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NEWS ABOUT: Annie Le

Annie Le stories: 25 news summaries

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'A THOUSAND WHYS'

 Annie Le's Family Bids Farewell 


Sep 27, 09 7:27 AM CDT
(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... More »

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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

Sep 21, 09 12:36 PM CDT
(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... More »

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 Experts See 
 Professional 
 Jealousy in 
 Yale Killing 

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

Sep 20, 09 6:39 PM CDT
(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 "... More »

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OPINION

 Ivy League Crimes 
 Are More Equal 
 Than Others 

To grab headlines, commit or fall victim to murder at Harvard or Yale

Sep 18, 09 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The killing of Yale grad student Annie Le dominated headlines around the world, "but every murder is uniquely dramatic," Jack Shafer writes for Slate. Why this one? It involves a magic word. "Three murders at a Midwestern college equal one murder at Harvard or Yale," Shafer... More »

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OPINION

 Another 
 Murder 
 Defies Race 
 Stereotypes 

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

Sep 18, 09 8:37 AM CDT
(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 "... More »

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 Clark Tried to 
 Cover His Tracks 
 as Cops Searched 

DNA evidence led to arrest for Annie Le's murder

Sep 18, 09 7:37 AM CDT
(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... More »

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 Co-Workers: 
 Clark's a 
 'Control 
 Freak' 

Lab tech placed in solitary after being charged with murdering Annie Le

Sep 18, 09 3:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Raymond Clark's co-workers at the Yale animal lab where he worked say the murder suspect was a domineering "control freak" who considered the animal cages his territory, a law enforcement source tells AP. Clark was placed in solitary confinement yesterday after being charged with murdering grad student Annie Le,... More »

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 Clark Charged With Murder 

Yale lab tech accused of killing Annie Le arraigned, enters no plea

Sep 17, 09 11:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Raymond Clark III has been charged with the murder of Yale grad student Annie Le, the Hartford Courant reports. Clark, a lab technician at Yale, was arrested this morning at a motel and arraigned in Superior Court in New Haven. Clark, 24, did not submit a plea. His bail remains... More »

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(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... More »

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 DNA Links 
 Lab Tech to 
 Yale Murder 

Raymond Clark to be arrested today

Sep 17, 09 2:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - DNA from the Yale lab tech suspected in the murder of grad student Annie Le has been linked to her death, sources tell the New Haven Register. Raymond Clark, 24, is expected to be arrested today, and is currently under police surveillance at the Connecticut motel where he's staying. The... More »

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 Yale Suspect 
 Clark Was Last 
 to See Le Alive 

Records of their computer swipe cards show he entered lab just after she did

Sep 16, 09 9:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Raymond Clark, the prime suspect in the killing of Yale graduate student Annie Le, was the last person to see her alive, records of their computer swipe cards show. A source familiar with the records tells the Hartford Courant that Le used the card to gain access to the same... More »

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(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... More »

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(AP) - Connecticut's state medical examiner says Yale University grad student Annie Le died of traumatic asphyxiation, meaning she was strangled. Dr. Wayne Carver's office released a short statement about the autopsy today, three days after 24-year-old Le was found hidden inside the basement wall of a Yale medical school research building.... More »

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UPDATED

 Annie Le Suspect Is Released

Raymond Clark is engaged to live-in girlfriend Jennifer Hromadka

Sep 16, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Raymond Clark, the lab tech "person of interest" who was picked up by police last night in connection with Yale grad student Annie Le’s murder, was released this morning after DNA samples were taken, CNN reports. Clark shares his apartment with the girlfriend he is engaged to marry... More »

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(Newser) - Connecticut authorities took a “person of interest” into custody tonight in connection with the investigation into the death of a Yale graduate student, WCBS-TV reports. Raymond Clark, a lab technician who worked with Annie Le, also 24, has been in authorities’ sights the past few days; they have a... More »

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 Police Suspect 
 Lab Tech in 
 Yale Killing 

Cops deny reports that a student was suspected in Annie Le's murder

Sep 15, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police suspect a Yale lab technician in the killing of student Annie Le, rather than another student, as had previously been reported, the New Haven Independent reports. Police were investigating the employee, who works with animal testing, even before they found Le’s body, curious about the scratch marks... More »

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 High-Profile 
 Murders 
 Haunt Yale 

Race and class issues feature heavily in killings from past

Sep 15, 09 5:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Graduate student Annie Le's murder is just the latest in a series of high-profile killings to rock Yale University in recent history, reports Gawker, which dubs the university "Murdertown of the Ivies." The Yale killings too often feature a troubling mix of race, class, and bungling by authorities,... More »

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(Newser) - Hundreds of students and faculty members turned out tonight on the campus of Yale University, NECN reports, for a candlelight vigil in memory of Annie Le, the 24-year-old grad student found dead yesterday on the New Haven, Conn., campus. Le’s body was discovered inside a wall in a lab... More »

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UPDATED

Student Named as Suspect in Yale Homicide

Has defensive wounds, failed polygraph test; may not be fellow Yalie

Sep 14, 09 3:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police have a suspect in the slaying of a Yale graduate student: another student—not necessarily enrolled at Yale—who bears defensive wounds and failed a polygraph test, MSNBC reports. An autopsy performed today confirmed that the body found yesterday is Annie Le's. Police have turned their focus to finding... More »

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UPDATED

 Yale Student's 
 Body Found: Cops 

Annie Le's remains recovered on her would-be wedding day

Sep 13, 09 8:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - A body believed to be that of a Yale graduate student missing since Tuesday has been found, the New Haven Independent reports. Annie Le, 24, had last been seen in the building that housed her lab; "we are assuming" the remains found within a wall in the basement... More »

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