Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Police serve warrants in Yale grad student slaying-Cops searched the home of Yale lab tech Raymond Clark, who is a 'person of interest' murder case


Unidentified Yale students prepare to enter 10 Amistad St. at Yale in New Haven, Conn.It a secured building where swap card is required to enter.


Yale University graduate students leave after setting up a vigil for Annie Le, in New Haven, Conn., on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009.


A sign posted by two Yale graduate students hangs in front of 10 Amistad St., while police patrol the entrance to the building in New Haven, Conn. on Saturday, Sept 12, 2009. The laboratory at 10 Amistad St. is the last place Annie Le, a Yale graduate student was seen, since her disappearance on the morning of Sept.


Officials comb through evidence on Monday after the body of Yale graduate student Annie Le was discovered in a laboratory wall of the building where she worked.




State police took a 'person of interest' away from 40 Ferry Street in Middletown Tuesday night in connection with the Annie Le slaying.


Yale student Annie Le was killed and her body was hidden in a wall of the laboratory she was working in, police said.


Cops searched the home of Yale lab tech Raymond Clark, who is a 'person of interest' in the Annie Le slaying.


Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team don tyvek suits as they enter the CRRA plant, September 13, 2009 in Hartford, Connecticut. State Police and FBI are investigating the case of Yale student Annie Le.


New Haven police officers talk outside a laboratory building where the body of Yale graduate student Annie Le was found.


Annie Marie Le, 24, with her fiance Jonathan Widawsky.


New Haven and Yale police officers are only allowing limited access to the research facility on Amistad Street, September 12, 2009, in New Haven, Connecticut.


Annie Le, 24, a Yale University graduate student, vanished Sept. 8, 2009, less than a week before her wedding on Long Island.


Annie Le's roommate, Natalie Powers, left, is consoled during a candlelight vigil at Yale University on Monday, Sept 14, 2009.


Yale graduate student Annie Le and Huntington native Jonathan Widawsky were to be married Sept. 12 on Long Island. Lee has been missing since Sept. 8, 2009.


A student at Yale University walks on campus Monday, Sept. 14, 2009.



Yale University graduate student Annie Le lived in this house in New Haven, Conn. before she went missing on September 8th.


The research facility on the corner of Amistad and Cedar Street in New Haven where Annie Le was last seen entering the building on a security video camera.



Yale employee Raymond Clark has been identified by police as a "person of interest" in the Annie Le case. Police serve 2 warrant to get DNA samples and search clark's house.150 evidence were collected.


Raymond Clark III, 24, center, is escorted out of an apartment building by police on Tuesday Sept. 15, 2009 in Middletown, Conn.


Cops searched the home of Yale lab tech Raymond Clark, who is a 'person of interest' in the Annie Le slaying.


Yale University President Richard C. Levin, center, speaks to the crowd at the candlelight vigil on Yale's Cross Campus in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Sept 14, 2009. The campus is mourning the loss of graduate student Annie Le, whose body was found Sunday stuffed in a wall of a high-security laboratory building where she worked.


This undated photo provided by Union Mine High School principal Tony DeVille shows Annie Le, left, as one of two 2003 graduates selected as the "Most Likely To Be The Next Einstein." Le's body was found stuffed inside a wall in medical lab building on the Yale campus in New Haven, Conn. Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009


New Haven Police, Connecticut State Police and FBI search for evidence inside a trash container as they investigate the crime scene on Monday Sept. 14, 2009 outside the Amistad Street building where the body of missing student Annie Le was found Sunday at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.


Yale University students and faculty participate in a candlelight vigil for Annie Le in New Haven, Conn. Monday Sept. 14, 2009. Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job Monday in the slaying of Le, a Yale graduate student whose body was found Sunday stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.


Freshman Diana Stoianov, 17, and other students hold a candlelight vigil for graduate student Annie Le on the Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn. on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. Le's body was found in a medical building where she worked, and police are now treating the case as a homicide.


New Haven Conn. police officer Sam Streater stands outside department headquarters Tuesday Sept. 15, 2009 where the media wait for a news conference in connection with the murder of Annie Le, the Yale graduate student whose body was discovered Sunday in a Yale medical lab.


Two unmarked police vehicles and a Middletown police car sit side by side monitoring Warfside Commons apartment complex, the home of a Yale animal research technician who worked with murded student Annie Le, in Middletown, Conn., Tuesday, Sept 15, 2009.


Police say they've executed search warrants on a person of interest in the slaying of 24-year-old Yale graduate student Annie Le.

Investigators in the case of a slain Yale graduate student had been at the home of Raymond Clark earlier Tuesday.

Police discovered Le's body on Sunday in the basement of a research building at Yale's medical school, five days after she vanished.

A state official with firsthand knowledge of the police investigation says Clark is a "person of interest" in the case. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation in Le's killing is ongoing.At a news conference Tuesday evening, New Haven, Conn., Police Chief James Lewis said two search warrents were served, one on the residence and one on Clark himself, indicating investigators were seeking DNA evidence.

"We took him into custody to gather evidence from his body and his person," Lewis said. "If he cooperates, he'll be released this evening."

Two search warrants were issued, Lewis said, one for Clark's home and another for samples of his blood, hair and skin.

"We're also making sure there are not other possible suspects out there," Lewis said.

Approximately 150 pieces of evidence were gathered at the apartment, he said.

Authorities handcuffed Clark, escorteding him from his apartment building.

Clark had access to the highly secure basement laboratory where Annie Le's body was found in a space behind a lab wall on Sunday, the scheduled day of her wedding to a Huntington man. Le, 24, had been missing since last Tuesday.


Autopsy report withheld

The medical examiner did an abrupt about face Tuesday and withheld Le's autopsy results, which would have revealed the woman's exact cause of death.

The medical examiner's office said it was being withheld at the request of the New Haven State's Attorney. The state's attorney did not immediately respond to ABCNews.com to explain his action.

chief medical examiner's office pulled back Tuesday from announcing what killed Le, saying police and prosecutors specifically asked that the information be withheld to aid the probe. The Hartford Courant reported last night that Le died of asphyxiation, but Lewis declined to reveal the cause publicly.

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