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September 17, 2009, Thursday
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POLICE released a Yale University animal research technician yesterday after collecting DNA samples and questioning him in the killing of a graduate student who worked in the same lab.
Raymond Clark III was taken into custody on Tuesday night at his apartment in Middletown, Connecticut, and was released into the custody of his attorney at 3am yesterday, New Haven police said.
Police left the apartment yesterday morning after searching the scene for hours overnight looking for evidence in the killing of Annie Le.
Clark has been described as a person of interest, not a suspect, in Le's death. Her body was found stuffed behind a wall in the laboratory last Sunday, which was to have been her wedding day.
Overnight, state police officers sorted through items on a card table set up outside the apartment's door. Police started tearing down the yellow crime scene as daylight broke about 6:45am. At that point there had been no sign of Clark's return home.
Investigators are hoping to figure out within days whether Clark can be ruled out as the killer.
New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said police were hoping to compare DNA taken from Clark's hair, fingernails and saliva to more than 150 pieces of evidence collected from the crime scene.
That evidence may also be compared at a state lab with DNA samples given voluntarily from other people with access to the crime scene.
"We're going to narrow this down," Lewis said. "We're going to do this as quickly as we can."
Police have collected more than 700 hours of videotape and sifted through computer records documenting who entered what parts of the research building where Le was found dead.
Le worked for a Yale laboratory that conducted experiments on mice, and investigators found her body stuffed in the basement wall of a facility that housed research animals.
An autopsy was under way to verify the cause of the death.
School complex
The building where the body was found is part of the university medical school complex about a mile from Yale's main campus and is accessible to Yale personnel with identification cards. Some 75 video surveillance cameras monitor all doorways.
"It's a frightening idea that there's a murderer walking around on campus," said 20-year-old Muneeb Sultan, a chemistry student. "I'm shocked that it happened in a Yale building that had key-card access. It's really sad."
Yale President Richard Levin offered support to Le's family and her fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The couple was to marry on New York's Long Island.
Raymond Clark III was taken into custody on Tuesday night at his apartment in Middletown, Connecticut, and was released into the custody of his attorney at 3am yesterday, New Haven police said.
Police left the apartment yesterday morning after searching the scene for hours overnight looking for evidence in the killing of Annie Le.
Clark has been described as a person of interest, not a suspect, in Le's death. Her body was found stuffed behind a wall in the laboratory last Sunday, which was to have been her wedding day.
Overnight, state police officers sorted through items on a card table set up outside the apartment's door. Police started tearing down the yellow crime scene as daylight broke about 6:45am. At that point there had been no sign of Clark's return home.
Investigators are hoping to figure out within days whether Clark can be ruled out as the killer.
New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said police were hoping to compare DNA taken from Clark's hair, fingernails and saliva to more than 150 pieces of evidence collected from the crime scene.
That evidence may also be compared at a state lab with DNA samples given voluntarily from other people with access to the crime scene.
"We're going to narrow this down," Lewis said. "We're going to do this as quickly as we can."
Police have collected more than 700 hours of videotape and sifted through computer records documenting who entered what parts of the research building where Le was found dead.
Le worked for a Yale laboratory that conducted experiments on mice, and investigators found her body stuffed in the basement wall of a facility that housed research animals.
An autopsy was under way to verify the cause of the death.
School complex
The building where the body was found is part of the university medical school complex about a mile from Yale's main campus and is accessible to Yale personnel with identification cards. Some 75 video surveillance cameras monitor all doorways.
"It's a frightening idea that there's a murderer walking around on campus," said 20-year-old Muneeb Sultan, a chemistry student. "I'm shocked that it happened in a Yale building that had key-card access. It's really sad."
Yale President Richard Levin offered support to Le's family and her fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The couple was to marry on New York's Long Island.
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