A newspaper rack is seen outside the Yale medical complex where missing graduate student Annie Le had her lab, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, in New Haven, Conn. As authorities continued their search for a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be who disappeared several days ago, they said they are now examining potential evidence from a laboratory where she was last seen. Items that could be evidence have been seized and are being analyzed, but none has yet been associated with Annie Le, FBI spokeswoman Kim Mertz said at a news conference Saturday. Mertz would not confirm reports that the items found included bloody clothing.
An undentified man carries a bag out to a car inside a fenced-off area at the Yale medical complex where missing graduate student Annie Le had her lab, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, in New Haven, Conn. The laboratory is the last place Le was seen before vanishing on the morning of September 8th.
A member of the Connecticut State Police canine unit walks with a dog in a park across the street from the Yale medical complex where missing graduate student Annie Le had her lab, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, in New Haven, Conn. The laboratory is the last place Le was seen before vanishing on the morning of September 8th
A Connecticut State Police major crime squad vehicle arrives at the Yale medical complex where missing graduate student Annie Le was last seen, Sunday, Sept 13, 2009, in New Haven, Conn. As authorities continued their search for a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be who disappeared several days ago, they said they are now examining potential evidence from a laboratory where she was last seen. Items that could be evidence have been seized and are being analyzed, but none has yet been associated with Annie Le, FBI spokeswoman Kim Mertz said at a news conference Saturday. Mertz would not confirm reports that the items found included bloody clothing.
Annie Marie Le, 24, with her fiance Jonathan Widawsky. Their wedding was set to be this Sunday in New York City.
Yale University.
Days before her wedding, 24-year-old pharmacology doctoral student Annie Le mysteriously vanishes after entering a lab near Yale University's main campus in New Haven, Conn., to do research
A Connecticut State Police major crime squad vehicle arrives at the Yale medical complex where missing graduate student Annie Le was last seen, Sunday, Sept 13, 2009, in New Haven, Conn. As authorities continued their search for a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be who disappeared several days ago, they said they are now examining potential evidence from a laboratory where she was last seen. Items that could be evidence have been seized and are being analyzed, but none has yet been associated with Annie Le, FBI spokeswoman Kim Mertz said at a news conference Saturday. Mertz would not confirm reports that the items found included bloody clothing.
Police seen searching the incinerator and landfill in search for Annie Le and any clues.
FBI spokeswoman Kim Mertz, left, speaks during a news conference held on the Yale campus on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, in New Haven, Conn. Potential evidence has been seized from the building where a Yale University graduate student was last seen before she vanished days ahead of her wedding, authorities said Saturday.
Annie Le's fiance, Jonathan Widawski, grew up in this Huntington house. Le, a Yale graduate student, went missing on September 8th.
Annie Marie Le and Jonathan Robert Widawsky's wedding invitation. Le, a Yale University graduate student, went missing on September 8th, one week before her wedding on Long Island.
The pharmacology student was last seen Tuesday morning entering her lab at the Yale Medical School complex about a mile from the main campus.
Annie Marie Le, 24, with her fiance Jonathan Widawsky
Annie Le, a 24-year-old Yale University graduate student, vanished less than a week before her wedding on Long Island. Credit: Yale University
An unidentified state police officer stands near dumpsters behind the building at the Yale medical complex where missing graduate student Annie Le had her lab.
Early evening on the Yale campus in New Haven, Conn., on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009. Police and federal authorities are engaged in an ongoing search on and around the campus, for Yale grad student Annie Le who disappeared Thursday.
A surveillance image depicts Annie Le entering 10 Amistad St. on the Yale University campus the morning of her disappearance on September 8th.Officials said that Ms. Le was last seen in a brown skirt and bright green T-shirt entering the Amistad Street lab, and that her purse, containing her cellphone, credit cards and money, was discovered in her office at the nearby Sterling Hall of Medicine.
Annie Le, 24, was last seen leaving her lab class in this building on September 8th. The Yale University graduate student vanished less than a week before her wedding on Long Island.
Handout photo, put out by the Yale Police Department, shows Annie Le, who has disappeared. September 8, 2009.
A sign posted by two Yale graduate students hangs in front of 10 Amistad Street, while police patrol the entrance to the building in New Haven, Conn., Saturday, Sept 12, 2009. The laboratory at 10 Amistad Street is the last place Annie Le, a Yale graduate student was seen, since her disappearance on the morning of September 8th.
An unidentified man enters the Yale Medical complex building where missing graduate student Annie Le had her lab, Saturday, Sept 2, 2009 in New Haven, Conn. Family members have canceled the wedding of the Yale University graduate student who vanished days before her New York nuptials as more than 100 investigators scrambled for clues to her disappearance.
The search for Annie Le (above) has lead to a Hartford landfill.
