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

[Tamikosmom]

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

[Tamikosmom]

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

Would that statement imply that LE is focused on a person of interest?

Janet

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[N2WISHN]

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

Would that statement imply that LE is focused on a person of interest?

Janet

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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?

[Northern Rose]

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

[Northern Rose]

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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

[cece]

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.

[cece]

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.

[no rose colored glasses]

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.)

[no rose colored glasses]

Law student found dead in apartment
Print Email Write Editor Share By Andrew Mangino
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.
   

[trimmonthelake]

Wow.   

[Nut44x4]

?? that says 2007 ? I am lost 

[cece]

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.

[Mere]

http://opa.yale.edu/investigationupdate/

Yale University Office of Public Affairs
Information Regarding the Annie Le Investigation

click on link for information....

[cece]

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.”

[no rose colored glasses]

?? that says 2007 ? I am lost 

I'm terribly sorry, I have a nasty headache that obviously is affecting my eyesight, I thought it said 2009. 

[no rose colored glasses]

“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.

[cece]

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.


 

[no rose colored glasses]

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.


 

I'm so confused also, I don't know what is believable or not 

[Nut44x4]

phew  I thought it was me 

[no rose colored glasses]

phew  I thought it was me 

No, I really need to step away, and rest my eyes