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

[KCJackie]

http://www.wfsb.com/news/20953818/detail.html

Police: Arrest Expected Soon In Death Of Annie Le
Police Say They Are Working To Secure Arrest Warrant

POSTED: 8:04 pm EDT September 16, 2009
UPDATED: 7:01 am EDT September 17, 2009


CROMWELL, Conn. -- New Haven police said an arrest is expected to be made Thursday in connection with the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le.

Police said that they were working to secure an arrest warrant Thursday morning and that they expected the warrant to be ready by 7 a.m. A news conference was planned for 8 a.m. at the New Haven Police Department to provide an update in the investigation.

Watch News Conference LIVE When It Begins On Eyewitness News NOW

Police officers surrounded a Cromwell motel where Yale lab technician Raymond Clark was staying Wednesday night. They remained outside the motel Thursday morning. Clark has been named a person of interest in the investigation.

Police said Wednesday night that they were awaiting the results of DNA testing that was being performed around-the-clock at the State Police Crime Lab in Meriden. They said they planned to make an arrest if DNA evidence matched that of anyone who was inside the lab at the time of Le's death.

New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said that more than 250 items were seized from the lab and Clark's Middletown apartment for analysis.

Clark was taken into police custody at his Ferry Street apartment Tuesday night on a search warrant. He was not arrested or named a suspect at that time. Police said he was taken into custody on a search warrant for his DNA.

The medical examiner said Wednesday afternoon that Le died of strangulation.

Clark works as a lab technician in the Amistad Street lab where Le’s body was found stuffed inside a wall. He worked cleaning mouse cages at the Animal Resources Center.

The remains of 24-year-old Le were found inside a wall the basement area of the lab on Sunday, Le’s would-be wedding day. The area where Le’s remains were found is used to store animals used for research.

Le was working in the Amistad Street building as a graduate student in pharmacology. The office where Clark worked is very close to where Le was performing her graduate work.

Sources told Eyewitness News that Clark had cuts on his chest and possibly his hands. They also said he failed a polygraph test.

Le had been missing since Tuesday, when she was last captured by some of the school's 70-plus surveillance cameras entering the lab.

Police said they’ve sorted through 700 hours of surveillance video and interviewed 150 people in the case. They said the Amistad Street building is very large, which is why so many people have been interviewed.

“We’re also making sure that there’s not other potential suspects and so we’re avoiding the issue of tunnel vision and looking at everyone who had access to that building and could have been there during that time. That’s part of the reason that we’ve slowly narrowed this down,” said Lewis on Tuesday night.

Clark graduated from Branford High School, where he was an honor student and a member of several clubs, including the Asian Awareness Club and the baseball team.

He was been living on Ferry Street in Middletown with his girlfriend. A wedding Web site lists the couple as planning to wed on Dec. 20, 2011.

In May, Clark’s girlfriend, Jennifer Hromadka, wrote on her MySpace page about a rumor that her boyfriend, whom she calls Ray, was cheating on her with the girl who works at Yale.

"My boyfriend, Ray, if you don't know him, has no interest in any of the other girls at YARC as anything more than friends," Hromadka wrote. "He is a bit naive, doesn't always use the best judgment, definitely is not the best judge of character but he is a good guy ... He has a big heart and tries to see the best in people ALL THE TIME! even when everyone else is telling him that the person is a psycho or that the person can't be trusted."

Eyewitness News attempted to contact Clark Tuesday, but he did not answer his phone.

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.wesh.com/news/20943425/detail.html
Police: Arrest 'Soon' In Yale Student Death
Annie Le's Strangled; Raymond Clark's Hotel Surrounded
MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Writers

POSTED: 10:18 am EDT September 16, 2009
UPDATED: 7:05 am EDT September 17, 2009
CROMWELL, Conn. -- New Haven police said an arrest is expected to be made Thursday in connection with the death of a Yale graduate student.

Police confirmed that a warrant should be secured by 7 a.m. ET. They said they planned to provide an update on the investigation at 7 a.m. at the New Haven Police Department.

Police officers surrounded a Cromwell motel where Yale lab technician Raymond Clark III was staying Wednesday night. They remained outside the motel Thursday morning, reported TV Station WFSB.
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Link for news conference.  http://www.wesh.com/video/20961357/index.html

[KCJackie]

News Conference starts in 30 minutes, streaming live...

http://www.fox61.com/wtic-fox61-stream-live,0,5064383.tividlivestream

[klaasend]

Also live here at 8pm ET:

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

[klaasend]

Also live here at 8pm ET:

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

Looks like it's being carried nationally here too:

http://www.foxnews.com/

NOTE:  IT HAS NOT STARTED YET

[KCJackie]

News Conference starts in 30 minutes, streaming live...

http://www.fox61.com/wtic-fox61-stream-live,0,5064383.tividlivestream

Ray is being arrested right now!!!

