Annie Le
Annie Le, a graduate student in pharmacology at Yale, disappeared on September 8, 2009, from a research building on the New Haven campus. On September 13, hours after the missing doctoral student was to have been married, investigators found a body stuffed inside a wall of the building where she was last seen alive.
The New Haven police said the authorities were assuming the remains were of Ms. Le. The discovery ended a six-day search that began with speculation of a runaway bride but quickly gave way to near certainty that a crime had been committed.
On the day Ms. Le's absence was first noted she was recorded on surveillance video entering the new four-story lab building at 10 Amistad Street, down the street from Yale New Haven Hospital and about 10 blocks south of the main Yale campus. A young woman, 4-foot-11 and 90 pounds, she was wearing a brown skirt and bright green T-shirt. Her purse, containing her ID, cellphone and money was found in her office in another Yale building a few blocks away. Word of Ms. Le's disappearance sent waves of dismay through the Yale campus.
Over the following days, investigators pored over hundreds of hours of video from dozens of cameras, hoping to catch a glimpse of Ms. Le. By Sept. 10, Yale officials said that more than 100 law enforcement officials were looking for Ms. Le, and a $10,000 reward was posted for her whereabouts.
Two days later, the police reportedly found bloody clothes above ceiling tiles in the lab building on Amistad. Armed with blueprints, investigators continued searching every literal nook and cranny of the building for clues. On Sept. 13, the body was found behind a basement wall in a chase, the hollow space that carries utilities from one floor to another.
The authorities did not identify any suspects, and did not provide any details on the condition of the body found or how the woman died. The New Haven police said the slaying did not appear to be a random act.
Ms. Le was from Placerville, Calif., a town of about 10,000 people in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester, where she met Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student at Columbia University whose family lives on Long Island. Mr. Widawsky was not considered a suspect in the case. They planned to be married on Sunday, Sept. 13, at the North Ritz Club in Syosset, N.Y., a catering hall by a big pond and a gazebo, set well back from the highway. More than 160 people had been set to attend.
ARTICLES ABOUT ANNIE LE
Police Have ‘Person of Interest’ in Yale Killing
The New Haven police have a lab technician, Raymond Clark III, in custody, but did not call him a suspect.
September 16, 2009
A Promising Life, Ended in a Lab Basement
A body found in the wall of a science building at Yale has been identified as that of Annie Le, a 24-year-old graduate student who had been missing since last Tuesday.
September 15, 2009
Police Seeking Missing Yale Student Find Body
The six-day search for a missing Yale graduate student appeared to end on Sunday with the discovery of a body in the wall of a laboratory building where she was last seen, the police said.
September 14, 2009Items Seized in Yale Grad Student's Disappearance
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Potential evidence has been seized from the building where a Yale University graduate student was last seen before she vanished days ahead of her wedding, authorities said Saturday.
September 12, 2009Police Search for Missing Yale Student
State police with bloodhounds searched the area where Annie Le was last seen.
September 11, 2009
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