-yale-student.htm

Blood and DNA evidence links a lab technician to a slain Yale University medical student, according to details in an arrest warrant issued in the case. DNA from Raymond Clark and victim Annie Le were found on a sock hidden in the ceiling near where Le's body was found, the warrant said.

Le, a pharmacology doctoral student, disappeared from the research lab September 8.

Investigators believe that Le was killed in a dispute with Clark over how the animals in the research lab were being treated. Clark, who was not a Yale student, cared for the animals in the lab.

According to the warrant for his arrest:

    * Clark and Le's DNA were found on a sock in the ceiling near her body.

    * A bloodstained rubber glove and a pair of stained work boots with "Ray-C" on them were found in another part of the ceiling.

    * Clark attempted the block from the view of a Yale police officer a bloodstained box in the lab.

    * Clark was seen trying to clean the basement floor with steel wool, although the floor appeared to be clean.

In releasing the arrest warrant to the media, Judge Ronald D. Fasano did not make public all of the details. He redacted those he judges to be "inflammatory, irrelevant and invasive."

Stuffed Inside the Wall

Le disappeared on Tuesday during the week she was scheduled to be married on Sunday. Surveillance video showed her entering the research building that day, September 8, but none of the 75 cameras in and near the building showed her leaving.

On Sunday, the day she was scheduled to be married, her body was found stuffed inside a wall in the research building. It was in an area where cables run from floor to floor in Yale's Amistad lab building.

An autopsy report showed Le was strangled the day she disappeared.

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Warrant: Blood found in Yale murder suspect's home
updated 8 minutes ago

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Police found blood on the kitchen floor of the home of a Yale University lab technician charged with killing a Yale graduate student days before her wedding, according to search warrant affidavits released Wednesday.

Raymond Clark III sent e-mails to 24-year-old Annie Le "in the recent past," the affidavits said. Her e-mail address was found in a laboratory locker labeled "Ray," the documents said.

The warrants do not indicate the source of the blood found in Clark's apartment. Le's body was found stuffed behind a research lab wall in September on what was supposed to be her wedding day. Autopsy results show Le was strangled, but the motive remains unclear.

Clark has not yet entered a plea. His public defender, Joe Lopez, did not immediately return a phone call Wednesday.

The affidavits show that police searched for evidence in Clark's home, two cars that he used and numerous lockers in the laboratory building where Le's body was found.

The suspect "has gone to great lengths to conceal evidence in multiple locations in unusual places," the affidavits said.

Two days before Clark was arrested, investigators said they found blood "in plain view" on the kitchen floor near the entrance to his apartment. Authorities took plastic door panels and carpeting with "blood-like stains" from the Taurus in which Clark was riding in the hours after Le's disappearance.

Investigators found a white rag, tweezers, scissors, a screwdriver and several plastic tubes in a clogged drain pipe in the building where Le's body was found, the affidavits said.

Portions of the affidavits released Wednesday were blacked out.

Police had previously revealed that they discovered other items linking Clark to Le's death, including a green-ink pen under Le's body with her blood and Clark's DNA. Police have said Clark signed into the secure building with a green pen on Sept. 8, the day Le disappeared.

They had also said DNA from Le and Clark was on a bloody sock found hidden in a ceiling. Elsewhere in the building, they found a pair of work boots labeled "Ray-C" that had blood-like stains on them, and a hospital scrub shirt with blood-like stains that was similar to the shirt Clark wore that day, police had previously said.

In arrest warrant affidavits released last month, Clark told investigators that he never socialized with Le or had contact with her outside of work. He told investigators that he knew Le for about four months, according to court papers.

Clark told police that Le left the building 15 minutes before him, carrying her notebook and two bags of mouse food. An extensive search of the crime scene failed to locate Le's notebook or her shoes.

Court papers previously released describe a bloody crime scene and Clark's efforts to scrub floors.

Investigators say Clark tried to hide a box of "Wipe-Alls" that later was found to have traces of Le's blood.

Clark was also seen by investigators scrubbing floors with SOS pads and cleaning solution even though the floor appeared to be clean, according to the affidavit. He was also spotted "on the floor" inside Le's lab scrubbing under a sink with a brush or cleansing pad, the affidavit said.

