Tuesday, September 22, 2009
that's a wrap on the investigation of the murder of annie le
New Haven Police Done With Le's Murder Investigation; No More Arrests Expected
The Hartford Courant
NEW HAVEN — - Police have wrapped up their investigation of the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le and are not expecting more arrests, the police chief said Monday.
Police Chief James Lewis said that police on Saturday seized a vehicle owned by the father of Raymond Clark III, but he declined to say why police sought a search warrant for the vehicle.
"But don't read anything into that," Lewis said. "It doesn't mean that somebody else is going to be arrested. We're finishing up the process of looking at evidence and sometimes you never know where that evidence will take you. But for now, we've made the only arrest we expect to make. "
Clark, 24, an animal laboratory technician at Yale, is charged with murder in the killing of Le, a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.......
............In a press release, police said that Dearington asked the department to clarify a report in The New York Post that said the suspect "broke the bones and mangled the body of" Le "to fit it through a wall."
"This information is false and this myth must be dispelled at the request of the state's attorney," Lewis said in the press release.
Lewis told The Courant that such a report needed to be corrected.
"We'd prefer not to have inaccurate statements out there, particularly ones that are so shocking to the public," he said........
Saturday, September 19, 2009
todays posting on raymond clark iii, annie le and dna
my thoughts for today are; first i in no way shape or form am saying raymond clark is guilty. he has not (to the best of my knowledge) plead guilty nor has he been tried and found guilty. what i want to know is; if in fact he does NOT plead out and does go to trial, how the hell are they going to find a jury who isn't familiar with the case? not only is it all over the news in connecticut and the rest of the united states, it is INTERNATIONAL (i know because i'm getting hits on the postings i've done and the hits are from other countries). if the stories are true and they are getting clark's dna and ms le's dna from the same places, well then we all already KNOW that and so would 99% of those in the jury pool (i have been called to jury duty MANY times so i know the ropes. although i have never actually been chosen. if i was called for this case, i would absolutely have to recuse myself).
Clothing Contains DNA Of Victim Annie Le, Suspect Raymond Clark III, Source Says
By ALAINE GRIFFIN, DAVE ALTIMARI and DAVID OWENS The Hartford Courant
NEW HAVEN - As hordes of FBI agents and Yale police combed the basement of a Yale University laboratory building for missing bride-to-be Annie Le, the man accused of killing her moved among them, in an apparent effort to cover his tracks, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said.
That behavior aroused investigators' suspicions about Raymond Clark III, but the final piece that led to his arrest Thursday morning was the discovery that evidence in the ceiling and in the crawl space where Le's body was found contained the DNA of both Le and Clark, according to the law enforcement official who spoke to The Courant on the condition of anonymity.
Clark, 24, was arrested at a Super 8 Motel in Cromwell around 8:30 a.m. Thursday. He was charged with murder.
(Pictures: Annie Le Homicide Investigation)
One investigator, among a group of investigators who were in the lab interviewing employees and students shortly after Le disappeared, witnessed Clark trying to hide lab cleaning equipment that they discovered contained blood spatters. Clark was observed cleaning up areas that Le was in before she was reported missing, the law enforcement official said.............
Rumor control: No 2nd arrest pending
- By: Annie Rourke
New Haven (WTNH) - There is no known motive behind Annie Le's killing yet, but police feel confident in telling News Channel 8 that so far, the evidence points to just one person.
In the hours after the murder, the days of Annie Le's disappearance, did Raymond Clark have an accomplice?
New Haven Police Chief James Lewis says that is a false rumor.
"There's no second arrest pending," Lewis said.
They are not actively pursuing a warrant to arrest anyone else in the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le at this time.
In a sit-down interview with News Channel 8, the chief said he is limited on what he can comment on as the arrest warrant affidavit was sealed by the courts, so he could not answer directly if he believes Clark acted alone.
"I can't talk about that now cause that's in the sealed document," Lewis said.
But he says no other arrests are pending.
Speculation has been widespread because Clark's fiance, sister and brother-in-law all work at Yale, all at 10 Amistad St., the scene of the crime.
As the investigation was being passed from the FBI over to New Haven, the city's narcotics unit was assigned to tail Clark and to keep track of his movements at all times. But there were other people police had their eyes on.
"He wasn't the only one that we were keeping track of during different times in this investigation," Lewis said.........