[klaasend]

Still waiting

[klaasend]

https://twitter.com/WTNH

Marc Robbins reports police activity increasing even more at Cromwell motel where person of interest in Le case staying. #anniele
15 minutes ago from web

[Sister]

Klaas, would you bump those wonderful pictures of her that you posted in the beginning? TIA

[SunnyinTX]

Good Morning Monks!  Klaas did you stay up all night

I want to see the piece of scum arrested NOW!!!

Press conference not started you.

[SunnyinTX]

 PC is on!

[klaasend]

A few minutes ago Raymond Clark was arrested on 3 million bond for the murder of Annie Le

[klaasend]

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



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




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

[klaasend]

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








More photos and the article at the link above

[SunnyinTX]

arrest warrant has been SEALED

[Blonde]

YALE ARREST
Police Arrest Raymond Clark III In Yale Slaying
CROMWELL -  Police took Raymond Clark III into custody this morning at the Super 8 motel here in connection with the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le, whose body was found stuffed into a 2-foot crawl space behind a wall in a Yale laboratory building on Sunday.

Clark, a Yale lab technician, had been staying at the Super 8 on Route 372 since Wednesday. Late Tuesday night, police took Clark from his Middletown apartment to collect a DNA sample and released him to his attorney.

Cromwell and New Haven police sat quietly in the motel parking lot through Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/yale-annie-le/hc-raymond-clark-arrest-annie-le-yale,0,6985977.story
Around 8:25 a.m., Cromwell police blocked traffic around the motel to allow police vehicles to leave the area.

Early today, the New Haven Register, quoting an anonymous police source, reported on its website that New Haven police obtained a DNA match that implicates Clark in Le's death.

A law-enforcement source told The Courant Wednesday that computer records show that Clark was the last person to see Le alive.

Investigators traced Le's and Clark's movements through their computerized swipe cards, said the source, who is familiar with the investigation. Le entered the Yale laboratory at 10 Amistad St. at about 10 a.m. on Sept. 8. She passed through a basement lab area moments later. Then she swiped her way into a separate room of that lab.

Clark entered that same room a short time later, the source said, citing the computer records. Le was never seen again and her card was never used again.

Clark had moved around the laboratory area quite a bit that day, including entering rooms that he normally would not expected to be in, the source said.

Clark also swiped into another area — the place where Le's body was eventually found after five days.

The pattern of movements captured by the computer records are the reason authorities focused almost immediately on Clark, 24, the source said.

The chief state medical examiner ruled Wednesday that Le, 24, who was pursuing a doctoral degree, died of traumatic asphyxiation by neck compression.

When Clark was initially interviewed by federal agents shortly after Le was reported missing, he acknowledged seeing Le in the laboratory, the source said. He then was asked to take a polygraph test, which he failed, sources said.

Federal authorities also issued polygraph tests to anyone who had access to the laboratories, including Clark's girlfriend, Jennifer Hromadka, who is also a animal lab technician. She passed her polygraph test, the source said.

Le's devastated family, speaking through a pastor, expressed gratitude to the law offices and the Yale community, including a Vietnamese student association, for their response to the tragedy. Scooped up at his Middletown apartment by a squadron of police officers armed with search warrants, Clark was released from custody Wednesday after giving police a DNA sample.

Investigators will compare it to 150 items of evidence found in and around Le's makeshift tomb in the wall of the laboratory basement.

Police have already served four search warrants in the case, three in search of evidence at Clark's Middletown home and in his car and another on Clark's body. Those search warrants have been sealed from public view, according to prosecutors.

Though Clark was cooperative while in police custody, the chief said Clark invoked his right not to speak to police.

The public defender's office in New Haven, which traditionally does not get involved in criminal cases until arrests, is also consulting on the case, sources said.

Law officers and the media are delving deep into Clark's life, and part of a portrait is emerging.

Clark, a 2004 graduate of Branford High School, belonged to three clubs, according to his yearbook; one that focused on Asian culture, another that drew attention to the plight of the homeless, and a third that stressed charity.

