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I apologize if this discussion has been started.  I searched for it and didn't find anything.

It seems nothing has been posted on the news sites since the initial story about her disappearance.  I was hoping more information would be released.  I feel so bad for her family, especially her fiance.

The story is on the Fox News site below
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548904,00.html
"NEW HAVEN, Conn. —  A 24-year-old graduate student at Yale University's School of Medicine vanished days before her wedding and has been declared missing by campus police.

Annie Marie Le, who is supposed to be married on Sunday, has not been seen or heard from since Tuesday morning, according to the Yale Police Department.

Deputy University Secretary Martha Highsmith, who oversees campus security operations, said Wednesday evening that there is no evidence of foul play in Le's disappearance but declined to elaborate because the investigation is ongoing.

The FBI and the Connecticut State Police are assisting the Yale Police Department in the search for Le.

Police went to the missing student's last known location, 10 Amistad Street, late Wednesday night but didn't find her.

Click here to read the story at UWire.com.

Click here to read the story at the Yale Daily News.

A 2007 graduate of the University of Rochester who is now studying for a doctorate in pharmacology and molecular medicine, Le began the day Tuesday working in her lab at the Sterling Hall of Medicine, said University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer.

Le left the lab sometime Tuesday morning to walk the three blocks to the Amistad Street facility where she frequently works on experiments, according to Lorimer.

She brought her Yale identification card with her — records show that she swiped it at the building's entrance about 10 a.m. — but left her purse with her cell phone, credit cards and money in her Sterling office, Lorimer said.

Several students and workers confirmed that there was an unexpected fire alarm in the Amistad Street building at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and it was evacuated.

Lorimer said the university has scanned footage from security cameras but hasn't been able to confirm that Le left the facility after she entered it.

“We have been looking now at all of the tapes of every exit and entrance over the entire 24 hours, just to see if there’s any information we can give to the law enforcement agencies,” Lorimer said.

No e-mail was sent to the campus community to inform students and faculty of Le's disappearance.

Her fiance, Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at Columbia University who attended Rochester with her, could not be reached for comment Wednesday, though an NBC affiliate station in Connecticut reported that he was in New Haven helping with the search on Wednesday.

Efforts to reach Le’s parents were also unsuccessful.

Le worked in the lab of Anton Bennett, an associate professor of pharmacology. Police confiscated her belongings from that lab yesterday and were still examining her lab space Tuesday evening.

Bennett, for his part, said he was first contacted by police late Tuesday after Le’s roommate reported her missing.

He emphasized that his eight-person laboratory team, of which Le is a member, works closely together and, as such, her colleagues noticed her absence quickly.

“There was certainly immediate concern about her whereabouts,” Bennett said. “And they grew over the course of the day,” especially after she missed a pathology class for which she is a teaching assistant.

Bennett described Le as an extremely diligent and well-organized student. He added that she was always aware of her surroundings and took appropriate precautions when leaving the lab late at night.

Colleagues interviewed described Le as a bundle of energy, saying she is upbeat and friendly.

School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern said he was notified about Le’s disappearance late yesterday afternoon, just before the Department of Pharmacology met and was briefed on the situation.

“The biggest thing we’re worried about right now is, ‘Is she okay?’ ” he said.

Le is of Asian descent and has brown hair and brown eyes. She is 4-foot-11 and weighs 90 pounds.

Anyone with information on Le’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Yale Police Department at (203) 432-4400."

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This is a problemo.. We already had one woman who ran off because she got nervous....later found on a bus in Arizona if I remember correct..

Is that was is happening here ? Why is the F.B.I. involved so fast ? I am not saying that is bad but WHY ?

What about that fire alarm ? WHO set it off and WHY ?

Anyways.. I hope they find the answer quick.

We had a similar situation in our area with an Asian girl from Stanford and she was later found inside of her own trunk in her car at another university..
LE Called it suicide and her father says NO WAY !

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Yale grad student Annie Le disappears 5 days before New York wedding

BY Corky Siemaszko
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, September 10th 2009, 1:30 PM
 
Yale Police Department
Annie Le, a 24-year-old graduate student at Yale, is last seen in photo still from a surveillance camera (r.).

A Yale grad student vanished just days before she was supposed to get married, leaving cops to determine if she's a runaway bride - or the victim of a crime.

Annie Marie Le, 24, has not been seen or heard from since Tuesday, the Yale Police Department confirmed Thursday. She left behind a purse with her cell phone, credit cards and money.

"The biggest thing we're worried about right now is, 'Is she okay?" Robert Alpern, dean of the School of Medicine, told FOX News in New Haven, Conn.

The FBI and Connecticut State Police have also joined the search for Le, who is engaged to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at Columbia University.

They are supposed to get married in New York on Sunday, according to their wedding web site.

Le, who is from Placerville, Calif., is working on a doctorate in pharmacology at Yale's School of Medicine.

Le, who got her undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester in 2007, was conducting an experiment at a Yale lab when she disappeared, police said.

The grad student used her Yale ID card to check into the facility at 10 a.m.

Cops are checking the lab's video camera footage to see if Le left when the building was evacuated at 1 p.m. after someone pulled a fire alarm.

"We have been looking now at all the tapes of every exit and entrance over the entire 24 hours, just to see if there's any information we can give to law enforcement agencies," Yale University veep Linda Lorimer told FOX.

Le's roommate in New Haven reported her missing when she didn't come home Tuesday, police said.

Debbie Apuzzo, who works in the pharmacology department, told the Associated Press that Le was excited about getting married and described her as energetic and conscientious.

Police said Le is of Asian decent and has brown hair and brown eyes. She is 4-foot-11 and weighs only 90 pounds.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/10/2009-09-10_yale_grad_student_annie_le_disappears_5_days_before_wedding.html

Thanks Blonde - this is so curious.  I really am hoping that she ran off to avoid getting married even though it's not likely.  Such a bright young girl. 

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I just heard on FoxNews that Annie was seen entering the Lab facility on suveillance video, but was not seen leaving it. It sounds like the lady in NYC who was in the highrise cleaning and later was found dead in an AC duct.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/11/2009-09-11_family_cancels_planned_wedding_ceremony_of_missing_yale_bridetobe_annie_le.html


Family cancels planned wedding ceremony of missing Yale bride-to-be Annie Le

BY Matthew Lysiak In New Haven, Conn. and Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Friday, September 11th 2009, 2:59 PM

Missing Yale graduate student Annie Le's wedding has been canceled.

"The wedding is off," a supervisor at the North Ritz Club in Syosset, Long Island said Friday afternoon, less than 48 hours before a planned reception.

"A family member called and canceled it."

Le, a 24-year-old doctoral student in pharmacology, was last seen Tuesday at her lab in the Yale Medical School complex, about a mile from the main campus.

She received her undergraduate degree in bioscience in 2007 from the University of Rochester, where she met her fiance, Jonathan Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student.

The 4-foot-11, 90-pound student wrote an article for a school magazine about how to stay safe on campus.

"Crime and Safety in New Haven" was published as a cover story in February.

It compared higher instances of robbery in New Haven to other Ivy League cities.

"Despite safety measures such as door-to-door escort and shuttle services, the Yale community is still plagued with thefts, some involving frightening confrontations," Le wrote in "B Magazine" seven months ago.

Le's purse, cell phone, credit cards and money were found in her office.

She planned to get married on Long Island on Sunday.

She has not contacted her family, co-workers or friends.

For the article, Le interviewed Yale's chief of police, James Perrotti, who offered advice such as "pay attention to where you are" and "avoid portraying yourself as a potential victim."

She summed up her article saying: "In short, New Haven is a city, and all cities have their perils, but with a little street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic."

Yale University Offers $10G Reward for Help Finding Missing Grad Student

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549222,00.html?test=latestnews

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/11/2009-09-11_family_cancels_planned_wedding_ceremony_of_missing_yale_bridetobe_annie_le.html

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Annie Marie Le, 24, with her fiance Jonathan Widawsky. She was reported missing on Tuesday from a lab in Yale University, where she is a Ph.D student.




I'm wondering if someone didn't want her to get married?

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Le left the lab sometime Tuesday morning to walk the three blocks to the Amistad Street facility where she frequently works on experiments, according to Lorimer.

She brought her Yale identification card with her — records show that she swiped it at the building's entrance about 10 a.m. — but left her purse with her cell phone, credit cards and money in her Sterling office, Lorimer said.

Several students and workers confirmed that there was an unexpected fire alarm in the Amistad Street building at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and it was evacuated.


Ok this is very suspicious...sounds to me like someone set her up. She walked 3 blocks to another building but left her purse, etc behind. Was she in a hurry or was she threatened by someone? Did a coworker call her out to that building maybe on a pretense?  Then the unexpected fire alarm....purposely set by the person who called her over to that building? Sounds very fishy to me!  Sounds like maybe a coworker was infatuated with her and couldn't bear to see her get married to someone else or maybe another asian that was upset that she was marrying someone from a different race.

This is puzzling.  Fire alarm going off and false alarm?  Police say no corrolation?  I wonder where the alarm was pulled in relation to the room she was in?  Could she have pulled it if being carried out by someone?  If she did want to avoid marrying, could she have worn disguise out of bldg?  So many other questions-was it normal for her to leave her belongings in her office at other bldg?  And her publication in the newspaper-someone showing her that she's wrong?  Or was this a setup? 

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/yale-offers-10-000-reward-for-info-on-missing-student-1.1440984?localLinksEnabled=false  - 38 minutes ago
Yale offers $10,000 reward for info on missing student

September 11, 2009 By MATTHEW CHAYES. AND ZACHARY R. DOWDY.  matthew.chayes@newsday.com., zachary.dowdy@newsday.com
Yale University announced it is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of one of its own, Annie Le, a graduate student from California who vanished from a college lab on Tuesday - less than a week before she was to be married on Long Island.

Officials announced the reward late Friday afternoon, urging people with information to call the 24-hour FBI hotline at 877-503-1950.

The monetary incentive comes after three days of searching for Le, 24, who was last seen entering a building housing the university laboratory where she worked on Amistad Street in New Haven.

More than 100 law enforcement officials from the Yale Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Connecticut State police and New Haven Police Department have scoured the environs and even searched through garbage cans for clues. Last night, police brought two German shepherds into the Amistad Street building.

They labored in the rain Friday, but reported no new information about their probe.
Le's roommate reported her missing Tuesday night when she didn't return home to their Lawrence Street apartment.

Missing-person posters with photos of Le dotted the campus Friday, where they were taped to the windows of the Yale research lab where she was last seen at about 10 a.m. Tuesday.

One of the photos in the posters shows her entering the building, carrying papers on the morning she went missing.

The doctoral student in pharmacology "has not been seen or heard from by family, co-workers and friends" since then, according to the poster.
Police have said that Le's fiance, Jonathan Widawsky of Huntington, a graduate student in physics at Columbia University in Manhattan, is in New Haven cooperating with police. A representative for North Ritz Club in Syosset, where the nuptials were to be held Sunday, said Friday that the wedding has been canceled.

"A family member called," said Vasilios Nerantzinis, a manager at the North Ritz Club, which is located on Jericho Turnpike. "It would have been canceled anyway because if we don't hear anything at this point a few days before the wedding, we cancel it."

Le used her university identification card to enter the lab building about 10 a.m., but left her purse, cell phone, credit cards and cash in her office, located in another Yale building about three blocks away, according to published reports.

Tom Conroy, a Yale spokesman, told the New Haven Register Thursday that "there's no evidence" at this time of foul play.

On the Columbia campus, Widawsky lives with roommate Theodore Kramer at 118th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Kramer was not available Friday.
Le, from Placerville, Calif., met Widawsky when they were undergraduates at the University of Rochester, said published reports.

She was a lively, hardworking student then, according to her mentor, Rocky Tuan, who supervised a selective National Institutes of Health undergraduate scholars program.

"She was a very happy person," Tuan told the Register. "Everybody got along with her. She's always smiling, laughing."

Le, 4-foot-11 and weighing 90 pounds, was last seen wearing a brown skirt, green short-sleeved T-shirt, brown shoes and a brown necklace.

Her cell phone voice message says: "Hey. You've reached Annie. Please leave your name, number and a brief message, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Bye."

- With Sophia Chang and Pervaiz Shallwani

I heard on one of TV newscast that the fire alarm was caused by a short in one of the fire alarm boxes.  It apparently wasn't activiated by anyone.    This is very sad and mysterious.  I don't think she ran away, unfortunately, I think she met with foul play. 

Yale Professor Questioned in Graduate Student's Disappearance
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Detectives questioned a Yale professor Friday who suddenly canceled class about the same time graduate student Annie Le vanished, a police source told the New York Daily News.

Le, 24, a doctoral student in pharmacology at the Ivy League university, was supposed to attend the class Tuesday afternoon. But the course was canceled shortly before Le was reported missing, according to the News.

A New Haven police source told the paper that investigators grew suspicious about the timing and questioned the professor. It wasn't known whether that person is considered a suspect or what came out of the interview ...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549527,00.html

Another source ....

Professor questioned by police in case of missing Yale student Annie Le
BY Matthew Lysiak In New Haven and Henrick Karoliszyn and Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Saturday, September 12th 2009, 4:00 AM

Cops questioned a Yale professor Friday in the case of a graduate student who went missing just days before her New York wedding, a police source told the Daily News.

Annie Le, a 24-year-old doctoral student in pharmacology, was supposed to attend the professor's class on Tuesday afternoon.

But the class was abruptly canceled - and hours later, Le was discovered missing.

The sudden cancellation near the time when Le is believed to have disappeared aroused suspicions among law enforcement, a New Haven police source said.

It was unclear what class was canceled or if the professor is a suspect. Yale officials would not comment, and a police spokesperson did not return calls.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/09/12/2009-09-12_professor_questioned_by_police_in_case_of_missing_yale_student_annie_le.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549527,00.html
Yale Professor Questioned in Graduate Student's Disappearance

Saturday, September 12, 2009
 Detectives questioned a Yale professor Friday who suddenly canceled class about the same time graduate student Annie Le vanished, a police source told the New York Daily News.

Le, 24, a doctoral student in pharmacology at the Ivy League university, was supposed to attend the class Tuesday afternoon. But the course was canceled shortly before Le was reported missing, according to the News.

A New Haven police source told the paper that investigators grew suspicious about the timing and questioned the professor. It wasn't known whether that person is considered a suspect or what came out of the interview.

Meanwhile, Le's family canceled her Sunday wedding on Long Island, N.Y., according to a supervisor at the hall where the ceremony and reception were to have taken place.
"The wedding is off," Nadeen Fotopoulos, a manager at the North Ritz Club in Syosset, told the News. She said 160 guests were supposed to attend.

"It's very said," she told the paper. "The hall will be dark Sunday morning."

Authorities previously said they had no evidence to indicate foul play in Le's disappearance.

On Friday, Yale offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the missing student. Investigators searched her office, the lab facilities where she did research and her apartment.

Le was last seen about 10 a.m. Tuesday morning on surveillance camera outside a lab in the Yale School of Medicine complex, less than a mile from the main campus in New Haven, Conn.

About the same time, she swiped her Yale ID at the facility's entrance. There was no footage of her leaving the building, in spite of a fire alarm that went off about 12:40 p.m. The alarm isn't thought to be connected to her disappearance.

Her purse, cell phone, credit cards and money were found in her office, a few blocks from the lab. She has not contacted her fiance, family or friends since Tuesday.
The California native was to be married to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. The two met as undergraduates at the University of Rochester. Widawsky has been cooperating with the investigation and is not considered a suspect.

Le is 4-foot-11, 90 pounds and of Asian descent with brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on Le’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Yale Police Department at (203) 432-4400.

On the CBS Saturday Morning show they were talking to Clint Van Zandt.  He said there is a parking garage attached to the building I believe.   Someone could have taken her out that way.  He was also very suspicious of the fire alarm going off.

Missing Ivy League Bride-to-be: Kidnap Victim or another Runaway Bride?

http://clintvanzandt.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/10/3250213-missing-ivy-league-bride-to-be-kidnap-victim-or-another-runaway-bride

Local and state police in Connecticut as well as the FBI are searching for missing 24-year-old Yale University graduate student Annie Marie Le. On Tuesday morning the missing woman worked in her lab at Yale's Sterling Hall of Medicine, but later that morning left to walk the three blocks across campus to a facility where she could work on an experiment. Although she left her purse, cash, credit cards and cell phone in her office, she took her college ID card with her and used it at 10 a.m. to gain entrance to the Amistad Street facility. It was from this 120,000 square foot building that she disappeared in the late morning or early afternoon. Le, who is engaged to be married this coming Sunday in New York, has not been seen or made any known attempt at contact with her family, friends or fiancée since her mysterious disappearance.

Annie Le, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, is 4’11” and weighs 90 pounds. She was reported missing by her roommate when she failed to return to their apartment Tuesday night. She is an academic success story, a dual medical and doctoral student in her third year in pharmacology. The topic for her dissertation is "understanding how certain proteins are involved with metabolic diseases such as diabetes."

While her purse and other personal possessions were all found in her campus office, a search of her apartment by the FBI and the use of tracker dogs has been unsuccessful in locating her to date. A review of campus surveillance camera footage showed her entering the research lab where she spent 10+ hour days, but she was not seen to leave and she is not known to have a car on campus. One challenge is that a fire alarm was activated in the Lab at 12:40 p.m., causing everyone inside to evacuate the building via numerous doors at the same time. Many who simultaneously left the building were wearing white lab coats similar to that Le may have been worn over her clothes. This would frustrate investigators as they look for Le on the tapes of over 75 surveillance cameras located in the vicinity of the laboratory. But did she actually leave the lab at that time, perhaps assuming it was a false alarm and that she would quickly return, only to be taken by an assailant somewhere out of the camera’s eye? And did the false alarm have anything to do with Le’s disappearance and if so, could she have simply been a victim of opportunity, or did some unknown kidnapper specifically target the bride-to-be in this manner?

Le’s fiancée, Jonathan Widawsky, attended undergraduate school with Le at the University of Rochester and is currently a graduate student at Columbia University. As usual he has been questioned by authorities, but so far he has not been implicated in any way in Le’s disappearance. Referring to Widawsky on her Facebook account, Le said “Lucky I’m in love with my best friend.” Meanwhile Yale University has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to her return, this while over 100 university, local, state and federal investigators continue the hunt for Annie Le.

Why some Students Disappear

Now authorities must consider the various possibilities that could explain her disappearance. She may have slipped out of the lab undetected and thereafter had an accident and simply not been found to date, or she may have been assaulted and/or kidnapped, perhaps concealed within the massive campus lab or somehow surreptitiously removed from the building, again without being seen. Finally, could she have simply been overwhelmed by the stress and pressure of graduate school and her impending marriage and simply left of her own volition to get time to herself to allow her to get her thoughts and life together? The pressures of a relationship has been the catalyst that allowed others to run away from scholastic, social, and emotional commitments in the past. For example:

In March 2004, 20-year-old University of Wisconsin student Audrey Seiler disappeared from her apartment without taking her purse or coat. She was found four days later lying in a nearby marsh, curled up in a fetal position and alleging she had been kidnapped. Police quickly obtained a store videotape that showed her buying a knife, duct tape, and the rope she claimed her kidnapper had used to restrain her. Investigators concluded she had faked her own abduction in a frantic attempt to get the attention of her boyfriend. “I set up everything,” she would say. “I’m just so messed up. I’m sorry.”

And most will remember the 1999 movie “The Runaway Bride” that starred Julia Roberts as a woman who couldn’t bring herself to fulfilling her commitment to walk down the isle of marriage. Six years later 32-year-old Jennifer Carol Wilbanks disappeared in rural Georgia, this just four days before her wedding day. Due to the circumstances she was presumed kidnapped and her fiancée became one of “the usual suspects.” One day before her planned wedding she called from New Mexico, claiming she had been kidnapped, sexually assaulted and transported to that distant state. Her story quickly came unglued and she soon admitted she had lied about the whole thing. “I was running away from myself” she said, and all the media hoopla that was created by her disappearance quickly disappeared with her promise to pay for the law enforcement investigation. Shortly thereafter her fiancée saw the light and moved on from his histrionic former bride-to-be.

Crimes on College Campuses

Since 1991 all colleges and universities, public and private alike that have any type of federal student aid program, must report the past three years worth of campus crime statistics. While most schools comply, some have hidden crimes to save the reputation of their school. Date rape continues to be the most under reported crimes on such campuses, and all types of crimes are committed on our nation's college campuses by both students and non-students alike. Current statistics suggest that on the average 10 people are murdered each year on our college campuses. In 2007 Yale University reported 8 forcible sexual assaults and 103 burglaries on campus with no murders.

Missing Person Reports

876,213 men, women and children were reported missing last year in the United States, representing an average of 2,400 missing person reports that were filed every single day of the year. Most (upwards of 90%) of the missing are juveniles under the age of 18, with the vast majority of all reported missing persons eventually being accounted for by law enforcement. We also know that over 16,000 murders take place in America every year. It was Le who wrote an article on student safety in a Yale School of Medicine publication in February in which she stated, "Despite safety measures such as door-to-door escort and shuttle services, the Yale community is still plagued with thefts, some involving frightening confrontations." She concluded by stating "In short, New Haven is a city, and all cities have their perils, but with a little street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic." The challenge for investigators in their attempt to determine if Le has become one of the statistics about which she wrote begins with their ability to follow any trail that she may have left. While some follow footprints in the dirt, today’s modern footprints are usually electronic, to include the use of the Internet, telephone calls, bank transactions and credit card purchases.

The Investigation to locate Annie Le

Many have said that Le must have been kidnapped, but others recall the stories of Audrey Seiler and Jennifer Wilbanks and many other men and women before and after them who ultimately became victims of themselves and their own circumstances. In this case investigators will conduct a two- track investigation, much like a set of railroad tracks that run parallel to each other. Track one will consider the possibility that she was a victim of an unknown offender, either assaulted and hidden in or nearby the lab, perhaps during the fire alarm, or that she was somehow spirited out of the large building without anyone, to include the ever present surveillance cameras, seeing her being taken by her assailant. The presence of a 1,000 space parking garage connected to the lab building from which Le disappeared has also been of interest to investigators, noting, of course she could have left via such an exit or been taken from the building, placed in a vehicle, and transported off campus.
Meanwhile track two of the investigation will consider the possibility that she was a victim of herself, somehow caving in to the overwhelming pressures associates with her graduate studies, her doctoral work, and her rapidly approaching marriage, perhaps one she wasn’t quite ready for. In this case she would be hiding out, perhaps with a friend, trying to figure out how to gracefully return after all of the unanticipated media attention her disappearance has generated. Her high school class voted her the student most likely to be the next Einstein, an impression that she has carried throughout her college career and one that could suggest the continuing pressure she was functioning under. Her close friends, however, say she was looking forward to her wedding, but for now investigators just don’t know and as usual in such cases, the clock may be ticking against them in their search for the missing bride-to-be.

With all the comotion of the fire alarm being set off do you think someone could have taken her out that way?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/09/12/2009-09-12_professor_questioned_by_police_in_case_of_missing_yale_student_annie_le.html

Comment made that mirrors my thoughts somewhat:

interesting....does anyone know the name of this professor or have a photo of him? what do we know about him....

I agree with this also.

Me too!

Janet

I listened to a spokeperson from Yale (?) last night claim the false alarm was not set of by anybody ... it had something to do with wiring.

Janet

I haven't seen his name mentioned.

Janet, I heard the same thing regarding the fire alarm.  Timing is interesting though. 

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Blonde - I haven't found the name of the professor yet.  I'm very suspicious of that.

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/news_ap_new_haven_fbi_questioned_man_outside_yale_lab_200909121120

BREAKING NEWS - according to this website:

FBI questioned man outside Yale lab
Updated: Saturday, 12 Sep 2009, 11:52 AM EDT
Published : Saturday, 12 Sep 2009, 11:24 AM EDT

New Haven (AP/WTNH) - Investigators outside the laboratory where a missing Yale University student worked have driven away from the scene with a man they were questioning.

