Annie Le,Yale grad student "Murdered"#2

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No plea yet in in Yale slaying

Published: Tuesday, October 6, 2009

By Randall Beach, Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — The suspect in the slaying of a Yale University graduate student did not enter a plea when he appeared today in Superior Court in New Haven.

Raymond Clark III, 24, is charged with the murder and is being held in lieu of $3 million bail. The Associated Press reported that the judge in the case has set a tentative probable cause hearing date in the case for Oct. 20.

Grad student Annie Le, also 24, was killed Sept. 8 in the 10 Amistad St. building where she conducted experiments on enzymes that could provide answers on diabetes and other diseases, — all part of her doctoral studies in pharmacology and molecular medicine at Yale University.

Clark worked as an animal technician in the Amistad Street building.

Le’s body was found hidden in a wall recess in the building five days after her death, the same day she was suppose to marry Jonathan Widawsky, her college sweetheart, in a ceremony on Long Island.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2...d549641281.txt

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The Yale lab technician charged in the strangulation of graduate student Annie Le will eventually plead not guilty, his public defender said.

Raymond Clark III, who has been jailed on $3 million bond since he was arrested last month on a murder charge, appeared Tuesday before a judge in New Haven Superior Court, but did not enter a plea, The Associated Press reported.

"Raymond will enter a not guilty plea," Connecticut public defender Joseph Lopez of Bridgeport said earlier Tuesday.

The judge scheduled a probable cause hearing for Oct. 20, in which each side will have the right to introduce evidence and call witnesses, the AP said. Under Connecticut law, defendants accused of murder have the right to the hearing within 60 days of their arrest to decide if the case will go forward.

Records of warrants served against Clark have been sealed because of the police investigation, and the public defender's office wants them to stay sealed beyond the 14-day period initially ordered to avoid influencing potential jurors.

Le's strangled body was found hidden behind the wall of a research lab building on Sept. 13, the day she was to be married on Long Island to a Huntington man.

The disappearance of Le, 24, of Placerville, Calif., from the Ivy League school five days before her Syosset wedding had set off a massive bicoastal search.

Authorities focused on Clark, also 24, because he failed a lie-detector test, his DNA matched crime scene evidence and key card swipe records at the lab showed him to be the last person in the room where Le was found, according to published reports.

An autopsy showed Le died of traumatic asphyxia caused by "neck compression," according to the Connecticut medical examiner.






Authorities have said the case is one of "workplace violence," but have not elaborated on the motive.

Clark cleaned cages, set up experiments and euthanized animals in the lab building where Le did her doctoral research in pharmacology.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/c...ilty-1.1503676

October 6, 2009 By MATTHEW CHAYES

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SEALED DOCUMENTS

Judge: Courant Can Seek Affidavits In Le Case


By ALAINE GRIFFIN and DAVID OWENS

October 7, 2009

NEW HAVEN — - Publicly, police and prosecutors have said little about the evidence linking lab technician Raymond Clark III to the death of Yale University graduate student Annie Le. Court documents with substantial details about the arrest and investigation are sealed from public view.

Later this month, a Superior Court judge will hear arguments for and against keeping those details secret.

Judge Roland D. Fasano on Tuesday granted The Courant's motion to intervene, giving the newspaper a chance to argue against a request from Clark's public defenders to extend seals on the arrest and search warrant affidavits. Those documents contain information that led police to arrest Clark in connection with the slaying of Le.

"The public has a right to be heard," Paul R. Guggina, the Courant's attorney, said during Tuesday's brief court hearing for Clark.

Clark, 24, of Middletown, appeared in court wearing an orange prison jumpsuit. He did not enter a plea to a murder charge Tuesday but Beth A. Merkin, one of Clark's attorneys, said Clark plans to plead not guilty. Fasano scheduled both a hearing on the sealing motions and a hearing on probable cause for Oct. 20.

Probable-cause hearings, mandatory under state law in cases punishable by death or life in prison, require judges to determine whether sufficient evidence exists to proceed with the prosecution. Judges rarely rule that probable cause is lacking. Defendants usually waive such hearings.

Le's body was found Sept. 13 concealed in a crawl space at 10 Amistad St., a Yale research building where Clark worked and Le did research. The discovery was made on the day that Le, 24, a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology from Placerville, Calif., was scheduled to get married.

