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

[klaasend]

Sister - you're very welcome.

SunnyinTX - excellent point about the fully clothed report contradicting the cut up report.  Guess we'll just have to wait and see if any official information is released on that.

[Blonde]

Police arrest suspect in Yale slaying
NEW HAVEN - Police this morning arrested Raymond Clark III in the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le.

Clark, 24, was taken into custody at a motel in Cromwell, where he was staying. He was charged with murder. Bond was set at $3 million.

New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said the case was an issue of "workplace violence." There is no evidence of a romantic relationship between the two, police said.

Clark, a former Branford resident who most recently lived in Middletown,  is being brought to New Haven police headquarters and is expected to be arraigned within 24 hours, the chief said.

http://nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/17/news/new_haven/doc4ab22bb34f27a578204332.txt

[SunnyinTX]

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 

Me too Klaas...it seems like the LE were playing the CYA game all the way....having all their ducks in order before arresting this monster. And I guess that's not a bad thing.

I got up way too early too!!   Hopefully a nap will be in both our futures!!

and thanks for the new monkey!  LOL  I love it

[Red]

ARRESTED!!! Raymond Clark Arrested in murder of Yale Grad Student Annie Le

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2009/09/17/arrested-raymond-clark-arrested-in-murder-of-yale-grad-student-annie-le/

Raymond Clark was apprehended about 8:10 a.m. at a Super 8 motel in Cromwell, Connecticut, where he had spent the night after being released Wednesday following his submission to DNA testing.

[Blonde]

These DNA results came in much quicker than in the Caylee Anthony case!

Dr. Henry Lee said they work 24/7 here in CT.They work Christmas Day, and so on they never close.

[SunnyinTX]

Sister - you're very welcome.

SunnyinTX - excellent point about the fully clothed report contradicting the cut up report.  Guess we'll just have to wait and see if any official information is released on that.

Also during the PC the police chief was talking about all the 'rumor's'. He only went into a little detail about the supposed manhunt...but he did say their were rumors about 'the body'. I really, really hope the dismemberment rumor was just that...a rumor. For some reason this bothered the hell outta me.

[SunnyinTX]

ARRESTED!!! Raymond Clark Arrested in murder of Yale Grad Student Annie Le

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2009/09/17/arrested-raymond-clark-arrested-in-murder-of-yale-grad-student-annie-le/

Raymond Clark was apprehended about 8:10 a.m. at a Super 8 motel in Cromwell, Connecticut, where he had spent the night after being released Wednesday following his submission to DNA testing.

   RED!!!      Going to the FP now!!

[Cappuccino]

Sounds like something matched for sure, glad they got the monster

[trimmonthelake]

Thanks,Red.

[klaasend]

Sounds like something matched for sure, glad they got the monster

Me too Capp.  Wonder what defense they are going to use?

[klaasend]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/yale.student.le/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/yale.student.le/index.html



Yale lab worker arrested in student's killing, police say


NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN) -- A Yale University lab technician was arrested Thursday in the slaying of a graduate student whose body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building, police said.

Raymond Clark was apprehended about 8:10 a.m. ET at a Super 8 motel in Cromwell, Connecticut, where he had spent the night after being released Wednesday following his submission to DNA testing.

Annie Le's body was found in the basement wall of an off-campus medical research building Sunday. She had been strangled.

Le, 24, a pharmacology student, was last seen alive September 8, the day she appeared in a surveillance video entering a four-story lab at 10 Amistad St., about 10 blocks from the main campus.

Her body was found on what was to have been her wedding day. Watch panelists weigh in on Le's slaying »

Clark, 24, could have been arrested Wednesday if he had declined to provide DNA samples and allow police to search his home, but he was released after complying, New Haven city spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga.

Two other search warrants also were executed Wednesday -- one on property belonging to Clark that was not named in the first warrant, and a second for Clark's vehicle, which was being processed Wednesday evening, New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said. Watch how police briefly detained the lab tech »

The only search warrants executed in the case have been those involving Clark, he said, but other people are being investigated.

He said Clark is a technician who does "custodial-type" work at the building. He answered police's questions for a while at first, but later retained an attorney and stopped, Lewis said.

Lewis said Clark and Le worked in the same building and passed in the hallway, but he refused to comment further on whether they knew each other.

Investigators have collected about 250 pieces of evidence, Lewis said. Watch police discuss the investigation »

"If we have one match on a person we know was at that location," police will seek an arrest warrant, he said Wednesday. Lewis earlier said police had reviewed about 700 hours of video and interviewed more than 150 people, some more than once.

A senior police official disputed Yale University President Richard Levin's claims that the suspect pool would be a "limited number" of people who had been in the basement the day Le disappeared.

