Murder of Annie Le | |
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Location | 10 Amistad Street New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
Date | September 8, 2009 |
Attack type | Murder by strangulation, attempted sexual assault |
Victim | Annie Marie Le |
Perpetrator | Raymond John Clark III[1] |
Motive | Unknown |
Verdict | Pleaded guilty |
Convictions | Murder, attempted sexual assault
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Sentence | 44 years imprisonment |
The murder of Annie Le occurred on September 8, 2009, while she was working in the New Haven, Connecticut, campus of Yale University. Annie Marie Thu Le (July 3, 1985 – September 8, 2009) was a 24-year-old doctoral student at the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology. She was last seen in a research building on the New Haven campus on September 8. On September 13, the day that she was to be married, she was found dead inside the building.[2]
On September 17, police arrested the perpetrator, Raymond J. Clark III, a Yale laboratory technician who worked in the building.[1][3] Clark pleaded guilty to the murder on March 17, 2011.[4] Clark was sentenced to 44 years imprisonment on June 3.[5] The case generated frenetic media coverage.