Posted on 09/16/2009 1:01:51 PM PDT by pissant
Along with the defensive wounds and the flunked lie detector test, investigators looking into the murder of Yale student Annie Le focused on a lab technician named Raymond Clark because of e-mails about the care of laboratory mice.
In the e-mails, Clark is said to criticize Le for not adhering to the protocols for tending the mice kept in the basement as part of her lab's ongoing experiments.
Le is said to have responded in a conciliatory tone, promising to keep to the protocols. Investigators wonder if Clark was not satisfied, if resentment suddenly flared to rage, if as crazy as it may seem this was a case of mice and murder.
Investigators also noted swipe card records that are said to show Clark usually went through the building in an orderly fashion in accordance with the demands of his work.
But the swipe card records from the day Le disappeared show Clark moving from room to room with no apparent logic, at points going to places unrelated to his job.
Such a pattern might fit somebody who was frenetically searching for a place to hide a body.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Probably something like that. Shame.
The mice thing Might have been merely a “contact” excuse.
While we are supposed to be “innocent until proven guilty” I must admit this isn’t looking too good for him.
What proof do they have that it was Clark who did the card swiping?
I like the nutty girlfriend for this murder. Just a theory...but jealous rage at a perceived relationship between Le and Clark seems more likely to me.
Just a murderer
Maybe he wanted her to give him the ‘gerbil’ treatment, and she refused
It is always bad for a movement when one of its members resorts to murder as it looks to be the case at Yale and was the case with Scott Roeder.
Is it possible that someone else could have stolen or ID-swiped his card? That might be the only defense he has.
I think there’s more to it than that.
He had marks on his chest consistent with a defensive struggle and also failed a lie detector test.
Except for the defensive wounds reported to be on his chest, which would be more consistent with his having strangled her.
Exactly. He was obsessed with her and the feigned anger about the mice was a way to get her attention. Seems like a logical explanation.
I don’t believe he could use the excuse of a stolen id. I believe they have him on surveillance entering and then later leaving the building during the fire drill and looking distraught (from the article).
I would start with the security surveillance tapes of people entering and leaving the building that day. It could clear him or help convict him.
BTT will comment on later
i’m guessing the emails were an excuse to have contact with her. he dug her.
Add to that, the fact that few people have access to this building, and even fewer were swiped in.....doesn’t look good for him IMO.
If it is him, they need to kill him.
Or maybe his nutty girlfriend went off on him and marked him up during a fight before she went medieval on Annie Le.
We just have to wait for it all to come out. Regardless, it'll wind up being a CSI: NY story line.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,551200,00.html
Police have matched DNA from a Yale research technician to evidence found at the crime scene on the Ivy League campus where graduate student Annie Le was found murdered this week, police sources reportedly said late Wednesday.
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This refers to Clark - however, I still think his whacky fiancee is somehow involved.
forgot to add this:
Clark is a Yale staff member who did custodial work at the laboratory, such as cleaning mouse cages. He has three relatives — his fiance, his sister and brother-in-law — that do similar work at the Yale lab.
Could very well be. It will be a fascinating story, to be sure. I feel sorry for Miss Le's family. This must be so heart wrenching.
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