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On Facebook last week, an enraged "friend" who shall remain nameless lashed out wildly in her status report against Raymond Clark III, the man accused of murdering Yale University student Annie Le earlier this month. My pal evidently wanted all of her Facebook friends to know that she wanted Clark executed now, right away, for the heinous crime for which he has been charged. Never mind that Clark hasn’t yet been tried, much less convicted; never mind that he’s not yet been convicted, never mind sentenced. Never mind that my “friend” lives 3,000 miles away from Connecticut and wouldn’t know...

Police investigating the slaying of a Yale graduate student zeroed in on a "person of interest" Tuesday after keeping tabs on an ever-tightening circle of people connected to the medical lab where her body was found stuffed behind a wall. Authorities on the case have been tight-lipped almost since the minute 24-year-old Annie Le was reported missing Sept. 8, just a few days before her wedding day. Police say they have ruled out her fiancee, a Columbia University graduate student, but they have provided little additional information—other than to deny reports that a suspect was in custody. On Tuesday, investigators...

Along with the defensive wounds and the flunked lie detector test, investigators looking into the murder of Yale student Annie Le focused on a lab technician named Raymond Clark because of e-mails about the care of laboratory mice. In the e-mails, Clark is said to criticize Le for not adhering to the protocols for tending the mice kept in the basement as part of her lab's ongoing experiments. Le is said to have responded in a conciliatory tone, promising to keep to the protocols. Investigators wonder if Clark was not satisfied, if resentment suddenly flared to rage, if as crazy...

Ray Clark Was Charged Today In The Murder of Annie Le, Who Was Set to Be Married Last WeekendConflicting images of accused murderer Raymond Clark III are emerging in the wake of his arrest in the strangulation of Yale grad Annie Le. There is the Ray Clark his high school friends remember: competive baseball player who was respectful of authority, volunteered to help the homeless and raised money for cancer stricken patients. He was also a member of the Asian Awareness Club. Others, mostly those from more recent days, saw a darker side of the 24-year-old Clark: withdrawn, officious at...

Police have matched DNA from a Yale research technician to evidence found at the crime scene on the Ivy League campus where graduate student Annie Le was found murdered this week, police sources reportedly said late Wednesday. According to the New Haven Register, police have obtained, or are now in the process of obtaining, an arrest warrant against Raymond Clark III, 24, who had been named a "person of interest" in the case. New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery said early Thursday that an arrest was expected "soon."

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fiefdom.

Lab Tech's DNA Matched Evidence In Annie Le Slaying, Source Says Raymond Clark III, whose DNA matched evidence at the Yale crime scene, tried to cover his tracks, a source says. By Alaine Griffin, Dave Altimari and David Owens September 18, 2009 Reporting from New Haven, Conn. - As FBI agents and Yale University police combed the basement of a laboratory building for missing bride-to-be Annie Le, the man accused of killing her moved among them in an apparent effort to cover his tracks, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said. That behavior aroused suspicions about Raymond Clark...

New Details Emerge About Clark's PersonalityRaymond Clark is spending his first full day in a high-security prison, refusing to talk to cops about the crime for which he stands accused: the killing of Yale grad student Annie Le. But a picture of Clark is emerging as an overbearing "control freak" who was upset with Le's handling of the mice in the lab where they both worked. Clark's co-workers at a Yale University laboratory told police that Clark would have confrontations with scientists and viewed the lab as his territory, a source told The Associated Press, leading police to question if...

The Yale lab technician busted yesterday in the murder of brilliant grad student Annie Le may have had help hiding her body -- and there could be another arrest, it was reported last night. Cops are interrogating another employee who works in the lab where Raymond Clark allegedly killed Le, sources told Hartford TV station WTIC/Fox61. It was not known who that employee might be. Clark's fiancée, sister and brother-in-law all work at the lab. The bombshell report came after Clark, 24, was arrested yesterday, hours after a State Police lab confirmed that DNA samples taken from him matched evidence...

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...

Here is video of an ex-neighbor of Raymond Clark III - the man just arrested for the murder of Yale Grad Student Annie Le - talking about her impressions of him. She described him as "a strange bird." She said when looking him in the eye, you "saw nothing." She also said he was "very controlling of his girlfriend," with whom he lived for a time in an apartment on the third floor of the same house where this neighbor lived. . . (VIDEO)

A Yale University lab technician was arrested Thursday and charged with the suffocation death of a graduate student whose body was found stuffed in a research building wall on what would have been her wedding day. New Haven police said they arrested 24-year-old Raymond Clark III at the Super 8 hotel in Cromwell, about 25 miles north of the Ivy League campus. Clark had been staying at the hotel since he was released early Wednesday by police, who had served search warrants looking for evidence linking him to Annie Le's death. New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said there are...

The handsome Yale lab technician Raymond Clark quizzed by cops in connection with the grisly slaying of brilliant grad student Annie Le allegedly forced an ex-girlfriend to have sex with him, according to a new report. The New Haven Independent reports on its Web site today that Clark dated the woman, who has not been identified, about six years ago when they were both in high school. According to a 2003 police report obtained by the newspaper earlier this week, she told police he forced her to have sex with him and he “confronted” her -- when against his wishes...

Here is a video report on the decision by New Haven, Connecticut police to take into custody a "person of interest" in the murder of Yale Student Annie Le. They have taken into custody a 24 year-old Lab technician - Raymond Clark. He was served warrants for his apartment and his person. . . . (VIDEO)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) Sources have identified the person of interest in the killing of a Yale Graduate Student as Yale lab tech Raymond Clark. -- Sources told Eyewitness News that police had identified a Yale lab technician as a person of interest in Le’s killing. They said the technician had defense wounds on his chest and had failed a polygraph test. Eyewitness News attempted to contact Clark, but he did not answer his phone.

There's been a big break in the Annie Le investigation, as a New Haven television station is reporting that Ray Clark, a animal technician at Yale, has been named a person of interest by police. Clark worked at the lab where Le worked, and had access to the basement area where Le's body was discovered on Sunday. According to previous reports, Clark had taken and and failed a polygraph, and had defensive wounds on his chest. His Wharfside apartment has been under surveillance by police since Monday. His apartment manager says Clark hasn't been home since last Thursday, around the...

Connecticut police are searching the apartment of a Yale University animal research technician, who was named late Tuesday night as a person of interest in the murder of a 24-year-old grad student. Raymond Clark was taken into custody by police Tuesday night after police served a warrant on his home and his body.

Laboratory Technician Murdered Yale Student, Police Believe Police suspect a laboratory technician murdered Annie Le, a Yale University postgraduate student whose body was hidden inside the wall of a campus building, investigators have claimed. By Tom Leonard in New York 15 Sep 2009 The technician, who reportedly worked in the same molecular biology laboratory building as Miss Le, had failed a polygraph test this week and had wounds on his chest suggesting a violent struggle, police sources told various news organisations. The body of Miss Le, 24, was discovered on Sunday – the day on which she was supposed to...

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — Yale lab technician Raymond Clark, 24, has emerged as a person of interest in the probe into the sensational slaying of brilliant university grad student Annie Le, sources said today. Cops descended on the apartment building in which he lives with his girlfriend in Middletown, Conn., about 20 miles outside of the university campus in New Haven, keeping it under surveillance and pulling over cars arriving and leaving, questioning drivers.

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, the sources 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 and Sunday was to have been her wedding day. An autopsy was being...