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Posted on 09/17/2009 1:54:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yale grad student Annie Le's accused killer has been tossed into solitary confinement in a Connecticut jail, where he has been somber and silent, an official told the Daily News Thursday.
Raymond Clark 3rd is being held in the private unit at the New Haven Community Correctional Center for his own protection.
"He is in solitary confinement for his own safety because of the nature of his crime," Lt. John Bernard told the News. "We don't know who is out there maybe waiting to take action against him."
In his first few hours behind bars, the 24-year-old Clark has looked shell-shocked, Bernard said.
"He's just somber," Bernard added. "It's his first time in jail. This is all new to him. He hasn't cried. He hasn't said a word to anyone."
"We did a strip search of him and checked his mental state. He's in good mental state."
The glimpse into Clark's life behind bars came hours after he was arraigned on murder charges in the slaying of Le.
A clean-shaven Clark glanced nervously at his lawyer and the judge throughout his three-minute arraignment. He did not enter a plea.
New Haven Superior Court Judge Jon Blue set Clark's bail at $3 million.
Just a couple hours earlier, Clark, his head bowed and his hands in cuffs, was led out of a Super 8 Motel in Cromwell, Conn.
"Based on numerous interviews, forensic evidence, and information learned from viewing video surveillance, detectives have secured the arrest warrant for Clark," New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said.
Lewis said Le, 24, was not sexually assaulted. He called her strangulation death a case of "workplace violence" but would not say what triggered the attack.
There are no other suspects, Lewis added.
Le's body was discovered stuffed behind a basement wall inside Yale research lab on Sunday - the same day she had planned to get married on Long Island.
The family of her fiance, Jonathan Widawsky, on Thursday thanked friends, relatives and law enforcement officials for helping them deal with "our tragic loss."
"Our lives have been a whirlwind from the moment we first knew that Annie [was] missing," the family said in a statement. "Annie will live in our hearts forever."
Yale President Richard Levin said Clark's employment history gave no indication he was capable of murder.
"It was very disturbing to think that a university employee might have committed this crime," Levin said. "This says more about the dark side of the human soul than anything else. What happened here could have happened anywhere."
Sources said authorities have linked DNA from the 5-foot-9, 190-pound Clark, who worked in the same Yale building as Le, to the murder.
Clark reportedly flunked a lie detector test and had scratch marks on his chest. Computer records from Yale suggested he was the last person to see Le.
Swipe cards Le and Clark used to move through different areas of college buildings showed they were in the same room shortly after 10 a.m. on Sept. 8, sources said.
Le wasn't seen alive after that, and her card wasn't used again. Clark swiped into the area where she was found strangled five days later in a crawl space, a law enforcement source said.
Cops interviewed Clark several times in the days after Le disappeared, but then he stopped talking with detectives and asked for a lawyer.
A team of investigators staked out Clark at the Cromwell motel through the night following his release from police questioning Wednesday.
He needs some street Justice.
Pretty much covers your options in solitary.
A quiet, likable kid, never in trouble, Asian sympathyzer, no rape and a body put in an odd place.
I'm curious to know how this all shakes out.
That's hardly the description from a high school girlfriend and some current neighbors.
I’m glad to hear that she may not have been raped. One less horrible thing for her fiancé to struggle with. God bless him and both families. She was a beautiful woman.
I'm tired of sick people doing sick things to people.
He's probably just one of the whackos that puts animal life ahead of humans.
Apparently, Le wasn't keeping lab mice in conditions that met Clark's "standards".
She probably made fun of his idiotic animal protectionism and he got mad and killed her.
My theory....
“Clark reportedly flunked a lie detector test and had scratch marks on his chest.”
So if the DNA under her fingernails matches his, he’s toast.
That’s interesting (about the lab mice). I read that several other members of Clark’s family work in the lab as animal technicians.
Save the mice, kill the human. Sounds like a typical left wing wacko philosophy.
Probably, as you surmised, DNA from under her fingernails when he sustained those scratches on his chest.
Her bloody clothes found in the attic. If she was strangled would there be a lot of blood on her clothes? Why remove her clothes and hide them away from the body?
He shoulda watched Forensic Files.
It might well have been HIS blood on her clothes.
While he was strangling her, she was scratching him.
Bless her, she fought hard....
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