CT- Annie Le, missing from Yale, thread #4 FOUND DECEASED

[Labrat]

Hello, everyone. This is my first post. I've been following the Le case closely. Thanks for the info.

Labrat, do you think an animal tech, such as the one described, would have exceptional access/opportunity/position to intentionally set off the fire alarm?

Sure- everyone who worked there would be able to. I think, though, that it has since been reported that they had determined that the fire alarm was not related.

 

[Chili Fries]

The Yale Animal Resource Center doesn't have a staff directory. You can find some employee names at different places on the site but those mostly seem to be supervisory positions.

An article in a Yale publication about the YARC says there are dozens of employees so it's a good idea not to base anything on the names on the YARC site since there are many you won't find listed. The technicial who may be a suspect has a campus phone number according the the New Haven Independent report. I don't think any supervisor would live on campus.

 

[nursebeeme]

the name will come out soon enough......

 

[littleangel]

Ill be glad when they release the name...I cannot help but think its that professor. IDK why.JUst a feeling I have.

 

[sariebell]

Labrat,

Kuddos to you for sharing your inside info on the lab environment. You have been spot on, in my opinion. Especially in regards to her having signed up for lab time and it's relation to the animal lab in the basement. Uncanny!

You just never know when your foundation of knowledge and personal experiences are going to come into play, do you?

 

[Labrat]

The Yale Animal Resource Center doesn't have a staff directory. You can find some employee names at different places on the site but those mostly seem to be supervisory positions.

An article in a Yale publication about the YARC says there are dozens of employees so it's a good idea not to base anything on the names on the YARC site since there are many you won't find listed. The technicial who may be a suspect has a campus phone number according the the New Haven Independent report. I don't think any supervisor would live on campus.

It is the same here. Two reasons- 1. security/concerns about animal activists. You notice they don't say where the animal facilities are located either. 2. If a researcher needed something, they would contact a veterinarian or supervisor.

 

[KivaSupporter]

I feel sick. Maybe we guessed right from the beginning. I hope I'm wrong! We need the list. Has anyone found it yet? If so, just 1st initials please...or a link to the original will suffice...just in case they are all innocent...please...

shoot, I have to go help my son get gas...will be back in a few...pls somebody look for the list/link...

Link to the cached page:
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:33geqTgNtrsJ:info.med.yale.edu/pharm/bennett/labmembers.htm+anton+bennett+lab+members&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

 

[MissJames]

They said on HNL that no cameras were inside the building. They were all outside but that someone had to use a key card so they were hoping to figure out thru computer reports who was coming and going.

That's a LOT of outside cameras,then. Here's the link


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090914/ap_on_re_us/us_missing_yale_student

 

[Chanler]

Whatever the case may be, after failing the polygraph, this "serious suspect" stopped answering questions and requested that an attorney be present for any other questioning. There isn't any mention of whether he has actually retained counsel or not. Apparently, the suspect was a person of interest even prior to the discovery of Annie Le's body. It isn't clear when the suspect decided to no longer cooperate voluntarily with law enforcement.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/14/news/doc4aae5d57ae145175622155.txt

I think that it's a reasonable assumption that the homicide interrogation having reached that stage and him making that statement and possessing some sanity, he would have retained a lawyer. And LE would have a vested interest to call him for questioning with a lawyer.

 

[Labrat]

Labrat,

Kuddos to you for sharing your inside info on the lab environment. You have been spot on, in my opinion. Especially in regards to her having signed up for lab time and it's relation to the animal lab in the basement. Uncanny!

You just never know when your foundation of knowledge and personal experiences are going to come into play, do you?

Thank you, Sariebell. I sometimes get pulled into these sad crime stories, because something about the victim strikes me, but this is the first time it's hit so close to home. I work with people like Annie every day- so bright, and with their whole future ahead of them. These are people who really sacrifice a lot to pursue this work and make huge contributions to society. Her death is such a huge loss on so many levels. I feel so, so badly for her fiancee and family.

