Yale Murder Crime of Passion

Authorities investigating the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le have focused their efforts on a suspect who failed a lie detector test, sources told ABC News.
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Police find body in wall of university building where Annie Le was last seen.

Investigators zeroed in on a suspect as the medical examiner positively identified the body found stuffed in a wall in a Yale University lab as the missing grad student. The medical examiner's office listed the cause of death as homicide, but withheld the exact manner in which Le died.

The body was discovered Sunday, the same day that Le was supposed to get married.

The suspect who police are looking at has what appear to be defensive wounds, a key piece of circumstantial evidence. In addition, the suspect, who authorities believe knew Le, failed a lie detector test, sources told ABC News. Sources also told ABC News that bloody clothing removed from the lab contained evidence that links the killer to the crime.

Investigators have been looking at everyone from Yale maintenance people to people who worked in the lab and fellow students.

"We're not believing it's a random act," Officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman, told The Associated Press. He would not provide further details but said no one else is in danger.

A body believed to be Le's was found Sunday evening, stuffed into a wall in the basement of the Amistad Street laboratory where she was last seen Tuesday morning.

Though police have seemingly narrowed in on a suspect, the mood around Yale is still one of sadness and uncertainity. The last on-campus murder was the 1998 stabbing death of 21-year-old Suzanne Jovin. There has been no arrest in her death.

Reached in Germany, Thomas Jovin told ABCNews.com that he did not wish to comment on Le's murder or his daughter's.

New Haven Police Officer Joe Avery told ABCNews.com today that authorities didn't start focusing on the lab until a few days after Le was reported missing. Police were initially unsure, he said, if she had voluntarily disappeared in advance of her wedding, scheduled for Sunday, or if she had been a crime victim.

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[LadyMcHOLDEM]

She had NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM.

No passion on her part.

This sick wanna-b snuffed her life out because SHE WAS BETTER THAN HE WAS.

He could not handle the rejection.

Execute him on national television!

[walaumana]

Simple he is just a psycopath person who has issue with women. He could not handle that he he has a low job and has to clean the dirty cage especially has to clean it because the asian woman did it. Although it's part of his job. He could not handle his status lower than her and he felt disrespect and angry toward her

[halashet]

so now Vietnamese arent asian? whats wrong with these white people?

[Mandama004]

Could have nothing to do with her Osama Bin Laden thesis...

[michiyo1986]

@driveshoot20

OH GOD...the statistics are killing me...WTF do (sorry)White people have to complain for? Everything they have and do is pratically unsatisfactory...A very unlimited common human want..GET OVER IT....Asians ,African American , Caucasians...all races..STOP YOUR COMPARING...and start

HUMBLING YOURSELF...

JEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZ....

The world would'nt be so fucked up if it was colour blind...ANYONE AGREE?

[MixMeAdrink]

Vietnamese is Asian....

[islamDick]

905stkitts can not get laid from asian girls. so sad ;-((.

095skitts go to bed with sex problem on his mind, waked up with solution on his hand.

[Raul48819]

04:34

Doctor

"She's not Asian. She's Vietnamese."

huh????

[FinCups]

Your comment was disgusting my friend . .

[uncoverbrother]

i'm sorry, but if i'm totally innocent, i'm screaming it from the rooftops! 'no comment'? please!