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Killer 'Smashed' Le's Body to Fit in 8-Inch Hole

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

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 21, 2009 12:36 PM CDT
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(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.

The source believes accused killer Ray Clark is indeed responsible, and says he accidentally tripped the fire alarm after hiding her body. “He was ghost white,” by the time the building was evacuated, the source says. “His answers weren’t making any sense.” Investigators found the 8-inch-deep hole Le’s body was hidden in when they noticed a “foul odor.” The hole, which housed water pipes, was behind a metal panel.

A police officer stands outside a cordoned-off area surrounding the research building at the Yale University School of Medicine, where grad student Annie Le's body was found, Sept. 14, 2009.
A police officer stands outside a cordoned-off area surrounding the research building at the Yale University School of Medicine, where grad student Annie Le's body was found, Sept. 14, 2009.   (AP Photo/George Ruhe)
,Yale graduate student Annie Le who disappeared on Sept. 8, 2009. Raymond Clark III, 24, a Yale lab technician was arrested Thursday Sept. 17, 2009 and charged with murdering Le.
,Yale graduate student Annie Le who disappeared on Sept. 8, 2009. Raymond Clark III, 24, a Yale lab technician was arrested Thursday Sept. 17, 2009 and charged with murdering Le.   (AP Photo/New Haven Police Dept.)
Yale graduate student Annie Le is seen 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.
Yale graduate student Annie Le is seen 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.   (AP Photo/New Haven Police Dept.)
In this Thursday Sept. 17, 2009 photo released by the New Haven, Conn. Mayor's Office, Raymond Clark III is shown.
In this Thursday Sept. 17, 2009 photo released by the New Haven, Conn. Mayor's Office, Raymond Clark III is shown.   (AP Photo/New Haven Mayor's Office)
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thedude2888
Sep 23, 2009 5:22 AM CDT
LOOOOOL AMERICA LOOOL!!!!!!!
dearlizzie
Sep 22, 2009 12:41 PM CDT
We just don't know what happened. Ms. Le was tiny. She weighed 90 lbs was 4' 11', smaller than most 12 year-old children. So it is possible that any grabbing or choke hold could have accidentally compressed such a tiny young woman's windpipe, which is how the coroner's report actually reads. What don't know if Mr. Clark was indeed controlling or if graduate students were self-centered, haughty, arrogant, disrespectful, neglectful & unfeeling -- or maybe both are true and the tech & students were locked in an unhealthy dynamic that a supervisor never addressed or de-escalated. And it's "bastard"
dearlizzie
Sep 22, 2009 12:33 PM CDT
Although this is gruesome news indeed, Ms. Le's family was surely informed by the medical examiner. Protecting them is neither the responsibility of the news media nor necessary. This information will surely come to light at the trial and the desecration to this young woman's corpse will be an important fact during sentencing. We will come to hear of this news so why not now? Further, many (me included) surmised something dreadful had been done to Ms. Le in that the police officials kept referring to her "remains" and never once said body, which is more typical . I am glad to know and not to have to imagine even worse. Poor, poor Ms. Le.

 
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