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[h1]DNA matches; Arrest appears likely[/h1]
By William Kaempffer, Register Staff
NEW HAVEN - Police have obtained a DNA match that implicates Raymond Clark III, 24, in the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le, police sources said late Wednesday.
Police have obtained, or are in the process of obtaining, an arrest warrant, the sources said.
Police were in Cromwell, where Clark was staying in the Super 8 motel.
This comes hours after police served two more search warrants Wednesday on their "person of interest" in the slaying of a Yale graduate student.
The warrants were for a red Ford Mustang that suspect Raymond Clark drove and a second warrant for his apartment at 40 Ferry St. in Middletown for items not included in the first search warrant executed Tuesday night.
The state's medical examiner's office confirmed Wednesday that the Yale graduate student, Annie Le, was strangled.
The office of the Chief Medical Examiner termed the cause of death "traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression."
This confirmation came hours after the man described as "person of interest" in the killing provided police with DNA samples and was released early Wednesday, police said.
With now 250 pieces of evidence being analyzed, the investigation is now in the hands of the state crime lab, which is operating 24-hours a day, Chief James Lewis said Wednesday evening.
If a DNA hit comes back linking Clark, 24, to the crime, Lewis said he expected an arrest warrant would be issued within a few hours.
"We know where Mr. Clark is at all times," he added.
While police continue to investigate other people - so as not to be accused later of tunnel vision - he acknowledged that, at this point, there were no other persons of interest in the case.
He expressed confidence that the case would end in an arrest.
Clark was taken into custody Tuesday night after police secured search warrants for both his apartment and his body. Police said he was brought to a state police facility, where he complied with the warrant.
Police said he was released at about 3 a.m.
A source said detectives were investigating a testy e-mail Clark may have sent Le over protocols she wasn't following.
According to a source, Clark drew the attention of authorities even before Le's body was found stuffed inside a wall near the lab in which he worked at 10 Amistad St.
When he was questioned by the FBI, agents took note of numerous injuries on his body, the source said, including what appeared to be bruises and abrasions on his arms, a mark under his eye, a scratch on his right ear, and a bruise or deep scratch to his chest.
When questioned, he said some of the injuries were a scratch from a cat. Others he attributed to playing softball.
"He had excuses for everything," the source said.
It was when officials started taking pictures of his injuries that Clark reportedly appeared to get nervous and asked for an attorney.
The motive for the slaying remained unknown. Police have theories, but authorities stressed that they were nothing more than that. They range from unrequited romantic advances by Clark toward Le to Clark being upset over the handling of the mice that he was in charge of caring for. The animals are used in experiments.
Clark has hired a Fairfield lawyer to represent him and has invoked his right to remain silent. He did not provide a statement to police after he was taken into custody on the DNA warrant.
Attorney David Dworski declined to answer questions about the his client or the case, including whether his client denies having anything to do with the Le homicide.
He issued only a one-sentence statement: "We're committed to proceeding appropriately with the authorities with whom we are in regular communication."
Also, two New Haven public defenders, Joe Lopez and Beth Merkin, are providing assistance.
New Haven Public Defender Thomas J. Ullmann declined comment but did say that it is not unprecedented for his office to provide pre-arrest assistance.
"I can say as a general matter, if someone sought our assistance and was qualified for the public defenders officer in terms of income levels, we would offer advice and assistance."
The samples now were going to be compared with forensic evidence collected at the scene of the killing 10 Amistad St., a Yale laboratory in the medical district. Police Chief James Lewis has said that more than 150 pieces of evidence were collected in the building. The hope and belief is that some of that contains DNA of the killer.
"The results of the forensic analysis from the crime lab will either rule in or rule out our person of interest in this case," New Haven Assistant Police Chief Peter Reichard said Wednesday morning. "If he's ruled out, it's back to the drawing board" where detectives will examine other people who had contact with Le, 24, a graduate student in pharmacology.
"If he's ruled in, the course of action would be seeking a custodial arrest of the subject."
Le disappeared on Sept. 8 after entering 10 Amistad St. Her clothed body was found stuffed in small mechanic chase in the basement of the building.
She was supposed to have been married Sunday, the day she was found.