A flier with photos of Annie Le is posted outside the doors of the building where Le was last seen leaving lab class. The 24-year-old Yale graduate student vanished less than a week before her wedding on Long Island.
Investigators sifted through trash at a Hartford, Conn., incinerator Sunday, looking for any signs of missing Yale graduate student Annie Le, the New Haven Independent reported.
Authorities intensified their search efforts for Le after finding bloody clothing above ceiling tiles in the five-story building where Le worked as a pharmacology graduate student.
The blood-stained clothes were not the clothes Le was last seen wearing, law enforcement sources told the New Haven Register Sunday afternoon. They did not elaborate any further.
Annie Le, the graduate student at Yale University who was reported missing this past Tuesday, left behind important clues for police – her cellular phone, her computer and her purse. Her cell phone can tell police who she talked to, chatted with, Twittered right before she disappeared.
The items have not yet been linked to Le, who was last seen on surveillance video Tuesday, entering the lab building on 10 Amistad Street in New Haven — less than a mile from Yale's main campus.
The FBI said Saturday that only "potential evidence" has been seized in the search for Le, a 24-graduate student who was set to be married Sunday in New York.
Parts of the lab building have been labeled a crime scene, WTNH-TV reported Sunday.
"Items that could potentially be evidence have been seized. None have yet been associated with Annie Le,” FBI Special Agent Kim Mertz said while declining to confirm reports that the evidence included bloody clothing.
"We are not in a position to conclude whether this is a missing persons case or whether criminality is involved," Mertz said.
Last seen
Le was last seen about 10 a.m. Tuesday morning on surveillance camera outside a lab in the Yale School of Medicine complex.
About the same time, she swiped her Yale ID at the facility's entrance. There was no footage of her leaving the building, in spite of a fire alarm that went off about 12:40 p.m. The alarm isn't thought to be connected to her disappearance.
Her purse, cell phone, credit cards and money were found in her office, a few blocks from the lab. She has not contacted her fiance, family or friends since Tuesday.
The New York Daily News, citing an unnamed police source, reported earlier Friday that detectives had questioned a Yale professor. Le, a doctoral student in pharmacology at the Ivy League university, was supposed to attend the professor's class Tuesday afternoon, but the course was canceled shortly before Le was reported missing, according to the Daily News.
But Lorimer told the Yale Daily News later that there was no reason to believe a professor is a suspect in the case.
Pending WeddingMeanwhile, the missing woman's family canceled her Sunday wedding on Long Island, N.Y., according to a supervisor at the hall where the ceremony and reception were to have taken place.
"The wedding is off," Nadeen Fotopoulos, a manager at the North Ritz Club in Syosset, told the News. She said 160 guests were supposed to attend.
"It's very sad," she told the paper. "The hall will be dark Sunday morning."
Le was set to marry her fiancé, Jonathan Widawsky, on Sept. 12th in Syosset, Long Island. They met in the University of Rochester where Le was studying bioscience. Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student, is not a suspect and is cooperating with the investigation.
Detectives were spotted Saturday questioning a man outside the lab where Le worked. When they finished talking, the man got in the front seat of an unmarked car and one of the FBI agents got in the back seat. The car then drove away.
Authorities previously said they had no evidence to indicate foul play in Le's disappearance. More than 100 investigators are working on the case.
On Friday, Yale offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the missing student. Investigators searched her office, the lab facilities where she did research and her apartment.
Investigators were examining security camera footage from some 75 cameras near the building where Le was last spotted.
"They are going frame by frame, looking at every image," Conroy said Friday.
Le, a California native, was to be married to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. The two met as undergraduates at the University of Rochester. Widawsky has been cooperating with the investigation and is not considered a suspect, authorities say.
Investigators scoured the university research building yesterday, with dozens of officials going in and out of the lab on Amistad Street and searching it with German shepherds.
Le is 4-foot-11, 90 pounds and of Asian descent with brown hair and brown eyes.
Following the trash- Searching the incerator and rubbish dumps
FBI agents said they are "following the trash" taken from a medical lab in New Haven to a waste processing plant in Hartford called the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority.
A State Police canine unit was also on scene.
The attention of local, state, and federal investigators remains also on that lab at 10 Amistad Street on Yale's medical campus, the place the 24-year-old from California works and where she was last seen Tuesday morning.
bloody clothes were found in the ceiling inside the lab. Two newspaper reports on Sunday cited a source within the Yale Police Department as saying the clothing was not what Le was wearing when she entered the facility that Tuesday.
"All I will say is that items that could potentially be evidence have been seized. None have yet been associated with Annie Le," FBI Special Agent in charge Kim Mertz said on Saturday. "Until something is associated with Annie Le, I'm not going to speculate."
Investigators sifted through garbage at an incinerator Sunday, looking for clues into the disappearance of a Yale University graduate student who was supposed to be celebrating her wedding day.---------
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