"We know everyone that was in the basement ... and we passed that on to police," Levin said. "There is an abundance of evidence."

But the police official, whom CNN is not naming because of the sensitive nature of the ongoing investigation, said investigators believe dozens of people could have had access to that area of the building. Watch a timeline leading up to Le's death »

Authorities have not released information on what DNA evidence may have been found, although investigators said earlier that bloody clothing was found hidden above tiles in a drop ceiling in another part of the building.

Police have not described the clothes that were found, nor said to whom they might have belonged. Teams of investigators at a Connecticut State Police lab worked through the weekend processing and examining the bloodstained garments.

But Thomas Kaplan, editor in chief of the Yale Daily News, said a Yale police official told the college paper that the clothes were not what Le was wearing when she entered the building.

Lewis said Wednesday that processing of the building was nearing completion and police would likely clear it Thursday morning.Watch a report on the police saying the killing was no random act »

Le was to have been married Sunday on New York's Long Island to Jonathan Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student.

Le was from Placerville, California, and seemed to have been aware of the risks of crime in a university town. In February, she compared crime and safety at Yale with other Ivy League schools for a piece for B magazine, published by the medical school.

Among the tips she offered: Keep a minimum amount on your person. When she walked over to the research building last week, she left her purse, credit cards and cell phone in her office.

[klaasend]

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




Lab Tech Arrested In Annie Le's Death
Raymond Clark's Bond Set At $3 Million

POSTED: 8:04 pm EDT September 16, 2009
UPDATED: 8:59 am EDT September 17, 2009


CROMWELL, Conn. -- Yale University lab technician Raymond Clark was arrested Thursday morning in connection with the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le Thursday morning.

He was charged with murder and his bond was set at $3 million.

Police officers surrounded the motel where Clark was staying Wednesday night and moved in on the motel after 8 a.m. Thursday. Clark was arriving at the New Haven Police Department just before 9 a.m.

New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said a warrant for Clark's arrest was signed at about 8 a.m. and that detectives had been working throughout the night. He said that the warrants in the case have been sealed. He said that the documents will eventually amount to thousands of pages because of the number people of interviewed.

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.

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[no rose colored glasses]

Thank-you for all the updates, so glad to read that he is in custody, workplace violence 

[Cappuccino]

Sounds like something matched for sure, glad they got the monster

Me too Capp.  Wonder what defense they are going to use?

The mice made him do it?     This one will be a slam dunk

Here is another article:

CBS/ AP)  Police say a Yale University lab technician has been arrested in the killing of a graduate student whose body was found stuffed behind the wall of a campus research building.

New Haven Police Chief James Lewis says Raymond Clark III has been arrested and his bond is set for $3 million.

Lewis said "there were no issues with the arrest."

Police had said charges would be filed against anyone whose DNA matches evidence found at the crime scene.

The state medical examiner has said Le was suffocated.

Police say the state crime lab worked around the clock to analyze Clark's DNA - comparing it with evidence collected in the Yale medical school laboratory where Le was found murdered, CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston reports.

The Hartford Courant reports that swipe cards show Clark and Le were in the same room shortly after 10 a.m. on Sept. 8. Le wasn't seen alive after that, and her card wasn't used again. But Clark swiped into the area where her body was discovered five days later.


In September 2003, when he was a senior at Branford High School, Clark reportedly upset a girlfriend so much that police warned him to stay away from her.

The New Haven Independent reported that when the girl tried to break up with Clark, he attempted to confront her and wrote on her locker.

The girlfriend and her mother told a detective that she had been in a sexual relationship with Clark and that he once forced her to have sex. The relationship continued after that incident, according to the Independent, a news Web site.

The young woman did not pursue the case, and no charges were filed. The Independent reported that Clark was warned in 2003 that police would pursue criminal charges against him if he contacted the girl.

Branford Police Lt. Geoffrey Morgan told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his department would not release the unsubstantiated 2003 report. Morgan would neither confirm nor deny the news report, citing cooperation with police investigating the killing.

On her MySpace page, Clark's fiancée, Jennifer Hromadka, calls Clark was a "wonderful boyfriend." She added that she's not perfect, but cautioned people not to judge her.

"Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean!!" the 23-year-old wrote.

The date of the MySpace posting is unclear. The page has since been taken down.

Hromadka last year dismissed allegations in blog entries that he was having an affair, the New York Post reported Wednesday.

Yale technicians like Clark help care for the research animals used by labs around the Ivy League campus. They tend to rodents, mostly mice, used in experiments. They also monitor breeding and weaning and help with paperwork.

Since researchers generally try not to move animals from their housing for testing, students and faculty conducting experiments often visit the building where Le was found dead, school officials said.

