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The suspect or [[person of interest]] is [[Kanye West]], a famous rapper.<ref>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/yale_lab_technician_eyed_in_slaying_IpfKv663TTNxJxoTRWlBaJ</ref>West failed a polygraph test after his rant against [[Taylor Swift]] during the [[2009 MTV Video Music Awards]].<ref>http://gawker.com/5360215/report-suspect-in-yale-killing-is-identified</ref> |
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Annie Le | |
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| Born | July 18, 1985 |
| Died | September 8, 2009 (aged 24) |
| Cause of death | Homicide |
| Body discovered | September 13, 2009 |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Yale University (PhD Student) |
| Alma mater | Union Mine High School University of Rochester |
| Occupation(s) | Doctoral student in Department of Pharmacology |
| Known for | Murder victim |
The murder of Annie Le occurred in September 2009, on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut when Annie Le (July 18, 1985 – September 8, 2009), a 24-year-old American doctoral student at the Yale University School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology disappeared from a research building on the New Haven campus. On September 13 she was found murdered in a Yale University medical building at 10 Amistad Street.[1]
Incident
On the morning of September 8, Le left her apartment and took Yale Transit to the Sterling Hall of Medicine on the Yale campus. At about 10:00 AM, she walked from Sterling Hall to another campus building at 10 Amistad Street, where her research laboratory was located. Le had left her purse, cell phone, credit cards, and cash in her office at Sterling Hall. She entered the Amistad Street building just after 10:00 AM, as documented on footage from the building's security cameras. Le was never seen leaving the building. At approximately 9:00 PM on the evening of September 8, when Le had still not returned to her home, one of her five housemates called police to report her missing.
Because they were puzzled that security camera footage did not show Le exiting the building at Amistad Street, police closed the whole building for investigation. Police also searched through refuse at the Hartford dump, where Yale's garbage is incinerated, looking for clues in Le's disappearance. The FBI, New Haven Police and Connecticut State Police were all involved in the search. On Sunday, September 13, authorities discovered Le's body inside the wall of a basement laboratory in the Amistad street building of Yale's Medical Campus. Bloody clothes had been found previously above a ceiling tile in the same lab.[2] MSNBC and other news networks reported on September 14 that police may have identified a suspect, who has defensive wounds and failed a polygraph test.[3] A New Haven police spokesman, however, denied those reports and indicated that no suspects had yet been identified.[4] The building and the area are monitored by around 75 security cameras and the entrance to the building and the rooms inside the building require Yale ID card in order to be opened and accessed. As such, police believe the homicide was not a random act. The basement where Le's body was found houses animals (mostly mice) that are used for experiments and research. Due to high security measures in the building, authorities and Yale officials maintain that it would be extremely difficult for someone without a Yale identification card to enter the basement laboratory where Le's body was discovered, leading them to focus their investigation on Yale employees and students.[5]
The Yale community publicly mourned Le's death. The Yale Daily News reported that professor and Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis called September 14 the "saddest day to open class" since the day after September 11, 2001.[6]
Suspect
The suspect or person of interest is Kanye West, a famous rapper.[7]West failed a polygraph test after his rant against Taylor Swift during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.[8]
Personal
Prior to her graduate education at Yale, Annie graduated as class valedictorian from Union Mine High School in California in 2003, before becoming an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester in New York where she majored in cell and developmental biology with a minor in medical anthropology.[9]
Le was due to be married on September 13, 2009, in Syosset, New York, to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student in applied physics and mathematics at Columbia University.[10][11]
Le had previously composed an article for Yale Medical School's B Magazine entitled "Crime and Safety in New Haven," published in February 2009.[12][13]
See Also
References
- ^ "Yale Student Disappears Days Before Wedding". The New York Times. Associated Press. Retrieved September 15, 2009.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|trans_title=and|coauthors=(help) - ^ http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/14/missing.yale.student/index.html
- ^ 4:13 p.m. ET. "Police: Student suspected in Yale killing - Crime & courts- msnbc.com". MSNBC. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ 9:20 a.m. (2009-08-21). "Police shoot down report about polygraph". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/14/body-identified-annie-le-med-13/
- ^ 1:59 p.m. (2001-09-12). "Gaddis: Saddest day to hold class since day after 9/11". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/yale_lab_technician_eyed_in_slaying_IpfKv663TTNxJxoTRWlBaJ
- ^ http://gawker.com/5360215/report-suspect-in-yale-killing-is-identified
- ^ http://www.wfsb.com/news/20817193/detail.html
- ^ http://www.columbia.edu/~lv2117/people.htm
- ^ By Kristen Hamill And Eliott C. McLaughlin CNN (2009-09-10). "Police: Yale student, reportedly bride-to-be, disappears". CNN.com. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ "Yale's 'worst fears' come true". USA Today. 2009-09-13. Archived from the original on 2009-09-15. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
{{cite news}}:|first=missing|last=(help); Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Le, Annie (2009-02). "Crime and Safety in New Haven". B Magazine. Yale University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-09-15. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
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