In the group picture of the Asian Awareness Club, he is standing, bespectacled, his hair short and combed back, next to a female Asian student. The group cooked authentic Asian dinners, and on Jan. 22, 2004, visited New York's Chinatown to participate in New Year festivities.

Homicide investigators working the Le case have obtained a police report indicating Clark's ex-girlfriend at the high school had trouble with Clark after breaking up with him. She went to Branford police with her concerns. Clark was not charged in the case and has no criminal history, save for a traffic ticket.

Police on Tuesday night served warrants for Clark's person and for Apt. 1A at 40 Ferry St. in Middletown. Clark shares the apartment with his girlfriend.

Clark moved to Middletown from New Haven six months ago, where he shared an apartment with Hromadka and three cats, according to former neighbor Taylor Goodwin, 16.

Clark worked as an animal technician for the expansive Yale Animal Resources Center, which "provides for the daily care of all animals used in research at Yale (95 percent of which are rodents)," according to Yale University's website.

The center, which is accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, coordinates the procurement of research animals, houses animals at multiple sites around the campus, and offers various scientific services to researchers, including breeding, tissue collection and analysis, animal restraint during experimentation and euthanasia.

Five days after Le's disappearance, members of the state police crime squad, with the assistance of a cadaver dog, discovered her fully clothed body in the research building at 10 Amistad St. She was wearing the same clothes seen in a video of her entering the building last week, a source said.

Police had to remove part of the wall in a laboratory to get access to the crawl space. The source said that evidence recovered from the crime scene indicated that Le was killed in a different room in the basement and then moved to the room that has the crawl space.

The source said that only someone with intimate knowledge of the layout of the laboratory would have been able to access the crawl space.

The source said that tiny droplets of blood were found in one of the laboratory rooms where police now believe that the slaying took place. The blood is being analyzed at the state forensic laboratory. Authorities also are trying to determine if Le was sexually assaulted.

Investigators didn't lock down the building until the weekend, meaning that people walked around and possibly through the potential crime scene for four days.

Investigators had attempted to bring a cadaver dog into the building earlier in the week, but because of the large number of animals in the laboratory, the dogs were unable to do a thorough search.

Le, from Placerville, Calif., was to have been married last Sunday 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.

Copyright © 2009, The Hartford Courant

[klaasend]

News conf over.  I feel better knowing they have arrested this monster.

SunnyinTX - no didn't stay up all night but did get up WAY too early 

[SunnyinTX]

YALE ARREST
Police Arrest Raymond Clark III In Yale Slaying
CROMWELL -  Police took Raymond Clark III into custody this morning at the Super 8 motel here in connection with the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le, whose body was found stuffed into a 2-foot crawl space behind a wall in a Yale laboratory building on Sunday.

Clark, a Yale lab technician, had been staying at the Super 8 on Route 372 since Wednesday. Late Tuesday night, police took Clark from his Middletown apartment to collect a DNA sample and released him to his attorney.

Cromwell and New Haven police sat quietly in the motel parking lot through Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/yale-annie-le/hc-raymond-clark-arrest-annie-le-yale,0,6985977.story
Around 8:25 a.m., Cromwell police blocked traffic around the motel to allow police vehicles to leave the area.

Early today, the New Haven Register, quoting an anonymous police source, reported on its website that New Haven police obtained a DNA match that implicates Clark in Le's death.

A law-enforcement source told The Courant Wednesday that computer records show that Clark was the last person to see Le alive.

Investigators traced Le's and Clark's movements through their computerized swipe cards, said the source, who is familiar with the investigation. Le entered the Yale laboratory at 10 Amistad St. at about 10 a.m. on Sept. 8. She passed through a basement lab area moments later. Then she swiped her way into a separate room of that lab.

Clark entered that same room a short time later, the source said, citing the computer records. Le was never seen again and her card was never used again.

Clark had moved around the laboratory area quite a bit that day, including entering rooms that he normally would not expected to be in, the source said.

Clark also swiped into another area — the place where Le's body was eventually found after five days.

The pattern of movements captured by the computer records are the reason authorities focused almost immediately on Clark, 24, the source said.

The chief state medical examiner ruled Wednesday that Le, 24, who was pursuing a doctoral degree, died of traumatic asphyxiation by neck compression.

When Clark was initially interviewed by federal agents shortly after Le was reported missing, he acknowledged seeing Le in the laboratory, the source said. He then was asked to take a polygraph test, which he failed, sources said.

Federal authorities also issued polygraph tests to anyone who had access to the laboratories, including Clark's girlfriend, Jennifer Hromadka, who is also a animal lab technician. She passed her polygraph test, the source said.

