CT- Annie Le, missing from Yale, thread #2

[wanttohelp]

bennett bio

 

[SuziQ]

I haven't seen it yet and all I have seen mentioned was "around noon". We know the alarm went off at 12:40pm tho.

Thanks.

I'm very suspicious of anyone who answers a question before it's asked.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

I thought the lab was @ 10 Armistad (is this not the Street name and Bennett's lab location?) - the same place she swiped in at 10 a.m., and where the alarm was sounded, and now where bloody clothes were found. Her purse, etc. was left in her office in Sterling Hall on Cedar Street. I don't understand where the job comes into play other than this class he cancelled before the fact that she was missing.

They have her listed on the site where she wrote the article as being on the b staff.

 

[eyes4crime]

Yeah- I've read all the newspaper articles I could find, but it's just not clear to me. All the labs I've worked in, graduate students usually have bench space in the lab, and might share an office with several other students. Space is generally pretty tight. I'm wondering if she ever actually made it to the lab- it seems that someone would have seen her.

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A 2007 graduate of the University of Rochester who is now studying for a doctorate in pharmacology and molecular medicine, Le began the day Tuesday working in her lab at the Sterling Hall of Medicine, said University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer. ( Annie is a TA and this is the office she used - don't know why they call it a lab - Annie did not TA her class this Tuesday)

Le left the lab sometime Tuesday morning to walk the three blocks to the Amistad Street facility where she frequently works on experiments, according to Lorimer. (the real lab for her research)

She brought her Yale identification card with her — records show that she swiped it at the building's entrance about 10 a.m. — but left her purse with her cell phone, credit cards and money in her Sterling office, Lorimer said.

Several students and workers confirmed that there was an unexpected fire alarm in the Amistad Street building at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and it was evacuated......

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548904,00.html

 

[SeriouslySearching]

bennett bio

Good Lord! Check out his credentials. Wow. Hard to imagine someone like that would be involved, but I can't forget the Professor who killed his wife and two other people at the play a few months ago.

This is definitely not the guy they took in for questioning. Bennett is a very handsome fella.

 

[SuziQ]

I thought the lab was @ 10 Armistad (is this not the Street name and Bennett's lab location?) - the same place she swiped in at 10 a.m., and where the alarm was sounded, and now where bloody clothes were found. Her purse, etc. was left in her office in Sterling Hall on Cedar Street. I don't understand where the job comes into play other than this class he cancelled before the fact that she was missing.

Bennett didn't cancel a class. Bennett sent an email to a Prof. Schlessinger, prompting Schlessinger to cancel his class. Or that's how I'm understanding it.

 

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Myfox NY has her 'last seen' in the Lab - assuming the AB lab:
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/national/090912_reports_missing_yale_student_found

 

[eyes4crime]

I have a few things to add, not the least of which is that 10 Amistad houses Yale's Stem Cell research facility.

The research they do in that building is very sensitive. The entire building, each floor, each lab, is high security. Built in 2007, it’s a state of the art stem-cell research facility with all security trimmings - a modern fortress. I’ve not been in THIS building , but I’ve been in these labs before. They are targets for mischief from anti-stem-cell groups (and they know it); so the buildings are built like Fort Knox. Entrances and egresses guarded. EXTREME surveillance. Building has security clearance. Parking has security clearance. Each floor has security clearance, each lab has security clearance. In fact, a fire drill there is probably a big fat rehearsed event. The staff undergoes security & protocol training. On and on.

http://www.imakenews.com/cure/e_article000932833.cfm?x=b11,0,w

Annie worked in Anton Bennett’s lab. Based on what I’m gleaning from the literature, Anton Bennett lab does cellular metabolism research. Don’t know if this means he uses stem cells, but to anyone interested in sabatoge, it would matter only that the Bennett lab is in the stem-cell building.

Here’s Bennett’s Yale bio:
http://info.med.yale.edu/pharm/faculty/index.php?bioID=3
Here’s some Bennett lab research. There’s more on line.
http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=1760

Another thing that is so troublesome to me - her office, where she left her purse, cell, credit cards, etc, is no where near the lab building. It's 2 blocks away. I know people who do this work. It's a bit weird, to go to the lab to do lab work without your purse.

