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

[nursebeeme]

I realize that, but you have to understand, they've got me so freaked out by all of the conflicting reports, right now I'd be easily convinced it was Spongebob.

:blowkiss: I needed that comic relief! (and spongebob lives in SALTwater... he sounds spot on!)

 

[TonyGatto]

maybe not but they didn't said "their" body so I was thinking it was a guy

They don't use "their" because that would be bad grammer -- "their" is plural. They would have to have said "he or she". My point is I don't think it in any way goes to the gender of the suspect. IMHO

 

[raeann]

Not a "random act" and "no one else in danger" makes me think fiance.

Just my thoughts....

First, I believe he was immediately confirmed to be hours away at Columbia all day, AND-----how does "may have known each other" fit into that theory?

 

[Labrat]

Welcome to Websleuths Terrah.

You have a good point, especially considering how we haven't heard ANYTHING from the family, however, I think if it were a family member they wouldn't have came to her place of employment/her school to kill her IN her lab building. It seems to me they would've waited to do that when she came to Long Island for the weekend, if that were truly their plans.

I think we haven't heard from the family for a few reasons- I think LE had a very strong suspicion very early on that she had been killed in that building, so there was no reason for the family to plead for help finding her. Also, I read that Yale requested students and faculty not comment to the media and may have requested that of her family as well.

Her Uncle and Brother are posting on a memorial page.

 

[terrah24]

Originally Posted by terrah24
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

Welcome to Websleuths Terrah.

You have a good point, especially considering how we haven't heard ANYTHING from the family, however, I think if it were a family member they wouldn't have came to her place of employment/her school to kill her IN her lab building. It seems to me they would've waited to do that when she came to Long Island for the weekend, if that were truly their plans.

You are probably right i'm reaching it's just weird that they don't say they aren't a suspect but they come out and deny everyone who is believed to be one. It could be the bloody clothes are a uniform or something or like others have said they have someone on tape wearing the bloody clothes that were later found.

 

[nursebeeme]

Police have a “serious” suspect in the murder of graduate student Annie Le, but contrary to national media reports, he is not a student, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
The suspect is not in custody.

However, a source familiar with the investigation said the probe has zeroed in on a single “serious” suspect.

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/serious_suspect.php

 

[eyes4crime]

They don't use "their" because that would be bad grammer -- "their" is plural. They would have to have said "he or she". My point is I don't think it in any way goes to the gender of the suspect. IMHO

This is NOT a grammar class puffster, we are on a crime blog, the best there is. Please allow for speculation and inaccurate grammar. TIA

 

[Beyond Belief]

The waiting is stressful. I am glad the case is moving swiftly, but I feel like I got hit by a mack truck. This tragedy is shocking. Geez, I just can't even imagine what this has done to her family and friends.

 

[milton99]

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/serious_suspect.php

Police have a “serious” suspect in the murder of graduate student Annie Le, but contrary to national media reports, he is not a student, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

The suspect is not in custody.

Le, who’s 24, went missing on Tuesday. On Sunday, state cops found a body stuffed inside a wall at the Yale medical school lab building where she was last seen, at 10 Amistad St. The state medical examiner Monday afternoon positively identified the body as Annie Le, and ruled her death a homicide.

Police officials definitively denied Monday afternoon that they’ve centered suspicion on a Yale student in the probe — or that any student is “involved” in the case.

However, a source familiar with the investigation said the probe has zeroed in on a single “serious” suspect.

Another law enforcement source familiar with the probe identified the suspect as a lab technician who works with animal testing at Yale. That technician’s campus phone number was disconnected Monday afternoon and he couldn’t be reached for comment. The technician allegedly had an unrequited love interest in Annie Le, according to that source. That suggestion couldn’t be independently verified Monday afternoon.

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"serious" suspect ... not sure what that means.

 

[terrah24]

They don't use "their" because that would be bad grammer -- "their" is plural. They would have to have said "he or she". My point is I don't think it in any way goes to the gender of the suspect. IMHO

That could be but it would seem to me that saying his is sterotyping it to a gender and to use his body is almost assuming it's a he unless they already know it is and that's why they used the "his" who knows could be a female, but it would have to be one tough chick to get into the ceiling tiles and drag a body and place it into a wall.

 

[TonyGatto]

NEW HAVEN REGISTER: Police sources: Lab worker possible suspect in Yale student's death

 

[nursebeeme]

Another law enforcement source familiar with the probe identified the suspect as a lab technician who works with animal testing at Yale. That technician’s campus phone number was disconnected Monday afternoon and he couldn’t be reached for comment. The technician allegedly had an unrequited love interest in Annie Le, according to that source. That suggestion couldn’t be independently verified Monday afternoon.

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/serious_suspect.php

 

[milton99]

unrequited love interest ... i kind of thought that was the likely motive here, as others have also noted on this site, given the whole wedding angle.

 

[Labrat]

Good point, someone posted earlier in one of these threads about a creep she had known 10 years earlier and who showed up out of the blue at her work one day expressing his obsession for her.

I also thought of the shooting of Johanna Justin-Jinich, the Weslyan student who got shot by a guy she had barely known for a short time two years earlier. The difference with Annie is that he had contacted her and threatened her in the interim and there's nothing to suggest Annie knew she may have been stalked.

I had a stalker once and went to the police about it. They sent an officer to intercept him because he always approached me as I was walking to the bus stop. The poor guy must have been a rookie, because he intercepts the stalker and talks to him for a while, comes back to me with a big smile on his face and says "It's OK, he knows you!" When I recovered my wits, I pointed out that, yes, he knew me BECAUSE HE WAS STALKING ME!

Apparently stalker/stalkee IS a relationship.

 

[TonyGatto]

NEW HAVEN — Detectives have strong leads in the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le and interest is focused on a lab technician who works in the building where the body was found Sunday, multiple police sources confirmed Monday.

The Yale employee has been under the law enforcement microscope since before Annie Le's body was found Sunday in a mechanical chase in the basement of the 120,000 square foot building.

He had scratches on his chest, as if he were in some type of a struggle, which drew police attention, the sources confirmed
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/09/14/news/doc4aae5d57ae145175622155.txt

 

[raeann]

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

IMO....that is way beyond unlikely....they were from thousands of miles away, had no access to the building at all, let alone would they know where this small space was located or how to get into it! Would they have brought extra clothes, and known where and how to hide them in the ceiling tiles? They would have been somewhat obvious, also, showing up on the tapes when LE had just met them, I would think!

 

[lilacwine]

Yale paper says they know who was in the basement when she was....based on security I believe.

The killer would be better off confessing now because it will only get worse.

 

[Chanler]

Good point, someone posted earlier in one of these threads about a creep she had known 10 years earlier and who showed up out of the blue at her work one day expressing his obsession for her.

I also thought of the shooting of Johanna Justin-Jinich, the Weslyan student who got shot by a guy she had barely known for a short time two years earlier. The difference with Annie is that he had contacted her and threatened her in the interim and there's nothing to suggest Annie knew she may have been stalked.

Hi, Chili Fries, the long-lost obsessional male is a possibility. It could be anything; a brief conversation in the library; a friendly hello on the footpath. I've known a few such males: One slept outside the apartment door of a woman with whom he had had the briefest of relationships. Another madman showed up at a woman's apartment totally naked; he knew the woman only from a class that they had taken together. Fortunately, her husband answered the door.

 

[Shutterfly]

There was the name of a lab tech on the list posted a few pages back...that has since been "modded"

 

[milton99]

Would make sense that some news agencies would mistake a lab technician for being a student. Also explains how the person had access not only to the building, but also to the lab areas requiring special ID card access.