Clark, an lab technician who worked at 10 Amistad, also is engaged, to a co-worker. They were set to be married in December 2011, according to the couple's wedding Web site A young man who answered the door at her parent's house in Hamden declined comment Wednesday morning. The couple met working at Yale, a source said.
Asked about Clark's side of the story, he only said, "I guess that will come out."
In New Haven, Clark had lived in an apartment with his fiancee at 1554 Ella T. Grasso Blvd. until earlier this year. Former neighbor Annmarie Goodwin described Clark as "very controlling" of his girlfriend and that she would sometimes hear shouting upstairs.
At the Wharfside Commons Apartment complex in Middletown Wednesday, where Clark lives, neighbor Ed Banning, said the last time he saw Clark was Tuesday night when he was being put into a police car.
Banning said he wasn't friends with Clark but saw him and had conversations in passing. He said that there was nothing about the interactions that would lead him to believe Clark would be capable of the crime for which he is a suspect.
"It's really scary," Banning said, of Clark being a suspect in the case.
Clark is a 2004 graduate of Branford High School.
A student who attended Branford High School with him said, ''I'm in total shock. He was the nicest kid - very quiet, but everyone liked him. I can't believe...this. I'm sick to my stomach.''
Clark shares a MySpace page with his fiancee and she described him as a "Wonderful boyfriend."
In May 2008, she wrote about a rumor that Clark was cheating on her with another co-worker at tech lab.
"My boyfriend, Ray, if you don't know him, has no interest in any of the other girls at YARC as anything more than friends."
YARC is the Yale Animal Resource Center.
The most recent entry was Friday, in which she writes, "Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean!!"
UPDATE NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN) -- Police said Tuesday night they have a Yale University employee in custody in connection with thekilling of Yale student Annie Le.
The body of Annie Le, 24, was found in the wall of a Yale University laboratory building Sunday.
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A judge has issued a search warrant and a body warrant on Raymond Clark, 24, said New Haven, Connecticut, Police Chief James Lewis at a news conference.
The search warrant allows for an examination of his home, Lewis said. The body warrant allows police to collect DNA from Clark, who will be arrested if hedoes not comply, Lewis said. Results of DNA tests could take a day or longer, according to Lewis. Others have voluntarily given up their DNA samples, hesaid.
Earlier Tuesday, the Yale technician's home in Middletown, Connecticut, was the scene of a large police presence.
Investigators have collected about 150 pieces of evidence, reviewed about 700 hours of video and interviewed more than 150 people, some twice, Lewis said.They have yet to arrest anyone in Le's slaying, whose body was found Sunday in a basement wall of a medical research building off campus.
A senior police official that spoke with CNN disputed Yale University President Richard Levin, who had indicated that the suspect pool would be a"limited number" of people who had been in the basement the day Le disappeared.
"We know everyone that was in the basement ... and we passed that on to police," Levin said. "There is an abundance of evidence."
But the police official, whom CNN is not naming because of the sensitive nature of the ongoing investigation, said investigators believe dozens of peoplecould have had access to that area of the building.
Watch how Le's body was found »
Le, 24, disappeared September 8. She was last seen on surveillance video as she entered the four-story lab at 10 Amistad Street, about 10 blocks from themain campus. After going over hours of tapes, authorities said they had not found images of her leaving the building.
Watch timeline leading up to Le's death »
The police official said that investigators were unlikely to make any arrest until DNA evidence is returned from analysis and that the probe could takedays.
Police have not released information on what DNA evidence may have been found, although investigators said earlier that bloody clothing was found hiddenabove tiles in a drop ceiling in another part of the building.
Authorities have not described the clothes that were found, nor said to whom they might have belonged. Teams of investigators at a Connecticut State Policelab worked through the weekend processing and examining the bloodstained clothes.
But Thomas Kaplan, editor in chief of the Yale Daily News, said a Yale police official told the paper that the clothes were not what Le was wearing when sheentered the building.
On Sunday, New Haven Police spokesman Joe Avery said that Le's killing was not a random act but would not elaborate.
Watch report on police saying killing was no random act»
Le, a graduate student in Yale's pharmacology program, was to have been married Sunday on New York's Long Island to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduatestudent at Columbia University.
