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Gene,
Another defense is going to be that he was framed. The fact that the crime scene was not sealed for 5 days could be a major point that they make. I could go on and on about this. Don't get me wrong, it won't work.
Sources tell ABC News there were e-mails or text messages between Clark and Le regarding the cleanliness of the lab. Clark's job included cleaning the mice cages in the lab, and in his email to Le he complained that she had left the cages dirty, sources said.
What is this supposed to mean?
"They work in the same building, passed in the hallways," New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said of Le and Clark. "Anything beyond that, I won't talk about."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/raymond.clark.profile/index.html
Ive postulated this several times before, but now that were certain there was no sexual assault, and LE and Yale are calling it workplace violence, I thought Id revisit a previous discussion on motive from when Eyes4crime asked 2 key questions earlier in this thread:
1) What was it about Annie (that was different than the other grad students/co-workers)?
2) What happened recently in RCs life that would make him full of such rage?
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1) What was different about Annie (from all the grad students that RC may have resented and worked with) was that she was getting married.
Now, think like a bride: youre trying to work full time - you have a commuter engagement and a wedding out of the town you work in tomorrow your relatives are arriving in NY and youre trying to get the heck out of New Haven. Youve been running back and forth to NY for several weeks, getting ready for the wedding, youve overlooked a few little things such as your mice protocols.
So, she went to meet him at his request, conciliatory but, perhaps full of excuses about how busy shed been with all the wedding stuff. (If she knows from workplace chatter that RC is getting married to his fiancé who also works at the lab, she might even bring that up.) Basically Annie might be just trying to apologize and be friendly and cooperative. But, the fact of the matter is shes leaving town (again) for the wedding. The wedding is so important, work comes 2nd and everyone understands that. Perhaps she needs to arrange things with him so she can abandon the mice again. And again, the mice RCs world or work - comes in 2nd to the wedding.
2) Now, think like RC, if thats possible. RC is proud of his work, and his role as enforcer of the rules and protocols about the lab animals. And yes, hes controlling, and at work, the protocol is the thing that hes allowed to use to control, and hes serious about it. He has to basically train the Grad students in protocols, as they come in untrained. Grad students are annoying, sloppy, disrespectful, and arrogant, and he resnts them, but, thats not new. However, that resentment builds up
But, on top of that, AND what is different & HAS changed this year for RC is the live-in-girlfriend turned fiancé, whos got wedding stuff up on myspace more than a year before the wedding is to occur who hes living together with for financial reasons (?) but now hes engaged. Maybe its stressful for RC the engagement, the wedding. Maybe the chatter at home (and at work fiancé works with him) about his own wedding stuff is too much for him. Maybe he had a fight with his fiancé about wedding things
As we are told time & again, strangulation is a very personal murder. The act comes from a place of very personal rage, (normally against a family member/love interest). I guess I can see it being as simple as that. Something about Annie that morning triggered a raging personal attack. The twist here is that RC may not have been strangling Annie in his mind. In his mind, he may have been strangling his other problems problems Annie was representing to him at that moment.
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All that being said, THEY BEST HAVE IRREFUTABLE DNA EVIDENCE under Annies fingernails that match RC. That would make all of this sooooo much easier, because, lets face it who kills a co-worker over a dirty mouse cage? Its almost unfathomable. Even with the out-of-normal swipe pattern, all that shows is RC saw her alive that day in the room she was killed in. (Annie could have opened the door for her non-RC killer no swipe required.) Without DNA, its a really hard story to sell.
(Heck, Ive been trying to sell it here for days, and hardly anyone one buys it!):crazy:
Thats all I got locked up in my noggin at the moment...except for my relief to wake up and hear LEs got RC locked up (finally!).
What is this supposed to mean?
"They work in the same building, passed in the hallways," New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said of Le and Clark. "Anything beyond that, I won't talk about."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/raymond.clark.profile/index.html
Perhaps she needs to arrange things with him so she can abandon the mice again. And again, the mice RCs world or work - comes in 2nd to the wedding.
and also -and I take this with a grain of salt because you can't believe everything you hear - I have read that she has a history of being condescending to lab techs, and she is very manipulative and cut throat with her work. again, who knows if this is true, but if she acted like this towards him and he was laready unstable, that could explain why he snapped.
Note that taking care of the mice was RC's job. Cleaning the cages was also RC's job. So if Annie took off and abandoned the mice to RC for a month, that would actually not impact RC at all, and would actually give him less work.
In fact, I'm not sure exactly what RC could be complaining about when he sent e-mail about dirty cages/mice. The only kind of complaint that would seem reasonable would be if somehow Annie had made the cages needlessly, unusually dirty. Maybe someone more familiar with mouse-based research could speculate.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_re_us/us_yale_killing
Don't know if this has been posted yet.
AP Source: Yale Suspect's Work Attitude Examined
I'm way behind in reading all the threads, but can you point me to your sources (links to stories) about her treating lab techs disrespectfully? TIA
This totally fits into my line of thinking.
it was on this page: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090916195134AA62Bd3, but I just checked and the entry was taken off. A girl named "Linda" claimed she worked with her and said she was condescending to lab techs and manipulative. again, not exactly a reputable source, but that's what it said. wonder why they took her entry off??
it was on this page: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090916195134AA62Bd3, but I just checked and the entry was taken off. A girl named "Linda" claimed she worked with her and said she was condescending to lab techs and manipulative. again, not exactly a reputable source, but that's what it said. wonder why they took her entry off??
Yale murder suspect called nice, smart per article on CNN