Two agents were seen questioning the man just before 10:30 a.m. Saturday outside the lab where 24-year-old Annie Le was last seen. When they finished talking, the man got in the front seat of the unmarked car and one of the agents got in the back seat. The car then drove away.

Le, a doctoral student from Placerville, Calif., was last seen Tuesday at the Yale Medical School complex, less than a mile from the main campus.

She was planning to be married Sunday on Long Island.

An agent said the FBI wouldn't answer any questions about the investigation while it's ongoing.

A spokesman for the Yale public information office didn't immediately return a phone call Saturday.

Speaking to the The Yale Daily News Friday, Yale University Chief James Perrotti said authorities “still have no idea” what happened to Le of whether she ever left the research building.

On ABC's Good Morning America Saturday, Vanessa Flores, a former roommate of Le's who came out from California for the wedding, said Le was a very conscientious person and was excited about her upcoming wedding.

"There was nothing that would make us believe that she was having second thoughts or anything like that," Flores told ABC.

Citing a police source, the New York Daily News reported that police on Friday questioned a Yale professor in Le's disappearance. According to the report, Le was supposed to attend the professor's class on Tuesday, but the class was canceled and Le was discovered missing a few hours later.

It was unclear what class was canceled or if the professor is a suspect, the paper reported.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Sept. 12) - Police reportedly have questioned a professor who canceled a class about the same time Yale graduate student Annie Le disappeared on Tuesday.
A New Haven police source told New York Daily News on Friday that detectives became suspicious about the timing of the canceled class, which Le was supposed to attend.
http://news.aol.com/article/annie-le-disappearance/665002

Unfortunatly they show no footage as of yet of her leaving the building.  So the search is THAT BUILDING and the 100+ law enforcement have that covered.

This is so sad.  IMO she was either killed in that building or someone kidnapped her and snuck her out of the building so she wouldn't get married on Sunday.

http://www.wtnh.com/



(http://media2.wtnh.com//photo/2009/09/12/20090912_newhaven_0_20090912122309_320_240.JPG)

An unidentified man gets into back of an unmarked New Haven police vehicle outside 10 Amistad St. Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.

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FBI questioned man outside Yale lab
New Haven police drive away second person

Updated: Saturday, 12 Sep 2009, 12:59 PM EDT
Published : Saturday, 12 Sep 2009, 11:24 AM EDT

New Haven (AP/WTNH) - Investigators outside the laboratory where a missing Yale University student worked have driven away from the scene with a man they were questioning.

New Haven police later drove away with a second person.

Two agents were seen questioning the man just before 10:30 a.m. Saturday outside the lab where 24-year-old Annie Le was last seen. When they finished talking, the man got in the front seat of the unmarked car and one of the agents got in the back seat. The car then drove away.

About two hours later, around 12:15 p.m., a man in a blue shirt got into a car with a man wearing a New Haven police jacket. That car also drove off.

It was not immediately clear who the men are, and what their connection might be to the disappearance of Le. The building itself remained open and people freely entered and left the facility.

Le, a doctoral student from Placerville, Calif., was last seen Tuesday at the Yale Medical School complex, less than a mile from the main campus. She was planning to be married Sunday on Long Island.

An agent said the FBI wouldn't answer any questions about the investigation while it's ongoing.

A spokesman for the Yale public information office didn't immediately return a phone call Saturday.

Speaking to the The Yale Daily News Friday, Yale University Chief James Perrotti said authorities “still have no idea” what happened to Le of whether she ever left the research building.

On ABC's Good Morning America Saturday, Vanessa Flores, a former roommate of Le's who came out from California for the wedding, said Le was a very conscientious person and was excited about her upcoming wedding.

"There was nothing that would make us believe that she was having second thoughts or anything like that," Flores told ABC.

Citing a police source, the New York Daily News reported that police on Friday questioned a Yale professor in Le's disappearance. According to the report, Le was supposed to attend the professor's class on Tuesday, but the class was canceled and Le was discovered missing a few hours later.

However, the Yale Daily News quoted University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer, who shot down those reports. Lorimer said the police were "interviewing tons of people" and that there was no reason to believe any professor was a suspect.
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/news_ap_new_haven_fbi_questioned_man_outside_yale_lab_200909121120

Great job Klaas.  Thank you!

Did they bring in cadaver dogs, or just search dogs?  I may have missed that info.  TIA

CASAREZ: What does it say to you, though, they just took dogs into this 120,000-feet facility and brought them out very quickly? They couldn`t have combed the entire area in that time.

TRIPP: Absolutely not. But also keep in mind there`s several different types of dogs. You have tracking dogs. You also have cadaver dogs. And if, in fact, it is foul play and she possibly has met some ill will timed (ph) episode, the cadaver dogs would also be able to locate a body. So there are different types of dogs that can be used in this.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/11/ng.01.html

 ::MonkeyWaa::

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/12/news/new_haven/doc4aabf19f66a5b662461713.txt

MISSING STUDENT: CRIME SCENE FOUND IN BUILDING
Saturday, September 12, 2009

By William Kaempffer, Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — Bloody clothes and other evidence of a crime scene have been found inside the building where missing Yale University student Annie Le was last seen, police sources said Saturday.

The discovery may dash hopes that Le, whose wedding Sunday has been called off, would be found alive.

Police sources said the evidence was discovered in a ceiling at the Yale building at 10 Amistad St. where surveillance footage shows Le entering Tuesday morning. She has not been seen since. The building houses the university’s molecular biology labs.

Police, using bloodhounds, have been searching the building since earlier this week.

Yale Friday offered a $10,000 reward for information, as family and friends remained in limbo about her whereabouts. Le, 24, is a doctoral candidate in pharmacology and molecular medicine.

A team of about 100 law enforcement agents from Yale University, the FBI, state police and New Haven officers, have been working on the case around the clock, according to Yale spokesman Tom Conroy.

As part of that, the FBI went to Yale-New Haven Hospital Friday night to review its security camera videos, according to sources.

Yale officials said Le’s fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky, 24, has been cooperating, as have Le’s friends and colleagues at Yale, and her family. officials said said there is no reason to consider Widawsky a person of interest in the case. The Yale official said police had also not uncovered any threats or problems involving Le’s family.

Yale officials said a check of Le’s computer and cell phone failed to turn up anything to explain her disappearance. Le left her purse, money, credit cards and cell phone at her office at 333 Cedar St. before walking three blocks to 10 Amistad St.

On Saturday, Yale officials said media reports of one of Le’s professors being questioned in the case is misleading, since anyone she has contact with has been questioned.

Anyone with information on Le is asked to call the FBI hotline at (877) 503-1950, which is answered 24 hours a day. The FBI has also put out the message about Le on electronic billboards on Interstates 91 and 95.

I was so hoping she either ran away or was kidnapped to stop her from getting married.  I'm so tired of men killing women.  ::MonkeyMad::

So sad   ::MonkeyWaa:: 

How Sad (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b104/Blondeonahd/Blessings/flower47sm2.gif)

This is heartbreaking.....I hope that the ID card has to be used by everyone
who goes into that Lab Building....at least that is a starting point.

Sources: Bloody clothing found at Yale
New Haven State's Attorney Dearington at scene

Updated: Saturday, 12 Sep 2009, 3:52 PM EDT
Published : Saturday, 12 Sep 2009, 3:35 PM EDT

New Haven (WTNH) - Bloody clothing has been found in ceiling tiles at 10 Amistad Street, the Yale building where Annie Le was last seen, law enforcement sources tell News Channel 8.

The sources tell News Channel 8's Erin Cox the area where the items were found is now considered a crime scene.

New Haven Police Chief James Lewis told News Channel 8 no body has been found.

Around 12:15 p.m., New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington was photographed leaving the building at 10 Amistad St. with New Haven Assistant Chief Peter Reichard.

A Yale University spokesperson said a statement would be released "sometime today".

Investigators outside the lab where Le worked drove away from the scene with a man they were questioning, the Associated Press reported. Two agents were seen questioning the man just before 10:30 a.m.  When they finished talking, the man got in the front seat of the unmarked car and one of the agents got in the back seat. The car then drove away.

Le, a doctoral student from Placerville, Calif., was last seen Tuesday at the Yale Medical School complex, less than a mile from the main campus. She was planning to be married Sunday on Long Island.

An agent said the FBI wouldn't answer any questions about the investigation while it's ongoing.

Speaking to the The Yale Daily News Friday, Yale University Chief James Perrotti said authorities “still have no idea” what happened to Le of whether she ever left the research building.

On ABC's Good Morning America Saturday, Vanessa Flores, a former roommate of Le's who came out from California for the wedding, said Le was a very conscientious person and was excited about her upcoming wedding.

"There was nothing that would make us believe that she was having second thoughts or anything like that," Flores told ABC.

Citing a police source, the New York Daily News reported that police on Friday questioned a Yale professor in Le's disappearance. According to the report, Le was supposed to attend the professor's class on Tuesday, but the class was canceled and Le was discovered missing a few hours later.

However, the Yale Daily News quoted University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer, who shot down those reports. Lorimer said the police were "interviewing tons of people" and that there was no reason to believe any professor was a suspect.
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/news_wtnh_new_haven_bloody_clothing_found_at_yale_200909121535

I had a feeling she is dead.
The false alarm being set off was most likely used for him to carry her body out.
Now, it's a matter of being able to find where her body is.
Such a tragic loss.

Someome mentioned something on one of the New Hampshire sites.  Is there an incinerator in the building?  There very well might be an incinerator for medical waste from their lab work.

http://www.wfsb.com/news/20875838/detail.html

Yale To Give Update On Student's Disappearance
Bloodied Clothes Reportedly Found In School Building

POSTED: 3:59 pm EDT September 12, 2009
UPDATED: 4:15 pm EDT September 12, 2009

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Yale University police plan to hold a news conference regarding disappearance of graduate student Annie Le.

The news conference is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

Several news agencies have reported that bloodied clothing has been discovered inside the Yale lab where Le was last seen.

The live press conference can be watched live at the link below at 5:30 ET:

http://www.wtnh.com/subindex/video/live_events_1

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/12/2009-09-12_cops_seeking_clues_in_missing_yale_student_annie_les_disappearance_say_case_wide.html


Investigators find bloody clothes in ceiling of Yale lab where missing student Annie Le last seen

BY Matthew Lytsiak In New Haven and Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Updated Saturday, September 12th 2009, 3:17 PM

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Caption under photo reads: 
DelMundo for News
Investigators took unidentified male for questioning at Amistad Hall where missing Yale grad student Annie Marie Le, 24, who was scheduled to get married, was last seen.

Police sources told Fox 61 in New Haven that they found Le's body inside the building.

The building houses the university's molecular biology labs. Investigators questioned a man outside her lab Saturday morning - then put him in an unmarked car with an FBI agent and drove away.

Officials would not say whether the man was a suspect or a witness. Le, a 24-year-old doctoral student in pharmacology, was last seen around 10 a.m. Tuesday at the lab on the Yale Medical School complex, about a mile from the main campus.

"[The case] is still wide open," a law enforcement source told the Daily News.

"We are looking into everything." The source said investigators are looking at:

* A burglary gone bad - the lab where Le was last seen is full of valuable equipment.

* Kidnapping - Le's mother owns nail salons in California and has access to cash.

* A professor who suddenly canceled a class Le was to attend around the time she went missing.

Investigators are still searching through hundreds of hours of surveillance footage and following up on tips.

Yale announced Friday a $10,000 reward for information that leads them to Le.

"They are going frame by frame, looking at every image," said Yale spokesman Tom Conroy.

"We are also reviewing footage of nearby businesses. We have yet to I.D. her leaving the building," he said.

"The FBI is continuing to do interviews with everyone who knew the student."

Investigators also examined blueprints of the building to make sure nothing was missed in their search.

Le graduated from the University of Rochester in 2007, where she received a degree in bioscience and met her fiance, Jonathan Widawsky, who she was set to marry today in Syosset.

Police say Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student, is not a suspect and is assisting with the investigation.

"There is still no evidence of foul play," Conroy said. "We are asking anyone who has information, even if they think it isn't significant, to please come forward."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/12/2009-09-12_cops_seeking_clues_in_missing_yale_student_annie_les_disappearance_say_case_wide.html

This link is to a map of the area....

http://business.yale.edu/map/medicine.html

Thank you Klaas.

 ::MonkeyWaa::

Thank you Mere.   ::MonkeyAngel::

(They changed this sentence in their article to read:)

Police sources told a local New Haven television news channel that Le's body was also found in the building.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/12/2009-09-12_cops_seeking_clues_in_missing_yale_student_annie_les_disappearance_say_case_wide.html

I read the caption under this picture on the link, and it says the man in the blue shirt is a states attorney Michael Dearrington.

Thank you Fanny Mae.   ::MonkeyAngel::

It must have been changed after it was first posted.

It looks like CNN Live will carry it on TV.

News conference should start any minute

That's my guess.  One of the articles I posted today has already changed about 3 times. 

Fox News Live looks set up to carry it also.

Mercy, this lady sounds like she's giving a commencement address.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

?????  What has really happened here?  Still looking for her???

I know, I think Yale is in a CYA mode right now.  ::MonkeyNoNo:: Some outlets are saying they did find her body, maybe they won't say until all family has been told.

 

Welcome to CT where you can NEVER find out anything about anyone

Bloody clothes found in Yale lab where Annie Le last seen; Officals deny reports of body found

BY Matthew Lysiak In New Haven and Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Updated Saturday, September 12th 2009, 4:44 PM

DelMundo for News
Unmarked police cars and federal agents cars lined up in front of Amistad Hall where the body of missing Yale grad student Annie Marie Le, 24, was found Saturday.

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Investigators found bloody clothes stuffed in the ceiling where missing Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen Athorities emptied the building at 10 Amistad St. in New Haven Saturday afternoon and declared it a crime scene.

Officials speaking in an evening news briefing denied earlier reports that Le's body had also been found in the building.

The building under investigation houses the university's molecular biology labs.

Investigators questioned a man outside her lab Saturday morning - then put him in an unmarked car with an FBI agent and drove away.

Officials would not say whether the man was a suspect or a witness. Le, a 24-year-old doctoral student in pharmacology, was last seen around 10 a.m. Tuesday at the lab on the Yale Medical School complex, about a mile from the main campus.

"[The case] is still wide open," a law enforcement source told the Daily News. "We are looking into everything."

The source said investigators are looking at:

* A burglary gone bad - the lab where Le was last seen is full of valuable equipment.

* Kidnapping - Le's mother owns nail salons in California and has access to cash.

* A professor who suddenly canceled a class Le was to attend around the time she went missing.

Investigators are still searching through hundreds of hours of surveillance footage and following up on tips.

Yale announced Friday a $10,000 reward for information that leads them to Le. "They are going frame by frame, looking at every image," said Yale spokesman Tom Conroy.

"We are also reviewing footage of nearby businesses. "We have yet to I.D. her leaving the building," he said. "The FBI is continuing to do interviews with everyone who knew the student."

Investigators also examined blueprints of the building to make sure nothing was missed in their search. Le graduated from the University of Rochester in 2007, where she received a degree in bioscience and met her fiance, Jonathan Widawsky, who she was set to marry Sunday in Syosset.

Police say Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student, is not a suspect and is assisting with the investigation.

"There is still no evidence of foul play," Conroy said. "We are asking anyone who has information, even if they think it isn't significant, to please come forward."

sgoldsmith@nydailynews.com

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c...case_wide.html

When they asked the FBI agent about the report that some outlets were saying they found a body the woman looked shocked to hear that.  So that lead me to believe they didn't find a body.

If a body was found they family would have been notified immediately.

Related Articles from around the Daily News
Bloody clothes found in Yale lab where Annie Le last seen; Officals deny reports of body found

Posted on 2009-09-12 16:57:28

Investigators found bloody clothes stuffed in the ceiling where missing Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen. Authorities emptied the building at 10 Amistad St. in New Haven Saturday afternoon and declared it a crime scene.
Professor questioned by police in case of missing Yale student Annie Le

Posted on 2009-09-11 22:54:18

Cops questioned a Yale professor Friday in the case of a graduate student who went missing just days before her New York wedding, a police source told the Daily News.
Family cancels planned wedding ceremony of missing Yale bride-to-be Annie Le

Posted on 2009-09-11 14:59:19

Missing Yale graduate student Annie Le's wedding has been canceled. "The wedding is off," a supervisor at the North Ritz Club in Syosset, Long Island said Friday afternoon, less than 48 hours before a planned reception.
Missing Yale bride-to-be penned article on campus safety

Posted on 2009-09-11 11:58:41

A Yale University graduate student who disappeared less than a week before her wedding wrote an article in Medical School magazine about how to stay safe on campus.
More Annie Le Articles from the Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Annie+Le

Thank you for the updates.  I got kicked out of the cage & couldn't get back in.  Then got a phone call & am just now catching up.

http://www.wfsb.com/news/20875838/detail.html

Items Seized In Yale Student's Disappearance
Grad Student's Whereabouts Remains Unknown

POSTED: 3:59 pm EDT September 12, 2009
UPDATED: 7:13 pm EDT September 12, 2009

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Law enforcement officials said the whereabouts of missing Yale graduate student Annie Le remains unknown.

Officials said at a Saturday afternoon news conference that evidence in connection to the case had been seized, and that the items were being examined to determine whether there was any connection to Le.

Members of Yale University police, the FBI and state and New Haven police spoke at Saturday's news conference.

Officials said numerous interviews had been conducted in the case, but that no one had been identified as a person of interest.

Le disappeared Tuesday. Police said they believe Le left the Sterling Hall of Medicine where she had an office before 10 a.m. They said there are records of her swiping her card to get into a lab on Amistad Street, where she was captured by the building's surveillance cameras. They said she hasn't been seen or heard from since.

Police said she was caught on surveillance video entering the Amistad building, but that police have not determined whether she exited the building.

University police said Le's purse, containing her cell phone, credit cards and money, was left in her office.

She was scheduled to be married on Sunday.

Le's fiancé, family, friends, professors and colleagues were all assisting in the investigation.

Bloody clothes found in Yale lab where Annie Le last seen; Officials deny reports of body found
BY Matthew Lysiak In New Haven and Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Updated Saturday, September 12th 2009, 6:14 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/12/2009-09-12_cops_seeking_clues_in_missing_yale_student_annie_les_disappearance_say_case_wide.html

I wasn't impressed by the woman that represented Yale in the news conference. Why was she smiling so much.  She acted like it was an award ceremony instead of a missing person investigation.

Also, I can't believe they originally thought that there was no crime and that she was a runaway bride.  Annie Le has spent many years earning her degree and making progress on her research. I don't think anyone would walk away at that point in their career simply because they wanted to back out of a wedding.

I wasn't either.  Seemed like she was giving a speach at a meeting on how to be politically correct.  ::MonkeyCool::

I can't find this new conference on line?  Anyone know if it is posted someplace?

I'm watching Geraldo and he is talking to Kimberly Guilfoyle and Joe Tacopina.

Kimberly Guilfoyle thinks they probably have a suspect.

Joe Tacopina said he doesn't think she got cold feet and left.  He said he would be blown away if they find a body in the building. 

They think is it someone who knows her schedule and someone who knows her.

I'll look for it

The video is skipping some of the very beginning when the VP of Yale speaks.

I think that whomever it was would have put their bloody clothes in the incinerator as well.  At least I would, but there are lots of idiots out there so who knows?

FBI agent Kim Mertz speaks to reporters about blood clothing, other developments in the disappearance of Yale grad student Annie Le, Sept. 12, 2009. Behind Mertz are other local and state law enforcement officials.

New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington (blue shirt) gets into an unmarked New Haven police vehicle outside 10 Amistad St. Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.

Scene outside of 10 Amistad St in New Haven Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.

This is the last time anyone saw Annie Le (surveillance photo).

Annie Le has gone missing from Yale, in New Haven, on September 8th.

Annie Le, featured above, went missing from Yale, in New Haven, on September 8th. (Photo: Courtesy of Facebook, September 9th)

Authorities search a dumpster behind a building where Annie Le was last seen, September 10, 2009.
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Bloody clothing, no body, found at Yale
New Haven State's Attorney Dearington at scene

Updated: Saturday, 12 Sep 2009, 11:49 PM EDT
Published : Saturday, 12 Sep 2009, 3:35 PM EDT

    * By: Erin Cox

New Haven (WTNH) - Bloody clothing has been found in ceiling tiles at 10 Amistad Street, the Yale building where Annie Le was last seen, authorities said Saturday. A body has not been found, authorities told News Channel 8.

Law enforcement sources told News Channel 8's Erin Cox the area where the items were found is now considered a crime scene.

"We don't know where she is," a Yale University spokesperson said at an early evening news conference.

Kim Mertz of the FBI said "no lead is going uncovered" in search for Le. Mertz said they do not know if they are dealing with a missing person or a crime.

Mertz said over 100 law enforcement officials are working on the case.

Around 12:15 p.m., New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington was photographed leaving the building at 10 Amistad St. with New Haven Assistant Chief Peter Reichard.

Investigators outside the lab where Le worked drove away from the scene with a man they were questioning, the Associated Press reported. Two agents were seen questioning the man just before 10:30 a.m.  When they finished talking, the man got in the front seat of the unmarked car and one of the agents got in the back seat. The car then drove away.

"We have not identified anyone as a person of interest," Mertz said.

Le, a doctoral student from Placerville, Calif., was last seen Tuesday at the Yale Medical School complex, less than a mile from the main campus. She was planning to be married Sunday on Long Island.

An agent said the FBI wouldn't answer any questions about the investigation while it's ongoing.

Speaking to the The Yale Daily News Friday, Yale University Chief James Perrotti said authorities “still have no idea” what happened to Le of whether she ever left the research building.

On ABC's Good Morning America Saturday, Vanessa Flores, a former roommate of Le's who came out from California for the wedding, said Le was a very conscientious person and was excited about her upcoming wedding.

"There was nothing that would make us believe that she was having second thoughts or anything like that," Flores told ABC.

Citing a police source, the New York Daily News reported that police on Friday questioned a Yale professor in Le's disappearance. According to the report, Le was supposed to attend the professor's class on Tuesday, but the class was canceled and Le was discovered missing a few hours later.

However, the Yale Daily News quoted University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer, who shot down those reports. Lorimer said the police were "interviewing tons of people" and that there was no reason to believe any professor was a suspect.

A $10,000 reward has been offered to anyone who can give information to help solve the case. The FBI tipline is 1-877-503-1950.

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/news_wtnh_new_haven_bloody_clothing_found_at_yale_200909121535

Cops find bloody clothing as Yale student remains missing (with video)

Published: Sunday, September 13, 2009
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By William Kaempffer and and Mary E. O’Leary, Register Staff


Crime scene investigators walk by the Connecticut state police’s major crime vehicle Saturday outside the Yale University building on Amistad Street where missing student Annie Le was last seen. (Melanie Stengel/Register)

NEW HAVEN — Bloody clothes were found Saturday inside the building where missing Yale University student Annie Le was last seen Tuesday morning, according to numerous sources.

But police officially, at an early-evening press conference, would only say “potential evidence” had been located and they had yet to determine if it was associated with Le.

“Items that could potentially be evidence have been seized. None have yet have been associated with Annie Le,” said Kimberly Mertz, special agent in charge for the FBI in Connecticut. “We are not in a position today to conclude whether this is a missing persons case or whether criminality is involved.”

Sources confirmed, however, that the bloody clothing was found in a drop ceiling somewhere in the five-story science lab building at 10 Amistad St. The evidence was being tested Saturday and a mobile police crime lab could be seen in a driveway into the 10 Amistad St. building.

Mertz denied that a body had been found in the case as of 5:30 p.m. Saturday, which had been reported by several television stations. When asked if the police suspected foul play, Mertz refused to comment. New Haven State’s Attorney Michael Dearington was at 10 Amistad St. on Saturday.

Linda Lorimer, vice president and secretary of the university, said the investigation was “at a very difficult stage,” and solving the mystery of Le’s disappearance would not be served now by further speculation.