The basement where Le's body was discovered houses mostly mice, which her faculty adviser uses in his experiments.

The Le case has some parallels to the 1998 murder of 21-year-old Suzanne Jovin about 2 miles from the Yale campus. The slaying is still unsolved.

In that case, a professor was named as a suspect early in the investigation and was later fired. He was never charged, and authorities never presented evidence against him.

Noting that "tragedy has again struck Yale," Jovin's parents released a letter to Gov. Jodi Rell pleading for more funds for the state's forensic science lab. Thomas and Donna J. Jovin said they share the agony of Le's loved ones.

"We hope that the person guilty of this terrible crime can be apprehended quickly," they wrote, "which was unfortunately not to be true in the case of our daughter."

[AZSunny]

Thanks to everyone for the updates.  I went to bed praying this would be the outcome this morning.  The Monster is behind bars, and hopefully for the rest of his life.  Rest in Peace dear Annie Le.

[can]

Thank you Klaas, and everyone for the updates.

I'm so relieved this guy is finally in custody.

He's on 3 million $ bail.  Would the full amount have to be paid for his release or just a percentage?
What is known of Clark's parents?  Are they people of means?

Poor little Annie...it sounds as though she walked right into a trap.
 

[klaasend]

Thank you Klaas, and everyone for the updates.

I'm so relieved this guy is finally in custody.

He's on 3 million $ bail.  Would the full amount have to be paid for his release or just a percentage?
What is known of Clark's parents?  Are they people of means?

Poor little Annie...it sounds as though she walked right into a trap.
 

10% will bond him out but I'm hoping not even his family will consider it.

[klaasend]

Yale president issues statement after arrest:

http://www.wfsb.com/news/20962948/detail.html

Yale President Releases Statement On Arrest
Sept. 17, 2009

To the Yale Community:

The New Haven Chief of Police has just announced that Raymond Clark has been arrested in connection with the death of Annie Le. We are relieved and encouraged by this progress in the investigation, but, of course, we must resist the temptation to rush to judgment until a full and fair prosecution of this case brings a just resolution. As with every development in this tragic story, we think first of Annie's family, her fiancé and his family, and her friends, and our hearts go out to them.

Mr. Clark has been a lab technician at Yale since December 2004. His supervisor reports that nothing in the history of his employment at the University gave an indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible.

It is frightening that a member of our own community might have committed this terrible crime. But we must not let this incident shatter our trust in one another. We must reaffirm our deepest values as an institution - our commitment to the search for truth, undertaken in a spirit of openness, tolerance, and civility. The work of the University requires us to engage with each other in the classroom, to collaborate in the laboratory, and to trust one another in workplaces across the campus. In many, even most respects, this University is a model of citizenship and civility. It will take the efforts of everyone to maintain that standard.

In the days and weeks ahead, we will redouble our efforts to educate the community about Yale's zero tolerance policy for violent, threatening, and abusive behavior. We have formal policies in place covering employees and students, and effective grievance procedures to bring forth complaints.

This incident could have happened in any city, in any university, or in any workplace. It says more about the dark side of the human soul than it does about the extent of security measures. Nevertheless, safety is a very high priority, and we will shortly be soliciting suggestions from the community about how we might further improve campus security.

We are all deeply indebted to the men and women of the FBI, Connecticut State Police, New Haven Police, Yale Police, and Yale Security. They have worked tirelessly and cooperatively since Annie's disappearance last Tuesday. Yale will continue to provide all needed assistance to the State's Attorney as the case proceeds. As is our practice when an employee is charged with a serious crime, Mr. Clark is being suspended from employment at Yale and barred from the campus. His ID card no longer allows him access to any Yale building.

We are a close community with deeply shared values. Monday night's candlelight vigil gave moving testimony to the caring and compassion of this place. Let us continue to offer comfort and consolation to Annie's family and friends, and let us honor her memory by rededicating ourselves to the search for truth to which she herself was so deeply devoted.

Richard C. Levin President

[no rose colored glasses]

Thank-you Klaas.       http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/09/17/2009-09-17_lab_tech_raymond_clark_under_arrest_in_the_murder_of_yale_student_annie_le.html                   In this article it states Annie wasn't sexually assaulted.  I was looking at that pic of him being arrested, he looks pretty buff, steroids, perhaps? And if so, there is the defense, roid rage 

[can]

Thank you Klaas, and everyone for the updates.

I'm so relieved this guy is finally in custody.

He's on 3 million $ bail.  Would the full amount have to be paid for his release or just a percentage?
What is known of Clark's parents?  Are they people of means?

Poor little Annie...it sounds as though she walked right into a trap.
 

10% will bond him out but I'm hoping not even his family will consider it.

10% - thanks Klaas.  I sure hope he stays put.