The state medical examiner said that Le died of traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression. Sources told The Courant that authorities used forensic evidence, including DNA samples taken from the crawl space where Le's body was hidden and from evidence found in a ceiling, to link Clark to the crime. Police also used computer records showing that Clark was the last person to see Le alive in a room inside a laboratory, the sources said.

Clark has not talked to police about the case. Sources have told The Courant that the crime stemmed from a work dispute between Clark and Le.

On Sept. 17, the day of Clark's arrest, a judge approved a request from prosecutors to seal the arrest warrant affidavit for 14 days. On Sept. 24, public defenders Merkin and Joseph E. Lopez asked that the seal be extended, saying releasing it would hurt Clark's chances of getting a fair trial and an impartial jury.

Guggina, in his objection, argued that sealing court documents is "not a matter of course." State law gives the public the right to access judicial documents, he argued, unless those seeking to block access show that there is an overriding interest in keeping the affidavit secret, and if there is such an interest, that a sealing order is the only remedy and the order is "narrowly tailored to provide the public as much access as possible."

Following Tuesday's hearing, judicial marshals whisked Clark from the New Haven courthouse in a motorcade of unmarked police cars and state Department of Correction vans, all with sirens blaring. Neither Le's family nor members of Clark's family attended the hearing.

Clark is being held, with bail set at $3 million, at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield.

Also Tuesday, a spokesman for Yale said that the university was investigating whether employees in the Yale University health service inappropriately accessed Le's health records. The university audits access to such records, and employees who access them without proper authority can be disciplined, Yale spokesman Tom Conroy said.

The Yale Daily News reported that several employees were reprimanded for accessing Le's records. Conroy said he could not confirm the report because matters involving personnel are confidential.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecti...,6039951.story

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Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2009


By Randall Beach, Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — Raymond J. Clark III, his head tilted downward, made a brief appearance Tuesday in Superior Court but did not enter a plea in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le.

Clark’s attorney, Public Defender Joseph E. Lopez, said afterward that Clark would plead not guilty to the murder charge, as is routinely done at this early stage. Lopez said this will probably happen during his next court appearance Oct. 20.

Lopez noted that defendants charged with serious crimes generally do not enter pleas until they decide with their attorneys if they want to have a probable cause hearing. That also will be discussed Oct. 20.

During such hearings, prosecutors try to persuade a judge there is sufficient evidence to maintain the charge. In almost all cases, that standard is met. Police have said they have DNA evidence linking Clark to Le’s death.

Lopez said that if he and co-counsel Beth A. Merkin tell Judge Roland Fasano on Oct. 20 they want to have the probable cause hearing, it would be scheduled for a later date.

Also Oct. 20, Fasano will hear arguments on a motion by the Hartford Courant to unseal the search and arrest warrants. Lopez and Merkin have filed a motion to keep the warrants sealed. Prosecutors filed a similar “keep-them-sealed” motion Tuesday.

The defense attorneys have said disclosure of the information would interfere with Clark’s right to a fair trial.

The Courant’s motion, filed by attorney Paul Guggina, said, “The public has a real and legitimate interest in the workings of our courts.” Guggina wrote the party seeking non-disclosure must establish “a compelling interest in preventing those documents from being disclosed to the public.”

Tuesday’s session, which lasted only about one minute, was Clark’s first public appearance since he was arraigned the day of his arrest, Sept. 17. He is being held in lieu of $3 million bail at McDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield.

Attired in an orange prison jumpsuit, Clark appeared subdued, keeping his eyes on or near the ground. Lopez said none of Clark’s relatives or friends were in the courtroom, which was crowded with reporters.

Le’s body was found Sept. 13, on what was supposed to be her wedding day, in a wall at the Amistad Street lab where Clark worked as a lab technician. The state chief medical examiner said she had been strangled.

Clark is 24, as was Le.

Lopez said Tuesday he needs to see more police records in the case before deciding whether to seek or waive a probable cause hearing.

“I’m expecting boxes of discovery (items). All I have now is the arrest and search warrant,” he said.

Lopez said he was not accusing the police of dragging their feet. “I just think they have a huge file to put together and copy for us.”

Asked how Clark is doing, Lopez said, “As well as can be expected.” Lopez declined to disclose anything about their conversations.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2...court_1007.txt

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Published: Monday, October 12, 2009

NEW HAVEN (AP) — Yale University is holding a memorial service to remember a graduate student who was killed just days before her wedding.