Her friend Vanessa Flores said Le was overjoyed about getting married.
"She was just so excited about this wedding and everything from, you know, her flowers to her wedding dress and just certain details about it,"Flores told HLN's Nancy Grace. "We talked about this back in 2008. She was already thinking about the weather, whether June, July was going to be toohot, August, so September, would it be nice?"
Watch Flores describe Le's plans for "her dreamday" »
Le was from Placerville, California, and seemed to have been well aware of the risks of crime in a university town. In February, she compared crime andsafety at Yale with other Ivy League schools for a piece for B magazine,published by the medical school.
Among the tips she offered: Keep a minimum amount on your person. When she walked over to the research building on September 8, she lefther purse, credit cards and cell phone in her office.
crime of passion?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32810822/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Police have identified a suspect in the killing of a person whose body was found stuffed behind a wall in a high-security laboratorybuilding at Yale University, law enforcement sources told NBC News on Monday.
The suspect, a student, has defensive wounds, and failed a polygraph test, the sources said.
The body found Sunday in the Yale Medical School building is believed to be that of Annie Le, a 24-year-oldnative of Placerville, Calif. She was last seen in the building on Tuesday.
Police found the female body around 5 p.m. Sunday. An autopsy is being performed to verify that the body isLe's.
No fear
Friends said the doctoral student -- who was due to get married on Sunday -- never showed signs of worry about her own personal safety at work,although she did express concerns about crime in New Haven in an article she wrote last year.
"I can't even imagine someone mad at Annie, much less wanting to hurt her," Laurel Griffeathsaid on the TODAY show on Monday.
Another friend, Jennifer Simpson said Le, a pharmacology student from Placerville, Calif., was friendly andaffable to everyone.
"If she was concerned about (it) she would have said something to someone and they would haveknown," Jennifer Simpson told CBS' "The Early Show." "And Jon (her fiance) would have known, her family would have known, friends wouldhave known."
"She was a people person," Simpson added. "She loved people. She loved life. We just can'timagine anybody wanting to harm Annie."
ID card needed
The building where the body was found is part of the university medical school complex about a mile from Yale's main campus and is accessibleto Yale personnel with identification cards. A network of some 75 video surveillance cameras are trained on every door.
Campus officials have said that the security network recorded Le entering the building by swiping her ID cardabout 10 a.m. Tuesday, and have been baffled before Sunday's gruesome discovery that she was never seen leaving.
The university planned a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. Monday at the Ivy League university. The Yale Daily Newssays an e-mail to the Yale community invites participants to "bring a candle and join us in solidarity."
Yale President Richard Levin offered support to Le's family and her fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The couple was to marrySunday in Syosset, N.Y., on Long Island's north shore.
"The family and fiance and friends now must suffer the additional ordeal of waiting for the body to bepositively identified," Levin said.
Crime and safety
Le wrote an article that was published in February in the medical school's magazine. The piece, titled "Crime and Safety in NewHaven," compared higher instances of robbery in New Haven with cities that house other Ivy League schools. It also included an interview with Yale PoliceChief James Perrotti, who offered advice such as "pay attention to where you are" and "avoid portraying yourself as a potentialvictim."
"In short, New Haven is a city and all cities have their perils," Le concludes. "But with alittle street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic."
Le, who worked in a laboratory in the five-story building's basement, was reported missing last Tuesday.Her ID, money, credit cards and purse were found in her third-floor office.
More than 100 local, state and federal police had been searching the building for days, using blueprints touncover any place where evidence or Le's body could be hidden.
Investigators on Saturday said they recovered evidence from the building, but would not confirm media reports that the items includedbloody clothing.
On Sunday morning, a state police van drove down a ramp into the building's basement area. Authoritiesalso sifted through garbage at a Hartford incinerator Sunday, looking through trash that was taken from the building in the days since Le went missing.
Yale students on Monday called the finding sad, but some said the discovery doesn't make them feel lesssafe at Yale.
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"Obviously it's a city and there are safety concerns," said 18-year-old Peter Spaulding, astudent from Maryland. "It can happen anywhere. You have to go on with life."
Law student Lindsay Nash of West Chester, Pa., said she doesn't sense a heightened level of fear oncampus.
