Posted on 09/12/2009 2:56:34 PM PDT by Steelfish
Bloody clothes found at student’s lab, police say Missing Yale graduate student was set to get married Sunday in N.Y.
Sept . 12, 2009 NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Investigators discovered bloody clothes at a Yale University laboratory building where a 24-year-old graduate student went missing just days before her wedding, NBC News confirmed.
Items were found in a ceiling inside the building, New Haven police told the Yale Daily News, the university newspaper. Authorities planned to release more details during a press conference Saturday.
Police poured over blueprints and surveillance video footage that show Annie Le had swiped her identification card to enter the building about 10 a.m. Tuesday, but there was no record of her leaving, despite some 75 surveillance cameras that cover the complex.
Nearly a dozen unmarked police cars lined the sidewalks around the laboratory building in the Yale Medical School complex.
University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer called it "entirely perplexing that there doesn't seem to be a record of her" leaving the building, according to the Daily News. Lorimer didn't immediately return a phone call to The Associated Press on Saturday.
Searching frame-by-frame Investigators, having already gone through the videos once, were reviewing the surveillance tapes frame-by-frame to see if they overlooked Le, who could have changed into a laboratory coat or other clothes before leaving the building.
On Saturday, they brought what appeared to be blueprints to the building. FBI agents were also spotted questioning an unidentified man outside the lab. When they finished talking, the man got in the front seat of the unmarked car and an FBI agent got in the back seat. The car then drove away.
Agent Bill Reiner said the FBI wouldn't answer any questions about the investigation while it's ongoing.
Police say fiance Jonathan Widawsky, a...
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Meanwhile the spelling police are furious. Every time I see "pored" written this way (which is most of the time) I think of something being dispensed from a pitcher or bottle.
Prayers for her. She’s so beautiful. I can’t imagine the pain that her fiancé must be feeling.
Wonder if somebody dissolved her in acid.
Good thing you don’t have powers of arrest!
That’s why some of them have such a hard time with forensics.
It’s almost impossible to read soggy evidence.
They know who the perp is...
I sympathize with HTR.
I won the high school spelling bee as a *freshman* against nine senior opponents.
After graduation, I tested for a proofreader job and aced it with 100%...and then the damn company went out of business two weeks before I was supposed to start.
Really ticked me off.
[I think I’ve had a “spelling Nazi” vendetta against the world ever since]....LOL
That ID card failed in its mission to protect this woman.
You sound pretty sure of yourself.
Well, I lost the High School spelling bee because I couldn’t spell “Hawaiian”!
So I always sympathize with the bad spellers.
Sure sounds like it, from what I’ve read. It’s someone who works in that building, on the Yale payroll.
He knew exactly when she would be there alone. He cancelled the class he was supposed to teach around the time she disappeared. Guess he needed time to clean up and dispose of the body.
Motive? I can only guess—maybe jealousy. Maybe he was obsessed with her.
I don’t know why all the pussyfooting around by the FBI.
Sometimes people are in a hurry or overtaken with passion when writing about something and they make mistakes. So, he/she missed the correct spelling of a word. I think the story is much more important.
I hope they do. I truly hope they do and that they put him away.
It was a fun job while it lasted, I did it for a couple of years at our area newspaper. Once a proofreader, always a proofreader.
The paper where I live now is pretty tired of me offering to be its proofreader because, obviously, they don’t have one. Their standard response is “We have spell check”. It’s not working. (One example: On the front page, in the cutline for a picture of a large bird, they identified the bird as a ‘vulchure’.)
You probably lost that spelling bee because you were nervous and therefore could not concentrate. I had a friend who loved math. Absolutely, positively loved math. She would do math problems for fun. However, when it came to taking a test with math? Forget it. She was terrible. Just could not get by her nervousness and it interferred with her abilities.
i have to do associations with words too.
This is going to turn out to be a runaway bride scenario, or an ex-boyfriend that wasn’t too happy about the pending wedding.
At 4’11” and 90lbs, she could have easily fit into a back pack and been carried out of the building. It’s kinda hard to believe that a random homicidal murderer could have had access to the building.
My pet peeve is seeing “poured” or “pouring” written where “pored” or “poring” was intended. This isn’t rare; it isn’t even the minority case today. A press that can’t bother to spell correctly can’t bother to tell an accurate story either.
FBI spokeswoman Kim Mertz said at a news conference Saturday that items that could be evidence were being analyzed. She said there was no confirmation whether the items belonged to Le.
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At 4'11 and 90 lbs, she could have easily been put in a container and removed through a car from the indoor garage. I hope for the sake of the family that the bloody clothes found in the ceiling are not hers.
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