The service for Annie Le (LAY') is scheduled for Monday at 5 p.m. in Battell Chapel at Yale. University officials say it's open only to the Yale community.


The 24-year-old pharmacology student from Placerville, Calif., vanished Sept. 8 from a Yale medical lab building. Her body was found five days later, on what was to be her wedding day, behind a wall of a basement laboratory.

Raymond Clark III, a 24-year-old former Yale University lab technician, has been charged with her killing. Clark has yet to enter a plea, but his attorney has said he plans to plead not guilty.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2...0495073000.txt

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Grisly Annie Le Scoop False, Say Cops

Yesterday the New York Post ran a gruesome update on the Annie Le murder, saying that Le's killer "broke the bones and mangled the body" before stuffing her into a wall. New Haven cops say: False.



NYP reporter Rebecca Rosenberg's story yesterday was, without a doubt, the grossest, most vivid depiction yet of the crime scene:

Accused murderer Ray Clark was so desperate to hide his heinous handiwork that he allegedly broke the bones and mangled the body of a strangled Yale grad student to fit it through a wall opening the size of a computer screen, The Post has learned.

"He just crushed her in there. She was like mush — she was so smashed up you couldn't recognize her," said a source

The story makes pretty specific statements on the condition of the body, presumably thanks to a police source. But now the New Haven police say it's false:

State's Attorney Michael Dearington asked the New Haven Police Department to clarify the inaccuracy, which he said was picked up by other media outlets.

"This information is false and this myth must be dispelled at the request of the state's attorney," said New Haven Police Chief James Lewis.

Rosenberg's bylines show she's a hard worker who's been on the Le story since before we even knew she was murdered. Somebody's obviously feeding her lurid info. But it's hard to see why the police would go to the trouble of denying it unless it was actually false. It's possible that her story does have a grain of truth, but that it got hyped up by the Post's editing process so much that it was rendered false.

http://gawker.com/5364956/grisly-ann...yline=true&s=x

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Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009

By Randall Beach, Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — Raymond J. Clark III, accused of murder in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le, was in court today, but did not enter a plea in the case.

Following a hearing in Superior Court in New Haven, a judge also did not make a ruling on a motion by the news media, including the New Haven Register, who are seeking to unseal the documents filed in the case.

The arrest warrant, search warrant and other documents have been sealed since Clark’s arrest Sept. 17. The New Haven Register, New York Times and the Associated Press have joined the Hartford Courant in its motion to unseal the documents.

The case is due back in court Nov. 3

Read more about this story in Wednesday’s New Haven Register and here at www.nhregister.com

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2...1658395272.txt

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By JEFFREY B. COHEN The Hartford Courant

10:49 p.m. EDT, October 20, 2009

NEW HAVEN — - A judge heard arguments Tuesday about whether to make public the police documents in the case against Raymond Clark III, who is accused of murdering Yale graduate student Annie Le, but he made no ruling.

Judge Roland D. Fasano told attorneys in Superior Court in New Haven it may take him weeks to decide whether to continue the seal on the documents.

Le's body was found Sept. 13 concealed in a crawl space at 10 Amistad St., a research building that is part of the Yale School of Medicine complex where Clark worked and Le did research. The discovery was made on the day that Le, 24, was scheduled to get married.

The state medical examiner said that Le died of traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression.

Clark — handcuffed, shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit — appeared in court Tuesday but did not enter a plea. The judge set a deadline of Nov. 3 for the prosecution to finish the discovery portion of its case.

Attorneys for the state and the defense argued against disclosing either of two search warrants or the arrest warrant in the case. If the documents are made public, they argued, certain portions should not be released.

Assistant State's Attorney John Waddock said he spoke with members of the Le family and said "their wish and their hope ... is that the documents continue to be sealed."

Waddock said that the family is "deeply concerned" and that it would be "making an already difficult time much more difficult" if the documents were made public. The ordeal "has worn on the family tremendously, and they are still trying to get through that experience," he said.

Beth A. Merkin, one of Clark's attorneys, argued that sealing the document would ensure "a fair trial and maximize [the defendant's] ability to select a fair and impartial jury."

Hartford attorney Paul R. Guggina, who is representing The Courant and other media outlets, noted the importance of a defendant's fair trial rights but said "the right to free speech and free press is equally important."