"There's always an attention to safety here," she said. "I think there's perceptionthat you need to be careful regardless."
By William Kaempffer, Register Staff
NEW HAVEN - Police have obtained a DNA match that implicates Raymond Clark III, 24, in the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le, police sources said late Wednesday.
Police have obtained, or are in the process of obtaining, an arrest warrant, the sources said.
Police were in Cromwell, where Clark was staying in the Super 8 motel.
This comes hours after police served two more search warrants Wednesday on their "person of interest" in the slaying of a Yale graduate student.
The warrants were for a red Ford Mustang that suspect Raymond Clark drove and a second warrant for his apartment at 40 Ferry St. in Middletown for items not included in the first search warrant executed Tuesday night.
The state's medical examiner's office confirmed Wednesday that the Yale graduate student, Annie Le, was strangled.
The office of the Chief Medical Examiner termed the cause of death "traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression."
This confirmation came hours after the man described as "person of interest" in the killing provided police with DNA samples and was released early Wednesday, police said.
With now 250 pieces of evidence being analyzed, the investigation is now in the hands of the state crime lab, which is operating 24-hours a day, Chief James Lewis said Wednesday evening.
If a DNA hit comes back linking Clark, 24, to the crime, Lewis said he expected an arrest warrant would be issued within a few hours.
"We know where Mr. Clark is at all times," he added.
While police continue to investigate other people - so as not to be accused later of tunnel vision - he acknowledged that, at this point, there were no other persons of interest in the case.
He expressed confidence that the case would end in an arrest.
Clark was taken into custody Tuesday night after police secured search warrants for both his apartment and his body. Police said he was brought to a state police facility, where he complied with the warrant.
Police said he was released at about 3 a.m.
A source said detectives were investigating a testy e-mail Clark may have sent Le over protocols she wasn't following.
According to a source, Clark drew the attention of authorities even before Le's body was found stuffed inside a wall near the lab in which he worked at 10 Amistad St.
When he was questioned by the FBI, agents took note of numerous injuries on his body, the source said, including what appeared to be bruises and abrasions on his arms, a mark under his eye, a scratch on his right ear, and a bruise or deep scratch to his chest.
When questioned, he said some of the injuries were a scratch from a cat. Others he attributed to playing softball.
"He had excuses for everything," the source said.
It was when officials started taking pictures of his injuries that Clark reportedly appeared to get nervous and asked for an attorney.
The motive for the slaying remained unknown. Police have theories, but authorities stressed that they were nothing more than that. They range from unrequited romantic advances by Clark toward Le to Clark being upset over the handling of the mice that he was in charge of caring for. The animals are used in experiments.
Clark has hired a Fairfield lawyer to represent him and has invoked his right to remain silent. He did not provide a statement to police after he was taken into custody on the DNA warrant.
Attorney David Dworski declined to answer questions about the his client or the case, including whether his client denies having anything to do with the Le homicide.
He issued only a one-sentence statement: "We're committed to proceeding appropriately with the authorities with whom we are in regular communication."
Also, two New Haven public defenders, Joe Lopez and Beth Merkin, are providing assistance.
New Haven Public Defender Thomas J. Ullmann declined comment but did say that it is not unprecedented for his office to provide pre-arrest assistance.
"I can say as a general matter, if someone sought our assistance and was qualified for the public defenders officer in terms of income levels, we would offer advice and assistance."
The samples now were going to be compared with forensic evidence collected at the scene of the killing 10 Amistad St., a Yale laboratory in the medical district. Police Chief James Lewis has said that more than 150 pieces of evidence were collected in the building. The hope and belief is that some of that contains DNA of the killer.
"The results of the forensic analysis from the crime lab will either rule in or rule out our person of interest in this case," New Haven Assistant Police Chief Peter Reichard said Wednesday morning. "If he's ruled out, it's back to the drawing board" where detectives will examine other people who had contact with Le, 24, a graduate student in pharmacology.
"If he's ruled in, the course of action would be seeking a custodial arrest of the subject."
Le disappeared on Sept. 8 after entering 10 Amistad St. Her clothed body was found stuffed in small mechanic chase in the basement of the building.
She was supposed to have been married Sunday, the day she was found.
