Posted on 09/13/2009 7:45:18 PM PDT by Steelfish
Police: Body believed to be Le found in building Remains have not been positively identified in what is now a homicide case
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Police in Connecticut on Sunday said they found what they believe is the body of a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be hidden inside the wall of a university building where she was last seen five days before.
New Haven Assistant Police Chief Peter Reichard said officials presumed the body was that of doctoral student Annie Le, although they had not yet positively identified it. Le has been the focus of a massive police search since Tuesday.
Le, 24, of Placerville, Calif., was to be married Sunday in Syosset, N.Y., on Long Island's north shore. New Haven police said they have contacted her family and have assumed control of the investigation, which is now being treated as a homicide.
State police found the body at around 5 p.m. Sunday in an area of the building that houses utility cables that run between floors.
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In the wall? How was this possible?
Whoever stowed it there apparently didn't expect it to stay hidden long. It would soon begin to stink.
So sad....but why did it take them so long to find the body.
That’s what I thought would be the case. The fact that she left her purse, cell phone, wallet etc in her lab told me she was attacked in the building. The fire alarm was probably pulled hours later so the perp, having stashed her body, could get out in the confusion partially disguised or masked/hooded.
I’d guess through a utility access door.
Just had to be long enough for the perp to flee.
That is horrible that poor girl, and her family and husband to be. There are truly some sick, evil people in this world.
Beauty is just a curse to our women.
Hopefully they caught whoever did this on the video.
its only been a few days... can't they just LOOK at her and tell its her?
Fire alarm wasn’t pulled, technically. Apparently some steam was released in a lab that triggered a false alarm.
New Haven is a seedy high crime college town with Yale, some other schools, and what can be described as a large encampment of obnoxious ACORN/Obama voters.
The perp is either an employee or someone who wandered in for a crime of opportunity.
Unfortunately we’re talking Connecticut, not Texas
How awful. Please everyone, remember her poor bereaved family and fiance in your prayers tonight, as her body was found on the day she was to be married. What should have been a day of joy has just turned into compounded grief for them all.
I thought I read somewhere that there were 75 cameras in the building. You would think the perp is in there, but would be hard to ferret out.
Scary that a woman could be killed inside a key coded laboratory in a building with dozens of cameras.
I’d think it would be somebody who knew the building.
Good points - leads one to believe that it was someone that knew her and had access to the place.
Perhaps she was grabbed when she left the inner secured laboratory to visit a restroom or vending area. Killing her in a bathroom would be expected to evade the cameras.
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