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World Mourns for Slain Yale Student via Web

By Jim Scott | November 1, 2009 9:47pm | Updated on September 14, 2009 7:10pm
A screen grab from Yale grad student Annie Le's Facebook page, to which her friends were posting their condolences after her body was found over the weekend.
A screen grab from Yale grad student Annie Le's Facebook page, to which her friends were posting their condolences after her body was found over the weekend.
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By Jonathan Schuppe

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — As the case of bride-to-be Annie Le has unfolded, social networking Web sites have become online versions of roadside memorials, with people from around the world sharing thoughts and posting condolences.

Others offered graphic suggestions of what should be done with her killer.

On Le's personal Facebook page, which includes the message "I'm getting married 09/13/2009", friends continued posting her her wall today.

"We all love you, Annie," one says.

"i wish anything this were a bad dream," another wrote.

Another friend added a note to Le's fiance, Jonathan Widawsky: "Jon - may you find comfort in your beautiful memories together."

Elsewhere on Facebook. a group called "FIND ANNIE LE" was created after her disappearance last week. Members reacted to Monday’s news that her body had been found in the building where she’d last been seen.

“Our Vietnamese-American community mourned a great loss of a daughter, a friend, a sister who has so much potential,” a member from Orange County, Calif., wrote.

On another group, called “In Memory of Annie Le,” a poster from Denmark remarked: “This is such a tragic and awful event. Poor poor girl :( RIP Annie:(”

Many more comments poured onto Twitter today, along with updates on the case.

“Pray for Annie Le (the yale grad student) and her family they just identified her body…so sad,” one said.

The Yale Nursing School wrote: “Our heartfelt prayers and thoughts go out to the family, fiance and friends of Yale grad student Annie Le '13.”

The Yale School of Music, Yale Divinity School and the Yale Muslim Students Association all used Twitter to spread of the word of candle-light vigil for Le tonight.

There was also a lot of anger director toward the killer. On Facebook’s “In Memory of Annie Le” group, one member wished for “unbearable pain” for “a million years,” for the murderer, who has yet to be arrested.