Yale lab technician charged with murdering graduate student due in court for plea hearing
By APTuesday, October 6, 2009
Plea hearing for Yale lab tech charged with murder
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A former Yale University lab technician charged with murdering a graduate student last month is set to face a Connecticut judge.
Twenty-four-year-old Raymond Clark III is due in New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday. He has yet to enter a plea in the murder of 24-year-old Annie Le (LAY’) of Placerville, Calif.
Le was a pharmacology graduate student who vanished Sept. 8 from a Yale medical lab building. Her body was found in the building five days later on what was supposed to be her wedding day.
Clark is accused of strangling Le and stuffing her body behind a basement wall. He worked as an animal lab technician, cleaning floors and mouse cages in the lab where Le worked. Police say it’s a case of workplace violence, but a motive isn’t clear.
