CT- Annie Le, 24, Yale Student, Missing 9/8/09 #1

[jadejazzkayla]

The fire alarm went off at lunchtime. If she left the building during the mass exit in her white lab coat, she could have taken the opportunity to go get something to eat.

Her roomate may have tried calling Annie's cell phone, got no answer and called her office and was told her purse was still at her desk. Or she (the roomate) may have gone over to Annie's office herself and found the purse and cell phone. Then she called police at about 9pm.

 

[SleuthyMama]

Don't have much more to add myself other than I don't feel this is a runaway bride case. I do believe it is something more sinister. My gut says fiance is not involved.

Upon entering the building, I have a feeling she never left.

 

[SuziQ]

http://www.courant.com/community/ne...e-student-missing0911.artsep11,0,932473.story

(snip)
A woman who identified herself as Le's roommate said police told her not to discuss Le's disappearance with anyone. The woman, who declined to give her name, said she last saw Le on Tuesday morning.

"I'm so worried," she said.

 

[SuziQ]

So where is Annie's car?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/woman_disappears_before_wedding_JnBXGuC3IPFH13M2UYrHOK

(snips)
"They don't know where Annie is! I got to go!" Widawsky, 24, told his Manhattan roommate, Dory Kramer, after calling Le's roomie when she failed to respond to him online Tuesday night.
"He was on the next train to New Haven," Kramer said of Widawsky, a doctoral candidate in physics. "He was very distraught. He was worried. The timing is terribly cruel

But a friend and fellow student, Xiao Hung, told Fox 5 News that on a prior occasion near the building, Le "had been approached by other people and she managed to get in the car and escape from that incident."

 

[Julessleuther]

I believe that I read earlier that her professor said that she worked very closely with other students, it almost sounded like a project, and that they noticed very quickly that she as missing. My take on this is that she was not where she was supposed to be. Perhaps someone called her roommate, and her roommate, being closer to her, decided to call LE. I do not think the roommate was involved, just the closest to her.

 

[SuziQ]

A little more info about Annie and her daily life recently:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/11/ten-hours-days-and-still-smiling/

As police and law enforcement officials continue to search for Annie Le MED ’13, onlookers raced to piece together her life story, hoping to find clues that could help resolve her case.
Le, who was reported missing Tuesday, is known for her work ethic. The 24-year-old graduate student spent 10 hours each day in her pharmacology lab, and lately, those hours had grown longer — Le was trying to get ahead before her Sunday wedding. She recently picked a topic for her dissertation: understanding how certain proteins are involved with metabolic diseases such as diabetes.

More at link.

 

[nursebeeme]

So where is Annie's car?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/woman_disappears_before_wedding_JnBXGuC3IPFH13M2UYrHOK



But a friend and fellow student, Xiao Hung, told Fox 5 News that on a prior occasion near the building, Le "had been approached by other people and she managed to get in the car and escape from that incident."

respectfully snipped
whaaaat?

 

[SuziQ]

respectfully snipped
whaaaat?

I know. I keep thinking about the Psych Hospital.

 

[nursebeeme]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/09/11/ng.student.vanishes.cnn?iref=videosearch

 

[nursebeeme]

Le's purse, cell phone, credit cards and money were found in her office. She planned to get married on Sunday, but has not contacted her family, co-workers or friends.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/11/us/AP-US-Missing-Yale-Student.html?hp

Just thinking out loud here... but she left her phone, keys, purse, money in her office.. and went to the lab only with papers and her swipe card.

That makes me think that the trip would be short to the lab.... It makes me think that she left the building/something happened before the fire alarm incident. I wonder if there are cameras inside the building.

This case is very confusing and perplexing. I sincerely hope Annie is found safe....

**one more thought.... on the nancy Grace video I posted above she tries to clarify if another human being actually placed her at the lab (other than her key card and the video still of her entering the building with her papers) and the reporter said it was not clear at this time... ((my head is spinning peeps))

 

[gaia227]

So where is Annie's car?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/woman_disappears_before_wedding_JnBXGuC3IPFH13M2UYrHOK

(snips)
"They don't know where Annie is! I got to go!" Widawsky, 24, told his Manhattan roommate, Dory Kramer, after calling Le's roomie when she failed to respond to him online Tuesday night.
"He was on the next train to New Haven," Kramer said of Widawsky, a doctoral candidate in physics. "He was very distraught. He was worried. The timing is terribly cruel

But a friend and fellow student, Xiao Hung, told Fox 5 News that on a prior occasion near the building, Le "had been approached by other people and she managed to get in the car and escape from that incident."

What does this even mean? She had been approached by strangers who tried to abduct her and she managed to get into HER car and get away? Is there a police report to verify this incident?

 

[gaia227]

FYI - The fiance could have taken the MetroNorth out of Grand Central Station to New Haven and been there within 2 hours. He could have taken the MN out of 125th/Harlem and been there in an hour and a half.
He could also have taken the Amtrak train out of Penn Station and it would take an hour and a half.
The trains run pretty regularly day and night. I don't really think he had anything to do with it but thought I would put up the travel info anyway.

