This composite photo released by New Haven Police Dept., shows Yale graduate student Annie Le in a video image entering 10 Amistad the morning of her disappearance on the campus at Yale University in new haven, Conn. Sept. 8, 2009. At left is an undated of Le. Police on Sunday said they found what they believe is the body of the graduate student and bride-to-be hidden inside the wall of 10 Amistad, a university building where she was last seen.
A Yale University student carries a copy of the school newspaper as he walks in through the New Haven, Conn. campus Monday Sept. 14, 2009. Police are hunting for the killer who stuffed a body believed to be that of a Yale University graduate student behind a wall in the high-security laboratory building where she worked.
A Yale Daily News newspaper box holds the morning issue, with a headline reporting a body was found on campus the previous evening in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Sept 14, 2009. Police are hunting for the killer who stuffed a body believed to be that of a Yale University graduate student behind a wall in the high-security laboratory building where she worked. Police found the body around 5 p.m. Sunday, on what was to have been 24-year-old Annie Le's wedding day.
Students make their walk during classes on the campus of Yale university in New Haven, Conn., Monday Sept. 14, 2009. Police are hunting for the killer who stuffed a body believed to be that of Yale University graduate student Annie Le behind a wall in the high-security laboratory building where she worked.
A police officer stands at the crime scene at 10 Amistad Street at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Monday Sept. 14, 2009. New Haven Police found a body Sunday at 10 Amistad, the building where missing Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen
Last seen walking into the secure Yale University laboratory in Amrister Road. But never shown going out.
Missing 5 days before wedding. Body found in Yale basement lab.
Annie Le a dynamic ,smart and dedicated worker.
A body found stuffed in a wall at a Yale University laboratory has been identified as Annie Le, a student who went missing days before she was to be married, police said Monday.The body was found in the basement in the wall chase — a deep recess where utilities and cables run between floors. The basement houses rodents, mostly mice, used for scientific testing by multiple Yale researchers, said Robert Alpern, dean of the Yale University School of Medicine.
Le's office was on the third floor of the five-story building, where authorities found her wallet, keys, money and purse.
"The State of Connecticut Medical Examiner's office has determined that the body removed from 10 Amistad Street on Sunday evening is the body of Annie Le who had been missing since September 8," New Haven police said in a statement.
The 24-year-old's body was found late Sunday, the day she had planned to marry Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at Columbia University in New York, police in the university town said.
Following the discovery of a female body presumed to be Le in the building at 10 Amistad St. on Sunday evening — the same day Le was to wed her college sweetheart — friends, family and colleagues are mourning her loss.
Described as sweet, spunky and smart, the 24-year-old pharmacology student and Placerville, Calif., native was scheduled to be married Sunday to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at Columbia University whom she met at the University of Rochester.
"She was just a wonderful person, a great student, driven, vibrant, energetic, well-respected by her teachers and by her peers, one of the best students who's ever attended this school," said Principal Tony DeVille.Potential Suspects
ABC News meanwhile reported that authorities were narrowing their efforts on a suspect lab technician who has failed a lie detector test.
The suspect appeared to have defensive wounds, and bloody clothing removed from the university's Amistad Street laboratory links the killer to the crime, ABC said, citing sources close to the investigation.
Investigators, it said, were looking at a variety of possible suspects, from Yale maintenance employees to people working in the lab and other students. Could be a passionate murder , or attempted rape , or spawned lover and many other theories circulating in Yale. Believed to be insider job since it is a secured Yale facilities requiring swap card to enter the Yale Labs.
In a statement sent to Yale students and staff, Yale Police Chief James Perrotti sought to quiet rumors swirling across the prestigious campus and insisted that no suspects were in custody.
"There are no suspects in custody and no students involved," Perrotti said. "We ask for your patience as we thoroughly investigate this crime."
Yale Laboratories is a secured building?
The building is a “labyrinth of laboratories” used for tests on animals, said Stacey Demento, 26, a Ph.D student. The facility can only be accessed by swiping key cards, a security measure in place because of concerns about animal-rights activists, said Rachael Sirriani, 24, a postdoctoral student in diagnostic radiology.
“I think it’s scary, because the building is so secure,” Sirriani said. “It’s really impossible for it to have been a random person. It had to be someone familiar with her schedule and other people’s schedules.”
Nearly all of the basement animal research floor where Le's remains were found can be accessed only by students, faculty, staff and lab technicians who have been given specific permission to be there, student researchers said.
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