Blood and DNA evidence links a lab technician to a slain Yale University medical student, according to details in an arrest warrant issued in the case. DNA from Raymond Clark and victim Annie Le were found on a sock hidden in the ceiling near where Le's body was found, the warrant said.Le, a pharmacology doctoral student, disappeared from the research lab September 8.
Investigators believe that Le was killed in a dispute with Clark over how the animals in the research lab were being treated. Clark, who was not a Yale student, cared for the animals in the lab.
According to the warrant for his arrest:
- Clark and Le's DNA were found on a sock in the ceiling near her body.
- A bloodstained rubber glove and a pair of stained work boots with "Ray-C" on them were found in another part of the ceiling.
- Clark attempted the block from the view of a Yale police officer a bloodstained box in the lab.
- Clark was seen trying to clean the basement floor with steel wool, although the floor appeared to be clean.
Stuffed Inside the Wall
Le disappeared on Tuesday during the week she was scheduled to be married on Sunday. Surveillance video showed her entering the research building that day, September 8, but none of the 75 cameras in and near the building showed her leaving.
On Sunday, the day she was scheduled to be married, her body was found stuffed inside a wall in the research building. It was in an area where cables run from floor to floor in Yale's Amistad lab building.
An autopsy report showed Le was strangled the day she disappeared.
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Sock, Glove and Boots Link Raymond Clark to Annie Le Slay
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Not pertinent to the case, but calling Raymond Clark III a “lab technician” discredits professionals who are medical technologists (MT) and medical laboratory technicians (MLT). He is an animal technician, which is a high school graduate with some training in animal handling – NOTHING to do at all with the laboratory aspects of the work they do in Yale, or in any medical laboratory. At the risk of being “politically incorrect”, it’s like calling janitors sanitation technicians and hospital orderlies healthcare technicians.
I agree with you, Nikki. Clark was cited as complaining about med students treating him “as nothing more than a janitor” but the harsh reality is that he is the guy who cleans the mice cages, ergo, the laboratory janitor.
It sounds all along that Clark is being framed. He has always been the most convenient one to blame.
I almost feel he is being framed, too. I mean, who writes their name on their shoe unless you’re like two years old??