The potential evidence was the first break in the case that started to unfold Tuesday evening when Le’s roommate reported her missing. She was last seen on security camera footage as she entered 10 Amistad St., where she was working on a research project

A third-year doctoral student in pharmacology and molecular medicine, Le, 24, was planning to marry Jonathan Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student, today in Long Island. The wedding was canceled Friday.

Police have spent several days reviewing video footage from the more than 70 cameras focused on the exterior of 10 Amistad St. and an adjacent garage, but they have yet to find an image showing Le leaving the facility. They could be seen bringing a set of blueprints to the building Saturday.

Mertz said they were enhancing some of the images to make sure they hadn’t missed anything and there was no evidence that the video had been tampered with.

Lorimer said a fire alarm that emptied the building Tuesday afternoon was set off by steam released from a piece of lab equipment.

In earlier reports on the disappearance, Yale officials speculated that it might have been difficult to spot the 4- foot-11-inch, 90-pound Le leaving with a crowd of students and workers, particularly if she were wearing a lab coat or different clothing than when she entered the building.

Mertz said they have talked to numerous people in the Amistad building who saw Le inside the building Tuesday, but she wouldn’t comment beyond that.

At 10 Amistad St. on Saturday, police were present, but it was more or less business as usual at the facility, where a conference was being held. Students entered and left throughout the day, even as a portion of the building was now considered a crime scene, according to sources.

Asked if Le might not have wanted to get married, Lorimer said, based on discussions with the family “there is no reason to believe that whatsoever.” Previous comments from friends and colleagues backed up that conclusion. Widawsky and the family have been cooperating with the investigation.

There were also earlier reports that the authorities were interviewing a Yale professor who had canceled his class, just before Le went missing.

Lorimer has responded that the professor was interviewed, as were dozens of others on the campus. Mertz Saturday said “cancellation of that class is not considered problematic. That is not something that they are pursuing as an important part of finding out about Annie’s whereabouts.”

Le had left her purse, cell phone, cash and credit cards in her office at the medical school on Cedar Street before walking the three blocks to Amistad building Tuesday. A review by police of the items did not offer any clues as to her disappearance.

Lorimer told the press it was a very difficult time for the family and she asked that their privacy be respected.

Rocky Tuan, a professor close to Le when she was an undergraduate at the University of Rochester, said Le is a “very smart kid, very motivated. She has a very delightful personality, always laughing.”

Tuan was her mentor on a project at the National Institutes of Health, where she won a prestigious scholarship for several summers to do research as an undergraduate.

He called the news about Le “a shock. She had found her niche and was very excited about her engagement. She had so much ahead of her.”

The Amistad building is part of the university’s medical school complex, which is about a mile from the main downtown Yale campus.

Yale Friday offered a $10,000 reward for information and again asked that anyone with information to call the FBI tip line at (877) 503-1950.

About 100 law enforcement agents from Yale University, the FBI, state police and city officers have been working on the case around the clock since late Tuesday. State police brought in bloodhounds earlier in the week to search the building.

Mary E. O’Leary can be reached at 789-5731 or moleary@nhregister.com. William Kaempffer can be reached at 789-5727 or wkaempffer@nhregister.com.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/13/news/new_haven/doc4aac61166bb4a241108227.txt

You'ld sure think so

Hope And Dread: Search Continues For Missing Yale Graduate Student Annie Le
Annie Le

By ALAINE GRIFFIN and REGINE LABOSSIERE The Hartford Courant

September 13, 2009


NEW HAVEN — - Investigators searching for Annie Le, the 24-year-old Yale graduate student missing since Tuesday, have found bloody clothes above a ceiling tile in the building where Le was last seen, a police source told The Courant Saturday.

But no body had been found as of Saturday evening, and investigators were still searching for Le, Yale Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer at a press conference.

"The investigation is at a very difficult time," Lorimer said.

Kim Mertz, the FBI special agent in charge of the case, said Saturday that items that might be evidence have been collected from the research building at 10 Amistad St., in the Yale Medical School complex.

"We don't know if they could be associated with Annie Le," she said. "We have not identified anyone as a person of interest."

She added, "We're not in a position today to say whether this is a missing person case or whether criminality is involved."

University spokesman Tom Conroy said, "We don't know where she is, we don't know what happened to her."

Le, whose planned marriage today on Long Island has been canceled, has been the focus of an intensive search since her disappearance. Dozens of Yale, New Haven and state police and FBI agents have been involved in the search, which continues to focus on the Amistad Street building.

Police said they have interviewed numerous people, including some who saw Le inside the building.

Le was last seen entering the laboratory building about 10 a.m. Tuesday. But investigators have been unable to find any record of her leaving, despite spending hours poring over tapes from some 75 surveillance cameras that cover the complex.

Lorimer said it was "entirely perplexing that there doesn't seem to be a record of her" leaving the building, according to the Yale Daily News.

Investigators, having already gone through the videos once, were reviewing the surveillance tapes frame by frame to see if they overlooked Le, who could have changed into a laboratory coat or other clothing before leaving the building.

On Saturday, they brought in what appeared to be the building's blueprints. FBI agents also were spotted questioning an unidentified man outside the lab. When they finished talking, the man got into the front seat of an unmarked car and an FBI agent got into the back seat. The car then drove away.

Agent Bill Reiner said the FBI would not answer any questions about the investigation while it is still underway.

Yale is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to Le's whereabouts. She is described as being of Asian descent, 4 feet 11 inches tall and 90 pounds. Her purse, cellphone, credit cards and money were found in her office in the lab building.

Le, originally from Placerville, Calif., was to get married today at the North Ritz Club in Syosset, N.Y. Workers at the club said the wedding was canceled on Friday.

Police said her fiancé, Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at Columbia University in New York City, is not a suspect and is assisting with the investigation.

During the evening, as many as six uniformed Yale and New Haven police officers stood guard outside the building's main entrance and the ramp to its parking garage. They carefully checked IDs of people who tried to get in, and turned away several. One woman arrived with a Yale ID card and told them she'd been called in to work that evening, but they sent her away, saying the basement — where she was assigned to work — was closed off.

Saturday evening, two young women strode to a tree along Amistad and put up a cardboard sign bearing the message "Annie — We Hope You Are Okay!! — Yale Grad Students."

One, who identified herself only as Kristina, said she and other Yale grad students are frightened and want more information from school administrators.

"The grad students are terrified," she said. "A lot of us are female and small, and we don't feel safe. We haven't heard anything from the dean of medicine or from anybody except the Yale police."

The woman said she doesn't know Le personally, but heard her give a presentation on pharmacology last year.

"I remember thinking, 'She's very together, she's very impressive,'" the woman said. "I hope she's OK."

— Associated Press reports are included in this story.

Copyright © 2009, The Hartford Courant

http://www.courant.com/community/new-haven/hc-yale-missing-student-0913.artsep13,0,170336.story

Thanks Blonde for all the updates. I am holding out hope that she is still found safe.

   

Items seized in disappearance
FBI is looking for Yale graduate student who went missing Tuesday
By Associated Press        Published on 9/13/2009
   


New Haven (AP) - Potential evidence has been seized from the building where a Yale University graduate student was last seen before she vanished days ahead of her wedding, authorities said Saturday.

Items that could be evidence are being analyzed but none has yet been associated with Annie Le, FBI spokeswoman Kim Mertz said at a news conference.

”I will categorically say a body has not been found,” Mertz said. “Items that could potentially be evidence have been seized. None have yet been associated with Annie Le at this time.”

Mertz would not confirm reports that the items found included bloody clothing.

Le was last seen Tuesday at a university laboratory. She swiped her identification card to enter the building Tuesday morning, but authorities have found no record of her leaving, despite some 75 surveillance cameras that cover the complex.

Authorities said they still have not determined whether Le's disappearance is a criminal case.

”We don't know where she is. We don't know what happened to her,” Yale spokesman Tom Conroy said. “We don't know if a crime was committed or not.”

Investigators, having already gone through the videos once, continued to review the surveillance tapes frame-by-frame Saturday to see if they overlooked Le, who could have changed into a laboratory coat or other clothes before leaving the building.

”I do not know that it's definitive that she has left the building at this point,” Mertz said.

On Saturday, investigators took what appeared to be blueprints to the building. FBI agents were also spotted questioning a man outside the lab. When they finished talking, the man got in the front seat of the unmarked car and an FBI agent got in the back seat. The car then drove away.

Yale is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to Le's whereabouts.

Le, who's of Asian descent, stands 4-foot-11 and weighs 90 pounds. Her purse, cell phone, credit cards and money were found in her office. Officials say there's no evidence of foul play. Le, originally from Placerville, Calif., was set to get married Sunday at the North Ritz Club in Syosset, N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island. Workers at the club say the wedding was canceled Friday.

Police say Le's fiance, Jonathan Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student, is not a suspect and is assisting with the probe.

Wesleyan University professor Charles Lemert, who lives across the street, said Le always took time to talk to his 11-year-old daughter.

”I wish more than anything this could be solved and turn into some kind of misunderstanding, but it seems bleak,” he said.

http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=5170f40a-183b-409d-845c-b2e3086658bb

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/13/2009-09-13_details_of_the_canceled_wedding_of_.html


A life that may not be: Details of the canceled wedding of Annie Le

BY Matthew Lysiak In New Haven and Henrick Karoliszyn and Samuel Goldsmith
Daily News Writers

Sunday, September 13th 2009, 4:00 AM

Only one question was supposed to be on the mind of would-be groom Jonathan Widawsky on Sunday.

Do you take this woman to be your wife?

Instead, the 24-year-old is faced with much darker questions about his fiancée, Annie Le, who was last seen alive Tuesday morning in her lab at Yale Medical School.

Cantor Sandra Sherry, who would have presided over today’s ceremony, immediately feared foul play, saying Le, 24, would never skip out on her wedding day.

“I never thought that it was anything like ‘cold feet,’” said Sherry, of Temple Beth El in Huntington, L.I.

“Her smile was effervescent when she spoke about the wedding,” said Sherry. “She embroidered her own veil, which says to me that she was looking forward to this occasion.”

Some 160 guests were to arrive at the North Ritz Club in Syosset at 11 a.m. for the ceremony, set on a gazebo overlooking a pond. The celebration would have continued until the early evening with a meal, open bar and toasts.

“Annie had already picked everything out,” said banquet manager Nadeen Fotopoulos. “I know she was very excited to get married, and it was going to be just a fantastic wedding.”

Deborah Kiley, owner of Deborah’s Hairloft in Huntington, was planning to do Le’s hair and makeup this morning. “She wanted a slick back bun and very simple makeup,” Kiley said. “She wanted everything perfect.”

Le would have gone to the spa next to Kiley’s salon for a manicure and pedicure on Friday, she said. The two have been talking about the wedding for about a year.

Sherry has known Widawsky since he was a baby, she said, but noticed “he was happiest when he was around Annie. He really shone bright around her.”

“They had everything going for them,” she said. “They were not only a couple, they were best friends. They reached a level of maturity that said they were ready for matrimony.”

“I always ask couples why they chose to be married,” Sherry said. “Annie clearly said Jonathan brought out the best in her and that she’s very in love with him.”

The groom’s father, Michael Widawsky, called Sherry on Wednesday to say the wedding would be postponed.

“He was very, very distraught,” she said. “He said the family made a decision. They didn’t know where she was and people were coming to town so they had to postpone the wedding.”

Sherry has been in touch with the family every day since.

“It’s very clear they’re feeling very sad,” she said.

Thanks Blonde.
It looks pretty grim for this lovely young woman.
 ::MonkeyWaa::

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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2169113/annie_marie_le_is_missing_body_found.html?cat=9

Annie Marie Le is Missing: Body Found is Unsubstantiated Rumor

A rumor spread Saturday across the internet that the body of missing Yale student Annie Marie Le had been found. But the rumor was untrue. Annie Marie Le's body had not been found. In fact, Fox News reported that authorities have yet to determine whether or not anything criminal took place. Annie Marie Le is missing. The Yale student was last seen entering a lab building in the medical complex about a mile from the main campus.

As with any missing person case, the finding of a body can sometimes be problematic. It may not be the individual authorities are searching for, which means that the investigation continues (and a new investigation begins into who the recovered individual might be and how they happened to arrive at that point). If the body is that of the missing person being searched for, then it must be determined how the body came to be in the circumstances within which it was discovered. But in the meantime, the family of the missing person (or the recovered person) experiences ongoing emotional distress.

Rumors or unsubstantiated reports tend to cause undue pain and suffering with the families and friends of the missing. They can also interfere with an investigation, cause authorities to alter or halt altogether their searches, perhaps causing them to miss a valuable clue or pick up on a lead later, fostering unnecessary delay. In addition, rumors and false reports, especially hoaxes, are irresponsible, callous, and totally insensitive to the suffering of others.

In the case of Annie Marie Le, who was scheduled to be married Sunday, that emotional distress would extend to that of the family and friends of the fiance as well.

FBI Special Agent Kim Mertz told reporters Saturday that there was no credence to the reports and rumors circulating that the body of 24-year-old Annie Marie Le had been found. Mertz also refused to acknowledge whether or not investigators searching for missing Yale doctoral student Annie Marie Le had found bloody clothing in the building she was last seen entering, something that the New York Daily News was reporting.

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http://www.rep-am.com/news/doc4aace56922028508391620.txt

Sunday, September 13, 2009 8:30 AM EDT

FBI, state police search Hartford landfill for missing Yale student

HARTFORD -- Federal authorities and state police canine teams are searching a landfill in Hartford this morning for missing Yale graduate student Annie Le, who hasn't been seen since Tuesday.

State police canine units from across Connecticut and the FBI are combing through the landfill after receiving information that Le may have been buried there.

Le, 24, is a Yale Medical School student who was last seen on video entering a research building on Amistad Street in the Yale Medical School complex on Tuesday. She was supposed to be married today on Long Island, but the wedding has been called off.

Thanks for all the updates, and I also believe this is a cover up.

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/hartford_cty/news_wtnh_hartford_search_at_hartford_trash_facility_2009091301118

Search at Hartford trash facility
Updated: Sunday, 13 Sep 2009, 11:25 AM EDT
Published : Sunday, 13 Sep 2009, 11:20 AM EDT

Hartford (WTNH) - Connecticut state troopers and people dressed in hazardous materials suits are at a Hartford trash facility, but it's unclear what they are searching for.

The activity is going on at the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority facility along Maxim Road near Brainard Airport.

State police spokesman Lt. J Paul Vance would comment on any activity when contacted by News Channel 8 Sunday.

There was no visible indication police are searching the landfill in the North Meadows section of the city.

Lt. Vance would not comment on any connection to any other investigation going on in the state.

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I have to give a lot of credit to LE about cases like these.  I think I would not be able to sleep if I had that job, I am positive that they would haunt me in my dreams until I found them.  May God bless LE to find this young lady and may He bless Le and all the missing people that are out there to be found.

Sunday, September 13, 2009
11:30 a.m.
Top law enforcement officials on scene at 10 Amistad St.
BY PAUL NEEDHAM
 
Paul Needham /Staff Reporter The special agent in charge of the FBI in Connecticut, Kimberly Mertz, and Yale Police Department Chief James Perrotti (at extreme left) and Assistant Chief Ronnell Higgins (at extreme right) are seen entering 10 Amistad St. on Sunday morning.


Investigators have been trickling into 10 Amistad St., the building where missing student Annie Le MED ’13 was last seen, since about 10 a.m. this morning. Some of the investigation’s top officials just arrived — including the special agent in charge of the FBI in Connecticut, Kimberly Mertz, and the Yale Police Department’s top two officials, Chief James Perrotti and Assistant Chief Ronnell Higgins — and could be seen entering through a loading dock to the building's basement, where the investigators' search efforts have been concentrated in recent days.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2009/09/13/top-law-enforcement-officials-scene-10-amistad-st/

Thanks for the updates.

Klaas...can you read the signage on the blue metal container that is behind the law enforcement
people in ariana's last post?

This is the link with picture....

http://www.yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2009/09/13/top-law-enforcement-officials-scene-10-amistad-st/

Campus life goes on amid questions



By Susan Misur, Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — Yale University was abuzz Saturday with questions about doctoral student Annie Le’s disappearance, but work went on at the medical laboratory building where she was last seen.

State and Yale police along with FBI investigators continued to seek Le, who was reported missing Tuesday and was last seen on a surveillance video at the 10 Amistad St. lab.

“There’s a sense of confusion,” said a Yale junior who declined to give his name. “We just don’t know that many facts. Everyone’s waiting to find out something.”

An unrelated conference attended by Yale employees and visitors from Cambridge, England, was held for most of the day at the laboratory building, which is off Church Street South and near Route 34.

Caterers for the event from Cafe George by Paula rolled trays of food through doors that bore posters about Le’s disappearance and were guarded by Yale police officers, some standing inside and some on the outside steps.

The sidewalks were void of passers-by, though TV camera crews, photographers and reporters camped across the street from the building from morning until dark as they watched marked and undercover police cars come and go. In the early afternoon, a man was seen carrying blueprints to a building into the laboratory building, and police also manned the entrance of the parking garage, where vehicles flowed in and out all day.

Only a handful of students entered the building for weekend experiments and research, and the area usually doesn’t see much foot traffic, said Christine Polanco, who used to work nearby.

“I think the police waited a little too long to start investigating,” Polanco said after she visited a friend working at South Central Rehabilitation on Cedar Street.

“They need more cameras there. And where was security when this happened? The fact that they didn’t see her leave means they should investigate it from the inside,” Polanco said.

Police, saying that about 70 surveillance cameras were in the area, said they haven’t found any footage of Le leaving the building.

Yale students said they don’t feel nervous being on the main, downtown campus since the focus of investigators is on Amistad Street, and many of them gathered to watch the press conference held by police Saturday afternoon at Woodbridge Hall. Students said they hadn’t received an e-mail to notify them of the gathering, but had simply been walking by.

“I haven’t felt any tangible change in attitude,” first-year student Alon Harish said after he watched the press conference. “I feel pretty safe on campus.”

He said he hasn’t noticed an increase in police presence at the university.

Christian Vazquez, another first-year student who attended the press conference with Harish, said the disappearance is “quite unfortunate” and that he hopes Le is unharmed.

Having just begun his college career at Yale, he said he never expected any major incident to happen and that Le often comes up in conversations after news updates in local newspapers and online.

A sophomore reached by phone said the news has startled his parents, who remind him to follow safety tips when walking on campus or in New Haven.

“I know to take things the common-sense way, like to not go out alone at night,” he said. “But we’re not the only campus that’s not in the best of areas. I think all of us are just hoping she’s found soon.”

At Le’s apartment building on Lawrence Street in the East Rock neighborhood, hopes for Le’s safe return waned.

“I feel bad what happened to her,” said Anna Beth Funk, who lives across the street from Le’s apartment. “It broke my heart hearing she was about to get married because I love being married and it must be so hard for her fiance.”

Wesleyan University professor Charles Lemert, who also lives across the street, said Le always took time to talk to his 11-year-old daughter.

“I wish more than anything this could be solved and turn into some kind of misunderstanding, but it seems bleak,” he said.

The Associated Press contributed to this story. Susan Misur can be reached at 789-5742 or smisur@nhregister.com.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/13/news/new_haven/doc4aac61851f9e1767150476.txt

If you go into New Havens web site, Henry Lee is a proffessor there or was.
They show him teaching classes. This girl is no runaway, she has a brilliant mind
and had a great future ahead of her. I hope they find her alive but I don't think so.
Unless its someone thats holding onto her and LE finds her before its to late.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/13/news/doc4aad41ad5531c586462814.txt

UPDATE: Bloody clothes not items Le was last seen wearing
Sunday, September 13, 2009

By William Kaempffer, Register Staff

NEW HAVEN - The blood-stained clothes found in ceiling tiles at the Yale University laboratory where graduate student Annie Le disappeared are not the clothes Le was last seen wearing, law enforcement officials said.

The items were sent for testing to see if the clothes had any connection to Le, whose disappearance five days before her wedding has attracted national media attention.

Investigators said a small amount of blood was found on the clothing found Saturday at 10 Amistad St.

Le is the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants and her mother is said to own several nail salons in California. Sources said Le was primarily raised by an aunt and uncle.

http://www.newsday.com/news/search-for-missing-yale-student-moves-to-landfill-1.1443592?localLinksEnabled=false

September 13, 2009 By MATTHEW CHAYES AND ANDREW STRICKLER   matthew.chayes@newsday.com, andrew.strickler@newsday.com
Search for missing Yale The FBI says authorities are  searching a Connecticut landfill as part of their investigation into the disappearance of a Yale University graduate student, The Associated Press is reporting.

FBI agent Bill Reiner said Sunday that investigators are searching the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority’s landfill in Hartford. He said officials are “following the trash” that left the laboratory. He declined to comment further.

And a newspaper in Connecticut, the Waterbury Republican-American, is reporting that state police canine units are combing the landfill after receiving information that Annie Le may have been burried there.

The reports come after authorities Saturday found items that they said could be evidence in the case of a Yale University graduate student who disappeared days before her wedding in Syosset.

The news followed reports by a local newspaper, citing police sources, that bloody clothes and other evidence of a crime scene were found in a ceiling at a Yale building where Le, 24, was last seen on surveillance video Tuesday morning.

Late this morning New Haven's top FBI agent, flanked by several colleagues, entered the science building where the Yale bride-to-be was last seen on video surveillance tape.

Kimberly K. Mertz, the special agent in charge of the city's FBI field student moves to landfill

Kimberly K. Mertz, the special agent in charge of the city's FBI field office, said nothing to reporters as she entered the building via a side garage to 10 Amistad Street.

Yesterday, Mertz confirmed that "items that potentially could be evidence have been seized" and would be tested. "None have yet been associated with Annie Le at this time," she said.

"We are not in the position today to conclude whether this is a missing person's case or whether criminality is involved," Mertz said.
I will categorically say a body has not been found," she said.

Investigators scoured the university research building yesterday, with dozens of officials going in and out of the lab on Amistad Street and searching it with German shepherds.

A person attending a science conference on campus said the investigation appeared to be concentrated on the lower level - the floor that housed the lab where Le had scheduled a 10 a.m. slot to do some work Tuesday, school officials said. Her roommate reported her missing Tuesday night when she did not return to their apartment.

Police have said that Le's fiance, Jonathan Widawsky of Huntington, a graduate physics student at Columbia University, is not considered a suspect and is cooperating with police.

A representative for North Ritz Club in Syosset, where the couple was to be wed today, said the wedding has been canceled.

Le used her university ID card to enter the building about 10 a.m. She left her purse, cell phone, credit cards and cash in her office in another Yale building about three blocks away.

Investigators continued reviewing surveillance video, using image enhancement software to see if they had missed the 4-foot-11, 90-pound Le leaving the building. Yale officials said about 70 cameras are mounted outside the building and an adjacent parking structure.
Yale Vice President Linda Lorimer said "there is no reason to believe" Le's disappearance had anything to do with her wedding and implored reporters to respect the families' privacy.

A billboard over I-91 and missing-person posters around campus and at a nearby methadone clinic show pictures of Le, including one of her entering the building on the morning she went missing.

The doctoral student in pharmacology, originally from Placerville, Calif., "has not been seen or heard from by family, co-workers and friends," according to the poster.

Another sign across the street from the lab building yesterday said: "Annie, we hope you are okay!!" It was signed "Yale grad students."

Yale is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to Le's whereabouts. Anyone with information can call a 24-hour FBI hotline at 877-503-1950.

With Alfonso A. Castillo and AP

I can't read it but it sortof looks like the waste company name maybe.  Definately won't be able to read the gold/orange sign on the bottom right  ::MonkeyCool::?

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The bloody clothes must belong to the perp?  ::MonkeyConfused::

It could be the lab coat she was wearing.  "not clothes she was last seen in".

I wonder if the fire alarm rang when the ceiling tiles were removed to hide the clothing? Maybe it disturbed the wiring.

An FBI evidence van arrives at trash facility in Hartford, where Annie Le investigation is now centered, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. (Photo: Tom Parent)

http://www.wtnh.com/

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/news_ap_new_haven_yale_prays_for_return_of_le_200909131533

Yale prays for return of Le

Updated: Sunday, 13 Sep 2009, 3:37 PM EDT
Published : Sunday, 13 Sep 2009, 3:37 PM EDT

New Haven (AP) - Yale University students are praying for missing graduate student Annie Le, who remains the subject of a massive police search the day that she was scheduled to marry in New York.