Investigators uncovered "a possible medium velocity blood-like spray pattern" on the wall that tested positive for blood and showed apparent efforts to clean the blood off the wall.

The blood at the scene suggests there was a struggle, experts said, noting the scratches on Clark's body and the surgical gloves Le was wearing that left her thumb exposed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32845601/ns/us_news/

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Attorney says DNA sought from Yale suspect fiancee
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HARTFORD, Conn. — An attorney for the fiancee of a Yale lab technician charged with killing a graduate student said Wednesday he's been told authorities are seeking a sample of her DNA.

Robert Berke, attorney for Jennifer Hramadka, told The Associated Press that it's unclear why authorities want her DNA. He says he was told in September after Annie Le was killed that she is not a suspect.

"I've been advised that they're seeking a sample of her DNA," Berke said.

Hramadka's boyfriend, Raymond Clark III, is charged with killing the 24-year-old Le five days before Le's wedding in September.

Berke said investigators wanted to interview Hramadka shortly after the crime, but the interview did not take place.

Berke declined to comment on his reaction to the move.

A prosecutor and police declined to comment.

Clark and Hramadka were seen leaving a coffee shop in a car in which "blood-like stains" were found hours after Le was killed, according to search warrant affidavits unsealed Wednesday.

New Haven police said in September that they didn't expect to make more arrests in Le's killing.

Le's body was found stuffed behind a research lab wall in September on the day she was supposed to get married on Long Island. Autopsy results show Le was strangled, but the motive remains unclear.

Experts said investigators may seek someone's DNA to exclude them as a suspect.

"It sounds like they have some DNA they don't know who it belongs to," said Dr. Bruce Goldberger, director of toxicology at the University of Florida. "They're trying to rule her in or rule her out as a contributor to that DNA."

Dr. John Howard, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, cautioned against drawing conclusions about the move. He said investigators might want to address any claims or anticipated claims by the defense, such as that blood found was the suspect's fiancee's from a nosebleed.

Two days before Clark was arrested, investigators said they found blood "in plain view" on the kitchen floor near the entrance to his apartment, according to the search warrants. The warrants do not indicate the source of the blood found in Clark's apartment.

Authorities took plastic door panels and carpeting with "blood-like stains" from the Taurus in which Clark was riding in the hours after Le's disappearance.

Clark sent e-mails to Le "in the recent past," the affidavits said. Her e-mail address was found in a laboratory locker labeled "Ray," the documents said.

Clark has not yet entered a plea. His public defender, Joe Lopez, has said he intends to plead not guilty.

The affidavits show that police searched for evidence in Clark's home, two cars that he used and numerous lockers in the laboratory building where Le's body was found.

The suspect "has gone to great lengths to conceal evidence in multiple locations in unusual places," the affidavits said.

Investigators found a white rag, tweezers, scissors, a screwdriver and several plastic tubes in a clogged drain pipe in the building where Le's body was found, the affidavits said.

Portions of the affidavits released Wednesday were blacked out.

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http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/12/police_chief_mo.php

Search Begins For A New Chief

by Paul Bass | December 9, 2009 10:10 AM

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The department’s handling of the high-pressure Annie Le murder case received particularly high marks.

(video & pics at link)

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http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2009/12/31/news/doc4b3c180d2df79299647475.txt


YEAR IN REVIEW: Shooting shook us up in ’09

Published: Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:12 AM EST

3. Raymond Clark III arrested in Yale slaying

Raymond Clark III, of Middletown, was arrested at a motel in Cromwell on Sept. 17 and charged with killing 24-year-old Yale graduate student Annie Le and stuffing her body behind a wall. Le disappeared five days before her wedding. Her body was discovered on the morning she should have been getting married.

Clark worked as a lab tech in the building where Le was doing her research. Police searched Clark’s house and car and took DNA samples before his arrest. A bloody sock found in a ceiling at the Yale research building had a mixture of Clark’s and Le’s DNA. In addition, police said a green ink pen found under Le’s body contained Clark’s DNA. The case, which is heard in New Haven Superior Court, will continue on Jan. 26.

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