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An arrest warrant application affidavit released Friday details the investigation and movements of Raymond Clark III, accused of murdering Yale graduate student Annie Le, during the days after she disappeared on Sept. 8. (November 13, 2009) |
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Timeline Of The Annie Le Case
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Sep. 21: New Haven Police Chief James Lewis announces that police have wrapped up their investigation of the slaying of Annie Le. Police are not expecting more arrests.
Sep. 18: Annie Le's body is sent home to California. Her family prepares for her funeral service at Holy Trinity Church in El Dorado Hills, Calif.
Sep. 17: Police arrest Raymond Clark III at a Cromwell motel and charged him with murdering Yale graduate student Annie Le.
Sep. 16: Police release Raymond Clark III, 24, a Yale University lab technician, after detaining him to acquire DNA samples. The medical examiner's office says Annie Le died from "traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression."
Sep. 15: Police enter Clark's Middletown apartment at 10:16 p.m. and detain him.
Sep. 14: The medical examiner's office identifies the remains as Yale graduate student Annie Le. Yale holds a candlelight vigil.
Sep. 13: Human remains are found in the Yale medical building at 10 Amistad St. on the day Le was scheduled to be married.
Sep. 12: Investigators recover bloody clothing discovered above a ceiling tile. They also search a trash facility in Hartford.
Sep. 11: Yale offers a $10,000 reward for information leading to Le's whereabouts.
Sep. 8: Le was last recorded entering the medical building at 10 a.m. Le's roommate later reports her missing. - See more photos »
Clark, a 24-year-old lab technician from Middletown, is accused of killing Le, a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology from Placerville, Calif.
Le's body was found Sept. 13 concealed behind a wall in the basement of the Yale Animal Research Center at 10 Amistad St., a research building that is part of the Yale School of Medicine complex where Clark worked and Le did research.
The discovery was made on the day that Le, 24, was scheduled to get married.
Le was reported missing on Sept. 8. Investigators combed through the basement of the Amistad Street building for days before finding Le's body.
Investigators found blood spatters and stains on evidence in a number of rooms in the basement, the affidavit states.
After a few days, investigators detected a foul odor inside a locker room, and officials brought in police dogs, which found "the lifeless body of a female ... concealed within a wall directly behind the toilet," the affidavit states.
Investigators found blood-like smears throughout the opening, behind the door frame, on pipe insulation and the access panel, the warrant states. Also, insulation was removed from the inside opening of the mechanical case concealing the body, the warrant states.
Le was wearing surgical gloves, and her left thumb was exposed. Inside the wall space, police found a green ink pen, a stained lab coat and a sock. The sock is similar to a bloody sock that was found behind a ceiling tile nearby, the warrant states. On the pen, investigators found a blood stain that contained Le's DNA, and they found Clark's DNA on the pen cap, the warrant states.
On Sept. 8, the affidavit states, Clark signed in to work using a green ink pen.
A stain on the sock found behind the ceiling tile "is a mixture of both Raymond Clark's DNA and the victim's DNA," the affidavit states.
While investigators interviewed Clark, they noticed a scratch on his face and left arm. Clark told police the injuries came from one of his cats.
Judge Roland D. Fasano last week ordered some portions of the court document released. The state medical examiner said that Le died of traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression.
The arrest warrant affidavit does not offer a motive for the slaying but sources familiar with the investigation have told The Courant that the crime stemmed from a work dispute between Clark and Le.
Clark is being held, with bail set at $3 million, at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. He is due back in court Dec. 21.
The blood? Don't forget, he had 'scratches' on him that he claimed came from his cat, those scratches probably would have produced blood; AND, yes, strangulation doesn't, of itself, generate blood BUT she must have struggled, and was probably scratched and bled but those scratches and blood generating wounds wouldn't have been listed as the 'cause or manner' of death. He might have slugged her, given her bloody nose, or knocked a tooth out or some other 'blood causing' injury that were NOT the cause of death.
zorro110 (11/13/2009, 11:49 PM )