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.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
AITY (and I thank you)
thanks
“....with a little street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic.”
I don’t think “street smarts” would have helped Annie nearly as much as perhaps................A GUN!!!!!
The cure for a mad dog is put it down quickly and humanely.
Then, too, the killer stashed the body in an unusual spot.
Recall that the young lad from Bloomington Indiana was killed by accident in a power line room in a dormitory at Purdue University and was not discovered for weeks.
An enormous search by thousands of people failed to find him.
Access panels. Laboratory buildings often have quiet a bit of "stuff" in the walls. Stuff like oxygen lines, gas lines (for the Bunsen burners), maybe purified water lines, computer network cables, etc. You'd put in access panels to be able to get to all that stuff.
She knew the killer, is how I interpret that.
I think that is harsh.
I don’t know that pleading on the news is going to change the facts of the case.
I for one wouldn’t want to talk to the press about it, because I wouldn’t trust the way that it would be covered.
There is just too much information that is unknown to us to judge the family and their reaction to her being missing.
Exactly. Most likely she was targeted.
Pure speculation on my part, but I am guessing someone was either stalking her because they thought they were in love with her or was professionally jealous.
It tends to be news when students are murdered at colleges (and k-12, obviously).
False wall - used to cover wiring - Body found by the wiring. I would imagine that the odor would eventually have lead to the poor girl's body being found.
And law enforcement can & does use the press during an investigation such as this. Which do you find better, a solved case or a happy media that has been given all the details so the murderer can cover his/her tracks.
My thoughts and prayers to her Fiance. I pray that he can some day have a healed heart.
If his/her picture is not all over the news by now, I would venture a guess he/she is not white.
imho, but Ive been wrong before....
That suspect has what appear to be defensive wounds, a key piece of circumstantial evidence. In addition, the suspect, who authorities believe knew Le, failed a lie detector test, sources told ABC News. Sources also told ABC News that bloody clothing removed from the lab belonged to the likely killer.
Investigators have been looking at everyone from Yale maintenance people to people who worked in the lab and fellow students.
“We’re not believing it’s a random act,” Officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman, told The Associated Press. He would not provide further details but said no one else is in danger.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/evidence-annie-le-murder-lead-killer/story?id=8565647
Ironically, Annie Le had earlier written an article about "staying safe"..............mentioned here................
No it is not. Ivy league colleges have a murder rate of something like 1 every 2 or 3 decades. Some Ivies have never had a murder. John's Hopkins had its first murder in a 100 years.
Even off campus, the thugs know who is an ivy student and who is not. They leave the ivies alone.
ROFDLMAOTIPIMP !
Though Harvard had one this year, did it not? Perhaps things are changing.
Murder at an Ivy college is practically unheard of. when it does it is a "man bites dog" story due to it being unusual.
I’m not even going to ask.
YES I AM
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