Also, she was holding a book in the video, had her security card. She was looking at the book. I think she needed an answer about something and went to the lab to talk to someone. Or, I think she was asked to come over with an answer or a reference book by someone in the lab. I just have the feeling she wasn't expecting to stay in the lab building very long.

Call me crazy, but do we need to think along such lines as: Did someone trick her into letting them into Bennett's lab?

I have some other thoughts/info. I'll post again later.

This one has my attention. I think we might see some further intrigue...:waitasec:

THANK YOU for such a great, informative post. Bennett's resume is unbelievable...wow! And your concerns are cerainly worth considering. Thanks again!!!!

 

[Jersey*Girl]

I have a few things to add, not the least of which is that 10 Amistad houses Yale's Stem Cell research facility.

The research they do in that building is very sensitive. The entire building, each floor, each lab, is high security. Built in 2007, it’s a state of the art stem-cell research facility with all security trimmings - a modern fortress. I’ve not been in THIS building , but I’ve been in these labs before. They are targets for mischief from anti-stem-cell groups (and they know it); so the buildings are built like Fort Knox. Entrances and egresses guarded. EXTREME surveillance. Building has security clearance. Parking has security clearance. Each floor has security clearance, each lab has security clearance. In fact, a fire drill there is probably a big fat rehearsed event. The staff undergoes security & protocol training. On and on.

http://www.imakenews.com/cure/e_article000932833.cfm?x=b11,0,w

Annie worked in Anton Bennett’s lab. Based on what I’m gleaning from the literature, Anton Bennett lab does cellular metabolism research. Don’t know if this means he uses stem cells, but to anyone interested in sabatoge, it would matter only that the Bennett lab is in the stem-cell building.

Here’s Bennett’s Yale bio:
http://info.med.yale.edu/pharm/faculty/index.php?bioID=3
Here’s some Bennett lab research. There’s more on line.
http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=1760

Another thing that is so troublesome to me - her office, where she left her purse, cell, credit cards, etc, is no where near the lab building. It's 2 blocks away. I know people who do this work. It's a bit weird, to go to the lab to do lab work without your purse.

Also, she was holding a book in the video, had her security card. She was looking at the book. I think she needed an answer about something and went to the lab to talk to someone. Or, I think she was asked to come over with an answer or a reference book by someone in the lab. I just have the feeling she wasn't expecting to stay in the lab building very long.

Call me crazy, but do we need to think along such lines as: Did someone trick her into letting them into Bennett's lab?

I have some other thoughts/info. I'll post again later.

This one has my attention. I think we might see some further intrigue...:waitasec:

I honestly wish I could thank you a thousand times for this post. Something else, stem cell research, AIDS, HIV & other Cancerous blood diseases, and Diabetes are ALL very closely related research work and ALL vie and fight the hardest for the best grants. If a million dollar grant is given to an AIDS research group, another closely related group could try to discredit that group...and so on. No, I'm not stating this is the case here, but it should certainly be looked at. I think her study of molecular breakdowns and divisions is related somewhat...be it somebody on her team or a jealous factor involved. Sure, maybe it's the easiest scenario, and that somebody targeted raped & killed her. But maybe it's more than that considering the security of this building. Thanks so very much for this knowledge.

 

[Labrat]

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A 2007 graduate of the University of Rochester who is now studying for a doctorate in pharmacology and molecular medicine, Le began the day Tuesday working in her lab at the Sterling Hall of Medicine, said University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer. ( Annie is a TA and this is the office she used - don't know why they call it a lab - Annie did not TA her class this Tuesday)

Le left the lab sometime Tuesday morning to walk the three blocks to the Amistad Street facility where she frequently works on experiments, according to Lorimer. (the real lab for her research)

She brought her Yale identification card with her — records show that she swiped it at the building's entrance about 10 a.m. — but left her purse with her cell phone, credit cards and money in her Sterling office, Lorimer said.

Several students and workers confirmed that there was an unexpected fire alarm in the Amistad Street building at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and it was evacuated......

