Raymond Clark, the Yale lab technician charged with the murder of bride-to-be Annie Le, may have had help hiding her body, according to a news report.
Hartford TV station WTIC/Fox61 reported that police are questioning a possible second suspect who may have assisted Clark. His sister, brother-in-law and fiancée all work at Yale. Officials have kept Clark's arrest warrant sealed during the ongoing investigation.
Meanwhile, investigators said they found Clark's and Le's DNA in the crawl space behind a wall where her body was found, according to the Hartford Courant. Similar evidence was also found in the ceiling.
The DNA evidence confirmed the suspicions of officials that were aroused while they searched for Le in the days after her disappearance. The Courant says Clark worked among them and had tried to cover his tracks. One investigator saw Clark trying to hide cleaning equipment that contained blood spatters, the paper reported.
Clark was also seen cleaning areas that Le was in before she was reported missing, according to the Courant.
Officials believe Le fought back against her killer. A bead from her necklace was found on the floor of the lab where she was last seen, as well as blood droplets. Clark had bruises and scratches on his body he said were from a cat and a softball game, the paper said.
The Daily News reported that Clark's green pen was found at the scene. He apparently returned to retrieve it with fishing line and hooks after it fell into a crevice, the paper said. It also reported that Le's blood was found on Clark's boot.
The pen was a way to distinguish his remarks on documents, because Clark was described by co-workers as a "control freak."
According to ABC News, Clark was overbearing with Yale researchers who conducted experiments with the lab animals he tended to. Clark texted Le to complain about the condition in which she was leaving some animal cages and requested a meeting, ABC News reported.
Clark was arrested on Thursday and charged with murder. He kept mostly silent during his arraignment and was placed in solitary confinement for his protection, officials said.
He knew for days that cops were onto him, the New Haven Independent reported. He saw that a police narcotics unit had been dispatched to tail him and never let him out of their sight.
There doesn't seem to be a drug connection in the case — the narcotics unit is just good at tails, the paper said.
Officials said they had accumulated more than 250 pieces of evidence. Le's body was found stuffed behind a wall on Sunday, which would have been her wedding day. She was scheduled to marry Morningside Heights resident and Columbia grad student Jonathan Widawsky on Long Island.
Earlier this week the Connecticut state medical examiner's office ruled her death a homicide by "traumatic asphyxiation" by a compression on the neck, but didn't elaborate. Le's full autopsy report has not been released as prosecutors said the information it contains may hinder their investigation.
Speculation that Le might have had a romantic involvement with Clark is not supported by the evidence, officials have said.
