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

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Nancy Grace
Just In: Reports emerging that new evidence has been found in a washroom drain at Yale crime scene. Police close down portion of Yale crime scene where Annie Le's body was found after potential new evidence just uncovered. What is the evidence...? Tune in tonight for the latest, shocking reports!

I really think the school, in an effort to try to maintain damage controll, really flubbed this whole investigation.  They should be ashamed and would have come out of this in a better light if they had let the FBI be thorough and gave them complete free reign (let them call all the shots).  To me it sends the message that the students aren't as important as their reputation and let's get on with business as usual and forget this ever happened.     

To find more evidence ONCE AGAIN after they let everyone back in the building is unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AZSunny]

Nancy Grace
Just In: Reports emerging that new evidence has been found in a washroom drain at Yale crime scene. Police close down portion of Yale crime scene where Annie Le's body was found after potential new evidence just uncovered. What is the evidence...? Tune in tonight for the latest, shocking reports!

I really think the school, in an effort to try to maintain damage controll, really flubbed this whole investigation.  They should be ashamed and would have come out of this in a better light if they had let the FBI be thorough and gave them complete free reign (let them call all the shots).  To me it sends the message that the students aren't as important as their reputation and let's get on with business as usual and forget this ever happened.     

To find more evidence ONCE AGAIN after they let everyone back in the building is unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!

What was the new evidence??

[Blonde]

Yale suspect’s lawyers want warrant sealed longer

Published: Friday, September 25, 2009

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NEW HAVEN (AP) — Attorneys for Raymond Clark III, the Middletown lab technician accused of killing Yale University graduate student Annie Le, are asking the court to keep his arrest warrant affidavit sealed from public view.

Clark’s public defenders filed a motion on Thursday in New Haven Superior Court to extend an earlier order to keep the affidavit sealed.

The affidavit was originally sealed for 14 days.

Calls were left seeking comment with Clark’s attorneys and state prosecutors.

Le, 24, vanished from a research building in Yale’s medical school complex on Sept. 8; her body was found hidden in a wall recess five days later, on what was to be her wedding day.
http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2009/09/25/news/doc4abc236e5f406117463360.txt

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090926/ap_on_re_us/us_yale_killing
Mourners in Calif. remember slain Yale student
  By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer Don Thompson, Associated Press Writer   – 1 hr 49 mins ago

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. – A Yale University doctoral student found murdered on what was to be her wedding day is being remembered Saturday as a brilliant woman who hoped to change the world through her medical research.

Annie Le, who was 24, is to be eulogized and buried near where she grew up in California's Sierra Nevada foothills. In a statement issued Friday by the university, her family recalled Le's beaming smile and fun-loving spirit.

"She was a kindhearted human being who was devoted to her family and friends, always sacrificing her time to help others," the family said. "Her laughter was infectious and her goodness was ingenuous."

Saturday's funeral Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in El Dorado Hills, about 30 miles east of Sacramento, follows a memorial service earlier in the week at the Long Island synagogue of her fiance, Jonathan Widawsky.

The church's pastor, Monsignor James Kidder, said Le's interest in medical research reflected her outlook on life, which emphasized caring about others.

"She went into medicine because she wanted to help people as best she could," he said in a telephone interview as he prepared for Saturday's service. "While she was a great achiever, she really showed that the great achievement she had was really to be more competent and passionate about caring for the sick ... research that she felt hopefully will bring cures."

Kidder had been Le's pastor until she graduated from Union Mine High School near Placerville and left for college. He said her family was seeking healing from Saturday's funeral and burial.
Lab technician Raymond Clark III has been charged with killing Le five days before her body was found on Sept. 13, the Sunday she was to marry Widawsky. She had been stuffed inside a wall in the basement of a research building in Yale's medical school complex.

The statement released by the university also contained details of Le's family life.

Le (pronounced "lay") was born to Vietnamese parents Hoang and Vivian Van Le in San Jose, according to the university. He remarried after a divorce, but the university did not say where he or Le's mother live.

She and her brother Chris Le, a student at the University of California, Davis, were raised by an aunt and uncle near Placerville, in a home deep in the woods and miles from the nearest town.

They are described by the family as her "guardian parents." The guardians, Robert Linh Nguyen and Ngoc-Tuyet Bui, had three children of their own.

A family spokesmen could not say when Le's parents came to the U.S. from Vietnam or why she was raised by her aunt and uncle.

