Clark III sentenced to 44 years of Jail in Annie Le Murder

The murder of Annie Le occurred September 8, 2009, on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Annie Marie Le a 24-year-old American doctoral student at the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology, was found missing from September 8. She was last seen before entering the research lab September 8. She was captured by the surveillance camera before entering his work area.

To add more to the sorrow, September 13 was the date that was fixed for her marriage but her dead body was also found on the same date inside the building. 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. News of the tragedy went worldwide, and expressions of sympathy were common, culminating in memorials held in New York and California, and the live broadcast of Annie Le's funeral on the internet. The Yale community also publicly mourned Le's death. On September 17, police arrested a suspect, Raymond J. Clark, III, a Yale lab technician who worked in the building. But, Clark was released after collecting DNA sample from him.

With the DNA matching Clark was taken under the police custody and he was held at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Connecticut, a maximum security prison, on $3 million bail. Initially Clark pleaded against guilty on March 17, 2011. He was produced to lie detector test and Clark failed in the test.

Clark was now sentence to 44 years of imprisonment after proved guilty. The verdict was issued on June 3 2011. The Connecticut medical examiner's autopsy found that Le's death was due to "traumatic asphyxia due to neck compression".

May her Soul Rest in Peace. 

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