Posted on 09/17/2009 5:19:09 AM PDT by earlJam
Police: Arrest 'soon' in Annie Le slay; focus on Raymond Clark DNA
September 17, 2009
By BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEWSDAY.COM and NEWSDAY STAFF
Police investigating the murder of Annie Le said early Thursday morning they expect to make an arrest shortly, as attention focused on DNA taken from Yale University animal research technician Raymond Clark.
New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery said an arrest was expected “soon” in the death of Le, who worked in the same lab as Clark. Avery would not elaborate on the time frame, but a news conference was scheduled for 8:00 a.m.
The New Haven Register and Yale Daily News, citing police sources, reported that a DNA match had implicated Clark. The Register also said that police were in the process of obtaining or had already obtained an arrest warrant.
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Not to be cruel or a cold blooded person, but why is this murder taking center stage. Sure she was suppose to get married the day they found the body, but what makes this incident so very different from the number of incredible murders committed everyday in America. Why isn’t the death of one of our brave soldiers being treated with the same intensity.
The news drives me nuts on this
Why is anyone’s life (or death)
any more or less important that anyone else?
Some convoluted twist to the media’s “brain” I suppose. I doubt the victim’s family and loved ones are gaining any comfort from the coverage.
It is a big story but you are right. Compare this to the silence over the war crime style atrocity committed against those victims in the Jan. 2007 Knoxville slayings. It is obvious there is a double standard there.
It beats having to talk about ACORN, at least for CNN. That is all they have had on since the top of the hour.
This case is the closest thing to a real-life Agatha Christie murder mystery. Given the security pass system and camera network, the scene of the crime and pool of potential perpetrators was limited right from the beginning.
From what I’ve been reading between the lines, I’m wondering if the alleged perp isn’t some animal rights wacko, a la Cass Sunstein, and this guy was just defending his lab mice.
I think he’s just you’re run of the mill yuppie perv who gotten away with stuff all his life.
That, too.....
Attractive female Yale grad student. In the media’s eyes she was one of the “beautiful” people.
Nice guy, I think I’ll send him a copy of “Macrame with David Carradine”.
Yup...I think the "mouse" email was just a ruse to get her attention. A self-centered egoist like this could care less about the way the mice were being treated.
FWIW, I personally don't think he is (see my #15), but if he does turn out to be an ALF or PETA, that will be the last we hear of it.
My answer: Because it's simple an intriguing murder mystery that "entertains" the viewing public. It's like CSI or Inspector Poirot or Perry Mason, only it's true.
Consider the entertainment industry in general:
The top professionals in Hollywood never really can predict which movies will be hits.
Ditto for the music industry's best brains in places like Nashville: Nobody really knows what makes for a hit song. They produce recording after recording basically on a trial-and-error basis, and once in a while they get lucky.
Ditto for the big names in New York book publishing: They must release ten or more "bombs" for every book that makes a profit.
And similarly for the cable TV "news" channels:
They often can't predict which stories will catch the public's imagination and which stories will fall flat. So they run a story, check the minute-by-minute ratings from Arbitron and Neilson, and subsequently decide whether to drop the story or to keep playing it for days on end. Then when the rating services tell the networks that the public is losing interest, the "hot" story goes stone cold.
The bottom line is that stories about Chandra Levy, about the "runaway bride" from Atlanta, and about poor Annie Le temporarily get huge play -- because of some unfathomable but ineluctable entertainment value -- while instrinsically more important stories get ignored.
I'll bet the "news" channels will always be this way. When you get right down to it, that's because their main function is actually to give the public entertainment rather than important news.
Looks like they got the guy:
Yale Lab Technician Charged With Murder Of Annie Le
September 17, 2009 11:29 a.m. EST
Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor
New Haven, CT (AHN) - A technician at the Yale University laboratory where doctoral student Annie Le worked was charged on Thursday for her murder
According to the Yale Daily News, Raymond Clark was arrested at the Super 8 motel in Cromwell and is being held on a $3 million bond at the Union Avenue police station.
The 24-year-old has been suspended from work and banned from university grounds. Earlier this week, Clark was taken by police from his home to obtain DNA that investigators have matched with evidence from the laboratory.
Le, 24, was last seen on university surveillance video on the morning of Sept. 8 entering the research facility where she worked at 10 Amistad Street. Her purse containing her cell phone credit cards and money were left in her office at a different building.
Her body was found on Sunday, the day she was supposed to be married, in a wall in the basement of the facility. She died of strangulation.
The facility where Le and Clark had worked had strict security, and access to certain areas was limited by electronic key cards.
The Hartford Courant reports that records from swipe cards show that on the morning of her disappearance, Le entered the facility at about 10:00 am and then went into a room in the laboratory. A few minutes later, Clark went to the same room. That was the last activity from Le’s card, while Clark’s showed that he entered many other areas during the day, including the basement where Le’s body was found.
Clark is said to have been living with his fiance before his arrest. In Branford High School where he graduated in 2004, he was a member of the Asian Awareness Club.
Yale University President Richard Levin said in an e-mail to staff and students on Thursday, “We are relieved and encouraged by this progress in the investigation, but, of course, we must resist the temptation to rush to judgment until a full and fair prosecution of this case brings a just resolution.”
“Mr. Clark has been a lab technician at Yale since December 2004,” Levin added. “His supervisor reports that nothing in the history of his employment at the University gave an indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible.”
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