Clark, an lab technician who worked at 10 Amistad, also is engaged, to a co-worker. They were set to be married in December 2011, according to the couple's wedding Web site A young man who answered the door at her parent's house in Hamden declined comment Wednesday morning. The couple met working at Yale, a source said.
Asked about Clark's side of the story, he only said, "I guess that will come out."
In New Haven, Clark had lived in an apartment with his fiancee at 1554 Ella T. Grasso Blvd. until earlier this year. Former neighbor Annmarie Goodwin described Clark as "very controlling" of his girlfriend and that she would sometimes hear shouting upstairs.
At the Wharfside Commons Apartment complex in Middletown Wednesday, where Clark lives, neighbor Ed Banning, said the last time he saw Clark was Tuesday night when he was being put into a police car.
Banning said he wasn't friends with Clark but saw him and had conversations in passing. He said that there was nothing about the interactions that would lead him to believe Clark would be capable of the crime for which he is a suspect.
"It's really scary," Banning said, of Clark being a suspect in the case.
Clark is a 2004 graduate of Branford High School.
A student who attended Branford High School with him said, ''I'm in total shock. He was the nicest kid - very quiet, but everyone liked him. I can't believe...this. I'm sick to my stomach.''
Clark shares a MySpace page with his fiancee and she described him as a "Wonderful boyfriend."
In May 2008, she wrote about a rumor that Clark was cheating on her with another co-worker at tech lab.
"My boyfriend, Ray, if you don't know him, has no interest in any of the other girls at YARC as anything more than friends."
YARC is the Yale Animal Resource Center.
The most recent entry was Friday, in which she writes, "Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean!!"
UPDATE NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN) -- Police said Tuesday night they have a Yale University employee in custody in connection with thekilling of Yale student Annie Le.
The body of Annie Le, 24, was found in the wall of a Yale University laboratory building Sunday.
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A judge has issued a search warrant and a body warrant on Raymond Clark, 24, said New Haven, Connecticut, Police Chief James Lewis at a news conference.
The search warrant allows for an examination of his home, Lewis said. The body warrant allows police to collect DNA from Clark, who will be arrested if hedoes not comply, Lewis said. Results of DNA tests could take a day or longer, according to Lewis. Others have voluntarily given up their DNA samples, hesaid.
Earlier Tuesday, the Yale technician's home in Middletown, Connecticut, was the scene of a large police presence.
Investigators have collected about 150 pieces of evidence, reviewed about 700 hours of video and interviewed more than 150 people, some twice, Lewis said.They have yet to arrest anyone in Le's slaying, whose body was found Sunday in a basement wall of a medical research building off campus.
A senior police official that spoke with CNN disputed Yale University President Richard Levin, who had indicated that the suspect pool would be a"limited number" of people who had been in the basement the day Le disappeared.
"We know everyone that was in the basement ... and we passed that on to police," Levin said. "There is an abundance of evidence."
But the police official, whom CNN is not naming because of the sensitive nature of the ongoing investigation, said investigators believe dozens of peoplecould have had access to that area of the building.
Le, 24, disappeared September 8. She was last seen on surveillance video as she entered the four-story lab at 10 Amistad Street, about 10 blocks from themain campus. After going over hours of tapes, authorities said they had not found images of her leaving the building.
The police official said that investigators were unlikely to make any arrest until DNA evidence is returned from analysis and that the probe could takedays.
Police have not released information on what DNA evidence may have been found, although investigators said earlier that bloody clothing was found hiddenabove tiles in a drop ceiling in another part of the building.
Authorities have not described the clothes that were found, nor said to whom they might have belonged. Teams of investigators at a Connecticut State Policelab worked through the weekend processing and examining the bloodstained clothes.
But Thomas Kaplan, editor in chief of the Yale Daily News, said a Yale police official told the paper that the clothes were not what Le was wearing when sheentered the building.
On Sunday, New Haven Police spokesman Joe Avery said that Le's killing was not a random act but would not elaborate.
Le, a graduate student in Yale's pharmacology program, was to have been married Sunday on New York's Long Island to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduatestudent at Columbia University.
Her friend Vanessa Flores said Le was overjoyed about getting married.
