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Raymond Clark 3rd in Custody Over Annie Le Investigation

by Amy Judd | September 15, 2009 at 07:48 pm

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Raymond Clark 3rd, the lab technician from Yale University, has been taken in to custody tonight over the Annie Le investigation, who went missing five days before her wedding and was found dead behind the wall in the lab where she was last seen working.

Police said they need to gather DNA evidence in the case. They stormed Clark's apartment around 10:30pm tonight and brought him out in cuffs a few minutes later.

"We are looking for DNA and physical evidence," said New Haven police chief James Lewis. "This is not an arrest warrant, this is a search warrant."

He will have DNA taken from him and questioned in her disappearance and death.

"We don't know if he is cooperating or not," Lewis said at a late-night press conference. "If he doesn't comply with this search warrant, he will be arrested."

Raymond Clark is the only person of interest in the Annie Le case and they will either arrest him or rule him out by the end of the week.

Annie Le was found asphxiated and stuffed behind a wall in the same lab where she was working. Clark did not show up for work the day after Annie went missing and neither did his sister, brother-in-law or finacee, who all work together in the same lab.

Clark has failed lie detector tests and has scratches on his chest that could be evidence of a struggle. He was interviewed a few times before being taken in.

A woman who knew Clark when he lived in New Haven last year said he screamed at children and was "very controlling" of his girlfriend.

Anne Marie Goodwin, 40, said, "He would never let her talk to anyone. I would hear a lot of yelling upstairs. Ray was very controlling of his girlfriend."
Clark, who does menial work with animals in a lab that does gruesome animal testing, "kept a pit bull caged in his apartment," Goodwin said.

Clark lives with his girlfriend.

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