Or maybe the space is bigger/more accessible than the NY Post is reporting?
Discussions from Nancy Grace regarding the space where Le was found... (see links for full names of discussants).
From Nancy Grace 9/17/09
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/17/ng.01.html
"GRACE: Dr. M. Bell, I`m going to have to go back to you, although you were a little vague when I asked you the first time. You started talking about suitcases. How can you get a human body in a 24-inch space?
BELL: Well, she is rather petite, I believe under five foot, less than 100 pounds.
GRACE: Yes.
BELL: You just keep pushing and pushing until it fits.
GRACE: OK. "
From Nancy Grace 09/21/09
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/21/ng.01.html
"Dr. G. Feigin, out of New Jersey. Dr. Feigin, how would you put a woman`s body in a spot that`s reportedly two by two if you don`t mangle and break the bones?
FEIGIN: You can`t put a square peg into a round hole. And you have to make it fit. Usually, the shoulders are the widest part of the body, and it has to be manipulated either by fracturing or squeezing, one way or another, to get into a small opening.
GRACE: T. Kaplan with the "Yale Daily News," what can you tell us, T.?
T. KAPLAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, YALE DAILY NEWS, NEWSPAPER BROKE STORY OF MISSING YALE STUDENT: Well, the state`s attorney actually took a very unusual step today in instructing the police to speak publicly about this and shoot down this report.
We know there actually were a couple of other inaccuracies in the "New York Post" report. The story also said that Raymond Clark triggered the fire alarm himself accidentally. The police told us today on the record that the false alarm was not triggered by Raymond Clark and had nothing at all to do with the murder.
GRACE: Just last week they suggested that he did trigger it.
To D. Altimari with the "Hartford Courant." D., they left the crime scene open for days. In fact, the "Yale Daily News" reporters -- photographers actually got down in the basement and looked around.
D. ALTIMARI, REPORTER, HARTFORD COURANT, COVERING STORY (via phone): Yes, they did.
GRACE: So what`s the truth? How big is the opening in which her body was hidden?
ALTIMARI: It`s about two feet, Nancy. The problem today is her bones were not broken. She was stuffed into the tiny crawl space. It`s in a -- it was behind, in a mechanical room near a bathroom. The -- it took police five days to find her because they couldn`t really bring the dogs down there initially because there are, my understanding is, literally thousands of mice and rats down there and it was difficult for the dogs to do any searching.
So it took until the body started decomposing.
GRACE: Right.
ALTIMARI: . for the dogs to be able to hit on the spot where she was found. "