Vermiste Yale-studente in muur gemetseld

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Yale-studente in muur gemetseld



AMSTERDAM - De verdwijning van de 24-jarige studente Annie Le is waarschijnlijk opgelost.

De jonge vrouw werd vorige week dinsdag voor het laatst gezien op de Yale-universiteit waar ze studeerde. Annie werd vastgelegd door één van de vele bewakingscamera's toen ze een lokaal binnenging. Op geen enkele camera was echter te zien dat ze ook weer naar buiten kwam.

Maandag maakte de Amerikaanse politie bekend dat er een lijk is aangetroffen in een van de kelders van de universiteit. Het lichaam zou zijn ingemetseld in een holle muur, waar kabels doorheen lopen.

Annie zou deze week gaan trouwen.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Just seven months before police found what they believe is Annie Le's body hidden in a Yale University building, the graduate student wrote a magazine article about how to stay safe on the streets around the Ivy League school.

The 24-year-old bride-to-be, who had been missing since Tuesday, apparently met a violent death in a secure Yale building accessible only to students and staff, police said Sunday on what was supposed to be her wedding day.

Authorities have said little about the investigation. They hadn't positively identified the body found hidden in a wall Sunday, but they were assuming it was Le and treating her death as a homicide.

State police found the body in a building in Yale's medical complex, about a mile from the main campus. It was in an area that houses utility cables that run between floors.

Yale President Richard Levin offered support to Le's family and her fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The couple was to marry Sunday in Syosset, N.Y., on Long Island's north shore.

"The family and fiance and friends now must suffer the additional ordeal of waiting for the body to be positively identified," Levin said.

Police on Sunday would not say if they have any suspects. They previously have said Widawsky is not a suspect and is assisting with the investigation. New Haven Assistant Police Chief Peter Reichard said police also recovered "a large amount" of physical evidence, but he would not discuss what that included.

Last winter, Le, a pharmacology student from Placerville, Calif., wrote a magazine article about how to stay safe around Yale's campus.

The article, titled "Crime and Safety in New Haven," was published in February in a magazine produced by the university's medical school. It compares higher instances of robbery in New Haven with cities that house other Ivy League schools and includes an interview with Yale Police Chief James Perrotti, who offers advice such as "pay attention to where you are" and "avoid portraying yourself as a potential victim."

"In short, New Haven is a city and all cities have their perils," Le concludes. "But with a little street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic."

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WCBS: Police have arrested 24-year-old Raymond Clark, a lab technician at Yale University, for the murder of Annie Le.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police and FBI agents searched the home of a Yale University animal research technician Tuesday night and led him away in handcuffs to the cheers of neighbors in a search for evidence that might tie him to the slaying of a graduate student.

No charges were filed against 24-year-old Raymond Clark III in Middletown, but police took him into custody while searching for DNA and other physical evidence. Police said Clark would be released after they obtain evidence they need from him and his Middletown apartment.

Clark was escorted out of the apartment building in Middletown and into a silver car. Neighbors leaned over the apartment building's iron railings and cheered as police led him away.

New Haven Police Chief James Lewis described Clark as a person of interest, not a suspect, in the death of 24-year-old Annie Le, whose body was found stuffed behind a wall in a campus research building Sunday, the day she was to be married. He said police were hoping to compare DNA taken from Clark's hair, fingernails and saliva to more than 150 pieces of evidence collected from the crime scene. That evidence may also be compared at a state lab with DNA samples given voluntarily from other people with access to the crime scene.

We're going to narrow this down," Lewis said. "We're going to do this as quickly as we can."

According to the New Haven Independent, Clark had a romantic interest in Le that went unreciprocated.

Police have collected more than 700 hours of video tape during the probe and sifted through computer records documenting who entered what parts of the research building where Le was found dead.

Investigators began staking out Clark's home on Monday, a day after they discovered Le's body hidden in the basement of a research building at Yale's medical school. She vanished Sept. 8.

Clark shares the apartment with his girlfriend, Jennifer Hromadka, whom he is engaged to marry in December 2011, according to the couple's wedding Web site.

"He seemed like a normal guy to me, no big deal," said Ivan Hernandez, 22, who lives directly above Clark and would often see him sitting on a bench outside their apartment building and smoking. "I thought he was nice, actually."

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DNA Match in Yale murder
Police have obtained a DNA match implicating a research technician in the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le, police sources reportedly said late Wednesday.

According to the New Haven Register, police have obtained, or are now in the process of obtaining, an arrest warrant against Raymond Clark III, 24, who had been named a "person of interest" in the case.

New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said earlier that charges will be filed against anyone whose DNA matches evidence found at the crime scene.

Le's body was found on Sunday — the day her wedding had been planned for — stuffed into a wall of the lab building where she did research and to which Clark had access. Dr. Wayne Carver in a brief statement on Wednesday said an autopsy of Le determined that she was murdered by "traumatic asphyxia" due to neck compression.

The results of the DNA test show a connection between Clark to more than 250 pieces of evidence collected from the crime scene.

Police say they're currently watching a hotel room in Cromwell, Connecticut, about 25 miles north of New Haven, where Clark has been staying since being released from police custody early Wednesday..

Cromwell Police Capt. Roy Nelson says officers there are helping in the investigation into the death of 24-year-old Le.

Clark is a Yale staff member who did custodial work at the laboratory, such as cleaning mouse cages. He has three relatives — his fiance, his sister and brother-in-law — that do similar work at the Yale lab.

Clark and several other people have been under constant surveillance. The New Haven Police chief declined to say who those people were.

Two new search warrants were issued on Wednesday for a red Ford Mustang belonging to Clark and for other undisclosed items.

Clark was taken into police custody late Tuesday and released Wednesday at 3 a.m. after authorities collected DNA samples from him, questioned him and searched his apartment. No charges have been filed against him.

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