Le and her family were on the thoughts of students attending services Sunday at The University Church at Yale.

Pastor Ian Buckner Oliver asked for a moment of silence and prayer "for Annie, and her family, who have arrived here in New Haven, for her fiance, on this, what would have been their wedding day."

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Photo credit: AP Photo/Thomas Cain | A sign posted by two Yale graduate students hangs in front of 10 Amistad Street, while police patrol the entrance to the building in New Haven, Conn., Saturday, Sept 12, 2009. The laboratory at 10 Amistad Street is the last place Annie Le, a Yale graduate student was seen, since her disappearance on the morning of September 8th. (AP Photo/Thomas Cain)

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A Connecticut State Police major crime squad vehicle arrives at the Yale medical complex where a missing graduate student was last seen.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/13/2009-09-13_search_of_missing_yale_student_annie_le_leads_to_hartford_landfill.html



Reports: Search for missing Yale student Annie Le leads to Hartford landfill

BY Matthew Lysiak In New Haven AND Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Updated Sunday, September 13th 2009, 2:59 PM

Investigators are searching a Connecticut garbage dump for the body of missing Yale graduate student Annie Le.

Cadaver-sniffing dogs and officers in hazardous material suits starting searching the waste processing plant in Hartford late last night, Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority spokesman Paul Nonnenmacher confirmed.

Investigators dredged through garbage for the 24-year-old's body on the day she was to marry Jonathan Widawsky, a Columbia Graduate student.

FBI agent Bill Reiner said Sunday that investigators are "following the trash" that left Le’s lab. He declined to comment further.

Le's wedding at the North Ritz Club in Syosset was canceled on Friday - three days after Le went missing. The couple started dating when they were freshmen at the University of Rochester.

The pharmacology student was last seen Tuesday morning entering her lab at the Yale Medical School complex about a mile from the main campus.

Investigators found bloody clothes in the lab on Saturday.

Yes, thanks.

Didn't think of that, sure could have I guess.

At the news conference they said the fire alarm went off because of steam rising from a machine in one of the labs.  Someone opened something and a great deal of steam rose up and triggered the alarm.  They said it was not a typical fire alarm that we think of where you pull a lever.  They are built in heat dectector type alarms.

Thank-you

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/connecticut/090913_Landfill_Searched_Yale_Student_Missing

Incinerator Searched in Yale Student's Disappearance

Updated: Sunday, 13 Sep 2009, 4:29 PM EDT
Published : Sunday, 13 Sep 2009, 3:30 PM EDT

    * By The Associated Press

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The FBI says authorities are searching a Connecticut incinerator as part of their investigation into the disappearance of a Yale University graduate student. FBI Special Agent Bill Reiner said Sunday that investigators are searching the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority's landfill in Hartford. He says officials are "following the trash" that left the laboratory.

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You are welcome, but really thanks to Klaas as she posted a link to the news conference last night a few pages back. 

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A Search For Clues
(JOHN WOIKE / HARTFORD COURANT / September 13, 2009)
Members of the FBI Evidense Response Team don Tyvek suits as they enter the CRRA waste processing facility in Hartford.


photo gallery:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/hc-yale-student-missing-annie-le-0910-pictures,0,3779582.photogallery

Thank you cece for all the pictures and information

They are still in the process of checking the blood to see if it's hers even though the clothing is not what Le was last seen wearing.  If a crime was committed, this makes more sense.  The person who harms/murders her gets blood on their own clothes and needs to get rid of them.  Maybe a lab coat? 

Search for Yale student turns to Conn. incinerator
Updated 1h 41m ago
A sign hangs in front of 10 Amistad Street in New Haven, Conn. The location is the last spot that Annie Le was seen before her disappearance.    

A sign hangs in front of 10 Amistad Street in New Haven, Conn. The location is the last spot that Annie Le was seen before her disappearance.


NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Investigators sifted through garbage at an incinerator Sunday, looking for clues into the disappearance of a Yale University graduate student who was supposed to be celebrating her wedding day.

FBI agent Bill Reiner said Sunday that investigators are "following the trash" that left the university laboratory in New Haven. He declined to comment further on the search at the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority's trash-to-energy plant in Hartford.

Annie Le, 24, was last seen Tuesday morning at the lab. More than 100 state, local and federal law enforcement agencies are looking for her but have not yet determined if Le's disappearance is a missing person's case or an act of foul play.

Authorities say Le, a pharmacology doctoral student originally from Placerville, Calif., swiped her identification card to enter the lab. But there is no record of her leaving despite some 75 surveillance cameras around the complex. Her ID, money, credit cards and purse were found in her office.

Investigators on Saturday said they recovered evidence from the building that houses Le's laboratory, but would not confirm reports by media outlets that the items included bloody clothing.

In a story published Saturday, the Yale Daily News quoted an unnamed New Haven Police Department official as saying the bloody clothes were found in a ceiling at the building. The official spoke to the newspaper on the condition of anonymity so the official would be free to discuss an ongoing investigation.

On Sunday morning, a state police Major Crimes Squad van drove down a ramp into the basement area of the building where the lab is located. Officials had no immediate comment.

Yale is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to Le's whereabouts.

On Sunday, students prayed for Le's safe return at The University Church.

"It has been a week that has tested many people in many different ways," the Rev. Ian Buckner Oliver said just before he gave the Sunday morning sermon. "It has brought up a lot of fears for people. It has brought up a lot of worry and concern for her and for all our safety."

The student-dominated congregation offered a moment of silence and prayer, "for Annie, and her family, who have arrived here in New Haven, for her fiance, on this, what would have been their wedding day. Let's lift them up in our prayers," Oliver said.

Le's family arrived in New Haven on Saturday, Oliver said after the service. He said the church doesn't have any other events or prayer services planned specifically for Le.

"There is nothing else at this point because the university and police have said there is no criminal investigation, there is no proof of a crime. So at this point, we are just praying," Oliver said.

Le, who's of Asian descent, stands 4 feet 11 inches and weighs 90 pounds. She was to marry Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky on Sunday at the North Ritz Club in Syosset, N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island.

Police say Widawsky is not a suspect and is assisting with the investigation.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-13-yale-missing_N.htm

http://www.wtnh.com/

BREAKING NEWS:  NEW HAVEN POLICE PLAN A 9PM PRESS CONFERENCE

http://www.wfsb.com/news/20893384/detail.html

Police To Announce New Development In Annie Lee Case
Le Missing Since Tuesday

POSTED: 7:53 pm EDT September 13, 2009

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- New Haven police announced Sunday that they would reveal a new development in the investigation into the disappearance of Yale graduate student Annie Le.

Police planned to make the announcement at a press conference Sunday at 9 p.m.

Watch press conference LIVE on Eyewitness News NOW at 9 p.m.

Le was last seen entering a university lab on Tuesday.

does anyone think that she is a runaway from the marriage, the pressure of being so brilliant etc..and she placed the bloody clothes up there herself as a ruse? and even set the fire alarm herself? just being devil's advocate here...family members of the "runaway bride" didn't think that she would have done what she did either...I am hoping that Annie did run away cause then she would be alive and not harmed.....although it doesn't seem that she did run a way from what we have read...sigh...

I hope that's the case but I doubt it.  I'm assuming in an hour we'll have a better idea. 

Thank you ,Klaas.

thanks K....I will be watching this thread to see what the news is...:)

I doubt she ran off also, and to have a press conference on a Sunday night at 9pm it must be a significant development.

What was Annie Le carrying in the last photo we see of her as she goes into the Lab?

In the news conference, they said they were still analyzing the security video and didn't know for sure.  I suspect paperwork.

perhaps a different outfit? dunno...

Maybe boxes of samples to test in the lab?

(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o100/klaasen3/Sub7/LeSurv.jpg)

Klaas, is the press conference over or is the news conference you are talking about the one from yesterday? TIA JSM

I'm sorry JSM - I was referring to yesterdays press conference.  The 9PM press conf will start in about 10 min.

Thank you Klaas. I thought you were talking about yesterdays.

Annie Marie Le, A Yale Student Found Dead

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/annie-marie-le-a-yale-student-found-dead_100246813.html



A FOX 61 representative in Connecticut has been informed by the police, that the body of a Yale student, who had mysteriously disappeared,prior to her marriage, has been recovered on Saturday.

Annie Le, could not be located since Tuesday, September 8th. Even blood soaked clothings, which probably belong to the Annie Marie Le, were discovered from the building at 10 Amistad St. in New Haven. “Items that could potentially be evidence have been seized. We’re not in a position today to say whether this is a missing person case or whether criminality is involved,” FBI spokesman Kim Mertz told sources. It is pretty clear that there are enough loopholes in the case.

To aggravate the confusion, no suspects have been pointed out clearly, though the police did interrogate a professor on Friday, who canceled a class the pharmacology student was supposed to attend, the same time she went missing.The 24 year old doctoral student had her cell phone, and a few other belongings in her office, which the police laid their hands on suspiciously some days back.

Police are not overlooking the possibility that a the crime could be related to burglary, since the University’s molecular biology laboratory, which is in the same building her body was recovered, has expensive equipments. Also, since Le’s mother has a lucrative business in California, police suspect it could be a case of kidnapping.

Several surveillance footage are being meticulously observed to locate any strand of evidence.

A Yale spokesman Tom Conroy revealed to sources,”They are going frame by frame, looking at every image.”

Ok so now they are saying this is a rumor? I only copied part of this.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2169113/annie_marie_le_is_missing_body_found.html?cat=9

Annie Marie Le is Missing: Body Found is Unsubstantiated Rumor

A rumor spread Saturday across the internet that the body of missing Yale student Annie Marie Le had been found. But the rumor was untrue. Annie Marie Le's body had not been found. In fact, Fox News reported that authorities have yet to determine whether or not

Izzy - thanks.  They found her yesterday?  I'm still trying to get the press conference.

Yesterday a rumor was out about a body but they said absolutly NO body found in the press conf yesterday.

I'm still trying to get the press conf that is supposed to be going on right now.  If someone gets it please post the link.

Fox New on now

Body found in a wall, assume it's Le, won't give anymore info. Press release shortly.....Homocide investigation now.......

And it is over.

Following twitter


http://twitter.com/WTNH

thanks,I thought that is what I heard.

FoxNew is talking about how complicated the case was???

Whoraldo is supposed to have more at 10PM.

So sad.    ::MonkeyNoNo::

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

  ::MonkeyWaa:: Very sad.

Fox says check with Geraldo at 10:00 pm EST

I'd like to know who this professor is that they questioned. His abrupt canceling of class sounds very fishy to me. I also wonder if it was the ceiling in his classroom they found the bloody clothes. 

I hope they find the killer quickly

It is sad and very sick!! She was in that building in a wall the whole time. Today was suppossed to be her wedding day. Just awful

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/13/news/new_haven/doc4aad8e5604e7d951608873.txt

UPDATE: Human remains believed to be Annie Le found
Sunday, September 13, 2009

By Mary O’Leary, William Kaempffer and Susan Misur, Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — Human remains believed to be Annie Le were found Sunday in the Amistad Street building were the Yale grad student was last seen Tuesday, authorities said.

Tests are being performed on the remains, which were found inside a wall, authorities said last Sunday.

The search  Le had turned to a trash facility in Hartford, where towns and private haulers bring waste that is converted to electricity.

Investigators in white hazmat suits and neon green vests pored through trash inside the CRRA building, appearing outside occassionally holding shovels and rakes.

Paul Nonnenmacher, spokesman for the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, said state police were at the site late Saturday until early Sunday before taking a two-hour break and resuming their search later Sunday.

Nonnenmacher said the material at the plant is about 2,500 to 3,000 tons worth of typical municipal trash, not medical waste.

In addition, two dumpsters from a Church Street South location were slated to be taken to the Hartford facility Sunday night under heavy security for investigators to search.

Nonnemacher said occassionally, people request to sift through garbage at the facility, but it’s usually for items of value that have mistakenly made into trash, such as a diamond ring.

"As far as I know, we’ve never had law enforcement doing anything like this before. We usually have instances of lost objects," Nonnenmacher said.

FBI agent Bill Reiner confirmed Sunday that investigators are "following the trash" that left the university laboratory in New Haven. He declined to comment further.

State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said his department is offering all the resources that could be required to the investigation, but deferred all comments to Yale University.

More than 100 officers from Yale, the FBI, state police and New Haven police, have been searching for Le since Tuesday evening when Le was reported missing by her roommate.

Nonnenmacher said the trash is shredded before it is incinerated and converted to steam for electricity. He said typically it takes from two to four days for material brought to the CRRA to go through this process, a week at the longest.

Yale has a number of private trash haulers with John’s Refuse of North Branford picking up material from the 10 Amistad St. site.

Employees of John’s Refuse were preparing to bring dumpsters to the CRRA location in Hartford Sunday night, something they don’t normally do, owner Andrew Bozzuto said. Typically, the trash business picks up garbage from different Yale locations each day to bring to the New Haven transfer station on Middletown Avenue, and Bozzuto said he was not sure of the exact schedule.

But Sunday afternoon, Yale officials asked the business to bring two dumpsters from a Church Street South location that is "in proximity to a location for evidence," said owner Andrew Bozzuto.

By 7 p.m., Yale officials had not yet given the go-ahead for John’s Refuse employees to bring the large dumpsters to Hartford and be escorted by police on the highway. But the sanitation workers were on-call and waiting to go, Bozzuto said.

"We’ve been working with them (police) all week on these kinds of things. We want to be a part of the solution," he said.

Bozzuto said it’s "possible" investigators will find whatever they are looking for and that "it’s not as ‘needle-in-the-haystack’ as you’d think."

New Haven spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said that after trash is brought to the transfer station, other private haulers pick it up and deliver it either to a facility in Seneca, N.Y., or to Hartford’s CRRA. She said investigators spoke with city officials Saturday about the transfer process and that trash is usually sent out from the transfer station within a day. If anything was brought earlier last week, it will no longer be there, she said.

It is unknown exactly what investigators are looking for in the trash.

Investigators Saturday found blood-stained clothes in a drop ceiling at the Yale University laboratory at 10 Amistad St. where Annie Marie Le, 24, was last seen on Tuesday morning.

Law enforcement officials Sunday said those clothes are not the same items Le was seen wearing on Tuesday as she passed a security camera entering the building. They continued to test them and had not linked them to Le as of Sunday afternoon.

It could not be determined Sunday if the clothes Le was wearing Tuesday when she entered the building had been recovered from somewhere other than the ceiling.

On Sunday morning, a state police Major Crimes Squad van drove down a ramp into the basement area of the building where the lab is located, but officials had no comment.

(snipped)

Thanks,Mere.

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/news_wtnh_new_haven_le_disappearance_2009091301118

Body found in wall at 10 Amistad St.
Believed to be Annie Le
Updated: Sunday, 13 Sep 2009, 9:20 PM EDT
Published : Sunday, 13 Sep 2009, 8:51 PM EDT

Hartford (WTNH) - New Haven police say a body, assumed to be that of missing Yale grad student Annie Le, was found in a wall at a Yale medical building.

Le, 24, was last seen at 10 Amistad St. this past Tuesday. She was to be married today on Long Island.

At a Sunday night news conference, police announced the discovery of the body and said New Haven Police would be taking over the case as a homicide investigation.

New Haven Assistant Chief Peter Reichard said the remains have not been positively identified, but they assume it to be that of Le.

No other details were released by police.

Le's family has been notified of the discovery, Reichard said.

The announcement about the discovery of a body follows two other developments in the case earlier Sunday.

The FBI, state police and canine units spent the day sifting through debris at a Hartford trash facility in connection with Le's disappearance.

Also, published reports indicated bloody clothing found at 10 Amistad St. were not the clothes Le was wearing when she disappeared.

(snipped)

very sad!

It will be a slam-dunk if the clothes in the ceiling belong to the killer since they have security cameras showing entry and exits into the building.

Klaas...not that it matters any longer, but the item looked like a cat as I thought I could see ears.  Thank you for looking.  Mere

Really?  Ears?  I'll look closer.

If I had to guess, I'd say it's the professor that cancelled his class.  Likely his clothes or a lab coat with her blood on it in the ceiling.

This is cece's post and there are a number of pictures...I think it is #22....

http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/hc-yale-student-missing-annie-le-0910-pictures,0,3779582.photogallery

That's my guess too.

what in the world would make something so horrible happen to such a sweet person as Annie seemed to be??? what is happening in our world? so sad!

Like a cat that is drugged or dead for lab testing?

(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o100/klaasen3/Sub7/LeSurv2.jpg)

At the beginning a reporter said "is it true what we have been hearing that a student is involved?" I guess that is the rumor that another student is responsible, or at least that is what the reporter suggested.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

I hate to bring nationality into this, but I wonder if her professor is Vietnamese.  Was whoever killed her mad because she was marrying outside of the vietnamese community and religion?  It is reported her fiance is Jewish and she was in the process of converting to Judism.

A sweet intelligent woman gone, this has to stop.  ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyMad:: ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyWaa::

could very well be! do any of us know the professor's name?

I was wondering the very same thing!

whatever it is,it looks like it is resting on an open book or some papers.

This is just so sad.  It is a tragedy on so many levels.   

snipped

In a message sent to the Yale community, university President Richard Levin said the body of a female was found in the basement of the Amistad Building.

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/news_wtnh_new_haven_le_disappearance_2009091301118

Schlessinger is the professor's last name.

http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/137885.php?contentType=4&contentId=251395            Interesting article about the professor  ::MonkeyEek::

Cookie,I found this.
http://uwire.com/Article.aspx?id=4272398
Yale U. graduate student goes missing
By Harrison Korn, Colin Ross, Paul Needham and Florence Dethy
September 10, 2009
Source: Yale Daily News, Yale U.
<snipped>
Le worked in the pharmacology lab of Anton Bennett, an associate professor of pharmacology. Police confiscated her belongings from that lab yesterday and were still examining her lab space Tuesday evening.

Bennett, for his part, said he was first contacted by police late Tuesday after Le’s roommate reported her missing.

He emphasized that his eight-person laboratory team, of which Le is a member, works closely together and, as such, her colleagues noticed her absence quickly.

“There was certainly immediate concern about her whereabouts,” Bennett said. “And they grew over the course of the day,” especially after she missed a pathology class for which she is a teaching assistant.

Bennett described Le as an extremely diligent and well-organized student. He added that she was always aware of her surroundings and took appropriate precautions when leaving the lab late at night. Colleagues interviewed universally described Le as a bundle of energy—an always upbeat and friendly individual, who, while petite, is readily recognizable by the clickety-clack of her high heels on the lab floors.

I think this is an older pic



http://josephschlessinger.net/

http://josephschlessinger.info/


Joseph Schlessinger was born March 26, 1945, in the village of Topusko, now in Croatia, when it was occupied by Nazi Germany. The family moved to Israel in 1948. He, together with other citizens, served his compulsory military service with the Golani infantry brigade and was commissioned an officer. As part of his reserve duty he participated in the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War.

Dr. Schlessinger is married to Irit Lax, an Associate Professor in the Pharmacology Department at Yale. The focus of her research is on the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor. Lax has been working together with Joseph Schlessinger since she was a graduate student in Israel in the early 1980s. They each have two children from a previous marriage

thanks Trimmy!
gonna watch Geraldo to see if he has anything to add...
hmmmm...not sure about this professor...maybe a student?

Thanks Klaas, now I'm wondering if she had both of these men as professors, Bennett and Schlessinger?

I don't know.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

So we have the contenders, and Geraldo show introduced possiblity of a fellow student.    Thanks Klaas for the quick find.  By the time I found one, and trying to figure out how to get to photobucket, you had posted with bio.  You are so good!!

I am feeling such sadness surrounding this murder.  She was a such a remarkable human being.  It is such a loss.  The timing  must make it even more difficult for her family and fiance.  My prayers for all of them. 

snipped

"Shortly after 5 p.m. this evening, Connecticut State Police located the remains of a human secreted in a wall inside a building located at 10 Amistad [St.]," said New Haven Police Assistant Chief Peter Reichard.


"She hasn’t been positively ID’d, but we’re assuming it’s [Le]," Reichard said. "We contacted members of Le’s family. Our sympathies go out to the family."

Reichard revealed that a university student has failed a lie-detector test when questioned about the missing young woman but refused to provide details, including whether he was the same young man who had been led from the building for questioning early Saturday.
"We can’t release any more information at this time," Reichard said

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/body_found_in_lab_student_fails_otQy7CdsFB6VSiQfCisUxH

Thanks, so this is saying student too. 

Thanks, it sure would have to be someone who is very familiar with the building at least that's what I would think.

Craig Rivera is reporting now it's a "false wall" in the lab area.  ::MonkeyEek::

The way the article is worded it makes it sound like the reporter may have talked to the asst chief after the presser. He used the word revealed, fwiw........

What bothers me, is the fact there have been no alerts or warnings to students about the possibility of a maniac being on the loose.......

On the right side of the page on the link below, there is the video of tonight press conference:

http://www.wfsb.com/index.html

I'm going to move this thread to the Missing found Deceased area. Buckle your seat belts.  ::MonkeyCool::

Found this tidbit

freedom of speech? Says:
August 12th, 2009 at 4:17 am

Verdict Quote:
“The website contains false, inflammatory statements that impugn the Complainant’s character and reputation.”

Uh…exactly which part of the Joseph Schlessinger website is false??? According to the references, Joseph Schlessinger WAS accused sexual harassment according to a sworn statement and he DID attempt to steal intellectual property and he DID lose the lawsuit.

It is negative, but also accurate! IE, its NOT “defamation of character” or slander if its true!!!

Justice has NOT been served with WIPO’s transfer here…

http://www.defendmydomain.com/yale-professor-joseph-schlessinger-stops-the-criticism/

And this

Yale Pharmacology Prof Brilliant at Researching Cancer Drugs; How He Treats Women, Not So Much
by Nick Summers | December 6, 2006 at 3:33 pm

Yale Pharmacology Prof Brilliant at Researching Cancer Drugs; How He Treats Women, Not So Much

Life as the William H. Prusoff Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at Yale has its ups and its downs. One day, you're winning the $1 million Dan David Prize for research into cellular signal transduction (might help cure cancer, no bigs); the next, your former secretary files a lawsuit for wanton sexual harrassment dating to day one of her tenure.

The complaint, Mary Beth Garceau v. Yale, alleges a lot about Prof. Joseph Schlessinger, from jokes about penis size to bragging about conquests (46) to the scholarly exchange above. Yale did nothing to stop the harrassment despite her frequent complaints, Garceau says; a spokesperson for the university tells the YDN that they'll fight the suit in court. (Full PDF)

Garceau also alleges that Schlessinger showed her a photo of a naked woman and claimed it was his wife -- at which point his wife walked in the door and started yelling at him. That's wrong and stupid and crazy enough. Wronger, stupider, crazier: his wife, Irit Lax, is an assistant professor in the same department.

http://www.ivygateblog.com/2006/12/yale-pharmacology-prof-brilliant-at-researching-cancer-drugs-how-he-treats-women-not-so-much/

Lab time is exceptionally hard to get unless you are on a research team especially in a graduate lab as opposed to undergraduate.  Graduate labs also have better and more equipment and are not easy to stroll on in as you would be noticed as being out of place immediately and someone would question who you are and what you are doing there very quickly.  If they were using animals as part of their research they are always watching for some radical to come in and destroy their research or the lab equipment to stop the research on animals.   

Lab groups are very competitive not only in getting lab time, equipment time and professor time but also with the project they are doing.  Everyone sees theirs as the most important and biggest and wants to beat others that may be doing the same or similar research.

It was stated in one article that she was on a team of 8 for the research she was doing.  I have not seen if they all got along of if there was competition within the group.  I feel it was either another student who was jealous that knew their way around the lab and would not be out of place or a professor.  Someone who wanted to be part of the research team that was not on it for whatever reason or someone within the same team .  Professors are pretty quirky and consider their labs to be an extension of their homes so they would not be my first pick unless they were violent etc already.