 

[nursebeeme]

No crap G! Hopefully the media is ferretting this out!

Another thing to ponder is that the medical school part of campus is about a mile away from main campus (I posted a link... it is somewhere on page two)
better yet here is a map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sou...376,-72.932525&spn=0.014572,0.038409&t=h&z=15 point three is the school of medicine. point one is main campus... armistad street (where the lab is right?) is south east of point three (several blocks away) Where I am going with this: The population of students on this part of campus: medical and related studies. However, there are at least two hospitals in that area (I think three) so you also have a ton of other people in that area... The one thing with this case is that she was in a building with lots of security cameras. One of those cameras HAS to show something.....

 

[nursebeeme]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/annie-le-find-missing-yale-student/Story?id=8547039&page=1

another article with a talking head on how LE will go about trying to find Annie

 

[nursebeeme]

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/11/search-continues-missing-student/

Deputy Secretary Martha Highsmith said Le’s mother has also been helpful to the investigation, which is being led by the Yale Police Department with assistance from the FBI, Connecticut State Police and New Haven Police Department. Neither Widawsky nor Le’s parents have spoken publicly about Le’s disappearance.

A fire alarm that was sounded at 12:40 p.m. Tuesday is not thought to be related to her disappearance, Highsmith said. She added that a malfunctioning smoke detector caused the alarm and that investigators do not believe anyone tampered with the fire system.

Le had left all her belongings in her Sterling Hall of Medicine office early Tuesday before she walked three blocks to the facility at 10 Amistad St. where she often conducted research. Police began interviewing friends and colleagues of Le late Tuesday and continued that work on Wednesday and Thursday.
The University did not, however, send an e-mail to the entire campus until 10:42 a.m. Thursday, though media outlets were informed of the disappearance on Wednesday afternoon

more at the link

so she had a three block walk to the lab.... here is a walking route map I did: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=sterling+hall+of+medicine&daddr=10+amistad+street&hl=en&geocode=Fe47dgId9h2n-yE7glnLnHdytQ%3B&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=41.30212,-72.931666&sspn=0.003643,0.009602&ie=UTF8&ll=41.302168,-72.933898&spn=0.007286,0.019205&t=h&z=16

 

[Wikisleuth]

TGI: I too, think that the fire alarm is a curious coincidence. I wonder, too, if it were not a distraction.

O/T: Wikisleuth-- Since I see you have only just joined and posted to this thread, I have to ask:are you are local or connected to this case? Are you connected with Wiki? You seem to have local info.

TGI's idea, while alternative, is what we do here---think out of the box. I would not dare to classify anyones ideas as dramatic (airline reading, hmpf), as we have seen some of the most outrageous and unusual situations possible in the cases posted on websleuths. TGI is a respected member of this group, and should be respected as such, so please do not be condescending to them. Any and all ideas are welcome here, as long as they do not personally attack or slander others. Also please link your sources too when quoting news sources. Thanks! JMO

No disrespect intended. My apologies. I'll be sure to clarify my tone and follow thread protocol in future posts.

 

[nursebeeme]

The police believe she does not have access to a car

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/10/graduate-student-goes-missing/

 

[nursebeeme]

Le worked in the pharmacology lab of Anton Bennett, an associate professor of pharmacology. Police confiscated her belongings from that lab yesterday and were still examining her lab space Wednesday evening.
Bennett, for his part, said he was first contacted by police late Tuesday after Le’s roommate reported her missing.
He emphasized that his eight-person laboratory team, of which Le is a member, works closely together and, as such, her colleagues noticed her absence quickly.
“There was certainly immediate concern about her whereabouts,” Bennett said. “And they grew over the course of the day,” especially after she missed a pathology class for which she is a teaching assistant.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/10/graduate-student-goes-missing/

now this certainly is interesting! She works on an eight man lab team that noticed her absence right away! Than she misses a class later in the day! I wonder if any of the eight saw her in the lab? I wonder what time her class was?

 

[eyes4crime]

Annie is caught on video carrying an armful of papers while entering the building. Certainly she didn't walk 3 or 4 blocks carrying all those papers, where did she get them. What have I missed? Maybe the video shown is NOT of her entering the building but of another time???

 

[nursebeeme]

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/11/ten-hours-days-and-still-smiling/

The 24-year-old graduate student spent 10 hours each day in her pharmacology lab, and lately, those hours had grown longer — Le was trying to get ahead before her Sunday wedding. She recently picked a topic for her dissertation: understanding how certain proteins are involved with metabolic diseases such as diabetes.

Minh Nguyen, Le’s uncle, said he was shocked to learn of Le’s disappearance.
“I didn’t want to believe it; I just went numb,” he said, adding that Le and Widawsky visited him in California just four weeks ago.

Le is set to marry Widawsky on Sunday at the North Ritz Club, a private reception hall in the Long Island hamlet of Syosset. Widawsky is Jewish, and in the last few months Le took on a side project in advance of the marriage: She began studying Hebrew.

And wherever she went, Le was cautious. During the workday, Le was always “very transparent” about where she was going, Bennett said, keeping colleagues up to date on her whereabouts.

“She did not feel safe in New Haven,” Schlessinger said