"She was just so excited about this wedding and everything from, you know, her flowers to her wedding dress and just certain details about it,"Flores told HLN's Nancy Grace. "We talked about this back in 2008. She was already thinking about the weather, whether June, July was going to be toohot, August, so September, would it be nice?"
Le was from Placerville, California, and seemed to have been well aware of the risks of crime in a university town. In February, she compared crime andsafety at Yale with other Ivy League schools for a piece for B magazine,published by the medical school.
Among the tips she offered: Keep a minimum amount on your person. When she walked over to the research building on September 8, she lefther purse, credit cards and cell phone in her office.
crime of passion?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32810822/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Police have identified a suspect in the killing of a person whose body was found stuffed behind a wall in a high-security laboratorybuilding at Yale University, law enforcement sources told NBC News on Monday.
The suspect, a student, has defensive wounds, and failed a polygraph test, the sources said.
The body found Sunday in the Yale Medical School building is believed to be that of Annie Le, a 24-year-oldnative of Placerville, Calif. She was last seen in the building on Tuesday.
Police found the female body around 5 p.m. Sunday. An autopsy is being performed to verify that the body isLe's.
No fear
Friends said the doctoral student -- who was due to get married on Sunday -- never showed signs of worry about her own personal safety at work,although she did express concerns about crime in New Haven in an article she wrote last year.
"I can't even imagine someone mad at Annie, much less wanting to hurt her," Laurel Griffeathsaid on the TODAY show on Monday.
Another friend, Jennifer Simpson said Le, a pharmacology student from Placerville, Calif., was friendly andaffable to everyone.
"If she was concerned about (it) she would have said something to someone and they would haveknown," Jennifer Simpson told CBS' "The Early Show." "And Jon (her fiance) would have known, her family would have known, friends wouldhave known."
"She was a people person," Simpson added. "She loved people. She loved life. We just can'timagine anybody wanting to harm Annie."
ID card needed
The building where the body was found is part of the university medical school complex about a mile from Yale's main campus and is accessibleto Yale personnel with identification cards. A network of some 75 video surveillance cameras are trained on every door.
Campus officials have said that the security network recorded Le entering the building by swiping her ID cardabout 10 a.m. Tuesday, and have been baffled before Sunday's gruesome discovery that she was never seen leaving.
The university planned a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. Monday at the Ivy League university. The Yale Daily Newssays an e-mail to the Yale community invites participants to "bring a candle and join us in solidarity."
Yale President Richard Levin offered support to Le's family and her fiance, Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky. The couple was to marrySunday in Syosset, N.Y., on Long Island's north shore.
"The family and fiance and friends now must suffer the additional ordeal of waiting for the body to bepositively identified," Levin said.
Crime and safety
Le wrote an article that was published in February in the medical school's magazine. The piece, titled "Crime and Safety in NewHaven," compared higher instances of robbery in New Haven with cities that house other Ivy League schools. It also included an interview with Yale PoliceChief James Perrotti, who offered advice such as "pay attention to where you are" and "avoid portraying yourself as a potentialvictim."
"In short, New Haven is a city and all cities have their perils," Le concludes. "But with alittle street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic."
Le, who worked in a laboratory in the five-story building's basement, was reported missing last Tuesday.Her ID, money, credit cards and purse were found in her third-floor office.
More than 100 local, state and federal police had been searching the building for days, using blueprints touncover any place where evidence or Le's body could be hidden.
Investigators on Saturday said they recovered evidence from the building, but would not confirm media reports that the items includedbloody clothing.
On Sunday morning, a state police van drove down a ramp into the building's basement area. Authoritiesalso sifted through garbage at a Hartford incinerator Sunday, looking through trash that was taken from the building in the days since Le went missing.
Yale students on Monday called the finding sad, but some said the discovery doesn't make them feel lesssafe at Yale.
Click for related content
Read more news from across the U.S.
"Obviously it's a city and there are safety concerns," said 18-year-old Peter Spaulding, astudent from Maryland. "It can happen anywhere. You have to go on with life."
Law student Lindsay Nash of West Chester, Pa., said she doesn't sense a heightened level of fear oncampus.
"There's always an attention to safety here," she said. "I think there's perceptionthat you need to be careful regardless."