JMO

So, the Professor has a track record of sexual harassment against women.

http://www.ct.gov/chro/lib/chro/pdf/garceau_orderm2c.pdf

I bet Annie threatened to file a complaint against him.

How could this happen when there were other persons around ?
I guess that they would know who was in there from the swipe cards.
There has been not much on CNN this evening about this.
Such a sad situation for her family and fiance.
Because it happened so close to her wedding, I am making an assumption that it was a male and it was someone that had been bothering her. We'll find out I guess.

News report tonight.  Police had been searching the building for a week.

http://www.youtube.com/v/-hhwj69A0tw&hl=en&fs=1&

 ::MonkeyNoNo:: ::MonkeyMad::

I find it odd that the building was checked several times and today found her in the false wall.   Were the bloodhounds only used today? The way the article reads they were used before.  Where has she been until today? It is also interesting that this was not her lab, but rather the one she used to conduct experiments. 

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/13/remains-found-10-amistad-street/
<snipped>
Le started her Tuesday morning working in the Sterling Hall of Medicine, where her lab was located, Yale Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer said.

Le left the lab around 10 a.m. to walk to 10 Amistad St. three blocks away, where she frequently went to conduct experiments, Lorimer said. A surveillance photograph distributed by the YPD shows Le entering the building at 10 Amistad St. on Tuesday morning. University officials have yet to locate Le exiting the building.

FBI Special Agent Kim Mertz said Saturday that authorities have spoken to "numerous people" who saw Le inside the facility at 10 Amistad St. but declined to give any further details.

A fire alarm that sounded in the Amistad Street facility at 12:40 p.m. on Tuesday is thought to have been a false alarm, Mertz said. Someone working in the lab produced steam that tripped the alarm, she said.

Le, who was scheduled to be married on Sunday, left her purse containing her cell phone, credit cards and money in her office in Sterling, Lorimer said. Her wedding has since been canceled.

Le's family and fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky, are cooperating with the investigation. On Saturday, officials asked that the media respect the family's privacy.

Investigators combed 10 Amistad St. for clues last week, questioning friends, faculty and colleagues. More than 100 law enforcement officials from four different agencies — the New Haven Police Department, the Yale Police Department, the Connecticut State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation — are involved on the case, University officials said.

As part of the investigation, authorities undertook several complete sweeps of 10 Amistad St., bringing in bloodhounds and even combing through trash in a dumpster outside the building.

Yale President's Statement video

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/post_480.php#017001more

The question would be did it happen during that fire alarm where everyone had to evacuate the building?  We know that Annie didn't evacuate the building, did the killer also stay in the building?  Is that when he killed her and hid her body?

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

It is too late to read read any of the dialogue of today.  I will catch up tomorrow.  However ... reading the following article causes me to wonder why the dogs did not pick up the scene in the earlier search.

Janet

+++++

Body Found is Likely Missing Yale Student
Monday, September 14, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. —  Police on Sunday said they found what they believe is the body of a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be hidden inside the wall of a university building where she was last seen five days before.

New Haven Assistant Police Chief Peter Reichard said officials are presuming the body was that of doctoral student Annie Le, who has been the focus of a massive police search since Tuesday.

"It hasn't been positively identified as of this time," Reichard told reporters Sunday night. "However, we are assuming it is her ... so we are treating it as a homicide."

State police found the body at around 5 p.m. Sunday in an area of the building that houses utility cables that run between floors. The building is in the Ivy League school's medical complex, about a mile from the main campus.

Reichard said police also recovered "a large amount" of physical evidence, but he would not discuss what that included.

Yale President Richard Levin offered support to Le's family and her fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The couple was to marry Sunday in Syosset, New York, on Long Island's north shore.

Police on Sunday would not say if they have any suspects. They previously have said Widawsky is not a suspect and is assisting with the investigation.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549765,00.html

... or maybe the deed had already been done and ... the false alarm was the killer's opportunity to flee the building without being detected alone on the security cameras.

Janet

That was exactly my thought when I saw that she was found inside of the building.  Not to be smart alec...but they need some new cadaver dogs IMO.  And how about their own noses?  I have heard people complain about having dead rats, etc. inside of walls that they could smell..much less having something as large as a person.  Sorry for the graphics everyone..but this should have been 'solved' in one damn day. (I know I have a Type A personality...damanding something close to perfection...and I work on it every day)

Body of Annie Le thought to be found

The Yale graduate student from Placerville, Calif., was to be married Sunday. Police find a body hidden in the wall of a lab research center where Le was last seen.

Reporting from New Haven, Conn., and Los Angeles - Police discovered Sunday what they believe is the body of Yale University graduate student Annie Le, hidden in a wall of a campus research lab where she was last seen five days ago. Sunday was to have been her wedding day, with 160 guests including relatives from her hometown of Placerville, Calif.

The body was found in an area of the lab building where utility cables run between floors. Peter Reichard, New Haven's assistant police chief, told reporters four hours later: "We are assuming that it is her."

MORE...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-annie-le14-2009sep14,0,4143832.story?page=1

http://www.wesh.com/news/20885454/detail.html
Police: Found Body Is Likely Missing Yale Student
Officials 'Following Trash' That Left Lab
PATRICK SANDERS, Associated Press Writer

POSTED: 7:27 am EDT September 13, 2009
UPDATED: 6:58 am EDT September 14, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Just seven months before police found what they believe is Annie Le's body hidden in a Yale University building, the graduate student wrote a magazine article about how to stay safe on the streets around the Ivy League school.

The 24-year-old bride-to-be, who had been missing since Tuesday, apparently met a violent death in a secure Yale building accessible only to students and staff, police said Sunday on what was supposed to be her wedding day.

Authorities have said little about the investigation. They hadn't positively identified the body found hidden in a wall Sunday, but they were assuming it was Le and treating her death as a homicide.

State police found the body in a building in Yale's medical complex, about a mile from the main campus. It was in an area that houses utility cables that run between floors.
Yale President Richard Levin offered support to Le's family and her fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The couple was to marry Sunday in Syosset, N.Y., on Long Island's north shore.

"The family and fiance and friends now must suffer the additional ordeal of waiting for the body to be positively identified," Levin said.

Police on Sunday would not say if they have any suspects. They previously have said Widawsky is not a suspect and is assisting with the investigation. New Haven Assistant Police Chief Peter Reichard said police also recovered "a large amount" of physical evidence, but he would not discuss what that included.

Last winter, Le, a pharmacology student from Placerville, Calif., wrote a magazine article about how to stay safe around Yale's campus.

The article, titled "Crime and Safety in New Haven," was published in February in a magazine produced by the university's medical school. It compares higher instances of robbery in New Haven with cities that house other Ivy League schools and includes an interview with Yale Police Chief James Perrotti, who offers advice such as "pay attention to where you are" and "avoid portraying yourself as a potential victim."
"In short, New Haven is a city and all cities have their perils," Le concludes. "But with a little street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic."

Le, who worked in a laboratory in the five-story building's basement, was reported missing last Tuesday. Surveillance video shows her arriving at around 10 a.m., but police could find no video of Le leaving, despite some 75 surveillance cameras operating around the complex. Her ID, money, credit cards and purse were found in her third-floor office.

More than 100 local, state and federal police had been searching the building for days, using blueprints to uncover any place where evidence or Le's body could be hidden.

Investigators on Saturday said they recovered evidence from the building, but would not confirm media reports that the items included bloody clothing.

On Sunday morning, a state police van drove down a ramp into the building's basement area. Authorities also sifted through garbage at a Hartford incinerator Sunday, looking through trash that was taken from the building in the days since Le went missing.
Le's disappearance weighed heavily on Yale students, who prayed for her safe return Sunday at The University Church on Yale's campus.

"It has brought up a lot of fears for people," the Rev. Ian Buckner Oliver said just before he gave the Sunday morning sermon. "It has brought up a lot of worry and concern for her and for all our safety."

Bjorn Cooley, a 20-year-old Yale student from Oregon, said he heard the news that a body had been found while studying in his room Sunday night.

"Before they found the body, I still had hope she had just disappeared," Cooley said. "I was looking for some sort of quasi-happy ending to this whole thing."

I wonder if, since it is a medical lab, the dogs had problems with the smells of other dead things and the chemicals? I wonder if they do necropsy in the building or work with human tissue? I do not know enough about cadaver dogs but it seems like it could be a problem?

I share your feelings & thoughts AZ. What terrible news.  Even though we all probably thought she met with foul play, I think we were all holding out hope for better news than this.

I can't imagine how her fiance will ever get over the fact that her body was found on the day they were to be married.  I'm at a loss of words.  Prayers for her family and loved ones.

(Thank you all for the updates).

Rest in  Peace, Annie.   All murders are tragic. Some just hit us harder. This should never have been able to happen!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/evidence-annie-le-murder-lead-killer/story?id=8565647


Evidence in Murder of Yale Student Annie Le May Point to Suspect
Body Believed to Be Annie Le Was Found Sunday, Stuffed Into a Wall of Yale Laboratory
By SHARYN ALFONSI, SARAH NETTER and RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Sept. 14, 2009

A day after the body of a missing bride-to-be was believed to have been found stuffed into a basement wall of the Yale University laboratory where she was last seen, police may have a powerful piece of evidence.

Bloody clothes found in the lab belonged not to Annie Le, but to the likely killer, according to sources. Some law enforcement officials have speculated that police are already narrowing on a suspect -- there is no obvious manhunt for her killer, no warnings to area residents to be on the look out.

But for friends and family who had insisted for days that Le was not the kind to run out on her fiance, the news that police had found a body was devastating. Le was to be married Sunday.

Vanessa Flores, Le's former roommate, said she heard the news on the Internet about her friend's body likely being found.

"I had a very tough time just reading the headline," she told "Good Morning America" today. "It was very difficult."

Le, 24, disappeared Tuesday. She was seen entering the Amistad Street lab around 10 a.m., but none of the cameras caught her leaving. The body was found shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday, shoved into a space in the wall meant to conceal pipes and wiring.

"We did locate the remains of a human. ... We are assuming that it is her at this time," New Haven assistant police chief Peter Reichard told reporters in a brief news conference Sunday.

Flores said she doesn't know why anyone would want to kill her friend, who earlier this year had penned a piece for the University Magazine questioning the safety of the New Haven campus.

"The only thing I can possibly think of right now is maybe a psychopath, an anti-social person who, I don't know, maybe got upset about what she wrote back in February about not being safe," she said.

Wedding gifts had been left outside the family home of Le's fiance Jonathan Widawsky. Their impending nuptials had led some to believe that Le had gotten cold feet and fled.

But Flores said Widawsky was "perfect" for Le.

He's just so wonderful to her. John was so supportive of her, of her dreams," Flores said. "They would talk on the cell phone for hours and they would just be so connected."

The discovery of the body ends a massive search by state and federal authorities that had expanded to a Connecticut waste-processing facility in Hartford, in addition to the Yale lab, in the hopes of finding clues to her mysterious disappearance.

Using cadaver-sniffing dogs in round-the-clock shifts, FBI agents and state troopers dressed in hazardous-material suits began searching the facility in Hartford Saturday night.

Police scanned blueprints of the lab and brought in blood-sniffing dogs, paying particular attention to the building's basement.

Yale had also offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Le's whereabouts.


See link for video

http://www.youtube.com/v/hWDfyOIkd18&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1

http://www.youtube.com/v/eEGxehUv4uo&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1

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(THOMAS CAIN / ASSOCIATED PRESS / September 13, 2009)
Yale University graduate students set up makeshift vigil in front of 10 Amistad Street late Sunday night in New Haven.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/hc-yale-student-missing-annie-le-0910-pictures,0,3779582.photogallery

http://www.wfsb.com/news/20899476/detail.html

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Yale University officials are planning a candlelight prayer vigil for a graduate student Annie Le after her body was presumably found hidden inside the wall of a university laboratory building.

The vigil was scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday on Cross Campus at the Ivy League university.

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This is the first report I've read that says the clothes found in the ceiling were not Annie's

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/13/news/new_haven/doc4aad8e5604e7d951608873.txt

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Investigators Saturday found blood-stained clothes in a drop ceiling at the Yale University laboratory at 10 Amistad St. where Le was last seen on Tuesday morning.

Law enforcement officials Sunday said those clothes are not the same items Le was seen wearing on Tuesday as she passed a security camera entering the building. They continued to test them and had not linked them to Le as of Sunday afternoon.

It could not be determined if the clothes Le was wearing when she entered the building had been recovered from somewhere other than the ceiling.

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http://www.youtube.com/v/RYeH5gti-Cc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/features/2009/09/14/idealistic-young-woman/

‘An idealistic young woman’

She was upbeat, friendly, always armed with a smile. Since going missing Tuesday afternoon, Annie Le MED ’13 has been sorely missed by all who knew her.

Following the discovery of a female body presumed to be Le in the building at 10 Amistad St. on Sunday evening — the same day Le was to wed her college sweetheart — friends, family and colleagues are mourning her loss.

Described as sweet, spunky and smart, the 24-year-old pharmacology student and Placerville, Calif., native was scheduled to be married Sunday to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at Columbia University whom she met at the University of Rochester.

While working overtime in her Yale laboratory in the weeks leading up to her wedding, Le chatted constantly about her excitement for the ceremony, colleagues said.

“Lucky I’m in love with my best friend :),” Le had written on her Facebook profile. According to status updates and wall posts on the profile, Le and Widawsky were engaged in July of 2008 and celebrated their five-year anniversary as a couple in March of this year.

At Yale, colleagues at Le’s lab said she was dedicated to her research. Recently she had decided on the topic of her dissertation: the study of how certain proteins are involved with metabolic diseases such as diabetes.

Associate professor of pharmacology Anton Bennett, Le’s faculty adviser, said Le — who received a National Science Foundation grant in 2008 — had “tremendous potential.”

“I can tell you that we are fond of all our graduate students, and among them Annie was a bright spot,” pharmacology professor Gary Rudnick wrote in an e-mail message Sunday night. “She almost always had a smile when I saw her in the hallways. … This is a very tough loss for all of us in the department.”

Le made an impact not only on those around her at Yale but also on colleagues at the National Institutes of Health, where she participated in a scholarship program during two summers as an undergraduate.

Jennifer Simpson, a fellow NIH scholar who last spoke with Le about four weeks ago, recalled how on one summer night during the program, Le burst into her room with a hankering for Vietnamese food. Traveling on the subway from Bethesda, Md., to a Vietnamese restaurant in Virginia, the two went on a spontaneous “adventure” inspired by Le’s craving. “I thought you’d like it,” Simpson remembers Le saying.

“Annie enjoyed sharing her life with people,” Simpson said late Sunday night. “She wasn’t a loner. She was alive. She had a vibrant personality. She wanted to be there with people.”

At Union Mine High School in El Dorado, Calif., Le was valedictorian and a member of the National Honor Society and the culture club.

Though small in stature, Le stood out among her classmates and was not afraid to speak up for herself. “She was a spunky little thing,” high school friend Cierra Montes said Sunday night.

Shaun Perisho, another one of Le’s classmates, recalled how substitute teachers would often mispronounce Le’s surname (which is pronounced “lay,” not “lee”), one of Le’s pet peeves. But on such occasions, the usually vocal student would hold her tongue out of respect for the teacher, instead glancing back at her classmates with a wry grin.

Le also spent time in high school volunteering at the Marshall Medical Center in Placerville.

Classmate Tiffany Filice described the close relationship Le developed with Filice’s grandmother, who was a patient at the Marshall hospital. Le logged extra hours visiting the woman, who gave Le a graduation gift in appreciation.

Pursuing her passion for science at the University of Rochester, Le received a bachelor of science in cell and developmental biology in 2007. She graduated cum laude with awards for her achievements in biology and her leadership on campus, a spokeswoman for the university said.

But despite her heavy academic workload at Rochester, Le always found time for her friends, who called her energetic and “the happiest girl you’d ever know,” as college friend Mark Biery said in a phone interview around noon Sunday. “She would work those crazy hours, but she would still take time out of her day to come see us, or we would come see her.”

As fellow NIH scholar Michael Torres put it in a phone interview Sunday afternoon: “She’d be the last person that anyone would ever want to see harmed, and that’s, I guess, why it’s so shocking.”

Very interesting article about the professor.  I wouldn't be surprised if it did in fact turn out to be him.  A very dear family friend of mine was murdered by his professor back in the late 80's.  It happens more than you hear about in the media.

This morning's report.  Nothing new really:

  How horrible, I'm sorry. I have bad feelings on this one professor Schlessinger, but whoever did this to Annie whether a professor or a student knew the blueprints well of that lab.

Justice for Annie Le!

With everything to live for and so much to contribute.  R. I. P. Annie.
Condolences to her family, her sweetheart and her friends.

 ::MonkeyAngel::

An autopsy was being performed Monday morning on the human remains authorities believe are those of Yale grad student Annie Le, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner said.
Dr. Wayne Carver, the chief medical examiner in Connecticut, is expected to make a formal finding of cause and manner of death by the afternoon, she said.
Carver's office will then decide if and how to make those findings public, she said.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/autopsy-being-performed-on-body-believed-to-be-annie-le-1.1445629

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/14/news/doc4aae5d57ae145175622155.txt

Body found in 'chase' at Yale lab, police sources confirm
Published: Monday, September 14, 2009

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A chase is an enclosed vertical channel inside a wall that holds utilities for a building, like electrical wiring and plumbing. It typically goes from the basement to the roof and has “fire stops” between each floor. There also usually are access doors on each floor.

http://www.wesh.com/index.html
Police: Yale Univ. Killing No Random Act
Police Say No One In Custody
PATRICK SANDERS, Associated Press Writer

POSTED: 7:27 am EDT September 13, 2009
UPDATED: 11:52 am EDT September 14, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Police in New Haven, Conn., said the killing of a person whose body was found stuffed behind a wall in a high-security laboratory building at Yale University is not a random act.

New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery told The Associated Press on Monday that police don't believe that anyone else on the Ivy League campus is in danger. He would not say if police have a suspect, but said nobody is in custody.

Police believe the body found Sunday in the Yale Medical School building is that of Annie Le, a 24-year-old native of Placerville, Calif. She was last seen in the building on Tuesday.

An autopsy is being performed to verify that the body is Le's.

Police are hunting for the killer.

Police found the body around 5 p.m. Sunday, on what was to have been Le's wedding day.
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Thanks, I never heard of that term before.

Yale Killer Caught on Tape?
by Wendy Murphy

With 75 cameras trained on the Yale lab where Annie Le’s body was found, former sex crimes prosecutor Wendy Murphy says police are likely tracking their suspect’s reaction to the grim discovery.

First it was bloody clothes hidden above ceiling tiles in the lab where Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen alive. Then Sunday evening, Le's body was found behind a wall in the same building.

As yet, there are no suspects, but unlike most cases, odds are excellent the killer will be identified quickly. The building requires those who enter to swipe a card to get in—which means every potential suspect is already known to police. And even if the person gained entry without using a card, the building is under constant surveillance by 75 video cameras. Whoever killed Le is on the tapes.

By process of elimination alone, there's little doubt police will name the killer soon. If 25 people were in the building at the time Le went missing, cops will have no trouble figuring out that 24 of them had nothing to do with the crime. Whoever's left will become the focus of their investigation. This remaining individual—make no mistake—will have had a motive to kill Annie Le. A jilted and possessive ex-lover who was jealous because Le was about to be married to another man? A crazy scientist, upset that Le's work had led to a discovery that he had hoped to find? An angry woman, upset that Le was marrying a man she loved?


MORE....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-14/the-killer-caught-on-tape/

Good point theboyzmom.

Janet

Fox news just said that LE does have a suspect, no name yet, suppossedly he failed a poly and has defensive wounds on his person. More to follow as it becomes known. Might be getting an arrest soon........

http://www.wesh.com/news/20885454/detail.html

Reports: Police Have Suspect In Yale Murder
Police Say No One In Custody
PATRICK SANDERS, Associated Press Writer

POSTED: 7:27 am EDT September 13, 2009
UPDATED: 12:43 pm EDT September 14, 2009

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Multiple national news networks reported Monday that police investigating the murder of a Yale University graduate student have a suspect in the case.

ABC News and MSNBC reported that a student failed a lie-detector test and what could be defensive wounds.

Police are hunting for the killer who stuffed a body believed to be that of a Annie Le behind a wall in the high-security laboratory building where she worked.

Police found the body around 5 p.m. Sunday, on what was to have been 24-year-old Le's wedding day.

An autopsy was underway on Monday to verify the identity of the body, found in a cable duct in the Yale medical school building. Police would not say Monday if they have a suspect, but said that nobody is in custody.

"We're not believing it's a random act," said Officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman. He would not provide any further details, but said no one else is in danger.

The building where the body was found is part of the university medical school complex about a mile from Yale's main campus and is accessible to Yale personnel with identification cards. Some 75 video surveillance cameras monitor all doorways.

"It's a frightening idea that there's a murderer walking around on campus," said 20-year-old Muneeb Sultan, a chemistry student. "I'm shocked that it happened in a Yale building that had key-card access. It's really sad."

Police have not provided any details on the condition of the body found or how the woman died.

A friend said Monday the doctoral student never showed signs of worry about her own personal safety at work, although she did express concerns about crime in New Haven in an article she wrote last year.

"If she was concerned about (it) she would have said something to someone and they would have known," Jennifer Simpson told CBS' "The Early Show." ''And Jon (her fiance) would have known, her family would have known, friends would have known."

Simpson called Le, a pharmacology student from Placerville, Calif., friendly and affable to everyone.

"She was a people person," Simpson said. "She loved people. She loved life. We just can't imagine anybody wanting to harm Annie."

Another friend, Laurel Griffeath, echoed those thoughts on NBC's "Today" show.

"I can't even imagine someone mad at Annie, much less wanting to hurt her," Griffeath said.

Police are analyzing what they're calling "a large amount" of physical evidence.

They will not discuss suspects, other than to say Le's fiance is not a suspect and has assisted in the investigation.

Campus officials have said that the security network recorded Le entering the building by swiping her ID card about 10 a.m. on Sept. 8, and have been baffled before Sunday's gruesome discovery that she was never seen leaving.

The university planned a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. Monday at the Ivy League university. The Yale Daily News says an e-mail to the Yale community invites participants to "bring a candle and join us in solidarity."

Yale President Richard Levin offered support to Le's family and her fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The couple was to marry Sunday in Syosset, N.Y., on Long Island's north shore.

"The family and fiance and friends now must suffer the additional ordeal of waiting for the body to be positively identified," Levin said.

Le wrote an article that was published in February in the medical school's magazine. The piece, titled "Crime and Safety in New Haven," compared higher instances of robbery in New Haven with cities that house other Ivy League schools. It also included an interview with Yale Police Chief James Perrotti, who offered advice such as "pay attention to where you are" and "avoid portraying yourself as a potential victim."

"In short, New Haven is a city and all cities have their perils," Le concludes. "But with a little street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic."

Le, who worked in a laboratory in the five-story building's basement, was reported missing Sept. 8. Her ID, money, credit cards and purse were found in her third-floor office.

More than 100 local, state and federal police had been searching the building for days, using blueprints to uncover any place where evidence or Le's body could be hidden.

Investigators on Saturday said they recovered evidence from the building, but would not confirm media reports that the items included bloody clothing.

Authorities also sifted through garbage at a Hartford incinerator Sunday, looking through trash that was taken from the building in the days since Le went missing.

No one answered the door at the Widawskys' gray, ranch-style in Huntington, N.Y. on Monday.

"He is a very nice young man," next-door neighbor George Mayer said of Jonathan Widawsky. "His family, they're all just wonderful people -- very, very nice people."

Both families belong to the same temple.

Mayer, whose mother had been invited to the wedding, said he hopes whoever committed the crime "gets justice -- that he gets whatever he deserves."

Yale students on Monday called the finding sad, but some said the discovery doesn't make them feel less safe at Yale.

"Obviously it's a city and there are safety concerns," said 18-year-old Peter Spaulding, a student from Maryland. "It can happen anywhere. You have to go on with life."