On Sept. 17, the day of Clark's arrest, a judge approved the request from prosecutors to seal the arrest warrant affidavit for 14 days. On Sept. 24, public defenders Merkin and Joseph E. Lopez asked that the seal be extended, saying releasing it would hurt Clark's chances of getting a fair trial and an impartial jury.

Guggina, in his objection, argued that sealing court documents is "not a matter of course." State law gives the public the right to access judicial documents, he argued, unless those seeking to block access show that there is an overriding interest in keeping the affidavit secret. If there is such an interest, he said, it must be shown that a sealing order is the only remedy and the order must be "narrowly tailored to provide the public as much access as possible."

Law enforcement officials have released few details about their investigation of Le's death and the suspect. The court documents are expected to contain substantial details about the arrest and investigation.

Sources familiar with the investigation have told The Courant that the evidence leading to Clark's arrest was a combination of computer records of security cards that showed Clark was the last person to see Le alive, his failed polygraph, scratches on his body, his attempts to clean up the crime scene and, ultimately, a DNA match in two places.

Those same sources said police are looking into whether a work dispute might have prompted the attack on Le.

Clark is being held, with bail set at $3 million, at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecti...,7717352.story

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Annie Le case: Accused killer Raymond Clark due in court Tuesday for probable cause hearing

November 1

Tuesday, the former lab technician accused of killing Yale graduate student, Annie Le, is due in court for a probable cause hearing on Tuesday.

Clark is charged with murdering Annie in September and then stuffing her body behind a basement wall in the Yale lab building.

To see video and photos from Annie's funeral, click here.

Annie was working on an advanced degree in pharmacology and was to be married on the Sunday her body was discovered.

Clark has not yet entered a plea in the case.

To see video of Clark’s arraignment, click here.

According to the News-Times, the media has requested all documents in the case be unsealed. However, prosecutors oppose such a move arguing the need to ensure a fair and impartial jury and that the privacy rights of Annie’s family should be protected.

To see photos regarding the search for Annie, click here.

To see photos of Raymond Clark, click here.

To see photos surrounding Annie's disappearance, click here.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crime...-cause-hearing

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The Hartford Courant

8:12 p.m. EST, November 3, 2009

NEW HAVEN - A Superior Court judge is expected to rule later this week whether to unseal arrest warrant affidavits for Raymond Clark III, the suspect in the killing of Yale graduate student Annie Le.

During a brief court hearing Tuesday, Judge Roland D. Fasano said he expected to make a decision before Friday.

Clark, a 24-year-old former Yale lab technician from Middletown, is charged with murder in connection with Le's death.

Clark was not present at Tuesday's hearing, where defense attorney Joseph E. Lopez asked for a delay in scheduling a probable cause hearing. Such hearings are required within 60 days of arrest when a suspect faces the possibility of life in prison. The hearings can be delayed if the defense agrees.

Also Tuesday, prosecutors asked that search warrant affidavits related to the case remain sealed for another two weeks. The Courant and other media organizations have gone to court to request that the affidavits be open to the public.

The next hearing is Dec. 21.

http://www.courant.com/community/new...,3331010.story

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Published: Friday, November 6, 2009



By Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — A Superior Court judge ruled Friday afternoon that some documents in the case against a former Yale University animal technician accused of killing graduate student Annie Le would be released to the public.

But despite the ruling by Judge Roland Fasano, neither the public nor the press will have access to the documents until 3 p.m. Thursday, court officials said. The documents must first be redacted and the court will wait for a 72-hour appeals window to pass.

The documents had been under seal since Raymond Clark III was arrested on Sept. 17.

Clark is charged with murder in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le.

Clark, 24, has not yet entered a plea. His defense attorney, Public Defender Joseph E. Lopez has said Clark will plead not guilty.

The news media, including the New Haven Register, sought to unseal the case’s documents.

The arrest warrant, search warrant and other documents have been kept from the public ever since Clark’s arrest. A court order kept the file sealed, initially for 14 days. The period was extended after a defense motion seeking the extension. Defense attorneys argued disclosure of the information “would irreparably prejudice the defendant’s state and federal constitutional rights to an impartial jury and to a fair trial.”

Fasano has waived the 60-day period defendants have to decide about a probable cause hearing, during which prosecutors try to show there is enough evidence to maintain the charge.

