Raymond Clark III, 24, is driven away from an apartment building by police on Tuesday Sept. 15, 2009 in Middletown, Conn. Police released the Yale University animal research technician early Wednesday after collecting DNA samples and questioning him in the killing of graduate student Annie Le who worked in the same lab.
Raymond Clark III, 24, rear, is escorted out of an apartment building by police on Tuesday Sept. 15, 2009 in Middletown, Conn. Police on Tuesday raided the apartment of Raymond Clark III, a man they call a person of interest in the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le. Two search warrants for DNA and other physical evidence were served at the apartment.
Annie Le found died from asphyxiation . Body behind wall in basement in Yale Lab.Suspect Raymond Clark's job as an animal-services technician at Yale put him in contact with Le, who worked for a Yale laboratory that conducted experiments on mice. She was part of a research team headed by her faculty adviser, Anton Bennett, that focused on enzyme research that could have implications in cancer, diabetes and muscular dystrophy. Members of the team have declined to comment on the case or their work.
Raymond Clark 24 is the police termed as 'person in interest' in the murder case of Annie Le who's body is found behind the wall in the basement of the secured Yale Labs university. Clarks work as the lab assistants. Police serve 2 warrants to collect clark's DNA and evidence in his house.
Murdered Yale University student Annie Le was asphyxiated by her killer, according to an autopsy report.
Police say they're watching a hotel room in Connecticut where a "person of interest" in the killing of a Yale University graduate student has been staying.
Officers are outside a hotel in Cromwell, about 25 miles north of New Haven. Cromwell Police Capt. Roy Nelson says the officers are helping in the investigation into the death of 24-year-old Annie Le.
Broadcast reports say Yale lab technician Raymond Clark III has been staying at the hotel since being released from police custody early Wednesday. Police have called Clark a "person of interest" in the case and have collected DNA and other physical evidence from him.
Twenty-four-year-old Ms Le's body was found on Sunday stuffed into a wall cavity on campus, after she was reported missing last week.
On Monday, Connecticut's chief medical examiner confirmed a homicide case.
Police earlier detained and released without charge a 24-year-old lab technician, Raymond Clark, described as a "person of interest" in the case.
This does not mean that he is legally a suspect.
He was taken into custody after police obtained a warrant to search his house in Middletown, Connecticut.
New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said the DNA samples voluntarily given by Mr Clark would be compared with more than 150 pieces of evidence, taken from the scene at the Yale medical school research building. Clark, 24, who worked in the animal research lab where Le studied, had been held by police in New Haven, while they obtained a sample of his genetic material, New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said at a news conference. Clark left the station with his lawyer at about 3 a.m. today after he was held for five hours, the police said. Clark did “custodial-type work” in the lab building, such as cleaning mouse cages, Lewis said.
New Haven police said they hadn’t received any prior complaints about Clark.
“Never,” said officer Joseph Avery, a spokesman for the department, when asked in an interview if Clark had ever come to the department’s attention.
Asked if there were other suspects or people of interest police were investigating, Avery said, “We are looking at a lot of possibilities.”
Police left Clark’s apartment in Middletown, Connecticut, this morning after an overnight search. Clark was taken away from the apartment last night while neighbors leaned over a railing and cheered, residents said. Authorities towed away a red Ford Mustang that neighbors said Clark used, the Associated Press reported.
"We're going to narrow this down," Mr Lewis told reporters. "We're going to do this as quickly as we can."
Annie Le was reported missing last week. She had been due to get married on the day her body was discovered.
The authorities say repeated searches had turned up nothing until a sniffer dog found a body stuffed in a deep recess within a basement wall - in an area where cables, pipes and ducts run between floors.
The office of the state chief medical examiner, Dr Wayne Carver, said the death of Annie Le was caused by "traumatic asphyxia due to neck compression."
Reports have speculated over the exact cause of death, from strangulation to other forms of pressure-induced asphyxiation, possibly by a pipe or other similar heavy object.
Police say it was a targeted killing and other students are not in danger.
Ms Le's fiance is not a suspect and has helped police with the investigation.
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