Annie Le excelled in school and took a special interest in science and medicine. She graduated as valedictorian and at the top of her high school class in 2003. Classmates voted her "most likely to be the next Einstein."

Her drive led her to spend hours applying for college scholarships, eventually being awarded nearly $160,000 worth. She attended the University of Rochester in New York, majoring in bioscience, and met Widawsky, now a graduate student in physics at Columbia University.

Le began attending Yale as a graduate pharmacology student in 2007 and was on track to earn her doctorate in 2013. She was working on research with enzymes that Yale said could help with treating cancer, diabetes and muscular dystrophy.

Colleagues and family members said she had an outsized personality and a determined will that belied her 4-foot-11, 90 pound frame.

"Although Annie was small in size, she had a large heart and a personality that filled the room," her laboratory colleagues wrote in the university statement. "No challenge ever seemed too large for her to overcome."

Yale officials are planning an Oct. 12 memorial service on campus and said they are establishing a scholarship in her memory.

[no rose colored glasses]

Thank-you, what a horrible, dirty shame.  The poor family and friends 

[trimmonthelake]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090926/ap_on_re_us/us_yale_killing
Calif. mourners remember Yale student's fun spirit

  By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer Don Thompson, Associated Press Writer   – Sat Sep 26, 7:12 pm ET

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. – Family members of the Yale University doctoral student found murdered on what was to be her wedding day said they'll always remember the beaming smile and fun-loving spirit of the brilliant woman who hoped to change the world through her medical research.

"She always brought a smile to our faces," said Annie Le's cousin, Dan Nguyen, one of several speakers who eulogized Le at her funeral Saturday in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, near where Le grew up.

Le's mother, Vivian Van Le, read a poem she had written in Vietnamese that was translated by another brother, Chris Le.

"Farewell my child ... the most wonderful gift that God had sent to me," Le's mother said, going on to describe her daughter's death as being "like a knife searing through my soul."
The service at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in El Dorado Hills, about 30 miles east of Sacramento, follows a memorial service earlier in the week at the Long Island synagogue of Le's fiance, Jonathan Widawsky.

As about 600 mourners filed in Saturday, the church's pastor, Monsignor James Kidder, called the service conducted in English and Vietnamese "a chance for the family itself to come to reconciliation with what humanly is irreconcilable — not only the fact that Annie died but the way she died."

Kidder called Le "a rare person ... a person who is naturally good."

Le was busy but always had time for others, he said. "She was lots of fun and she had a wicked sense of humor."

Kidder had been Le's pastor until she graduated from Union Mine High School near Placerville and left for college. He said her family was seeking healing from Saturday's funeral and burial.

Lab technician Raymond Clark III has been charged with killing Le, 24, five days before her body was found on Sept. 13, the Sunday she was to marry Widawsky. She had been stuffed inside a wall in the basement of a research building in Yale's medical school complex.

"Jon, even now Annie's gone, but I still have you and love you very much. You are my son," Vivian Van Le told her daughter's fiance during a eulogy. Widawsky and members of his family attended Saturday's service but did not speak.
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[cw618]

good evening monkeys
 i noticed a couple of things from raymonds pic #18
and annies pics, its probably just an odd coincidence.
  not sure if the hat and bracelet, have
anything to do with the club/place in raymond pic.
check out the pics i listed for annie and raymond
the person in pic is a lot more than 90#, so i dont think its annie,

pic link
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2009/09/11/crimesider/photoessay5303665_1_12_photo.shtml?tag=img

annie le pics
pic 1
 
pic 2

pic 9

pic 15

pic 16

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pic link
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2009/09/16/crimesider/photoessay5314972_1_18_photo.shtml?tag=page

raymonds pic
pic 18

[Ariana]

good evening monkeys
 i noticed a couple of things from raymonds pic #18
and annies pics, its probably just an odd coincidence.
  not sure if the hat and bracelet, have
anything to do with the club/place in raymond pic.
check out the pics i listed for annie and raymond
the person in pic is a lot more than 90#, so i dont think its annie,

pic link
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2009/09/11/crimesider/photoessay5303665_1_12_photo.shtml?tag=img

annie le pics
pic 1
 
pic 2

pic 9

pic 15

pic 16

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pic link
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2009/09/16/crimesider/photoessay5314972_1_18_photo.shtml?tag=page

raymonds pic
pic 18

I'm positive it isn't her, her nose kind of dips in and the girl in his pic has a more roman type nose.  The white bracelet looks like a smooth one and the one Annie is wearing at Halloween? is the White rock bracelet that Wilma wears in the Flintstones cartoons.  Dunno about the other ones though.

