Former Yale Lab Tech Due In Court In Murder Case
A former Yale University lab technician charged with murdering a graduate student last month is expected to plead not guilty.
Published: October 6, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A former Yale University lab technician charged with murdering a graduate student last month is expected to plead not guilty.
Twenty-four-year-old Raymond Clark III is due in New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday. He is accused of killing 24-year-old Annie Le 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.
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So he was the one who killed the girl inside their university. Too bad, he will be in prison for the rest of his life. You’d think that if a person ascends to the rarified air of the college graduate, then they would at least be able to have an easier go of it. Today’s college graduate enters the world at a disadvantage. A young man just doesn’t have anything in the world these days. Today, a student graduates into a world of debt – student loans or perhaps still paying off a car, and more of them are moving back in with their parents to save money. Some keep dingy apartments with several roommates, or rent houses fraternity style to save cash. The modern college graduate has a further enhanced need for debt relief, and can barely afford a car loan.
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