Posted on 09/14/2009 9:45:20 AM PDT by Steelfish
Police: Student Is Suspect In Yale Killing Victim believed to be graduate student who was due to be married Sunday
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Police have identified a suspect in the killing of a person whose body was found stuffed behind a wall in a high-security laboratory building at Yale University, law enforcement sources told NBC News on Monday.
The suspect, a student, has defensive wounds, and failed a polygraph test, police said.
The body found Sunday in the Yale Medical School building is believed to be that of Annie Le, a 24-year-old native of Placerville, Calif. She was last seen in the building on Tuesday.
Police found the female body around 5 p.m. Sunday. An autopsy is being performed to verify that the body is Le's.
Friends said the doctoral student -- who was due to get married on Sunday -- never showed signs of worry about her own personal safety at work, although she did express concerns about crime in New Haven in an article she wrote last year.
"I can't even imagine someone mad at Annie, much less wanting to hurt her," Laurel Griffeath said on the TODAY show on Monday.
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She had them with her -- my guess is the ghoul who killed her forgot to dispose of them after he got rid of her clothes and body.
AFAIK, the fiance had an ironclad alibi, and was never a suspect at all.
Several of the authorities at the Saturday press conference were smilling and laughing.
What I recall hearing about her purse and cell phone is that they were found in the building she was seen entering. This was reported because if she had left willingly why would she leave them behind? The fiance, if I heard correctly, had taken a polygraph and was cooperating with police and was never a person of interest.
I think the fact that the family has not come out in public is unusual. Normally in missing persons cases, the family is on tv, pleading for the missing person’s return. For whatever reason, this family has been very camera shy.
I am a little perplexed by her leaving her purse behind. Wouldn’t you need some sort of id badge, scanner card, etc. to get into the lab of this academic building? I don’t want to speculate; but, my wheels are turning.
God bless Annie and her family. I cannot imagine how her family and fiance who would have been her husband by now are so devastated. It’s beyond our comprehension.
That said, the MSM was looking for a diversion from the March on DC. Annie went missing Tuesday, but we heard very little until suddenly it was the top story on Saturday.
The ID of the student when it is revealed should be interesting.
Prayers up.
Sounds like they’re talking about a crawlspace or maintenance access to water pipes or something similar.
}:-)4
From what I heard, her purse, phone and money were all in her Yale office.
She left them in her office. Just took her ID card with her when she went down the laboratory. I would have done the same thing. I used to manage two testing and quality control labs. I had a cube and desk elsewhere. My purse, etc. stayed in the desk, the ID card on my person. I went back and forth between the labs and my desk constantly. I didn’t always carry my phone either - especially in areas where it didn’t work well, or when I wanted to be able to concentrate on something.
Seems normal enough behavior to me. THe bad guy was in the basement lab. The mystery starts there for me.
I agree. Almost like they knew she was dead and who did it all along.
And the story was completely overblown, people go missing in the inner cities and rural areas all the time and never even get mentioned in regional papers - let alone national coverage. Tragic that this young woman was killed, but using Yale in all the headlines brings viewship. It’s too bad.
It was in a channel constructed to hold piping and electrical wiring. In the basement, I think. THere is probably an access panel. THe perp, undoubtedly, is someone who knew the building very well, and she was a tiny woman.
I still havent heard the explanation for how somebodys corpse gets behind a wall in an already constructed building...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Suspended ceiling in a commercial building. Remove a tile and you have access to the “top” of the wall. The sheetrock wallboards usually doesn’t go much higher than the tiles, but there can be a lot of empty space above the tiles depending on the building.
Plenty of room for someone to get a step ladder, remove a tile that is next to a false wall, lift the girl through the opening, and place her between the wallboards. If she was small, and the guy young/big he should be able to do that.
A well designed lab will have service galleys and chases for utilities and plumbing so that installation or movement of equipment doesn’t require extensive work and also leaks and clogged lines are easier to repair.
The Yale and New Haven Police have been screwed up for a long time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Jovin_case
“AFAIK”
What’s that?
They’re just mean, evil people. How or why they are that way is of no consequence. We just need to know that they are and prosecute/punish them to the full extent...
and for all i know
Whats that?
AFAIK, it means "as far as I know".
according to reports I’ve read, somehow (the perp?) managed to set of a fire alarm without pulling the handle
Yes, the authorities were so cheery at the press conference, it was clear something was up. They were acting like they’d just won the LOTTO. I think they’d found her body, and were trying to manipulate the news to get some reaction from the killer.
After all, 4 days with police dogs in that building where she disappeared, and they still hadn’t found her body? That’s BS. Then suddenly they find it? Gimme a break.
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