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Yale Murder: Police Identify Suspect In Annie Le's Homicide Case

by Yuliya Talmazan | September 14, 2009 at 01:02 pm

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Police have identified a suspect in the homicide case of Annie Le, a Yale University student who went missing on September 8, days before she was due to get married to her fiancé Jonathan Widawsky. Le's body was found at Yale, stuffed behind a lab basement wall on Sunday.

Police say the suspect is a student who has defensive marks on their body. The suspect has also failed a polygraph test, according to most recent reports. It is not clear whether the suspect is a student at Yale or some other university.

"We're not believing it's a random act," said Officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman.

They say Le's fiance is not a suspect and has assisted in the investigation.

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Pythiian1

at 19:56 on September 15th, 2009

The suspect Raymond Clark, a lab tech, has just been arrested as of this note.

Police took Yale lab technician Raymond Clark 3rd into custody Tuesday night to gather DNA evidence in the investigation of missing Yale grad student Annie Le.

A storm of state troopers and FBI agents entered the 24-year-old's Middletown, Conn., apartment around 10:30 p.m. and brought him out in cuffs minutes later.

Pythiian1

at 19:41 on September 15th, 2009

Annie Le's family had released a statement earlier, local time EST.

The statement was issued outside Yale’s Woodbridge Hall at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Pastor Dennis Smith read the just-under two-minute statement in front of reporters, then left without taking questions. The statement was written by the families of Annie Le, the 24 year-old pharmacology grad student killed last week in a Yale medical building; and of Jonathan Widawsky, the man she was supposed to marry Sunday. Her remains were found that day instead, inside a wall.

Pythiian1

at 20:50 on September 15th, 2009

The Yale community held a vigil to remember Annie Le last evening, so did University of Rochester.

Professor Gary Rudnick said he remembered interviewing Le for a spot in the graduate program at Yale. He said she stood out for her quote, "poise and professionalism."

He also said, "She was an energetic vivacious and hardworking student. Everyone who met her liked her. We are all taking this pretty hard." Rudnick also remembers from Le's admissions interview that she was interested in using the Ph.D. she was working towards to go into academia. Rudnick said that was a noble cause because she could have considered a biotech or pharmaceutical and made a lot of money.

Pythiian1

at 19:57 on September 15th, 2009

Annie Le was Vietnamese American originally from Northern California.

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.

It is such a sad and tragic end of this young woman's life who was apparently, well liked and loved by friends, neighbors, and family.

The LA Times has an article about Annie Le "Friends remember Annie Le's humor and intelligence"