Experts See Professional Jealousy in Yale Killing

(NEWSER) - If Ray Clark did, as police apparently suspect, kill Annie Le, investigators have an odd theory about his motivation, the New York Daily News reports. In emails that caught their attention, the Yale lab technician scolded Le about her lax handling of mice in the lab. Le apologized, but investigators wonder if resentment over the issue may have turned Clark into a killer. A co-worker described him to the New York Times as "very officious and very demanding" over minor issues and said he often gave grad students a difficult time. 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»

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»

DNA evidence led to arrest for Annie Le's murder

(NEWSER) - Before his arrest, murder suspect Raymond Clark tried to cover his tracks even as FBI agents and police searched the Yale lab where he worked. Clark, who has been charged with the murder of grad student Annie Le, was seen cleaning areas where Le had been before she died and trying to hide blood-spattered equipment, the Hartford Courant reports. More»

(AP) - After days of suspicion, police arrested Raymond Clark III today in the killing of 24-year-old Yale University graduate student Annie Le. He was taken into custody at a hotel where he was staying in Cromwell, Conn., about about 25 miles north of New Haven, and his bond is set for $3 million. Le's body was found Sunday stuffed in a basement wall of the lab building where they both worked. More»