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

[Blonde]

Yale lab tech suspected in slaying; Employee had scratches, failed FBI polygraph
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.

By Elizabeth Benton, Register Staff


NEW HAVEN — A sea of over 1,000 mourners flooded Yale University’s Cross Campus Monday night, so silent that all that could be heard from the solemn crowd was the clicking cameras of swarming photographers.

The crowd gathered just hours after authorities confirmed that a body found stuffed inside a mechanical chase for building utilities in a Yale medical lab was, as most had feared, that of missing graduate student Annie Le.

The flickering candles held by students stretched clear across the grass and up the steps leading to Sterling Memorial Library. All stood still as Yale President Richard Levin, university Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Le’s roommate, Natalie Powers, spoke.

Then, as students silently dispersed, a hum of “Amazing Grace” seemed to spontaneously arise from the crowd.

Le’s death has been declared a homicide. The investigation has focused on a lab technician who worked in the 10 Amistad St. building, but no arrests had been made as of late Monday.

Le, 24, had been missing since Tuesday, when she was seen entering the lab building but never leaving.

She was to have been married Sunday to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at Columbia University in New York.

As authorities struggled to piece together the mystery of Le’s death, the Yale community Monday night sought answers to questions police will likely never have.

How could something so horrible happen to someone described by her roommate as “as good a human being as you could ever hope to meet”?

“All things work together for good,” Powers said.“This isn’t just senseless. God is in control. Something will come out of this. It is a comfort that I think she’d want us to have.”

Kugler, the university’s chaplain, asked for peace for Le’s family and fiance.

“No day, no season, will ever be the same for us because Annie has left this earth,” Kugler said.

“We are determined to bring light to this unspeakable darkness,” she said.

Levin urged students in need to seek help, and asked students to reach out to those new to campus.

“When I see you all assembled on an occasion so sad and so disturbing, I am reminded that we are an extraordinary community,” Levin said.

“As scholars, as learners, as seekers and as human souls with empathy and compassion, we find it incomprehensible life can be so unjust,” he said. “As we ponder a reality that is unsettling and frightening, we must come together.”

The vigil was organized by Yale Religious Ministries, a consortium of Yale religious leaders from many faiths.

Elizabeth Benton can be reached at 789-5714 or

[Blonde]

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

[can]

Thanks Blonde.
They must have this guy under 24 hour surveillance while they wait for forensics.  I certainly hope so!

 

[Blonde]

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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[MuffyBee]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/09/15/2009-09-15_dna_is_gonna_be_the_gotcha_that_traps_killer.html

DNA will catch Yale grad student Annie Le's killer

Michael Daly




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.

mdaly@nydailynews.com

[Blonde]

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

http://www.courant.com/community/new-haven/hc-annie-le-yale-body-autopsy,0,3874030.story

[trimmonthelake]

Thanks for the updates.

[2NJSons_Mom]

  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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[tupelohoney]

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/annie-le-autopsy-to-be-released-1.1445629

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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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PHOTOS: Click here to see the latest photos from the investigation, and photos of Annie Le

Click here to read, "Yale Mourns Annie Le at candlelight vigil"
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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.

[no rose colored glasses]

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

[theboyzmom]

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.

[cece]

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.

[cece]

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.~

[cookie]

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...

[cece]

http://www.legacy.com/gb2/default.aspx?bookid=532708795367

Annie Le's Legacy Guest book

[cookie]

sorry if this is a repeat...:

http://m.www.yahoo.com/_ylt=AmYxYdpKJLTcdg6jfLYHyPKbvZx4/SIG=124c2jeg6/**http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090915/ap_on_re_us/us_yale_killing

[cece]

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...

Hi Cookie.
I definitely think it was someone obsessed with her.  And I think most of the articles are pointing to the lab tech.

[cookie]

here is the story for the link :


Police: No arrest imminent in Yale student's death
AP

     
         
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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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