 

[face100]

I hate to even say it because it's un imaginable but they have said it's not a student, they have said it's not the fiance, so im thinking a maintenance worker, construction worker because they have been remodeling the building, a professor, or even worse one of the parents. They have said repeaditly it's not the fiance but never once said anything about the rest of the family. That's a scary thought

It's ridiculous and disrespectful to think about the involvement of her parents while they are mourning their daughter. Why on earth do you think that ,the parents maybe involve in the murder of their daughter , especially when it happened on the Campus , How do they get access to the building ? You know that her parents are Vietnamese , and privacy is very important to them , moreover ,their English is maybe too limited to communicate with the press

 

[wanttohelp]

Not the one I found. There's not a picture but if you go to Facebook and search the name, you find a male who is a "Yale Grad Student, '10".

there is a pic of the female as well.
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering

 

[WillenFan21]

Jane Valez Mitchell is covering this case right now.

 

[WillenFan21]

This woman on JVM just said there is NO SUPSECTS in this case yet. She said the police are very adament in saying this.

 

[dtecktiv]

Just heard on JVM the suspect is a 25 year old male.

 

[Formynextnovel]

At this point, this is just speculation, but:

It seems possible that the crime was planned with real forethought. If Annie was about to be married and, one assume, go on a honeymoon, her disappearance immediately before those events might attract less attention than it might otherwise have. (Although that proved not to be the case.) If the alarms did not go off for even a few days, it would be much more difficult to determine a timeline and retrieve all possible evidence.

What made me think of this was the Travis Alexander murder. By all present appearances, defendant Jodi Arias timed the murder right before Travis was to go on a business trip. In some ways, it worked: His roommates never regarded his absence as being suspicious in any way.

I must respectfully disagree. It seems more the opposite to me. If you have ever planned a wedding, you know that ALL EYES and attention--not only of immediate famalies of two people to be wed--are on the bride, but also, all the eyes of extended family, friends and especially the fiancee. (I'm a year away from a wedding, and already have a lot of family attention focused in my direction.) Everyone around this girl had her in mind, was anticipating seeing her, expecting up dates, planning meetings. Her disappearance would seem all the more obvious, and all the more terrifying. Seems to me the killer was seeking the attention. It seems a crime of some sort of psychotic, posessive passion, jealousy perhaps.

 

[Porfiry Petrovich]

I think that it's a reasonable assumption that the homicide interrogation having reached that stage and him making that statement and possessing some sanity, he would have retained a lawyer. And LE would have a vested interest to call him for questioning with a lawyer.

Yes, it would be in his best interest to get a lawyer. But it isn't in the interest of LE to have the suspect represented by an attorney during the questioning, especially since there is no indication that he is under arrest. If the suspect is arrested and invokes his right to counsel and his right to silence, then it would most certainly be in LE's interest to question him with an attorney present. Why? Well, they wouldn't be able to question him without his lawyer present. In fact, they couldn't even try to reinitiate conversation with him!

I suspect one among many of the reasons LE hasn't arrested him yet (let alone charged him) is that all sorts of constitutional rights vest when that happens. Right now, LE has maximum flexibility in terms of contacting the suspect and "offering deals."

 

[audiogirl]

This woman on JVM just said there is NO SUPSECTS in this case yet. She said the police are very adament in saying this.

Suspect.... Person Of Interest.....

Six of one.... half dozen of the other.... KWIM?

 

[WillenFan21]

Just heard on JVM the suspect is a 25 year old male.

Wow that reporter woman who is on the campus scene right now must have been dead *advertiser censored* wrong then? I could have sworn she said that the police said there were no suspect.

 

[STEADFAST]

Yes, it would be in his best interest to get a lawyer. But it isn't in the interest of LE to have the suspect represented by an attorney during the questioning, especially since there is no indication that he is under arrest. If the suspect is arrested and invokes his right to counsel and his right to silence, then it would most certainly be in LE's interest to question him with an attorney present. Why? Well, they wouldn't be able to question him without his lawyer present. In fact, they couldn't even try to reinitiate conversation with him!

I suspect one among many of the reasons LE hasn't arrested him yet (let alone charged him) is that all sorts of constitutional rights vest when that happens. Right now, LE has maximum flexibility in terms of contacting the suspect and "offering deals."

Now that they've found her body, identified the crime scene and collected evidence, I don't see any reason that they'd want to make a deal with a suspect.