Law student Lindsay Nash of West Chester, Pa., said she doesn't sense a heightened level of fear on campus.

"There's always an attention to safety here," she said. "I think there's perception that you need to be careful regardless."

Police: Student Is Suspect In Yale Killing [Breaking News]
APReport ^ | September 14, 2009

Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 10:45:20 AM by Steelfish

Police: Student Is Suspect In Yale Killing Victim believed to be graduate student who was due to be married Sunday

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Police have identified a suspect in the killing of a person whose body was found stuffed behind a wall in a high-security laboratory building at Yale University, law enforcement sources told NBC News on Monday.

The suspect, a student, has defensive wounds, and failed a polygraph test, police said.

The body found Sunday in the Yale Medical School building is believed to be that of Annie Le, a 24-year-old native of Placerville, Calif. She was last seen in the building on Tuesday.

Police found the female body around 5 p.m. Sunday. An autopsy is being performed to verify that the body is Le's.

Friends said the doctoral student -- who was due to get married on Sunday -- never showed signs of worry about her own personal safety at work, although she did express concerns about crime in New Haven in an article she wrote last year.

"I can't even imagine someone mad at Annie, much less wanting to hurt her," Laurel Griffeath said on the TODAY show on Monday.


(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339373/posts

You Can Get In With A “Butter Knife”

As an electrician familiar with Yale’s Amistad lab building, Jesse Stanley said, he knows how easy it is to open up one of the big electrical panels leading to the “chase” where cops discovered graduate student Annie Le’s presumed remains.

Police spokesman Joe Avery Monday said that the body of the missing 24 year-old Yale pharmacology PhD. student was found Sunday inside a mechanical chase in the wall of the basement at 10 Amistad St., a medical building where she did lab experiments. Since then the New Haven police have taken over the investigation from the Yale police and the FBI. Avery said most of the department’s 60-plus detectives are on the case, interviewing hundreds of people.

The mechanical chase is a void in the wall used to take utilities from the top floor to the basement, Avery said.

The Amistad building has panels at every floor allowing technicians access to wiring and cables, electrician explained.

And they’re not hard to open, according to Stanley. “With a screwdriver or even a butter knife you could open it up,” he said.

MORE....


http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/you_can_get_in.php

Tests on bloody clothes in student case may be completed Monday

(CNN) -- A day after finding a body inside a building where missing Yale student Annie Le was last seen, investigators might get a key piece of evidence Monday: results of tests on blood-stained clothing found in the same building.

Teams at a Connecticut State Police lab worked through the weekend processing and examining the clothes, which were found hidden above tiles in a drop ceiling. Lt. Paul Vance, a State Police spokesman, said results could be available as early as Monday.

MORE....

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/14/missing.yale.student/

Lorimer: Security stepped up at Amistad
BY THE YALE DAILY NEWS

University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer sent a campuswide e-mail shortly after noon today to share details about Yale's response to the discovery of a body at the research facility at 10 Amistad St.

The Amistad Building will be closed today, with the exception of those who have "essential research responsibilities," who will be accompanied into the building by a law enforcement official. Those who work in the building are being given an additional day of paid time off.

In addition to increased street patrols and a new bicycle unit in the medical school area, additional security personnel have been added to the Sterling Hall of Medicine, where Annie Le MED ’13 was early Tuesday morning before she left to go to her lab at 10 Amistad St.


MORE...

http://www.yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2009/09/14/lorimer-security-stepped-amistad/

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/14/female-body-found-10-amistad-st-police-suspect-it-/

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Deputy Secretary Martha Highsmith, who oversees campus security, said earlier this week that access to the rooms and labs inside the building is restricted and digitally monitored. Authorities said they know who was in the basement at the time when Le entered.

Robert Alpern, dean of the Yale School of Medicine, where Le was studying for a Ph.D. in pharmacology, said in a telephone interview Sunday night that access to the basement where Le was found is limited to certain people with approved Yale magnetic identification cards, as it is at all University facilities where research is conducted on animals.

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and some good pics

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Basement where her body was found:

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Reports: Police Have Suspect In Yale Murder
Police Say No One In Custody

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Multiple national news networks reported Monday that police investigating the murder of a Yale University graduate student have a suspect in the case.

ABC News and MSNBC reported that the person failed a lie-detector test and had what could be defensive wounds.

Police are hunting for the killer who stuffed a body believed to be that of a Annie Le behind a wall in the high-security laboratory building where she worked.

Police found the body around 5 p.m. Sunday, on what was to have been 24-year-old Le's wedding day. 

An autopsy was underway on Monday to verify the identity of the body, found in a cable duct in the Yale medical school building. Police would not say Monday if they have a suspect, but said that nobody is in custody.

"We're not believing it's a random act," said Officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman. He would not provide any further details, but said no one else is in danger.
MORE....

http://www.kpho.com/news/20885454/detail.html?treets=pho&tml=pho_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=pho_natlbreak_1_11440109142009

Evidence in Assumed Murder of Yale Student Annie Le May Point to Suspect
Sources Tell ABC News That Potential Suspect Has Defensive Wounds, Failed Polygraph

Authorities investigating the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le have focused their efforts on a suspect who failed a lie detector test, sources told ABC News.

That suspect has what appear to be defensive wounds, a key piece of circumstantial evidence. In addition, the suspect, who authorities believe knew Le, failed a lie detector test, sources told ABC News. Sources also told ABC News that bloody clothing removed from the lab belonged to the likely killer.

Investigators have been looking at everyone from Yale maintenance people to people who worked in the lab and fellow students.

MORE...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/evidence-annie-le-murder-lead-killer/story?id=8565647

Police shoot down report about polygraph
BY THE YALE DAILY NEWS

The past few days have seen a number of incorrect rumors about Annie Le MED '13, including that a professor was the prime suspect in her disappearance (reported Friday), that her body had been recovered (reported Saturday) and that she was buried somewhere in a landfill in Hartford (reported Sunday).

Today brought another such report: The New York Post and the New York Daily News suggested in their stories that a student may have failed a polygraph regarding Le's disappearance — a report that police officials quickly shot down.

“It’s absolutely not true,” New Haven Police Department Assistant Chief Stephanie Redding said by telephone late last night.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2009/09/14/police-shoot-down-report-about-polygraph/

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Connecticut’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Wayne Carver, is expected to make an announcement this afternoon regarding autopsy findings.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crime-Examiner~y2009m9d14-Autopsy-being-conducted-on-body-thought-to-be-Annie-Le

Candlelight vigil at Yale tonight
Updated: Monday, 14 Sep 2009, 12:52 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 14 Sep 2009, 12:52 PM EDT

New Haven (WTNH) - The body believed to be the missing Yale graduate student was discovered over the weekend on the campus and now the Yale community is coming together, honoring their classmate with a candlelight vigil.

The vigil for Annie Le is planned for 8pm on the Cross Campus.

"It hits home, someone was killed inside a Yale classroom building," said Thomas Kaplan, Yale Daily News.

Kaplan is editor-in-chief of the campus publication. He says emotions are running high.

"How did this woman go into a busy building in the middle of the day and literally vanish? I think now that they've found a body the confusion has turned to fear," he said.

Early this morning fellow grad students placed candles and flowers outside Annie Le's lab building. The last place authorities say she was seen alive.

MORE...

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/crime/news_wtnh_new_haven_candlelight_vigil_200909141250

Thanks for the updates.

Such conflicting statements being reported. Now Fox News is saying there is no suspect......

I know what the heck is going on?

http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-news-yalestudent0913,0,6985075.story   Interesting article.

Hearing rumors that whoever the suspect is or was has lawyered up, but who knows.....Saturday they had a body and then they didn't and then they found one on Sunday. Maybe they are waiting until the autopsy results are released, IDK

Sorry NoRose.  I didn't mean to get inside your post.   ::MonkeyConfused::

I don't know,but it is very confusing.

Very interesting.  TY NoRose!

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"Contractors hired to remodel a portion of the building were told to halt work and have been questioned by investigators.

An FBI agent was seen at a nearby Lowe's hardware store purchasing a number of large blue tarps. The agent declined to comment but said such tarps are often used to block the view of a crime scene from the public."

  ::MonkeyCool:: No problem, I wonder if that is true the suspect has lawyered up already, I'm sure he has.  ::MonkeyNoNo::

Yes, I thought that was interesting about the remodeling going on.

That could throw a whole new element into the mix!

Yet another update on the suspect........and now he's failed 2 polys...........

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Fellow Yale student eyed in murder of bride-to-be Annie Le: report

The hunt for Annie Le's murderer is reportedly focusing on a fellow Yale student who flunked lie detector tests and has defensive wounds on his body.

ABC news reported that cops are looking closely at the student, who failed two lie detector tests.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/14/2009-09-14_killing_of_yale_grad_student_annie_le_not_random_say_police.html#ixzz0R6W1cgSQ

Sure is nice to know that nobody else is in danger......

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Authorities investigating the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le have focused their efforts on a suspect who failed a lie detector test, sources told ABC News.


That suspect has what appear to be defensive wounds, a key piece of circumstantial evidence. In addition, the suspect, who authorities believe knew Le, failed a lie detector test, sources told ABC News. Sources also told ABC News that bloody clothing removed from the lab belonged to the likely killer.

Investigators have been looking at everyone from Yale maintenance people to people who worked in the lab and fellow students.

"We're not believing it's a random act," Officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman, told The Associated Press. He would not provide further details but said no one else is in danger.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/evidence-annie-le-murder-lead-killer/story?id=8565647

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/annie_le_crime.php

Annie Le Lab Building Shuts Down

by Paul Bass | September 14, 2009 10:57 AM |

(http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/upload/2009/09/DSCN5374.JPG)
Paul Bass Photos

(Updated 1:20 p.m.) Yale gave the day off Monday to hundreds of staffers at the lab building where presumed remains of a 24 year-old pharmacology grad student were found. Across the street, a 24-hour media encampment set up — and the Hill neighborhood’s oldest bread-baking family hoped for a resolution.

cont.

Thank Klaas.

Janet

Those pictures tell the story in regards to the enviroment that Annie Le went missing.

I wonder how a body can be stuffed into a wall?

Janet

Would that statement imply that LE is focused on a person of interest?

Janet

+++++

If I were to make a statement like that, the perp would have to be locked up behind bars. How can anybody be safe with a murderer on the loose?

Police ID Suspect in Yale Grad Student Slaying

Police have identified a suspect in the slaying of the Yale graduate student Annie Le, law enforcement sources tell NBC News.

On what was supposed to be Annie Le's wedding day, cops found a body they believe is the missing Yale University graduate student's stuffed into the wall of her laboratory building about a mile from the main campus. The body was in an area that houses utility cables that run between floors.

That suspect is a student, but not necessarily a Yale student, sources said. This person has defensive wounds and failed a polygraph test, they continued. It is not known whether that person is in custody.

A New Haven spokesperson said Monday afternoon that no suspect is in custody and denied that any students are involved in the case.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Search-for-Missing-Yale-Student-Leads-to-Waste-Facility-.html

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Dr. Wayne Carver, the chief medical examiner in Connecticut, is expected to make a formal finding of cause and manner of death by the afternoon, the medical examiner's spokeswoman said.

Carver's office will then decide if and how to make those findings public, she said.

Additionally, pathologists are working to use photographs, fingerprints and other identification methods to confirm that the remains are in fact Le's, the spokeswoman said.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/reports-cops-have-suspect-in-annie-le-s-slaying-1.1445629

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/scientists-in-s.html


September 14, 2009
Research Disrupted as Scientists in Shock Over Yale Murder

by Constance Holden

As the investigation into the horrific murder of 24-year-old Yale University pharmacology graduate student Annie Le has moved into high gear, the building in which she was found has been closed and no one knows when things will return to normal.

Le, whose body was found Sunday behind a wall in a basement laboratory, worked in the Amistad Street Building, a four-story building in the medical school complex a mile from Yale's main campus. The building opened 2 years ago to house the Yale Stem Cell Center as well as interdisciplinary programs on immunology and vascular biology.

According to stem cell researcher Diane Krause: "All research in the Amistad Building is at a standstill—even people who need reagents for an ongoing clinical trial are unable to have access as of now."

University Vice President Linda Koch Lorimer sent out a campus-wide email today saying that personnel "with essential research responsibilities" are being escorted into the building by police.

Others are being given paid time off. "We will know by the end of the day whether the building will need to stay closed longer," Lorimer wrote. "Principal Investigators will be told as soon as we know."

Yale President Richard Levin met this morning with a "group of Yale community members in Annie Le’s academic area," according to the Yale public affairs office.

The Amistad Street Building reportedly has 75 surveillance cameras. Le was seen entering it at 10 a.m. last Tuesday. She was never seen leaving it.

Lorimer said more security personnel as well as police patrols and a new bicycle patrol have been added on the med-school campus.

A Web site on the investigation opa.yale.edu/investigationupdate will be open later today.

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/rumors_debunked.php

Annie Le Rumors Debunked

by Paul Bass | September 14, 2009 1:42 PM

Amid a flurry of national news stories citing unnamed sources, police spokesman Officer Joe Avery issued a release Monday afternoon stating that “no students” are “involved” in the homicide investigation of Annie Le.

“There are no suspects in custody,” wrote Avery, who has been besieged by national media swarming into town. “Right now we are waiting for the Medical Examiner to positively
Identify the body.”

Out-of-town news organizations have issued a flurry of unsubstantiated stories attributed to anonymous sources since the 24 year-old Le, a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine, went missing last Tuesday. One, the New York Post, reported that her body was found in a Hartford dump. The body was found Sunday, her planned wedding day, inside a mechanical chase at 10 Amistad St., a Yale medical building where Le did some lab research.

Rumors have been flying through town and through the press corps Monday about potential suspects interviewed by police. Officials have not confirmed any of the reports, though they say detectives have interviewed hundreds of people.

Welcome to the Bennett Lab.

Research interests
The focus of the research in this laboratory is to understand how protein tyrosine phosphatases function in the control of normal cellular physiology.

The ultimate goal of our research on protein tyrosine phosphatases is to establish whether these enzymes participate in disease processes such as cancer, diabetes and muscular dystrophy.



Bennett Lab Members

Post-doctoral Fellows:
Peter Burch, Ph.D.
Hui Qin, Ph.D.
Matthew Soulsby, Ph.D.
Hao Shi, Ph.D.

Graduate Students:
Fatih Mercan
Rachel Roth
Annie Le

Research Technician:
Lei Zhang

Former lab members:
Seda Eminaga, Ph.D.
Xiangdong Liu, Ph.D.
Maria Kontaridis, Ph.D.
Wayne Grant
Christina Zito, Ph.D.
Mara Fornaro, Ph.D.
Julie Wu, Ph.D.
Sivangarani Kolli, Ph.D                 ( I found this on another forum, and this has now been deleted from the website, so I'm assuming maybe one of the people on this list might be of interest to the police. Same place I found this, Fatih Mercan one of the names on the list is evidently a lab partner that worked with her, don't know if this is true, just thought it was interesting.)

Law student found dead in apartment
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Staff Reporter
Published Friday, September 14, 2007
A first-year Yale Law School student was found dead in his apartment Thursday night.

"From what we know at this point, we only have reason to believe he died of natural cases," Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh said in an address to the entire law schol community Friday afternoon. "We need to draw on our sense of community."

Koh did not answer questions during the address, because, he said, that would lead to "many more questions than we have answers" at this point. Koh requested the name of the student be withheld from the public pending family notification of the student's sudden passing away.

As law students left Koh's address, they lingered in small groups and hugged one another in the corridors of the Sterling Law Building. Some professors roamed the halls, comforting students shaken by the news.

Jessica Mayorga, a spokesman for City Hall and the New Haven Police Department, said Friday afternoon that the NHPD was not aware of any major incidents last night involving a Yale student.
  ::MonkeyEek::  ::MonkeyNoNo::

Wow.   ::MonkeyEek::

?? that says 2007 ? I am lost  ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/sns-ap-us-yale-killing,0,2009895.story

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's chief medical examiner says the body found hidden behind a wall in a Yale University research building is that of a missing graduate student. Dr. Wayne Carver says 24-year-old Annie Le's death is a homicide. He says he's temporarily withholding the cause of death "in order to facilitate the investigation."

Le vanished from the Yale medical building on Tuesday, prompting a massive search that included more than 100 state, federal and local police. Her body was discovered hidden in a wall Sunday.

Police have said they do not yet have a suspect, but say the killing was targeted and students are not in danger.

http://opa.yale.edu/investigationupdate/

Yale University Office of Public Affairs
Information Regarding the Annie Le Investigation

click on link for information....

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/chief_we_wont_d.php

Annie Le Probe “Won’t Destroy Reputations”

by Paul Bass | September 14, 2009 3:43 PM

As of Monday afternoon, police had no suspects in custody in the investigation of graduate student Annie Le’s grisly death, Chief James Lewis said.

He told the Independent that his cops have been busy interviewing “and reinterviewing” “lots of people.” The department will not reveal the names of interviewees or “persons of interest,” according to Lewis.

“We don’t want to destroy people’s reputations,” Lewis said.

The last time a Yale student death attracted a national media frenzy — the 1998 murder of undergraduate Suzanne Jovin — cops publicly floated the name of a professor as a “person of interest.” He was never tied to the murder. He said his career suffered greatly as a result of the exposure.

State cops Sunday discovered human remains believed to be those of Annie Le, a third-year doctoral pharmacological student at the medical school, inside a basement wall at a medical school building on Amistad Street. The New Haven police took over the investigation of the case at that point from the FBI and Yale police.

About 30 cops are now working on the case, Lewis said Monday afternoon. About half are New Haven cops; the rest work for Yale’s force and the FBI.

Assistant Chief Peter Reichard and Lt. Lisa Dadio, head of the investigative services unit, are overseeing the investigation.

Chief Lewis said he expects it’ll take 48 hours for much of the important evidence to come back from testing labs. Police expected preliminary results Monday afternoon from the chief medical examiner’s autopsy.

Lewis was asked why it took much of the week to locate Le’s apparent body.

“If people are familiar with the way this building is laid out, I don’t think they’d be surprised,” Lewis said. “People were in the building for a solid four days testing it.”

He was also asked why Yale waited until now to shut down the medical lab building at 10 Amistad St. where Le was last seen and where her apparent remains were found. He pointed out that that the case wasn’t officially a homicide investigation until Sunday. “For the first couple of days it was a missing person” case, he noted. “We have missing persons all over the country all the time. You can’t shut down a building for that.”

I'm terribly sorry, I have a nasty headache that obviously is affecting my eyesight, I thought it said 2009.  ::MonkeyConfused::

“No one else is in danger,” police say
Posted by Mark Alden Branch '86 at 2:02 pm Monday, September 14, 2009
The Associated Press today quotes New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery as saying that the presumed murder of Annie Le ‘13PhD is not believed to be a random act, and he further indicated that, in the AP’s words, “no one else is in danger.”

Meanwhile, the New Haven Independent talked to an electrician familiar with 10 Amistad Street who explained that it would not be hard for anyone to gain access to one of the building’s mechanical chases — like the one where the body presumed to be Le’s was found.

The Amistad building has panels at every floor allowing technicians access to wiring and cables, electrician explained.

And they’re not hard to open, according to Stanley. “With a screwdriver or even a butter knife you could open it up,” he said. . . .

With such easy access, the body could have been stashed by “anybody who worked in that building,” Stanley surmised. He said that students would have access as easily as any Yale employee.

I'm not sure what articles to believe or not.  This one says she was beaten & strangled:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/yale-students-body-found-behind-lab-wall-on-her-wedding-day-1787316.html

She had been beaten and strangled, then squeezed inside a basement area that housed utility cables.


 ::MonkeyConfused::

I'm so confused also, I don't know what is believable or not  ::MonkeyNoNo::

phew  ::MonkeyLaugh:: I thought it was me  ::MonkeyConfused::

No, I really need to step away, and rest my eyes  ::MonkeyConfused::

http://www.courant.com/community/new-haven/h-annie-le-suspect-missing-yale-student-body-found,0,2723861.story

Annie Le's Body ID'd; Death Ruled A Homicide
Police Will Not Say If They Have A Suspect In Annie Le Investigation

NEW HAVEN — - The state medical examiner has identified the body found in a Yale lab building as that of graduate student Annie Le. The report ruled the manner of death a homicide.

"In order to facilitate the investigation, we are not releasing the cause of death," said a spokesperson at the medical examiner's office.

Must be some jealous X-bo or some perv who wanted her for himself...

I hope your headache goes away soon.  We need you!   ::MonkeyAngel::

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6618351.html

Clues point to inside job in Yale killing
By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Writer © 2009 The Associated Press
Sept. 14, 2009, 3:43PM

 NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job Monday in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.

Police on Monday sought to calm fears on the Ivy League campus, saying the death of 24-year-old Annie Le was a targeted act. But they declined to name a suspect or say why anyone would want to kill the young woman just days before she was to be married.

cont.

Thank-you

No victim's life is more valuable to us than another.  But with that said, Annie was a brilliant woman who was choosing to work on cures for some very dibilitating diseases like diabetes, cancer and muscular dystrophy.  My point is that she had/has 'teammates' working with her on these experiments and I hope that now that she is with God and his Angels that she can send the answers to her teammates and they are successful in finding these cures.  My little lame attempt at trying to find something positive about something so horrific.   ::MonkeyAngel::

Me too.I took Benadryl.   ::MonkeyTongue::

 :smt052

Annie Le Suspect Failed Polygraph, Says Police Source
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(Facebook Photo)Photo: Annie Le

NEW YORK (CBS) As police confirm the female body found stuffed behind a wall of a Yale laboratory building is missing graduate student Annie Le, a police source close to the investigation has told CBS News’ Crimesider that they have narrowed their investigation down to one suspect and that the person is currently being questioned by police.

Photos: Student Found Dead on Wedding Day

The source told CBS News’ correspondent Randall Pinkston that the suspect has failed at least one polygraph lie detector test and possibly more. The suspect has not been formally charged, but is not at large.

The victim, 24-year-old Le, and the suspect may have known each other, says the source.

Police are currently analyzing what they're calling "a large amount" of physical evidence.

Le worked in a lab in the five-story building's basement. Campus officials have said that the security network recorded Le entering the building by swiping her ID card about 10 a.m. on Sept. 8, and had been baffled that she was not seen leaving. That changed Sunday, when a woman’s body was found stuffed into a “chase space” behind a wall where cables could be accessed.

Annie Le’s body was found on the very day she was scheduled to marry her fiancé Jonathan Widawsky on Long Island, New York.

The university has planned a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. Monday at the university.

I'm thinking an ex boyfriend who didn't want her to get married  ::MonkeyNoNo::

I thought about an ex bf too, but I thought I read she had been dating the fiancee for years. Maybe I am confused. Wouldn't be the first time.  ::MonkeyConfused::

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/a...us_suspect.php

Police have a “serious” suspect in the murder of graduate student Annie Le, but contrary to national media reports, he is not a student, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

The suspect is not in custody.

Le, who’s 24, went missing on Tuesday. On Sunday, state cops found a body stuffed inside a wall at the Yale medical school lab building where she was last seen, at 10 Amistad St. The state medical examiner Monday afternoon positively identified the body as Annie Le, and ruled her death a homicide.

Police officials definitively denied Monday afternoon that they’ve centered suspicion on a Yale student in the probe — or that any student is “involved” in the case.

However, a source familiar with the investigation said the probe has zeroed in on a single “serious” suspect.

Another law enforcement source familiar with the probe identified the suspect as a lab technician who works with animal testing at Yale. That technician’s campus phone number was disconnected Monday afternoon and he couldn’t be reached for comment. The technician allegedly had an unrequited love interest in Annie Le, according to that source. That suggestion couldn’t be independently verified Monday afternoon.

But she dated her fiance since she was a freshman in college.  When did she have a chance to date anyone else that had acess to the lab?   I think it was a co-student- or professor.