Clark has been in prison in lieu of $3 million bail since his arrest. He was an animal technician in a Yale research building where Le, also 24, conducted experiments. Clark’s next court date is Dec. 21.

Le was killed Sept. 8 in the 10 Amistad St. building where she conducted experiments on enzymes that could provide answers on diabetes and other diseases. It was part of her doctoral studies in pharmacology and molecular medicine at Yale. Her body was found hidden in a wall recess in the building five days later, the same day she was suppose to marry Jonathan Widawsky, her college sweetheart, in a ceremony on Long Island.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2...c190635867.txt

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Lawyers doubt records will bias jury

By Esther Zuckerman and Taylor Lasley
Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter
Published Monday, November 9, 2009

Friday’s ruling to release most of the search and arrest warrants in the case of Raymond Clark III, who is charged with the murder of the Annie Le GRD ’13, may not bias a future jury, two lawyers said in interviews over the weekend.

The ruling, issued by New Haven Superior Court Judge Roland Fasano, rejected arguments by both the defense and the prosecution to keep the affidavits sealed, siding instead with the Hartford Courant, the New Haven Register, The New York Times and the Associated Press in their motion to release the documents. Although the defense has argued that doing so could influence a jury pool, New Haven criminal defense attorneys Paul Carty and John J. Keefe Jr. said that since the trial could be over a year away, whatever effect the released affidavits could have on the jury would dwindle by the start of the trial.

“[The] public has a short memory,” Carty said.

In interviews Sunday, two lawyers also noted that the judge raises, but never answers, questions about whether the public’s right to information outweighs Clark’s right to a fair trial.

“The conflict between free press and fair trial has been pretty intense at times and this case shows exactly why,” said David Rosen LAW ’69, a senior research scholar at Yale Law School. “People who are in the middle of one of those stories feel as though their own personal tragedy is overwhelmed by the magnitude of public curiosity and appetite for true crime stories.”

After Le was declared missing Sept. 9 from the Yale research facility where she conducted experiments, the story received intense media coverage by reporters from across the country. Le’s murder was the third most covered news story in the United States for the week of Sept. 14-20 according to a Pew Research Center study.

Nicholas D’Amato, a local criminal defense lawyer, noted the newspapers’ self-interest in motioning to open the records.

“My guess is that their bottom line is selling papers,” he said. “It’s about whether or not they can sensationalize a story and it becomes a commercial success for them.”

Paul Guggina, the Courant’s attorney, said only that the newspaper is still deciding how to proceed.

Joseph Lopez, an attorney for Clark, told the Associated Press that he does not expect to appeal Fasano’s ruling. John Waddock, the state prosecutor in charge of the case, was out of the office Friday afternoon.

Carty and Keefe said it is unlikely that the defense or prosecution will appeal to block the unsealing of the affidavits.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/ci...ill-bias-jury/

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Wait Continues For Annie Le Evidence Release

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 @09:04am CST

(New Haven, CT) -- Judicial officials in Connecticut say it will be tomorrow at the earliest before the release of documents in the Annie Le murder case will be ready for release.

A judge last week ordered the release of the arrest warrant for suspect Raymond Clark and other documents in the September killing of the Yale university graduate student.

Both the prosecution and defense had requested that the documents remain under seal, but several media organizations petitioned for their release.

Le was found dead, her body stuffed inside a wall of a Yale medical building, five days after she was last seen entering the building.

http://mystateline.com/content/fulltext/?cid=115381

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Search warrants were released today in the horrific murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le. Ray Clark is currently charged with her murder.

Evidence of Violent Struggle Between Annie Le and Her Killer


By EMILY FRIEDMAN
Nov. 13, 2009



Accused Yale murderer Ray Clark was seen by authorities moving a box of wipes to hide a blood spatter in the room where Yale lab tech Annie Le was killed, and he later got down on the floor in front of surprised investigators to scrub a drainage area with scouring pads.

The unusual behavior was part of the evidence police used to arrest Clark in September for the murder of Le just days before she was to get married.

The arrest warrant, released today, revealed evidence against Clark including a blood stained medical scrub found along with Clark's boots, that were marked with the letters "Ray-C." Clark's signature green pen was found with the victim's body, the document states.

In addition, Clark's DNA was found on items that were discovered with the body.