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548904,00.html

Thank you!!

 

[Tori2]

SS (or anyone else)
Do you have the link to the photo of who LE took away in the car? TIA!

Good Lord! Check out his credentials. Wow. Hard to imagine someone like that would be involved, but I can't forget the Professor who killed his wife and two other people at the play a few months ago.

This is definitely not the guy they took in for questioning. Bennett is a very handsome fella.

 

[eyes4crime]

Bennett didn't cancel a class. Bennett sent an email to a Prof. Schlessinger, prompting Schlessinger to cancel his class. Or that's how I'm understanding it.

Annie was the TA for Bennett's(not correct - wasn't bennett's class) Pathology class - he cancelled it before she was reported missing. The building she started her day in and left her purse etc. (Sterling Hall of Medicine)

 

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Blue shirt (I think this was the Professor) this a.m.

 

[Labrat]

Myfox NY has her 'last seen' in the Lab - assuming the AB lab:
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/national/090912_reports_missing_yale_student_found

It says last seen entering the research facility- I take that to mean the building. I'm thinking if she had actually gotten to the lab, there would not have been the email sent that she hadn't arrived to work that day.

 

[SuziQ]

FWIW, there were two men taken in for questioning today. One was the older grayhaired guy in the blue shirt around 10am and another around noon that I have not seen a pick of. I'll try to find the link.

 

[Scanner]

Does anyone recall who said Annie was the best student they ever had? I think I saw it in a clip on CNN.

 

[debirlfan]

Yep, how would Bennet know that Annie wasn't just off somewhere and would have made it to her class? Why would Bennett notify the department chair but not campus security and LE?

I'm going to speculate... sometime around noon, co-workers tell Bennett that she's gone missing (he may not have been in the lab area - they could have called him at his office or elsewhere?). I believe it's been stated that he's young? If so, it's likely that he might be unfamiliar with what the procedure would be in the case of a missing student, and instead of calling police he might have notified his superior - who could have assumed it was just a case of the student "taking off" for the day, and told Bennett to just go ahead and cancel the class. If the superior didn't personally know Le, he might have been unfamiliar with her work ethic and been unconcerned with her absence.

 

[eyes4crime]

Does anyone recall who said Annie was the best student they ever had? I think I saw it in a clip on CNN.

I have no idea! It doesn't surprise me one bit...

 

[wanttohelp]

"A person attending a science conference on campus said the investigation appeared to be concentrated on the lower level - the floor that housed the lab where Le had scheduled a 10 a.m. slot to do some work Tuesday, school officials said. Her roommate reported her missing Tuesday night when she did not return to their apartment"

"Le used her university ID card to enter the building about 10 a.m. She left her purse, cell phone, credit cards and cash in her office in another Yale building about three blocks away."

"Yale officials said about 70 cameras are mounted outside the building and an adjacent parking structure."

"Le swiped her university identification card to enter the lab building about 10 a.m., but left her purse, cell phone, credit cards and cash in her office, located in another Yale building about three blocks away,"

"She was a lively, hardworking student then, according to her mentor, Rocky Tuan, who supervised a highly selective National Institutes of Health undergraduate scholars program.

"She was a very happy person," Tuan told the Register. "Everybody got along with her. She's always smiling, laughing.""

 

[eyes4crime]

I'm going to speculate... sometime around noon, co-workers tell Bennett that she's gone missing (he may not have been in the lab area - they could have called him at his office or elsewhere?). I believe it's been stated that he's young? If so, it's likely that he might be unfamiliar with what the procedure would be in the case of a missing student, and instead of calling police he might have notified his superior - who could have assumed it was just a case of the student "taking off" for the day, and told Bennett to just go ahead and cancel the class. If the superior didn't personally know Le, he might have been unfamiliar with her work ethic and been unconcerned with her absence.

that could very well be. How did her co-workers know she was missing? So far, there has been no mention that any of Annie's research buddies saw her. Her purse and personal items were left in the facility where Bennett was. Maybe the FBI/LE held that info back from us, but so far, no one saw Annie once in the research facility.