  The person listed as the "research technician" for the bennett lab was a LEI ZHANG ::MonkeyShocked:: ::MonkeyShocked::

The technician allegedly had an unrequited love interest in Annie Le, according to that source. That suggestion couldn’t be independently verified Monday afternoon.  If that is true, then he wanted to be a boyfriend and she didn't want that since she had a boyfriend/fiance  ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/14/news/doc4aae5d57ae145175622155.txt    ::MonkeyNoNo::

I found a picture of this Lei Zhang.  I can't get it to post to my photo bucket, so i sent it to klaas with a beggy note!  Hopefully she will post for us. 

Where did you find the pick AZ? Maybe you could post the link, just in case Klaas is away.

I so wanna see what this person looks like. TIA JSM

Bennett Lab Members
Post-doctoral Fellows
Peter Burch, Ph.D.

Hui Qin, Ph.D.

Matthew Soulsby, Ph.D.

Hao Shi, Ph.D.

Graduate Students

Fatih Mercan

Rachel Roth

Annie Le

Research Technician

Lei Zhang

Former lab members

Seda Eminaga, Ph.D.

Xiangdong Liu, Ph.D.

Maria Kontaridis, Ph.D.

Wayne Grant

Christina Zito, Ph.D.

Mara Fornaro, Ph.D.

Julie Wu, Ph.D.

Sivangarani Kolli, Ph.D.

http://boards.insessiontrials.com/showpost.php?p=13471354&postcount=198

I hope so  ::MonkeyCool::

I did a random search on his name, and YALE and this is one of the pictures.  In the top it says xxxx lab.  It looks like a party, or pot luck.  Why didn't I save the link?  I will look again. 

Here is the link... yea for me..I think

((edit - not the person of interest))

Edit to insert image tags.

Thanks  ::MonkeyEek::

Thank you 2NJ...are you back from vacation?? Did you have a good time?

YW, AZSunny.   Got home late yesterday afternoon.  We had a good time despite the rain & wind.  Thanks for asking.

This case is reminding me of the cleaning woman who disappeared in a Manhattan building and was found later in a duct.  I hope they nab the sick SOB who did this.     ::MonkeyMad::

Me too.  I think they probably have him identified already, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was the lab technician.

Police sources: Lab worker possible suspect in Yale student's death
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By William Kaempffer, Register Staff

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A Yale security guard, left, watches as Yale University Grad students stand in silence after setting up a memorial n front of 10 Amistad Street late Sunday night in New Haven, Conn., Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. Sunday afternoon a body was discovered in a wall of 10 Amistad St which was the last place Annie Le, a Yale grad student was seen. (AP Photo/Thomas Cain)

NEW HAVEN  — Detectives have strong leads in the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le and interest is focused on a lab technician who works in the building where the body was found Sunday, multiple police sources confirmed Monday.

The Yale employee has been under the law enforcement microscope since before Annie Le's body was found Sunday in a mechanical chase in the basement of the 120,000-square-foot building.

He had scratches on his chest, as if he were in some type of a struggle, which drew police attention, the sources confirmed.

He also took and failed an FBI-administered polygraph exam, they said, and at some point during questioning invoked his right to an attorney present and stopped answering questions. Over the last week, police interviewed and re-interviewed roughly 100 people who work or have access to 10 Amistad St., and the person on whom police appear to be zeroing in was among them.
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/14/news/doc4aae5d57ae145175622155.txt

Thanks for all the links and the photo...if this is the guy I hope he is arrested very soon. And I hope he is being watched!!  This is so sad!!

It was obvious that they HAD to have someone in 'custody' to put out a message that the kids at Yale didn't have to worry and they were safe.  Bet parents were yanking their kids out of school left & right.  I know I would have already been there sleeping in the dorm and attending class with my kid.

This is from the comments section of one of the websites on the register.   What do you think?  If all is true, it sound quite feasible to me.

" I believe i have identified the perp/suspect, however I will not name him here, but he does fit all descriptions released so far and the juggsaw puzzle pieces do fall into place.

Lets do a checklist / time line of events:

A. XXX attends Yale as an undergrad and works for Professors connected with Bennett Labs. He helps Bennett Labs publish an article in 2004/2005.

B. XXX moves to Rochester to do post graduate work and research on a temporary assignment. He teaches classes to undergrad students and sometime between 2006 - 2008 he becomes familiar with Annie Le.
He develops an infatuation/crush/unhealthy obessession with/on Ms. Le.

C. XXX finishes his post grad work at Rochester and is rehired back at Yale to work back at Bennett Labs where he originally began as a student. He connects again with the Professor in charge of the Lab.

D. Annie Le finishes her undergrad at Rochester where she has meets her future fiance to be and the man she was supposed to marry on Sunday, possibly in the time while XXX has moved back to Yale. XXX is not aware of this.

E. XXX exerts influence to get Annie Le into the prestigious and highly competitive Yale postgrad program. She goes there thanks to his influence and XXX feels she owes him for what he has done for her.

F. XXX works at Yale as a lab tech / classroom instructor for low level post grad students in the Amisted Bldg. Annie is now back in his sights and his unhealthy infatuation continues as she is assigned to work with him on projects at the lab and in the medical complex.

G. XXX finds out about her fiance and upcoming marriage. He feels betrayed, let down and completely overwhelmed by the situation. He feels anger towards Annie after doing so much for her to get her into Yale. He wants her to repay him with a relationship, but she rebukes his advances.

H. The murder takes place. XXX has a long history of working at the facility and fits all the descriptions offered by the LE of the potential suspect. Namely he is an insider with access to the building and;

1. He knows the nooks crannies the intricate workings of the Med building where she is murdered.
2. He knows how the fire alarm system works.
3. He knows how to use chemicals to disguise the odor of decaying body.
4. He knows hiding places to put the body.
5. He knows the video survellance system that exists.

G. He is not a Yale student but he is a Yale employee (however he used to be a Yale student in his undergrad years). This explains the contradictory reports some saying he is a student some saying he is an employee but not a student and some saying he is both.

H. Other incidentals:
Bennett Labs website (containing the name of XXX) is one of first sites forced to be removed from public access by LE.
Annies family may have been aware of previous advances by XXX upon her throughout her undergrad years at Rochester where XXX was teaching at the time of her attendance; thus the clue that they provided some helpful information to LE.

The Bennett Labs Yale Professor who cancels class does so because he is unable to contact the Lab Tech who was supposed to be teaching it or present for said class, namely the suspect XXX. The Yale professor is at the time not aware of Annies dissappearance..and is unaware that the reason he is unable to contact XXX is because of XXX's involvement in said crime.

Yale's lack of information/honesty in this investigation into one of their employee's who also works for a chair of the department who has previously been charged with Sexual Harrassment. Yale is is concerned about their liability in this case and may have failed to act when XXX exhibitied unwanted behaviour towards Annie previously.

I think it all adds up and XXX is our man.

In summary, please take sexual harrasment seriously as it seems there a lot of people who can get jealous very easily and commit horrible crimes as result. "

wow, if the police have all of that information, and that poster is telling the truth, i think thats a ton of circumstantial evidence that points in this guys direction.  i bet the police are aware of all of this and are just waiting for some physical evidence to tie in as well

Wow..thanks for bringing that over AZSunny...that person sure did their homework and is probably on the button in determining who it is.  And it sure DOES seem that Yale isn't interested in stopping sexual harassment even though they like to APPEAR politically correct.   ::MonkeyMad::

I have no way of knowing if all this information is correct, but it does appear at least possible.  I am guessing here, but it was said the police went back to talk to Annie's room mate today.  I am wondering if the questioning might have been about interaction with this lab tech.  Annie may have complained about unwanted attention, if not harassement. 

I don't even want to think about what this perp did to her.  Anyone notice how they still say it is her "presumed" body.  They have yet to confirm it was her.  This tells me that her face is so badly mutilated or disfigured that she was unidentifiable by looking at her.  How hard is it to get a family member to go identify the body?  This perp is a sick SOB.  They shouldn't need an autopsy to identify the body when she wasn't gone that long.

They positively identified the body earlier today.  Alot of decomposition can take place in 4 -5 days.

http://radonc.urmc.rochester.edu/newsletters/Apr2008newsletter.pdf

last page bottom corner is an image as well as project description from April 2008

http://www.medicineatyale.org/v3i6_nov_dec_2007/building.html
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“This is the future,” declared Yale President Richard C. Levin at the October 5 ribbon cutting for the medical school’s newest building, a 120,000-square-foot structure at 10 Amistad Street that will house the Interdepartmental Program in Vascular Biology and Therapeutics (VBT), the Yale Stem Cell Center (YSCC) and the Human and Translational Immunology (HTI) Program. The $88.6 million building is the latest to be built as part of a $1 billion plan to expand science facilities at Yale.

The research done in the three programs that will occupy the new facility, each of which draws on faculty throughout the university, was identified by a strategic planning committee in 2004–2005 as crucial to the medical school’s long-term goals, said Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine.

--------------------------

If the suspect is a lab tech, that person could be from any of the three research programs and not necessarily part of Annie's lab. 

BODY IDENTIFIED AS ANNIE LE MED ’13

The body found at 10 Amistad St. has been identified as the remains of Annie Le MED ’13, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Connecticut.
The manner of death has been classified as a homicide, though the office declined to release the cause of death in order to facilitate the ongoing investigation into Le's death. The cause of death will be released tomorrow at 3 p.m., according to the office.
Since it was classified a homicide on Sunday, the case is being investigated primarily by the New Haven Police Department. NHPD Spokesman Officer Joe Avery said...

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/14/body-identified-annie-le-med-13/comments/

Thanks so much for posting the updates NorthernRose.  Since they are announcing the Cause of Death...I'd be willing to bet that they also announce that the POI has formal charges against him. 

NorthernRose,thanks for the updates.

Lab tech suspected in Yale slaying: Employee had scratches, failed FBI polygraph test
By William Kaempffer, Mary E. O’Leary and James Tinley, Register Staff


NEW HAVEN — Police are focusing on a Yale lab technician who works in the building where a graduate student’s body was found Sunday as her possible killer, police sources confirmed Monday.

The Yale employee, who is involved in animal testing, has been under law enforcement’s microscope since before the body of Annie Le was discovered stuffed in a mechanical chase in the basement of the 120,000-square-foot building at 10 Amistad St.

He had scratches on his chest, which drew police attention, the sources confirmed. He also took, and failed, an FBI-administered polygraph exam, they said, and at some point during questioning invoked his right to have an attorney and stopped answering questions.

Over the last week, police interviewed and re-interviewed roughly 100 people who work in or have access to the building, and the lab technician was among them. He has not been charged and was not in custody Monday.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/15/news/new_haven/a1_--_annielefolo.txt

Thanks Blonde.
They must have this guy under 24 hour surveillance while they wait for forensics.  I certainly hope so!

 ::MonkeyJustice::

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Sept. 15) — The state medical examiner's office said Tuesday that it would release the results of an autopsy of a Yale University graduate student amid indications that police were preparing to make an arrest in her killing.
A spokeswoman for the chief state medical examiner's office told The Associated Press that the cause of Annie Le's death would be released after 3 p.m. Tuesday. The office had been withholding its report to assist the police investigation.
New Haven police did not return calls Tuedsay morning. They have said that Le's killing was not a random act and that no students are believed to be involved in the death.
Several news organizations reported that police were interviewing a possible suspect who failed a polygraph test and has defensive wounds on his body. New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery denied those reports Monday.
ABC News, WNBC-TV, The New Haven Register and the New Haven Independent cited anonymous sources in their reports. The Register and WNBC-TV also identify the possible suspect as a lab technician.
The state's chief medical examiner ruled Le's death a homicide Monday but declined to say how she died, citing the pending police investigation.
Police are analyzing what they call "a large amount" of physical evidence, but have not gone into detail.
At a meeting of medical school students and teachers Monday, Yale president Richard Levin said police have narrowed the number of potential suspects to a very small pool because building security systems recorded who entered the building and what times they entered, the Yale Daily News reported Tuesday. He said the appropriate people are being monitored, the newspaper said.

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posted: 2 MINUTES AGOcomments: 3760filed under: Crime News, National NewsPRINT|E-MAILMOREText SizeAAANEW HAVEN, Conn. (Sept. 15) — The state medical examiner's office said Tuesday that it would release the results of an autopsy of a Yale University graduate student amid indications that police were preparing to make an arrest in her killing.
A spokeswoman for the chief state medical examiner's office told The Associated Press that the cause of Annie Le's death would be released after 3 p.m. Tuesday. The office had been withholding its report to assist the police investigation.
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The Murder of Annie Le Yale Police Department8 photos   Investigators in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le, whose body was found stuffed in wall at a university lab, appear to be closing in on a suspect. Several news outlets say police are interviewing a possible suspect who failed a polygraph test, but police denied those reports. Above, a surveillance photo, left, shows Le entering the lab on Sept. 8, the day she was last seen alive.(Note: Please disable your pop-up blocker)
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The Disappearance of Annie Le
Yale graduate student Annie Le, 24, vanished Tuesday, just five days before she was due to get married. A surveillance photo, left, shows the Yale pharmacology graduate student on her way to a lab on the campus Tuesday morning. Her belongings were found in the building, but Le was nowhere to be found.
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New Haven police did not return calls Tuedsay morning. They have said that Le's killing was not a random act and that no students are believed to be involved in the death.
Several news organizations reported that police were interviewing a possible suspect who failed a polygraph test and has defensive wounds on his body. New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery denied those reports Monday.
ABC News, WNBC-TV, The New Haven Register and the New Haven Independent cited anonymous sources in their reports. The Register and WNBC-TV also identify the possible suspect as a lab technician.
The state's chief medical examiner ruled Le's death a homicide Monday but declined to say how she died, citing the pending police investigation.
Police are analyzing what they call "a large amount" of physical evidence, but have not gone into detail.
At a meeting of medical school students and teachers Monday, Yale president Richard Levin said police have narrowed the number of potential suspects to a very small pool because building security systems recorded who entered the building and what times they entered, the Yale Daily News reported Tuesday. He said the appropriate people are being monitored, the newspaper said.
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The killing took place in a heavily secured building accessible only to students and university employees. It was the first killing at Yale in a decade.
Hundreds of students attended a Monday night prayer vigil and some students say Le's death is still troubling.
"I'm not walking at nights by myself anymore," said student Natoya Peart, 21, of Jamaica. "It could happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere."
Twenty-year-old Muneeb Sultan said he's shocked that a killing could take place in a secure Yale building.
"It's a frightening idea that there's a murderer walking around on campus," said Sultan, a chemistry student.
Police found Le's body about 5 p.m. Sunday, the day she was to marry Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky, lovingly referred to on her Facebook page as "my best friend." The couple met as undergraduates at the University of Rochester and were eagerly awaiting their planned wedding on Long Island.
Police have said Widawsky is not a suspect and helped detectives in their investigation.
The building where the body was found is part of the university medical school complex about a mile from Yale's main campus. It is accessible to Yale personnel with identification cards. Some 75 video surveillance cameras monitor all doorways.
Her body was found in the basement in the wall chase — a deep recess where utilities and cables run between floors. The basement houses rodents, mostly mice, used for scientific testing by multiple Yale researchers, said Robert Alpern, dean of the Yale University School of Medicine.
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DNA will catch Yale grad student Annie Le's killer

Michael Daly

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Yale University Police
Slain Yale grad student Annie Le

Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 4:00 AM


NEW HAVEN - A crime scene investigator in a white haz-mat suit emerged from the red brick lab building to fetch something from a white truck parked on Amistad St.

He returned inside to collect more evidence for another kind of lab, evidence in the murder of pharmacology student Annie Le.

Even before her body was found Sunday, police had taken a keen interest in a technician at this Yale lab building who failed a polygraph test in a big way.

He also has defensive wounds, scratches on his chest reminiscent of the Preppie Killer, Robert Chambers, after he killed Jennifer Levin in Central Park in 1986. Only there is no indication that Le and this lab tech had any kind of social relationship or encounters outside the workplace.

The wounds are equally reminiscent of Joseph Pabon, the elevator operator accused of killing a cleaning woman named Eridania Rodriguez in the Rector St. building where they worked, but were never friendly.

The victim in that case went missing until she was found in an air conditioning duct just as Le went missing before she was found in a utilities conduit.

As of Monday evening, the police were saying only that they do not have a suspect in custody.

True enough. The questioning ended and the lab technician was allowed to leave after he invoked his Miranda rights, asking for a lawyer.

You can be sure they have him under surveillance. He is not going anywhere. Some observers suggest the police are being extra-cautious because the last time a Yale student was murdered, they were accused of botching the case by fixating on a single suspect too early on.

But the New Haven cops are being neither more nor less cautious than the NYPD was in the Pabon case, where the suspect was allowed to go free but kept under surveillance pending the DNA test on skin found under the victim's fingernails.

The big problem with the last Yale murder was a lack of evidence. Suzanne Jovin was found stabbed to death in 1998 on a quiet street where anyone had access. There were no witnesses, no camera footage.

In the Le case, only a limited number of people with swipe cards have access to the basement where she was found. That includes the tech. Surveillance cameras record everyone who enters and leaves the building.

And there is blood evidence.

Be it the tiniest trace of the killer's blood on Le or Le's blood on the killer, be the blood on their person or their clothing, blood means DNA.

And DNA almost certainly means gotcha.

Even as the search continued at the Yale lab where Le was murdered, testing of the blood evidence was sure to be underway at another lab.

If the DNA points to the Yale lab technician with the defensive wounds, you need only think of the Pabon case. Minutes after those DNA results came in, Pabon was in handcuffs.

And Le's killer will have been caught with evidence derived from the basic workings of life at an infinitesimal level, the same level where Le did her research.

Le was to have been married on Sunday, but she would soon have been back at her own kind of lab investigation: How something called protein-tyrosine phosphatase influences the body's use of insulin and the metabolism of glucose. Anybody with type 2 diabetes should be able to tell you its importance.

As a high school student, Le volunteered to help the sick at a local hospital. As a fledgling scientist, she was working to help keep people from getting sick in the first place.

And she did the work with the smile everybody remembers.

They also remember how much she loved her fiancé.

She no doubt would be pleased to know that yesterday a Yale history professor asked everyone at a big lecture to take a moment and call somebody they love.

Later, there was a candlelight vigil in remembrance of the young scientist who helped this great university live up to the motto on its crest, "Lux et Veritas," or "Light and Truth."

And as the candles flickered at the heart of the campus, the light softly illuminating faces as young and bright as Le had been, the clock was ticking toward those DNA results.

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ANNIE LE  Yale Autopsy Results To Be Released Today
NEW HAVEN -  The state medical examiner's office will release the results of the autopsy of a Yale University graduate student amid indications that police were preparing to make an arrest in her killing.

The cause of Annie Le's death will be released after 3 p.m. today, a spokeswoman for the chief state medical examiner's office said. The office ruled the death a homicide on Monday but has withheld the report to assist the police investigation, the spokeswoman said.

"We have to give police time to do what they need to do, and the family needs to be notified," said the spokeswoman, who declined to give her name.

Le's body was found Sunday in a wall inside a campus lab building.

"It appears it's not a random act," New Haven Police Officer Joe Avery said, adding that this bit of information was an effort to calm the fears of a nervous college campus.

But when pressed about suspects, Avery would offer only this: "We're interviewing a lot of people."

Several news organizations reported that police were interviewing a possible suspect who failed a polygraph test and has defensive wounds on his body. Avery denied those reports.

Fox 61, ABC News, The New Haven Register and the New Haven Independent cited anonymous sources in their reports. Fox 61 and The Register also identify the possible suspect as a lab technician.

Le's remains were found about 5 p.m. Sunday, the same day that she was supposed to marry her college sweetheart in an elaborate wedding on Long Island.

Le's money, credit cards and purse were found in her third-floor office at a nearby Yale medical school building.

At a meeting of medical school students and teachers Monday, Yale president Richard Levin said police have narrowed the number of potential suspects to a very small pool because building security systems recorded who entered the building and what times they entered, the Yale Daily News reported Tuesday. He said the appropriate people are being monitored, the newspaper said.

The killing took place in a heavily secured building accessible only to students and university employees. It was the first killing at Yale in a decade.

Since Tuesday, when Le's roommate reported her missing, Yale police, the FBI and state police worked the case as a missing persons investigation, searching through the high-security building and conducting interviews.

But when the remains were found Sunday, the case shifted to a murder probe, forcing investigators to close the building at 10 Amistad St. and a nearby child-care center and to block off nearby streets.

Contractors hired to remodel a portion of the building were told to halt work and were questioned by investigators.

An FBI agent was seen at a nearby Lowe's store purchasing a number of large blue tarps. The agent declined to comment, but said tarps are often used to block the view of a crime scene from the public.

Investigators were tight-lipped about the progress of their investigation but did challenge media reports about potential suspects in the case.

Avery said reports that either a professor or a student is a suspect were incorrect.

"It's simply not true," he said.

Those familiar with 10 Amistad St., a research building at the Yale School of Medicine complex, said that if Le had left the building, surveillance cameras -- stationed at every door -- would have captured her leaving.

With that in mind, investigators have focused on those working inside the building, especially in laboratories where Le had conducted research.

Yale Vice President Linda Lorimer said Monday that those with essential research responsibilities in the Amistad building were being accompanied into the building by police.

She said that when the building does reopen, there will be extra security for the foreseeable future.

Also, Yale increased security and police patrols on the streets in the area and added a new bicycle patrol. Yale also added security personnel inside Sterling Hall of Medicine where Le was before going to Amistad, Lorimer said.

The University posted a web page for updates on the investigation at opa.yale.edu/investigationupdate.

Le, from Placerville, Calif., was to have been married Sunday at the North Ritz Club in Syosset, N.Y., to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at Columbia University in New York. Police have said that he is not a suspect and is helping with the investigation.

New Haven police have said they are sorting through a large amount of physical evidence at the scene to determine if it's relevant to the investigation.

Investigators on Saturday said they recovered evidence from the building. Police sources told The Courant that bloody clothing was discovered above a ceiling tile.

Saturday night and for much of Sunday, investigators searched the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority's trash facility on Maxim Road in Hartford. Investigators wearing protective clothing sifted through piles of trash with machines and dogs.

Police said the search at the trash facility was routine and did not say if it yielded any clues.

On Friday, Yale said that it would offer a $10,000 reward for any information that led to Le's whereabouts.

The building where the body was found is part of the university medical school complex about a mile from Yale's main campus and is accessible to Yale personnel with identification cards. A network of about 75 video surveillance cameras are trained on every door.

Campus officials have said that the security network recorded Le's entering the building by swiping her ID card about 10 a.m. on Sept. 8 and had been baffled that she was not seen leaving.

Le wrote an article that was published in February in the medical school's magazine. The piece, titled "Crime and Safety in New Haven," compared higher instances of robbery in New Haven with cities that house other Ivy League schools. It also included an interview with Yale Police Chief James Perrotti, who offered advice such as "pay attention to where you are" and "avoid portraying yourself as a potential victim."

"In short, New Haven is a city and all cities have their perils," Le concludes. "But with a little street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic."

Associated Press reports were included in this story.

Copyright © 2009, The Hartford Courant

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Thanks for the updates.

  Autopsy results expected on Yale grad student

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The Record
NEW HAVEN, Conn.  — The state medical examiner's office said they will release the results of an autopsy of a Yale University graduate student Tuesday amid indications that police are preparing to make an arrest in her killing.

A spokeswoman for the chief state medical examiner's office told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the cause of Annie Le's death will be released after 3 p.m. Tuesday. The office had been withholding its report in order to assist the police investigation.

New Haven police did not return repeated calls Tuedsay morning. They have said that Le's killing was not a random act and said no students are believed to be involved in the death.

Several news organizations reported that police were interviewing a possible suspect who failed a polygraph test and has defensive wounds on his body. New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery denied those reports Monday.

ABC News, WNBC-TV, The New Haven Register and the New Haven Independent cited anonymous sources in their reports. The Register and WNBC-TV also identify the possible suspect as a lab technician.

The state's chief medical examiner ruled Le's death a homicide Monday but declined to say how she died, citing the pending police investigation.

Police are analyzing what they call "a large amount" of physical evidence, but have not gone into detail.