In his ruling releasing the warrants, Superior Court Judge Roland Fasano ordered that six segments of the warrants be blocked from public view because they contained information he determined was "inflammatory" and "unfairly prejudicial to the defendant."

Nevertheless, the warrant contained evidence of a very violent struggle between Le and her attacker.

In room G13 where Le was killed, there was a "possible medium velocity blood-like spray pattern on the wall," it states. Blood was found on a sock, a lab coat, rubber gloves and medical scrubs. When Le's body was found, she was wearing rubber gloves that she used while working in the lab, but the thumb on one glove was exposed. Her alleged attacker, Clark, had a scratch on his face and one on his left bicep.

In addition, when her body was discovered, much of the hidden area was smeared with blood-like stains, the warrant states. Details about the state of Le's body are redacted in the warrant.

The arrest warrant also notes that in the week before Le's disappearance, security key cards indicated that Clark has suddenly developed an interest in the rooms where Le worked, entering room G13 and G22 as often as 11 times a day. Previously, Clark entered those rooms only three times a day, the report states.

Le, 24, was first reported missing on Sept. 8, when her roommate said she hadn't returned after class. After days of searching, investigators found her body on Sept. 13 - the day she was scheduled to get married - in the Ivy League lab where she worked.

Clark, who was charged with Le's murder, had worked in the lab with Le where he performed maintainence duties, including feeding and cleaning the cages of mice Le used in her research.

While authorities waited for officers from the FBI to arrive to look at the box of blood spattered wipes, Clark entered the lab and shifted the box so the blood would not be in plain view.

Clark then proceeded to stand in front of the cart where the wipes were placed and make small talk with one of the officers, a move noted in the documents to be a "deliberate attempt by Clark to block her view of the box in question."

Later that day, Clark came back to the lab and "began scrubbing the floor grate/drain with SOS pads and a cleaning solution," according to the warrant. The officer in the room noted that it was "unusual" that Clark was scrubbing the drain because it "did not appear to need cleaning." Other officers also reported seeing Clark scouring the area underneath the sink that also appeared to be clean.

Numerous Blood Stains in Yale Murder

A lab coat marked "XL" with "red-colored stains" was also seized that same day in a nearby recycling box by authorities.

Using a DNA sample from Le, authorities matched the blood on the box of wipes to the victim.

Investigators spoke to Clark, who they say approached them, and told officers that he had only known Le for four months and that he had seen her leave the building on the day she went missing 15 minutes before him and before a fire alarm cleared the building.

Clark also told investigators that the scratch on his face and bicep was from one of his cats, according to the documents.

Investigators found a rubber glove with blood-like stains, a sock with hairs and blood inside a drop ceiling that was in the hallway outside the lab area where the two worked. A pair of boots labeled "Ray-C" was also found in the area.

Chemical analysis uncovered "blood-like stains that had been cleaned off" in one room, and a "possible medium velocity blood-like spray pattern on the wall" in another that the accused murderer had "attempted to clean.

On Sept. 13, investigators inspected the locker room near the lab and discovered "an odor similar to that of a decomposing body," which led them to the lifeless body of Le hidden in the wall behind the toilet.

Upon removing the panel of the mechanical chase -- a hollow section of the wall -- investigators "observed blood-like smears throughout the opening, behind the door frame, on pipe insulation and the access panel. Insulation had been removed from the inside of the wall to make room for Le's body, according to the documents.

Details of how Le's body was found are redacted in the warrant, other than the victim was found wearing surgical rubber gloves on both hands, with only her left thumb exposed. Along with Le's body, a green ink pen, stained lab coat and a sock were also found in the wall cavity.

Ray Clark Due Back in Court Next Month in Yale Murder Case

A colored bead and a broken string were also found on Le's clothing. A similar bead was found in the lab during the investigation.

Surveillence video showed Clark changing his clothing several times on the day Le was murdered – noticed only by the fact that the color of the draw string on his scrubs changed between the time he enetered the building to when he left. Bloodied scrubs were found with Clark's boots, according to the documents.

The judge ruled on Nov. 6 that the documents be released, over the objections of both Clark's lawyers and the state attorney.

Clark is due back in court next month. He has not yet entered a plea. His public defenders say they plan to plead not guilty, but they are waiting to see more evidence before they decide whether to request a hearing that would require state attorneys to present proof of probable cause.

ABC News' Don Ennis contributed to this report

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