To strangle someone and stuff their body behind a wall takes some time to do. Where was everybody else in the building?
I don't know the layout of the basement in Amistad, but here is something I wrote in another thread based on the layout of the rodent facility where I work:
The suites in our facility are not too large, and have doors with small windows in them. It is possible for one person to work alone and be completely undisturbed. The lab/animal techs may come in and out, but if there was one tech assigned to a particular set of suites, and that tech may have been aware that Annie was the only person *supposed* to be working in that suite.
Even if the crime was not premeditated, I can easily believe that the tech could have assaulted her without raising the attention of other staff (based on the layout of our facility). In this scenario, the body could be left in the suite (possibly behind a rack of cages). Triggering the fire alarm would have provide ample time to clear the facility of staff and permit the tech to hide the body.
As I said, pure speculation based on the facility here. Hope this helps.
Hi postdoc! Does your facility have those large supply cart things with the zipped fabric covers for caging supplies? That's how I'd move a body in my facility. I could roll it right past people and they wouldn't give it a second thought.
Yes, an attack could easily occur in my facility also.
- http://www.kcbs.com/Investigation-Continues-in-Murder-of-Yale-Student/5234258Clark lives with his fiance, a young woman who also works as a Yale lab tech. Three of his relatives work there too.
It is hard to believe that someone could be murdered in a lab during working hours and no one else not know. The news reports have not addressed the lab room(s) that Annie was working in at Amistad. The only thing we know is that the animals were in the basement.
Was no one else working in the basement?
Is it one big room or many small rooms in the basement?
Are there glass panels in the doors and walls where people can see into rooms or solid doors and walls?
Are the walls that soundproof that no one heard arguing/screaming/struggling?
Why hasn't a floorplan of the basement/building been released? They don't have to release information on where the body or bloody clothes was found to avoid jeopardizing the current investigation but at least a floor plan would be nice.
To strangle someone and stuff their body behind a wall takes some time to do. Where was everybody else in the building?
Has there been anything said about when the next person to enter the lab (after RC) arrived, who it was, or if anything seemed out of the ordinary, like an unfinished experiment or anything amiss? MOO
This is what I was thinking. If there was a struggle or enough of one for him to get scratches on his back, chest and arms, I'd think there could be some equipment knocked over, or some kind of evidence that something went on in there. I'm not clear how far the area where she was found is from the lab she was last seen entering? I understood it to be where the animals are kept? :waitasec:Exactly. Or if there's even a place in that area to hide a body if someone had been murdered there, a place that wouldn't be accessed until the next day or days in between. That could have been the perfect place to put her body until it could be placed in the wall. There must be fingerprints and fibers on the area where her body was found.