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"It was supposed to have been Annie Le’s wedding night. But hours after the missing Yale graduate student was to have been married, investigators found a body stuffed inside a wall of the lab building where she was last seen alive on Tuesday." - Bret Taylor

It's disturbing how little they seem to know about what happened, but perhaps they just aren't telling reporters. - Bret Taylor

How tragic. - Anne Bouey

@Bret - I think they're still in the 'gathering evidence' phase of things. The article on CNN mentioned that they have a great deal of physical evidence from her lab that they have to go through, as well as whatever they're retrieving from the waste processing plant. It's so sad that it turned out this way. - Jennifer Dittrich

:( - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

:-( - Ordinarybug Heather

..."stuffed inside a wall?"...horrible - .LAG liked that

Sick! :( - Mathew A. Koeneker

:((((((( - AJ Batac

The killing is sad enough but the fact that it happened on her wedding night is just horrific. - Spidra Webster

O, I have been monitoring this but but this is first I heard of her murder. Prayer for her parents and betrothed. deep Sadness - Melanie Reed

@Spidra: the reference to the 'wedding night' is that the day that her body was found is *supposed* to be her wedding night, had she not been missing. The act of murder itself IMO happened several days prior. Of course she went missing so there was no wedding. - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

@LAG, her body was found in the crawlspace behind the wallboards, i.e., the space used for cables, plumbing, etc. - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

It sounds like she got a call from someone she knew associated with the lab (she left her purse , ID and cell in another building). Someone close or or someone she had worked with? She was aware of taking care of herself (she wrote an article on protection and being safe in the city), so why would she leave her cell unless she knew and trusted who ever she was last with? - Melanie Reed

now, a personal dilemma for me: I think this news is important; but I can't bring myself to 'like' this... What to do? That said, condolences & prayers to her family and her fiancé. - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

Or it could be that this call unnerved her and she rushed over to the lab without thinking. Whatever it was, to help or in anxiousness, she broke a habit. - Melanie Reed

@Pandu as long as you comment on it, the story gets moved to the top of FF and more people can see it. That helps a lot. I want to share my condolences & prayers to her family and loved ones too. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

Pandu: I was just about to write the same comment, Weird. Bret, can we get a "horrified" button next to "Like" :) - BRҰANSAҰS

:(( - Andrew David

Probably someone she rejected who couldn't handle the fact she was getting married. Proabably a guy who she considered 'a friend', but felt much stronger for her. He confessed his love there in the lab, she rejected his final plea and he killed her. That's pretty much the way I see it going down. Guys can be nuts like that over women. - Vince DeGeorge

My thoughts exactly, Vince. Had to be someone she worked with. - Ginger Makela Riker

Vince, yeah, I think that should be considered. It was either because she was too smart (jealousy) or too loved (jealousy). Or there could be a third reason because of something we don't know about something that she may have been involved in that threatened her future that is an unknown. The killer was not very smart about hiding her body. If they were, they would have taken the time to transport the body to a rural area or lake where it would have taken longer to find it. Some kind of passion was involved here and a statement was made. - Melanie Reed

Now, the picture I saw was of her outside the building in the daylight. How could you kill someone with wounds that would obviously cause crying out in pain and no one in that building or in an office nearby not hear it? Someone had to see something or hear something. Was the office completely empty? - Melanie Reed

I wonder who the Prof was she was working under.....what was their relationship? - Melanie Reed

This is an instance where I would feel uncomfortable "liking" a posting on FriendFeed. - Rolf Schewe

Holy sh*t....that is messed up. - Rahsheen

I'm against burying people in walls... for the record. - SAM

geez - browneyes

One other thing strikes me as strange: They were in a lab. She was a pharmacology student. It took 3 levels of security to get in there: "He said it took three levels of security to get into the basement of the lab building on Amistad Street, including two swipes of a security card." This seems another indication that lends itself to someone she knew and that it was a crime of passion not planned (excluding the necessary phone call to get her there). Were there poisons in a pharmacology lab that were readily available? Could have used those but appears not to. They are withholding details on exactly HOW she was killed and not confirming association of the bloody clothes - Melanie Reed

Here's a meta-post http://ff.im/7ZvND I'm been following this story for the past few days. I used to work in biochem labs, so it's pretty spooky. (1) Animal rights activist? Jealous/unhinged guy who's a staff member? Stolen security card? (2) Early on I heard mention that she went in the building with a guy...but haven't seen that since. (3) She walks from/to her office & this lab building (often with mice), so it's not unusual that she would leave her wallet/phone stuff in office. In some heavily shielded areas, your phone is useless anyways...and you don't want chemicals getting on your wallet, etc... (4) They do have a suspect, but perhaps since Yale & Police department really screwed the 1998 suspect's career, they might be really cautious this time. I hope they are cautious. (5) They are being really mum about exact murder details. If you ambushed someone in a "cold room", there's going to be a damn heavy door insulating you from other rooms, and there may be other heavily sound-proofed rooms. Don't know if Yale had high-level-contamination areas (e.g. for HIV and Ebola) in the building. The body was found in a recess with pipes, but no idea if it was in a refrigerated area (i.e. where the body wouldn't smell). - Mitchell Tsai

:( - imabonehead

this is horrible! :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Mitchell good meta-post. We don't have enough info especially about her daily routine. You make some compelling suggestions. She's recorded as going in at 10:00am. Was this routine? Here's a couple of AP postings: http://news.yahoo.com/s... | http://news.yahoo.com/s... didn't see if you had those. - Melanie Reed

"We're not believing it's a random act," said officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman. No one else is in danger, he said, though he would not provide details other than to say that police believe no other students were involved. He also denied reports that police had a suspect in custody. Several news organizations reported that police were interviewing a possible suspect who failed a polygraph test and has defensive wounds on his body. Avery denied those reports." - Melanie Reed

The problem is the relationship to the killer. How long and how close? Why didn't he/she do this where she lived? Why in a public lab? - Melanie Reed

I think a phone call can be ruled out IF this was a routine day for her. On one article it states that she could be seen with a cart going back and forth with the lab mice. The lab mice are located in the basement where her body was: "The body was found in the basement in the wall chase — a deep recess where utilities and cables run between floors. The basement houses rodents, mostly mice, used for scientific testing by multiple Yale researchers, said Robert Alpern, dean of the Yale University School of Medicine." If that is correct, then it seems likely the killer may have been waiting for her there. But why? - Melanie Reed

It's possible if the scenario above is true that she might not have even known the killer that well at all. Perhaps the killer was already there and was doing something that was wrong and she threatened to report them. Then they killed her and stuffed her in the most immediate and convenient place. - Melanie Reed

http://74.125.93.132/search... - Melanie Reed

My sister is a science graduate student at Yale and has worked in Armistad and the buildings around it. She's pretty freaked out about the whole incident - it can't help but make you feel incredibly nervous at your own school... - Jennie Lin

Police about to release news.....9:58pm(EST) Tuesday - Melanie Reed

Claim an arrest may be imminent. Hope they have the right suspect. - Melanie Reed

Think we're going to hear soon in the next few days. Agree with Levin. - Melanie Reed

dumb girl for staying alone - john kline

feel bad for family though - john kline

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