Yale Suspect Scolded Victim Over Lab Mice

Lawsuit: University should have done more to protect murder victim

(NEWSER) - Yale University could have, and should have, done more to protect Annie Le and other women on campus, Le’s family claims in a lawsuit filed yesterday. The family is suing for wrongful death over the murder of Le, who was killed by a co-worker at a campus lab in 2009. Yale has “long taken inadequate steps to ensure the safety and security of women on its campus,” the family’s attorneys said in a statement, according to the Hartford Courant . The lawsuit claims that sexual attacks and harassment are “well-documented and long-standing” problems at Yale. More»

'She supports him,' attorney says

(NEWSER) - Though her fiancee is in jail awaiting trial for the brutal murder of a Yale grad student , Jennifer Hromadka still visits Raymond Clark every few days, the AP reports. Hromadka visited Clark four times in the first half of January and nine times each in November and December, a Freedom of Information act request revealed. Clark, 26, is charged with strangling 24-year-old Annie Le—who worked with him as a lab tech—and stuffing her body into a wall. More»

May pave way for new drugs, scientists say

(NEWSER) - American scientists have identified a gene that appears to play a key role in the onset of depression , a finding which may help researchers develop new treatments. A team from Yale University found that a gene called MPK-1 is twice as active in those who suffer from depression. The gene works as an "off-switch," they say, controlling a "cascade" of chemicals needed for healthy brain function, the AFP notes. More»

(NEWSER) - Annie Le's family tried to reconcile the zest with which she embraced life with the senseless brutality of her death yesterday in a private funeral service held in California. "We could ask a thousand whys for the rest of our life," said her pastor, while Vivian Van Le wished her slain daughter "an eternal, blessed sleep" in a poem written in Vietnamese and reached out to her would-be son-in-law: "Jon, even now, Annie is gone, but I still have you." More»

Yale student's bones broken so she could be crammed into wall

(NEWSER) - Annie Le’s killer broke her bones and mangled her body to fit her into a hole in the wall the size of a computer monitor, an anonymous source tells the New York Post. “He just crushed her in there,” the source says. “She was like mush—she was so smashed up you couldn’t recognize her.” The source says Le’s body was hidden in a utility space in a bathroom wall near her basement lab. More»