[cece]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j3Z7m0uROG-_CM8GzpRCqE2M9IbwD9B4DNUG1

Yale lab tech due in court to face murder charge

(AP) – 44 minutes ago

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A former Yale University lab technician is due in court this week on charges that he strangled a graduate student and stuffed her body inside a wall.

Raymond Clark III is due in New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday. He has yet to enter a plea for the murder of 24-year-old Annie Le (LAY) of Placerville, Calif.

Le, a pharmacology graduate student, vanished Sept. 8 from a Yale medical lab building. Her body was found five days later, on what was to be her wedding day, in a hidden utility access behind the wall of a basement laboratory.

The 24-year-old Clark worked as an animal lab technician, cleaning floors and mouse cages in the lab where Le worked. His bond has been set at $3 million.

[cece]

http://newsblaze.com/story/20091004050939rose.nb/topstory.html

Published: October 04,2009
Op-Ed Contributor

Yale Lab Technician Causes Two Problems for Animal Researchers

[cece]

http://gothamist.com/2009/09/27/yale_grad_student_annie_le_mourned.php


Slain Yale Grad Student Annie Le Mourned In California


Photograph of Jonathan Widawsky comforting Annie Le's mother Vivian by Renee C. Byer/AP


Yesterday, hundreds of people attended gathered in an El Dorado Hills, California for the funeral mass of Annie Le, the Yale graduate student who was murdered in a Yale research building a few weeks ago. Bishop Jaime Soto of the Sacremento Archdiocese said, "We do not let cruelty or violence own the sorrow. We let love own the sorrow. It was Annie’s love for her family and friends, for her fiancé that give us such sorrow as well as our love for her."

The Sacramento Bee reports, "The daughter of immigrants, Le earned $160,000 in scholarships to attend the University of Rochester. And she was a sensitive researcher who hoped to better understand diseases like diabetes, arthritis and cancer in order to discover ways to cure them." Her brother Dan Nguyen remembered the pharmacology doctoral student, "It was through these little things that she did. Her silliness and friendliness and not her academic achievement that she made the most impression on us." Her mother Vivian Le referred to Jonathan Widawsky, the man Le was supposed to marry the day her body was found, "Jon, even now Annie is gone, but I still have you. I love you very much."

The suspect in Le's death, lab technician Raymond Clark, is being held on $3 million bail. He has not entered a plea yet.
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By Jen Chung in News on September 27, 2009 4:04 PM

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559910,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r1:c0.000000:b0:z5
Man Suspected of Killing Yale Student Due in Court Tuesday

Sunday, October 04, 2009


NEW HAVEN, Conn. —  A former Yale University lab technician is due in court this week on charges that he strangled a graduate student and stuffed her body inside a wall.

Raymond Clark III is due in New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday. He has yet to enter a plea for the murder of 24-year-old Annie Le of Placerville, Calif.

Le, a pharmacology graduate student, vanished Sept. 8 from a Yale medical lab building. Her body was found five days later, on what was to be her wedding day, in a hidden utility access behind the wall of a basement laboratory.

The 24-year-old Clark worked as an animal lab technician, cleaning floors and mouse cages in the lab where Le worked. His bond has been set at $3 million.

[cece]

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5940FP20091005?sp=true

U.S. worker-on-worker violence under-reported: experts
Mon Oct 5, 2009 8:39am EDT

By Ellen Wulfhorst

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The murder of a graduate student at Yale University, and the arrest of a lab technician, is a case of workplace violence, authorities say, that has pushed the issue of danger at work into the spotlight.

While workplace violence is not uncommon, actual worker-on-worker violence is rare or at least under-reported and undercounted, experts say. As a result, there's plenty left to be learned about it, they say.

At Yale, Annie Le was missing for five days until her body was found stuffed behind a wall in a research lab on September 13, which was to have been her wedding day. Lab technician Raymond Clark was arrested and charged with the murder.

It's a case of workplace violence, police said, and no motive has emerged. Colleagues called Clark a "control freak" who clashed with others over cleanliness at the lab.

The case is unusual, experts say. Workplace homicide has dropped dramatically, to 444 such cases last year from twice as many in 1995, according to government statistics. And most of those deaths occur in robberies of taxi drivers and clerks.

The worker-on-worker homicide rate hovers around a hundred a year nationwide, leaving little data to help predict who is likely to kill a co-worker, said Tom Tripp, co-author of "Getting Even: The Truth About Workplace Revenge."

"LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE GRIEVANCES"

"Lots of people have grievances," he said. "How do you know which of the very rare few are going to go do it?"

Reports of nonfatal workplace violence amounted to roughly 17,000 incidents that led to time off from work in 2007, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But other BLS research that set out to sample 7.3 million businesses about workplace violence in 2005 found a much higher figure -- some 355,000 incidents in the previous 12 months.

Workplace violence is "undercounted in general and not all that simple," said Corinne Peek-Asa, professor of occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa.

One factor is the definition. Some experts limit it to physical violence or work days lost, while others extend it to verbal abuse, stalking, bullying and threats.

"What we don't have a good sense of is how often there is threatening behavior or harassing behavior," said Peek-Asa.

Such behavior often is simply not reported, said Richard Denenberg, author of "The Violence-Prone Workplace," who said most statistics are suspect due to under-reporting.

"Other workers notice it, but they don't report it," he said. "They don't think it's their business or they tiptoe around it or they dismiss it as trivial."

"IT'S A BUILDUP OF THE STRESS AND STRAIN"

One typical factor in worker-on-worker violence is chronic conflict between two employees, which can seem as trivial as "who gets to use the screwdriver first," Denenberg said.

"Suddenly the person seems to snap, but it's a buildup of the stress and strain of being engaged in this kind of conflict," he said.

In fact, such violence never comes out of the clear blue.

"There is no one who just snaps in the workplace," said Tom Capozzoli, associate professor of organizational leadership at Purdue University in Indiana. "Start searching through all the evidence, and you find this person was giving off signals that they were going to be violent in the workplace."

Statistics put the nationwide economic cost to business at more than $120 billion a year in lost productivity, lost wages, interrupted business, security and legal expenses.

The best results for averting such violence come at companies with procedures that let employees report any concerns and have staff trained to respond, experts say.

"Businesses need to care about this issue," said Peek-Asa. "That is a very direct threat to productivity, to employee retention."

[jen3560]

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Urgent Request for help for Natalee Holloway

http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=5922.msg971214#msg971214

Thank you for your time, Monkeys

[Blonde]

YALE SLAYING DOCUMENTS


NEW HAVEN — - The Courant is fighting against keeping court documents sealed from public view in the state's case against Raymond Clark III, the lab technician accused of killing 24-year-old Yale graduate student Annie Le.

Attorneys for The Courant today will file a motion in Superior Court to intervene, opposing an earlier request from Clark's public defenders that seeks to extend a seal on the arrest warrant affidavit, which contains information that led police to arrest Clark in connection with the strangulation of Le.

Le's body was found Sept. 13 concealed in a crawl space at 10 Amistad St., a research building that is part of the Yale School of Medicine complex where both Clark and Le worked. The discovery was made on the day that Le was scheduled to get married.

Law enforcement officials have released few details about their investigation of Le's death and the suspect in the case. Court documents with substantial details about the arrest and investigation have been sealed from public view.

Sources, however, have told The Courant that authorities used forensic evidence, including DNA that matched the suspect's found in the crawl space where Le's body was hidden and on evidence found in a ceiling, to link Clark to the crime. One investigator who was involved in the probe when it was still a missing-persons case said he saw Clark trying to hide cleaning equipment that investigators discovered contained blood spatters, sources said. And police used computer records showing that Clark was the last person to see Le alive in a room inside a laboratory as a basis for Clark's arrest, the sources said.

Paul R. Guggina, The Courant's attorney, said these disclosures could help the newspaper in its bid to gain access to the warrant.

"If the affidavit says there's a DNA match and it's already been publicized, how can you logically argue that disclosing that fact is going to hurt someone's fair-trial rights if it's already been disclosed?" he said.

On Sept. 17, the day of Clark's arrest, a judge approved a request from prosecutors to seal the arrest warrant affidavit for 14 days. New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington said at the time that an ongoing police probe in the case "could be adversely affected by disclosure of the affidavit."

New Haven police Chief James Lewis told The Courant on Sept. 21 that police have wrapped up their investigation of Le's slaying and are not expecting more arrests.

On Sept. 24, public defenders Beth A. Merkin and Joseph E. Lopez asked for a continuation of the seal on the arrest warrant affidavit, saying that releasing it would hurt Clark's chances of getting a fair trial and an impartial jury.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys are trying to keep secret search warrant affidavits in the case.

