By Stephanie Reitz, Associated Press Writer
Police found blood on the kitchen floor of the home of a Yale University lab technician charged with killing a Yale graduate student days before her wedding, according to search warrant affidavits released Wednesday.
Raymond Clark III sent e-mails to 24-year-old Annie Le “in the recent past,” the affidavits said. Her e-mail address was found in a laboratory locker labeled “Ray,” the documents said.
In this Sept. 17, 200 file photo, Raymond Clark III 24, is lead into court in New Haven, Conn. by a police officer for an arraignment in connection to the murder of Annie Le a Yale graduate student. According to search warrant affidavits released Wednesday Dec. 2, 2009, police found blood on the kitchen floor of the home of Clark, a Yale University lab technician charged with killing Le days before her wedding. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, File)
The warrants do not indicate the source of the blood found in Clark’s apartment. Le’s body was found stuffed behind a research lab wall in September on the day she was supposed to get married on Long Island. Autopsy results show Le was strangled, but the motive remains unclear.
Clark has not yet entered a plea. His public defender, Joe Lopez, did not immediately return a phone call Wednesday.
The affidavits show that police searched for evidence in Clark’s home, two cars that he used and numerous lockers in the laboratory building where Le’s body was found.
The suspect “has gone to great lengths to conceal evidence in multiple locations in unusual places,” the affidavits said.
Two days before Clark was arrested, investigators said they found blood “in plain view” on the kitchen floor near the entrance to his apartment. Authorities took plastic door panels and carpeting with “blood-like stains” from the Taurus in which Clark was riding in the hours after Le’s disappearance.
Investigators found a white rag, tweezers, scissors, a screwdriver and several plastic tubes in a clogged drain pipe in the building where Le’s body was found, the affidavits said.
Portions of the affidavits released Wednesday were blacked out.
Associated Press Writer John Christoffersen in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
