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Timeline Of The Annie Le Case
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Sep. 21: New Haven Police Chief James Lewis announces that police have wrapped up their investigation of the slaying of Annie Le. Police are not expecting more arrests.
Sep. 18: Annie Le's body is sent home to California. Her family prepares for her funeral service at Holy Trinity Church in El Dorado Hills, Calif.
Sep. 17: Police arrest Raymond Clark III at a Cromwell motel and charged him with murdering Yale graduate student Annie Le.
Sep. 16: Police release Raymond Clark III, 24, a Yale University lab technician, after detaining him to acquire DNA samples. The medical examiner's office says Annie Le died from "traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression."
Sep. 15: Police enter Clark's Middletown apartment at 10:16 p.m. and detain him.
Sep. 14: The medical examiner's office identifies the remains as Yale graduate student Annie Le. Yale holds a candlelight vigil.
Sep. 13: Human remains are found in the Yale medical building at 10 Amistad St. on the day Le was scheduled to be married.
Sep. 12: Investigators recover bloody clothing discovered above a ceiling tile. They also search a trash facility in Hartford.
Sep. 11: Yale offers a $10,000 reward for information leading to Le's whereabouts.
Sep. 8: Le was last recorded entering the medical building at 10 a.m. Le's roommate later reports her missing.
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A Superior Court judge agreed to release portions of an arrest warrant affidavit that contain information that led to the arrest of Raymond Clark III in the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le.
Judge Roland D. Fasano's decision, released Friday afternoon, says the information will remain under seal for 72 hours. Since courts are closed Wednesday for Veterans Day, the document -- with some portions removed -- will be released Thursday, a court official said.
Clark, a 24-year-old lab technician from Middletown, is accused of killing Yale graduate student Annie Le, a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology from Placerville, Calif.
Le's body was found Sept. 13 concealed in a crawl space at 10 Amistad St., a research building that is part of the Yale School of Medicine complex where Clark worked and Le did research.
The discovery was made on the day that Le, 24, was scheduled to get married.
The state medical examiner said that Le died of traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression.
Fasano's decision cited the public interest in keeping court proceedings open.
"If the standard for ... sealing were, simply, material suggesting the guilt of the accused or that could or would be challenged at trial, then all arrest warrants and search warrants would be sealed since their very purpose is to establish probable cause for the arrest or the search and most evidence offered against an accused is challenged at trial," Fasano wrote. "Furthermore, it would make no sense to release dramatically altered affidavits that promote a public misconception that the ... warrants were issued under the flimsiest of circumstances."
Law enforcement officials have released few details about their investigation of Le's death and what led them to arrest Clark. The initial 14-day seal of the documents -- and subsequent extensions of that seal -- prompted The Courant, the Associated Press, the New Haven Register and The New York Times to take legal action in an effort to gain access to the documents.
Yale President Richard C. Levin has said that Clark's supervisor reported "that nothing in the history of his employment at the university gave an indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible." Clark has not talked to police about the case. Sources have told The Courant that the crime stemmed from a work dispute between Clark and Le.
Clark is being held, with bail set at $3 million, at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. He is due back in court Dec. 21.
Judge Roland D. Fasano's decision, released Friday afternoon, says the information will remain under seal for 72 hours. Since courts are closed Wednesday for Veterans Day, the document -- with some portions removed -- will be released Thursday, a court official said.
Clark, a 24-year-old lab technician from Middletown, is accused of killing Yale graduate student Annie Le, a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology from Placerville, Calif.
Le's body was found Sept. 13 concealed in a crawl space at 10 Amistad St., a research building that is part of the Yale School of Medicine complex where Clark worked and Le did research.
The discovery was made on the day that Le, 24, was scheduled to get married.
The state medical examiner said that Le died of traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression.
Fasano's decision cited the public interest in keeping court proceedings open.
"If the standard for ... sealing were, simply, material suggesting the guilt of the accused or that could or would be challenged at trial, then all arrest warrants and search warrants would be sealed since their very purpose is to establish probable cause for the arrest or the search and most evidence offered against an accused is challenged at trial," Fasano wrote. "Furthermore, it would make no sense to release dramatically altered affidavits that promote a public misconception that the ... warrants were issued under the flimsiest of circumstances."
Law enforcement officials have released few details about their investigation of Le's death and what led them to arrest Clark. The initial 14-day seal of the documents -- and subsequent extensions of that seal -- prompted The Courant, the Associated Press, the New Haven Register and The New York Times to take legal action in an effort to gain access to the documents.
Yale President Richard C. Levin has said that Clark's supervisor reported "that nothing in the history of his employment at the university gave an indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible." Clark has not talked to police about the case. Sources have told The Courant that the crime stemmed from a work dispute between Clark and Le.
Clark is being held, with bail set at $3 million, at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. He is due back in court Dec. 21.