Clark, who is being held, with bail set at $3 million, at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, is expected to enter a plea today at Superior Court in connection to the slaying of Le. During the hearing, a judge likely will set a hearing date at which parties on all sides can discuss the motions related to the court sealings.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/yale-annie-le/hc-yale-killing-preview1006.artoct06,0,4067760.story

[trimmonthelake]

Thanks,Blomde 

[Northern Rose]

Lab Tech Suspect in Yale Murder Will Likely Plead Not Guilty During Court Appearance

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

NEW HAVEN, Conn.  —  A former Yale lab technician charged with murdering a graduate student less than a week before her wedding is expected to plead not guilty Tuesday when he faces a Connecticut judge.

Raymond Clark III, 24, is accused of strangling pharmacology student Annie Le, also 24, last month and hiding her body behind a Yale medical laboratory basement wall.

Clark was in New Haven Superior Court Tuesday for a 10 a.m. hearing. Before the proceedings, he hadn't yet entered a plea in the murder of the Placerville, Calif., woman.

Le vanished Sept. 8 after surveillance footage captured her entering — but not leaving — the lab building in the university's medical school complex.

Her body was found in the same facility five days later on what was supposed to be her wedding day.

Clark worked as an animal lab technician, cleaning floors and mouse cages in the lab where Le did her research.

Police say it's a case of workplace violence, but a specific motive hasn't been given.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,560984,00.html

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/06/2009-10-06_annie_le_murder_suspect_raymond_clark.html

Annie Le murder suspect Raymond Clark III to plead not guilty: lawyer

BY Brian Kates
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, October 6th 2009, 9:14 AM

The lab technician charged in the murder of a Yale grad student will plead not guilty Tuesday, his lawyer said.

Raymond Clark III, arrested last month in the strangulation of 24-year-old pharmacology student Annie Le "will enter a not guilty plea," Connecticut public defender Joseph Lopez said.

Clark, who worked as an animal lab technician, cleaning floors and mouse cages, is accused of strangling Le and stuffing her body behind a lab wall, where it was found on Sept. 13, the day she was to be married in Long Island.

Le's disappearance five days before her Syosset wedding triggered a massive search for the Placerville, Cal., student.

The discovery of her body sent a shockwave from the Ivy League school to colleges across the country and sparked nationwide calls for increased campus security.

An autopsy showed that Le died of traumatic asphyxia caused by "neck compression," according to the Connecticut medical examiner.

Clark, also 24, is jailed on $3 million bond at the maximum-security MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in South Suffield, Conn.

He is scheduled is to appear before a New Haven judge Tuesday morning.

Key card records show that Clark was the last person in the lab with Le before she died, prosecutors say. He failed a lie-detector test and his DNA matched crime scene evidence

The evidence against Clark is detailed in at least 1,000 pages of sealed search and arrest warrants.

At Clark's court appearance, the judge is expected to set a date for a hearing on arguments on whether the records should remain sealed.

Defense lawyers argue that making them public could prejudice potential jurors in the sensational case.

Prosecutors labeled the murder a case of "workplace violence," but have not elaborated on the motive.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/06/2009-10-06_annie_le_murder_suspect_raymond_clark.html#ixzz0TAbk63NH

[cece]

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/yale-annie-le/hc-annie-le-memorial-1011.artoct11,0,4903587.story

Yale Plans Memorial Service Oct. 12 For Annie Le


By ALAINE GRIFFIN

October 11, 2009


NEW HAVEN — - Yale University will hold a memorial service Monday for slain graduate student Annie Le, Yale spokesman Thomas Conroy said.

The service will start at 5 p.m. in Battell Chapel, at Elm and College Streets, Conroy said in an e-mail.

No cameras or recording equipment will be permitted at the service, the e-mail said.

Le, 24, a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology from Placerville, Calif., was reported missing just days before her scheduled wedding. Her body was discovered Sept. 13 — the day she was supposed to be married — concealed in a crawl space at 10 Amistad St., a research building that's part of the Yale School of Medicine complex.

The state medical examiner said Le died of traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression.

Raymond Clark III, 24, of Middletown, an animal laboratory technician at Yale, is charged with murder in connection with Le's death.

Clark is due in Superior Court in New Haven on Oct. 20. He is being held, with bail set at $3 million, at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield.

[cece]

http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crime-Examiner~y2009m10d6-Yale-acknowledges-university-employees-accessed-Annie-Les-medical-records

Yale acknowledges university employees accessed Annie Le’s medical records