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

Did Raymond Clark kill Annie Le because she was moving on?

(NEWSER) - Ray Clark could have strangled Annie Le because she was moving on to a satisfying career while he had to clean mouse cages in a lab, criminologists tell ABC News. If Clark is guilty, he may have suffered from what experts call "relative deprivation"—a mindset created "when you are measuring your own self worth against others and you come out on the bottom," says criminologist Jack Levin. 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»

(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»

Annie Le case latest to stir ugly racial fears, which proved false

(NEWSER) - When news of Annie Le's murder first emerged, scaremongering commentators seized on the dangers of studying on an "urban" campus, blogs author and sportswriter Jeff Pearlman—by which they didn't mean "an endless stream of Starbucks storefronts." Lo and behold, her alleged murderer is a "khaki-wearing white guy" named Raymond Clark III. The "hidden message" was clear to Pearlman—"Beware of the blacks!"—but "once again, they didn't come." More»