Le's devastated family, speaking through a pastor, expressed gratitude to the law offices and the Yale community, including a Vietnamese student association, for their response to the tragedy. Scooped up at his Middletown apartment by a squadron of police officers armed with search warrants, Clark was released from custody Wednesday after giving police a DNA sample.

Investigators will compare it to 150 items of evidence found in and around Le's makeshift tomb in the wall of the laboratory basement.

Police have already served four search warrants in the case, three in search of evidence at Clark's Middletown home and in his car and another on Clark's body. Those search warrants have been sealed from public view, according to prosecutors.

Though Clark was cooperative while in police custody, the chief said Clark invoked his right not to speak to police.

The public defender's office in New Haven, which traditionally does not get involved in criminal cases until arrests, is also consulting on the case, sources said.

Law officers and the media are delving deep into Clark's life, and part of a portrait is emerging.

Clark, a 2004 graduate of Branford High School, belonged to three clubs, according to his yearbook; one that focused on Asian culture, another that drew attention to the plight of the homeless, and a third that stressed charity.

In the group picture of the Asian Awareness Club, he is standing, bespectacled, his hair short and combed back, next to a female Asian student. The group cooked authentic Asian dinners, and on Jan. 22, 2004, visited New York's Chinatown to participate in New Year festivities.

Homicide investigators working the Le case have obtained a police report indicating Clark's ex-girlfriend at the high school had trouble with Clark after breaking up with him. She went to Branford police with her concerns. Clark was not charged in the case and has no criminal history, save for a traffic ticket.

Police on Tuesday night served warrants for Clark's person and for Apt. 1A at 40 Ferry St. in Middletown. Clark shares the apartment with his girlfriend.

Clark moved to Middletown from New Haven six months ago, where he shared an apartment with Hromadka and three cats, according to former neighbor Taylor Goodwin, 16.

Clark worked as an animal technician for the expansive Yale Animal Resources Center, which "provides for the daily care of all animals used in research at Yale (95 percent of which are rodents)," according to Yale University's website.

The center, which is accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, coordinates the procurement of research animals, houses animals at multiple sites around the campus, and offers various scientific services to researchers, including breeding, tissue collection and analysis, animal restraint during experimentation and euthanasia.

Five days after Le's disappearance, members of the state police crime squad, with the assistance of a cadaver dog, discovered her fully clothed body in the research building at 10 Amistad St. She was wearing the same clothes seen in a video of her entering the building last week, a source said.

Police had to remove part of the wall in a laboratory to get access to the crawl space. The source said that evidence recovered from the crime scene indicated that Le was killed in a different room in the basement and then moved to the room that has the crawl space.

The source said that only someone with intimate knowledge of the layout of the laboratory would have been able to access the crawl space.

The source said that tiny droplets of blood were found in one of the laboratory rooms where police now believe that the slaying took place. The blood is being analyzed at the state forensic laboratory. Authorities also are trying to determine if Le was sexually assaulted.

Investigators didn't lock down the building until the weekend, meaning that people walked around and possibly through the potential crime scene for four days.

Investigators had attempted to bring a cadaver dog into the building earlier in the week, but because of the large number of animals in the laboratory, the dogs were unable to do a thorough search.

Le, from Placerville, Calif., was to have been married last Sunday 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.

Copyright © 2009, The Hartford Courant

thanks Blonde.  If as this states her fully clothed body was found would this not negate the story (unconfirmed) that she had been dismembered?? 

[Sister]

News conf over.  I feel better knowing they have arrested this monster.

SunnyinTX - no didn't stay up all night but did get up WAY too early 

Klaas, thanks for bumping those photos.
 

[klaasend]

https://twitter.com/WTNH

Bond for Raymond Clark was set at $3 million. News conference has ended. #anniele
3 minutes ago from web

FBI would not confirm Clark failed a polygraph test. Chief Lewis says reports of a romantic link are not true. #anniele
9 minutes ago from web

Chief Lewis: Clark is on his way to New Haven police headquarters. Expected to be in court within next 24 hours. #anniele
10 minutes ago from web

FBI head credits polygraph unit and behavioral science team for their work in Annie Le case. #anniele
12 minutes ago from web

Chief: Arrest warrant sealed. No details will be released. #anniele
15 minutes ago from web

Chief Lewis: Arrest warrant signed. Raymond Clark arrested in death of Annie Le. #anniele
15 minutes ago from web