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

[N2WISHN]

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

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.........

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. )

add  Laboratory Animal Care Technician  to the list.......

[cece]

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.

~cont.~

[Blonde]

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

[cece]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/37DS2uae__Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/37DS2uae__Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1</a>

[no rose colored glasses]

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/was_that_annie.php   

[cece]

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/was_that_annie.php   

TY NoRose.   
That was interesting!

[cece]

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.

[cece]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j3Z7m0uROG-_CM8GzpRCqE2M9IbwD9ANTHU80?index=0&ned=us

Authorities are keeping watch on some of Le's co-workers and have descended in large numbers on the home of a Yale animal research technician.

An official parked outside the Warfside Commons apartment complex in Middletown, about 20 miles away near Hartford, wouldn't confirm whether police were there to investigate the Le killing, but public records show the technician lives in a first-floor apartment. A man answering the door Tuesday said the technician wasn't at home and closed the door.

Neighbors said authorities in unmarked cars arrived Monday afternoon and frequently follow and pull over drivers in the complex. New Haven police would not comment on the efforts there and continued to deny published reports that a suspect was in custody.

"You guys made up the fact that we had somebody in custody, the media in general," Avery told reporters outside the police department Tuesday. "We're talking to a lot of people."

(snipped)

[cece]

New Haven Conn. police officer Sam Streater stands outside department headquarters Tuesday Sept. 15, 2009 where the media wait for a news conference in connection with the murder of Annie Le, the Yale graduate student whose body was discovered Sunday in a Yale medical lab. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey).

[cece]

Has anyone heard anything more on a press conference from the ME?

[cece]

Jovin family releases letter to Rell

Updated: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009, 1:51 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009, 12:25 PM EDT

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/crime/news_wtnh_jovin_family_letter_rell_200909151225

[cece]

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/crime/news_wtnh_middletown_link_le_200909151450

Middletown link to Le mystery?

Updated: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009, 2:52 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009, 2:51 PM EDT

Middletown (WTNH) - Police have focused in on a Middletown apartment complex in the homicide investigation of Annie Le, a Yale graduate student whose body was found Sunday inside the wall of a Yale building.

The Associated Press is reporting that police are questioning folks who live in the Wharfside Commons apartment complex. Public records show that a Yale animal research technician resides in the complex.

[cece]

Professor Reminisces About Annie Le
'Poise And Professionalism' Quote Stood Out In Le's Interview

http://www.wfsb.com/news/20926604/detail.html

[Northern Rose]

FOX just read a statement that said the joint investigation team did not want autopsy results or cause of death released.  So I guess we are not going to hear anything until here is an arrest?

[trimmonthelake]

Thanks for the updates Cece. 

[trimmonthelake]

FOX just read a statement that said the joint investigation team did not want autopsy results or cause of death released.  So I guess we are not going to hear anything until here is an arrest?

Looks that way.

[cece]

Lab technician eyed as suspect in murder of Yale student Annie Le

BY Matthew Lysiak AND Barry Paddock In New Haven, Conn., and Samuel Goldsmith In New York
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Updated Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 7:12 AM

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

[cece]

   Thanks Northern Rose.

Hi Trimm.   

[Northern Rose]

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

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.........

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. 

You may be correct that the clerical staff may not have access to the actual research laboratory where the experiments are conducted/equipment is.  They would be in the lab building and would have access to the other areas of the lab such as the offices which are also part of the lab.  With the fire alarm they would all be in common areas to get out of there.  I threw them in as I have not seen anything said that she was actually killed in the experiment area, just that her body was found in the duct. Is that a closed duct or can her body travel from another common area...who knows.  Just throwing it out there as they are part of the normal people you see in a lab.

[cece]

Cops descend on home of Yale lab technician eyed in murder of student Annie Le

BY Matthew Lysiak AND Barry Paddock In New Haven, Conn., and Samuel Goldsmith In New York
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Updated Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 3:00 PM

Read more: 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#ixzz0RClrLEJb