The killing took place in a heavily secured building accessible only to students and university employees. It was the first killing at Yale in a decade.

Hundreds of students attended a Monday night prayer vigil and some students say Le's death is still troubling.

"I'm not walking at nights by myself anymore," said student Natoya Peart, 21, of Jamaica. "It could happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere."

Twenty-year-old Muneeb Sultan said he's shocked that a killing could take place in a secure Yale building.

"It's a frightening idea that there's a murderer walking around on campus," said Sultan, a chemistry student.

Police found Le's body about 5 p.m. Sunday, the day she was to marry Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky, lovingly referred to on her Facebook page as "my best friend." The couple met as undergraduates at the University of Rochester and were eagerly awaiting their planned wedding on Long Island.

Police have said Widawsky is not a suspect and helped detectives in their investigation.

The building where the body was found is part of the university medical school complex about a mile from Yale's main campus. It is accessible to Yale personnel with identification cards. Some 75 video surveillance cameras monitor all doorways.

Her body was found in the basement in the wall chase — a deep recess where utilities and cables run between floors. The basement houses rodents, mostly mice, used for scientific testing by multiple Yale researchers, said Robert Alpern, dean of the Yale University School of Medicine.

Le was part of a research team headed by her faculty adviser, Anton Bennett. According to its Web site, the Bennett Laboratory was involved in enzyme research that could have implications in cancer, diabetes and muscular dystrophy. Bennett declined to comment Monday on the lab or Le's involvement with it.

Le's office was on the third floor of the five-story building, where authorities found her wallet, keys, money and purse.

Yale closed the building Monday so police could complete their investigation, according to a message sent to Yale students and staff. Scientists are being allowed in only to conduct essential research projects, and only under the supervision of a police officer.

They said the building would reopen as early as Tuesday under increased security.

On Monday afternoon, Yale officials apologized for an e-mail sent out earlier in the day notifying students about a job-search workshop named "Killer Cover Letters." The e-mail was distributed the same day the chief medical examiner's officer identified Le's body.

Philip Jones, assistant dean of Yale College, said the workshop's title is common, but its use was inappropriate at the time. The university was not intending to cause more distress, Jones said.

Police activity continued at the crime scene early Monday evening, as uniformed officers with police dogs and workers wearing white suits to protect them from hazardous materials went in and out of the building.

In the Sierra foothills community east of Sacramento where she was named "Most likely to be the next Einstein" in high school, Le was remembered as a high achiever who knew early on that she wanted a career in medicine.

In a Union Mine High School yearbook from 2003, Le said her long-term goal was to become a laboratory pathologist and said it would require about 12 years of higher education.

"I just hope that all that hard work is going to pay off and I'm really going to enjoy my job," she said.

No one answered the door Monday at the Widawskys' gray, ranch-style home in Huntington, N.Y.

"He is a very nice young man," next-door neighbor George Mayer said of Jonathan Widawsky, a 24-year-old seeking his doctorate in physics. "His family, they're all just wonderful people — very, very nice people."

The death is the first killing at Yale since the unsolved December 1998 death of Yale student Suzanne Jovin. The popular 21-year-old senior was stabbed 17 times in New Haven's East Rock neighborhood, about 2 miles from campus.
   
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The state medical examiner’s office said Tuesday that it would release the results of an autopsy of a Yale University graduate student amid indications that police were preparing to make an arrest in her killing.

A spokeswoman for the chief state medical examiner’s office told The Associated Press that the cause of Annie Le’s death would be released after 3 p.m. Tuesday. The office had been withholding its report to assist the police investigation.

New Haven police did not return calls Tuedsay morning. They have said that Le’s killing was not a random act and that no students are believed to be involved in the death.

Authorities Monday officially identified the remains as those of Annie Le, 24, the Yale doctoral student in pharmacology who had been missing since last Tuesday and whose body was discovered Sunday hidden inside a wall in a basement lab building where she worked in the medical school complex.

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The medical examiner in Connecticut is withholding Le's cause of death "for investigative purposes."

Meanwhile, the New Haven Register reported that detectives were focusing on a lab technician who works in the building where the body was found.

The newspaper reported that the technician had failed a polygraph test and had scratches on his chest, as if he were in some type of a struggle.

Nearly all of the basement animal research floor where Le's remains were found can be accessed only by students, faculty, staff and lab technicians who have been given specific permission to be there, student researchers said.

I've been wondering if the killer perhaps followed Annie into the bathroom, somewhere that people wouldn't walk into and see what he was doing? It just seems so strange if he didn't, to take a chance of people walking in. imo

Or it could have been an employee that had access to a workroom or supply room where no one else would be?  The fact she was in the chase wall area bothers me - had to be someone that knew the details of the building.

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/news_wtnh_new_haven_police_suspect_lab_worker_200909150653

NHPD: Arrest in Yale case NOT imminent
Autopsy results to be released at 3pm

Updated: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009, 11:07 AM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009, 5:37 AM EDT

New Haven (WTNH) - New Haven police said today that an arrest was not imminent in the homicide case of a Yale graduate student.

Earlier reports indicated that police were close to making an arrest in the death of 24-year old Annie Le.

The New Haven Register , citing police sources, reports a lab technician who works inside 10 Amistad St. is the focus of the investigation.

cont.

http://www.wfsb.com/news/20921664/detail.html

Police: Arrest In Yale Case Unlikely Tuesday
Cause Of Death Expected To Be Released

POSTED: 9:16 am EDT September 15, 2009
UPDATED: 11:11 am EDT September 15, 2009

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Police said an arrest is not likely to be made Tuesday in connection with the death of Yale University graduate student Annie Le.

Police sources said detectives have honed in on a suspect in the killing of Le, but that more interviews needed to be conducted.

Sources said the suspect is a Yale employee and works in the lab where the remains of Le were found stuffed behind a wall.

The suspect failed a lie detector test and has wounds that suggest a recent struggle, according to sources.

~cont.~

catching up on this thread....does anyone think that the person who did this to Annie was trying to get her to not go through with her marriage as he wanted her for himself...when she refused to stop her marriage, it got physical? someone who was obsessed with her and it was getting right down to the minute of her wedding? desperate obsessed sicko? sorry if this has been asked/questioned before...

http://www.legacy.com/gb2/default.aspx?bookid=532708795367

Annie Le's Legacy Guest book

sorry if this is a repeat...:

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Hi Cookie.
I definitely think it was someone obsessed with her.  And I think most of the articles are pointing to the lab tech.

here is the story for the link :


Police: No arrest imminent in Yale student's death
AP

     
         
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    * Annie Le's Former Roommate Speaks Play Video Video:Annie Le's Former Roommate Speaks ABC News

By RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writer Ray Henry, Associated Press Writer – 14 mins ago

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A police spokesman says no arrests are imminent in the killing of a Yale graduate student whose body was found inside the basement wall of a university research building.

New Haven police Officer Joe Avery says that contrary to published reports, police do not expect to make an arrest Tuesday in the death of 24-year-old Annie Le.

He would not comment further.

The state medical examiner's office says it plans to release the results of Le's autopsy Tuesday.

Several news organizations reported that police were interviewing a possible suspect who failed a polygraph test and has defensive wounds on his body.

ABC News, WNBC-TV, The New Haven Register and the New Haven Independent cited anonymous sources in their reports. The Register and WNBC-TV identify the possible suspect as a lab technician.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The state medical examiner's office said Tuesday that it would release the results of an autopsy of a Yale University graduate student amid indications that police were preparing to make an arrest in her killing.

A spokeswoman for the chief state medical examiner's office told The Associated Press that the cause of Annie Le's death would be released after 3 p.m. Tuesday. The office had been withholding its report to assist the police investigation.

New Haven police did not return calls Tuesday morning. They have said that Le's killing was not a random act and that no students are believed to be involved in the death.

Several news organizations reported that police were interviewing a possible suspect who failed a polygraph test and has defensive wounds on his body. New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery denied those reports Monday.

ABC News, WNBC-TV, The New Haven Register and the New Haven Independent cited anonymous sources in their reports. The Register and WNBC-TV also identify the possible suspect as a lab technician.

The state's chief medical examiner ruled Le's death a homicide but declined to say how she died, citing the pending police investigation.

Police are analyzing what they call "a large amount" of physical evidence, but have not gone into detail.

At a meeting of medical school students and teachers Monday, Yale president Richard Levin said police have narrowed the number of potential suspects to a very small pool because building security systems recorded who entered the building and what times they entered, the Yale Daily News reported Tuesday. He said the appropriate people are being monitored, the newspaper said.

Yale spokesman Tom Conroy and Robert Alpern, dean of the medical school, did not immediately return calls Tuesday.

The killing took place in a heavily secured building accessible only to students and university employees. It was the first killing at Yale in a decade.

Hundreds of students attended a Monday night prayer vigil and some students say Le's death is still troubling.

"I'm not walking at nights by myself anymore," said student Natoya Peart, 21, of Jamaica. "It could happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere."

Muneeb Sultan, 20, said he's shocked that a killing could take place in a secure Yale building.

"It's a frightening idea that there's a murderer walking around on campus," said Sultan, a chemistry student.

Le's roommate, Natalie Powers, recalled her during the vigil as tenacious, caring and "tougher than you'd think by just looking at her."

"That this horrible tragedy happened at all is incomprehensible," she said. "That it happened to her, I think is infinitely more so. It seems completely senseless."

Police found Le's body about 5 p.m. Sunday, the day she was to marry Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky, lovingly referred to on her Facebook page as "my best friend." The couple met as undergraduates at the University of Rochester and were eagerly awaiting their planned wedding on Long Island.

Police have said Widawsky is not a suspect and helped detectives in their investigation.

The building where the body was found is part of the university medical school complex about a mile from Yale's main campus. It is accessible to Yale personnel with identification cards. Some 75 video surveillance cameras monitor all doorways.

Her body was found in the basement in the wall chase — a deep recess where utilities and cables run between floors. The basement houses rodents, mostly mice, used for scientific testing by multiple Yale researchers, Alpern said.

Le was part of a research team headed by her faculty adviser, Anton Bennett. According to its Web site, the Bennett Laboratory was involved in enzyme research that could have implications in cancer, diabetes and muscular dystrophy. Bennett declined to comment Monday on the lab or Le's involvement with it.

Le's office was on the third floor of the five-story building, where authorities found her wallet, keys, money and purse.

Yale closed the building Monday so police could complete their investigation, according to a message sent to Yale students and staff. Scientists are being allowed in only to conduct essential research projects, and only under the supervision of a police officer.

They said the building would reopen as early as Tuesday under increased security.

On Monday afternoon, Yale officials apologized for an e-mail sent out earlier in the day notifying students about a job-search workshop named "Killer Cover Letters." The e-mail was distributed the same day the chief medical examiner's officer identified Le's body.

Philip Jones, assistant dean of Yale College, said the workshop's title is common, but its use was inappropriate at the time. The university was not intending to cause more distress, Jones said.

In the Sierra foothills community east of Sacramento where she was named "Most likely to be the next Einstein" in high school, Le was remembered as a high achiever who knew early on that she wanted a career in medicine.

In a Union Mine High School yearbook from 2003, Le said her long-term goal was to become a laboratory pathologist and said it would require about 12 years of higher education.

"I just hope that all that hard work is going to pay off and I'm really going to enjoy my job," she said.

No one answered the door Monday at the Widawskys' gray ranch-style home in Huntington, N.Y.

"He is a very nice young man," next-door neighbor George Mayer said of Jonathan Widawsky, a 24-year-old seeking his doctorate in physics. "His family, they're all just wonderful people — very, very nice people."

The death is the first killing at Yale since the unsolved December 1998 death of student Suzanne Jovin. The popular 21-year-old senior was stabbed 17 times in New Haven's East Rock neighborhood, about 2 miles from campus.

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BODY IS IDENTIFIED; CAMPUS MOURNS

After the speeches and the prayers, Cross Campus fell silent, the faces of over 2,000 people illuminated by burning candles. Then out of nowhere a hum began. It grew until it became a tune: “Amazing Grace.” Once that faded, the sound of a lone violin came out of Berkeley College, playing the same song.
Students, faculty members and staff from around Yale gathered on Cross Campus on Monday night to honor the memory of Annie Le MED ’13 in a candlelight vigil arranged by undergraduate organizations, cultural houses and Yale administrators. The vigil came after a day of mourning within...

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Hundreds Show Up for Candlelight Vigil of Murdered Yale Student
Chris Boardman

Story Updated: Sep 15, 2009 at 11:18 AM EDT

Annie Le, a Yale graduate student found murdered on campus was honored by a candlelight vigil, with hundreds of mourners gathering to remember the 24-year-old bride-to-be...


http://www.abc6.com/news/59336397.html

** There is a video of the vigil here

http://www.khsltv.com/news/state/story/Here-is-the-latest-Northern-California-news-from/iNOTkKiP10K-GU3PSLpvvA.cspx

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - There are indications New Haven police are near an arrest in the death of Yale University graduate student Annie Le of Placerville. The coroner is releasing autopsy results this afternoon (12 p.m.). Her body was found stuffed in a wall at a lab where she worked. Officer Joe Avery denies media reports that a possible suspect failed a polygraph test and has defensive wounds on his body.

That also, somewhere the killer felt that someone wouldn't walk in on them.

That is what I think, someone with a sick obsession for Annie.

   ::MonkeyConfused::  No arrest imminent, arrest close, wow.

Certain microscopes used in research are also located in the basements, in individual rooms since they require darkness.

I agree NoRose!  Very confusing.   ::MonkeyConfused::

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/15/2009-09-15_cops_set_to_reveal_yale_student_annie_le_cause_of_death_hope_to_make_arrest_tues.html

Cops "hope" an arrest is imminent in the Annie Le's murder investigation, they said Tuesday morning - as medical examiners prepare to disclose how she was killed.

New Haven police want to throw the cuffs on a lab technician who they believe killed the Yale graduate student by 1 p.m., said police spokesman Joe Avery.

The tech, who the New Haven Register reports is involved in animal testing in Le's lab, failed lie detector tests and has scratches on his chest that suggest he was involved in a struggle.

Cops and FBI agents have interviewed the suspect several times until he stopped answering questions and asked for a lawyer, the Register said.

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BODY IS IDENTIFIED; CAMPUS MOURNS

After the speeches and the prayers, Cross Campus fell silent, the faces of over 2,000 people illuminated by burning candles. Then out of nowhere a hum began. It grew until it became a tune: “Amazing Grace.” Once that faded, the sound of a lone violin came out of Berkeley College, playing the same song.

Students, faculty members and staff from around Yale gathered on Cross Campus on Monday night to honor the memory of Annie Le MED ’13 in a candlelight vigil arranged by undergraduate organizations, cultural houses and Yale administrators. The vigil came after a day of mourning within the Yale community.

MORE...

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/15/university-unites-mourn-le/

Over the past few days we have heard

- Bloody clothing . no bloody clothing found - one day later it was confirmed that bloody clothing was found

-Body /no body found - one day later is was confirmed that her body was found.

With the agencies involved IMO one is talking to the media and another is trying to hold it close to their chests until they have no choice but to confirm the information.  I think Yale is putting a lot of pressure on the local police to play it down.

I am betting they have a suspect, they are close to an arrest if it has not already occurred, and we will hear about the arrest of the lab tech when they do a press conference about the autopsy today. 

Annie Le suspect Lab Technician she worked with

A lab tech that worked in the same lab with Annie Le, is emerging as a suspect in her murder. ABC News reported that the lab tech failed the polygraph test on Saturday, and has scratches on his chest.  USA Today reported that the lab tech (who is involved in animal testing) stopped the polygraph test in the middle and invoked his right to an attorney before he answered any more questions.  The police found Annie Le's body in a wall on Sunday in the basement of the building she entered last Tuesday.

The local police have denied that they have a suspect, but did state that no other students were involved and that no one else is in danger.  Because a key card is needed to access the building and the lab in the basement, there are only a handful of people who had access. 

Officials are expected to release the cause of Annie Le’s death after 3 pm today, the Associated Press reported.

http://www.examiner.com/x-19632-Salt-Lake-City-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m9d15-Annie-Le-suspect-Lab-Technician-she-worked-with

City, Yale Learned From Jovin In Annie Le Case

Every Monday, “cold case” investigators gather to reexamine Suzanne Jovin’s unsolved 1998 murder and the paltry, mishandled evidence.

Meanwhile, a week after Annie Le was murdered, cops have closed in on a suspect while they await lab results on bloody clothing found at the scene.

Both gruesome murders involved Yale students. Both shocked the city. Both brought the national press streaming into town. Rick Levin presided over Yale then and now; his university secretary, Linda Lorimer, oversaw the crisis response. The city’s mayor, then as now, was John DeStefano; the top state prosecutor on the case, Mike Dearington.

The similarities end there.

The specter of the botched Jovin case has haunted the Annie Le case from the start — and, observe those familiar with the crisis and police responses, New Haven and Yale learned important lessons.

The biggest difference has been in the law enforcement reaction


MORE....

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/city_yale_learn.php

Yale student's autopsy results expected
Police are analyzing "large amount" of evidence

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The mystery of Yale graduate student Annie Le's killing is expected to become clearer this afternoon.

The state medical examiner's office says it will be releasing the cause of her death after 3 p.m. The 24-year-old from Placerville, California, went missing a week ago and her body was found Sunday in a wall of a university laboratory building.

Police appear to be close to an arrest, but they're not confirming anything. Authorities have denied several media reports that police interviewed a possible suspect who failed a lie detector test and had defensive wounds on his body.

Police say the killing was not a random act and no students are believed to be involved. The New Haven Register reports that the suspect is a lab technician.

The medical examiner ruled Le's death a homicide yesterday, but declined to say how she died because of the pending police investigation.

Police are analyzing what they call "a large amount" of physical evidence, but have not gone into detail.

Hundreds of people gathered at a candlelight vigil on campus last night to remember Le.
 

http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/connecticut/wwlp_ap_conn_yalestudentsautopsyresultsexpected_200909151204

Police say the killing was not a random act and no students are believed to be involved.

Who has access to a graduate lab that is not a student?:

Visiting researchers
Professors
Custodial staff
Clerical staff
Lab techs (usually university staff)
Medical / Lab equipment and chemical sales people (wanting to sell you the latest greatest equipment that you only dream of using but the university can not afford while they are helping you order your pipettes, beakers, etc. )

I agree Northern Rose & hope it happens soon. 

snipped from this article


And no suspects’ names were floated. It turned out the cops have a “strong” suspect, a lab tech who worked in the same building as Annie Le and reportedly failed a lie detector test when interviewed about the incident. As word leaked out about the suspect, police declined to confirm it, or float his name. (The suspect retained a lawyer. He’s no longer working at Yale. The state’s judicial website shows only one previous case involving the suspect, who was born in 1985; he was nabbed for “traveling unreasonably fast.”)


This reporter seems to know who the suspect is.........

And more conflicting reports:

Reports say suspect in custody in murder of Yale student Annie Le
by The Associated Press
Tuesday September 15, 2009, 12:22 PM

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Police have a suspect in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found inside the basement wall of a university research building, the report .

But Officer Joe Avery said that contrary to published reports, police do not expect to make an arrest today in the death of 24-year-old Annie Le. He would not comment further.

Reports say Yale student suspect in custody, but New Haven police say no arrest imminent

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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/new_haven_police_say_no_arrest.html


(Wasn't Officer Joe Avery quoted as saying the opposite in another article?)

That seems really scarey knowing the circumstances. 

Thanks N2W.  If we are to assume that he has a credible source and is correct then from my previous list we have crossed off one :

Who has access to a graduate lab that is not a student?:

Visiting researchers
Professors
Custodial staff
Clerical staff
Lab techs (usually university staff)
Medical / Lab equipment and chemical sales people (wanting to sell you the latest greatest equipment that you only dream of using but the university can not afford while they are helping you order your pipettes, beakers, etc. )

Northern Rose,  I doubt that clerical staff would have access to the lab area.  This is an area where it is said the small animals were kept where they were conducting various lab studies.  any notes, or documentation would be taken to a clerical staff to handle outside of the working lab area. 

add  Laboratory Animal Care Technician  to the list.......

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/15/MN2M19N4QG.DTL


Sierra foothill town mourns its 'next Einstein'

Kevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

 Snuggled beneath thick oak trees about 2,000 feet above sea level in the Sierra foothills, the home where Le lived with her aunt, uncle and a brother is a 15-mile drive along twisting, mostly paved roads from the 1860s Pony Express stop of El Dorado, population 1,583.

That's where her high school classmates voted Le "most likely to be the next Einstein." It's a prophecy the whip-smart 24-year-old seemed on the path to fulfilling before her body was found in Connecticut, packed into a wall at the Yale School of Medicine building where she was last seen Sept. 8.

Now, 3,000 miles back west in the wooded backwater of horse ranches and cow pastures where she was raised, those who knew her are reeling at the news that the brightest girl anyone can remember coming out of here is gone.

Le was supposed to be married to her college sweetheart on Sunday, the day her body was discovered. Police say they believe she was killed by someone who knew her - "not a random act," said one investigator - but they have made no arrests.

"It's a messed-up world we live in when something that terrible can happen to such a sweet girl," said Clint Wagnon, who lives just a couple of hillocks over from the house where Le was raised. "They're a very nice family. We all know each other out here. It's shocking."

The family flew east when word of Le's disappearance came, and now the only sound in the sprawling, hilly yard of their remote home is the cry of the occasional hawk gliding overhead.

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NEW HAVEN - Police do not expect to arrest anyone Tuesday in connection with the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found Sunday.

New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery said no arrest is imminent, despite some media reports to the contrary. He would not comment further.

Meanwhile, the state medical examiner's office said it will release the results of the autopsy of Annie Le amid indications that police were preparing to make an arrest in her killing.

The cause of Le's death will be released after 3 p.m. today, a spokeswoman for the chief state medical examiner's office said. The office ruled the death a homicide on Monday but has withheld the report to assist the police investigation, the spokeswoman said.

"We have to give police time to do what they need to do, and the family needs to be notified," said the spokeswoman, who declined to give her name.

Le's body was found Sunday in a wall inside a campus lab building.

"It appears it's not a random act," Avery said Monday, adding that this bit of information was an effort to calm the fears of a nervous college campus.

But when pressed about suspects, Avery said: "We're interviewing a lot of people."

Several news organizations reported that police were interviewing a possible suspect who failed a polygraph test and has defensive wounds on his body. Avery denied those reports.


Fox 61, ABC News, The New Haven Register and the New Haven Independent cited anonymous sources in their reports. Fox 61 and The Register also identify the possible suspect as a lab technician.

Le's remains were found about 5 p.m. Sunday, the same day that she was supposed to marry her college sweetheart in an elaborate wedding on Long Island.

Le's money, credit cards and purse were found in her third-floor office at a nearby Yale medical school building.

At a meeting of medical school students and teachers Monday, Yale president Richard Levin said police have narrowed the number of potential suspects to a very small pool because building security systems recorded who entered the building and what times they entered, the Yale Daily News reported Tuesday. He said the appropriate people are being monitored, the newspaper said.
http://www.fox61.com/news/hc-annie-le-yale-body-autopsy-no-arrest,0,6124060.story?track=rss

http://www.youtube.com/v/37DS2uae__Y&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/was_that_annie.php   ::MonkeyEek::

TY NoRose.   ::MonkeyAngel::
That was interesting!

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/crime/news_wtnh_new_haven_le_family_statement_200909151405

Statement from Le family tonight

Updated: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009, 2:24 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009, 2:20 PM EDT

    * Story by: Rebecca Santillo

New Haven (WTNH) - A friend of the slain Yale graduate student will be making a statement tonight on behalf of the Le family.

Annie Le, 24, was found dead Sunday in a Yale research building on Amistad Street.

Yale University says the friend will speak at 7pm at Woodbridge Hall. No family members will be in attendance and the friend will not field questions from reporters.

This will be the first time we have heard from Le's family.

Police have not made any arrests in the case, though they say they have interviewed about 100 people.

Monday night, over a thousand students attended a candlelight vigil at Cross Campus to remember Le.