anatomicdeadspace:Annie Le was 24 years old when she vanished on the Yale campus on the 8th of Sep
anatomicdeadspace: Annie Le was 24 years old when she vanished on the Yale campus on the 8th of September 2009. The doctoral student was seen on CCTV cameras entering the building which housed her research lab, but she was never seen leaving it. Her housemates contacted police that night whenever she failed to return home, and when police reviewed the CCTV footage and found no evidence that Le ever left the research building they locked it down to carry out a search. It wouldn’t be until the 13th of September that Le would be found, ironically on the date that she was due to get married to another graduate student. Her body was found in the basement of the research building, hidden inside a wall with her bloodied clothing concealed behind a ceiling tile. The security around the campus research buildings was tight, with identity cards required for the entrance and a lot of the laboratory facilities within. The police were certain that the only person who could have murdered Le and concealed her body in the basement would have had to have an ID card that allowed them access. The perpetrator was eventually identified as 26 year old laboratory technician Raymond Clark, who had asphyxiated Le through strangulation. He would eventually enter a guilty plea for murder in exchange for lenient sentencing, and an Alford plea for attempted sexual assault. He received a 44 year sentence but never provided authorities with his motivation for the killing. -- source link