Posted on 09/18/2009 4:37:02 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Yale lab technician busted yesterday in the murder of brilliant grad student Annie Le may have had help hiding her body -- and there could be another arrest, it was reported last night.
Cops are interrogating another employee who works in the lab where Raymond Clark allegedly killed Le, sources told Hartford TV station WTIC/Fox61.
It was not known who that employee might be.
Clark's fiancée, sister and brother-in-law all work at the lab.
The bombshell report came after Clark, 24, was arrested yesterday, hours after a State Police lab confirmed that DNA samples taken from him matched evidence found at the Amistad facility.
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My thought from the beginning.
Evidently there is other unexplained DNA on Annie.
Not to take away from the horror of her death, but has anyone heard more on this Clark guy? Is he on the lower end of the IQ scale? Apparently, he was mad at her for mistreating the lab animals. What had she done?
Another Freeper had the theory she caught the guy stealing. Considering his girlfriend, sister and brother-in-law all worked there, they might all have been involved in the theft.
I had read she was asphyxiated. If this is the case, I’m wondering if sex was in play?
There’s a story in the NY Daily about the evidence, mentions the suspect losing his distinctive green pen in a crevice and trying to retrieve it with gum and hooks later. Sounds like a tv crime drama, that an item he used for pride and uniqueness should by sheer chance go lost and betray him.
But do not use the Huff Post for news.
From what I have read, sex was not a factor in this crime.
It seems this Clark guy, who was nothing more than a janitor, was IN CHARGE of caring for the mice. He cleaned cages and fed the mice. He seems to be one of those types who was constantly trying to elevate his role in the Lab. For instance, if the research the REAL scientific team did yielded a cure for cancer this clown would seek status for having been “part of the process”.
He was, to quote one of my favorite lines from DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, a “namless number on a list that was later misplaced”.
Reminds me of the episode of “Columbo” where the late, greate John Cassavetes played a murdering orchestra conductor who lost his signature label garnishment at the scene of his paramour’s murder.
“Etude in Black” (1972)
Exactly! That pesky carnation...
And it may have been on Columbo where I heard the detective observe that most murderers are amateurs, whereas the police approach homicide as professionals with wide experience; thus the rookie’s mistakes reveal him readily. What they’ve seen and studied a hundred times, is new and often suddenly new to a rattled, clumsy first-time killer.
This lab tech seems to have lost on both counts, the whims of fortune (dropped his special pen) and his obvious rookie mistakes (all the coverup behaviors and demeanor).
I’m betting he opts for an insanity defense, since stupidity defenses are still beyond the horizon.
Well, not to mention the fact that he was immediately and automatically the prime suspect. Under that kind of scrutiny, even a seasoned pro would have tested his abilities.
So he says it was obviously spontaneous, he flipped out and later went into some psychological underbed hideyhole in his head. He pleads manslaughter at worst, and he’s out in five years.
Anger causes so much pain for everyone. Now he’s going away for life because he had rage and Annie Le is dead. Any one of us could do this if angry enough.
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