How sad... and she was on her way to becoming a pharmacist.. such a waste on so many levels..
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/nyregion/15yale.html?hpBy ANDY NEWMAN and LYNNLEY BROWNING
Published: September 14, 2009
NEW HAVEN — It was supposed to have been Annie Le’s wedding night. But hours after the missing Yale graduate student was to have been married, investigators found a body stuffed inside a wall of the lab building where she was last seen alive on Tuesday.
Police Find Body in Yale Lab Building (September 13, 2009)
Jeffrey LeFrancois of Yale security was outside the lab on Sunday where Annie Le, a missing graduate student, was last seen. While the remains had yet to be officially identified, Peter Reichard, the assistant New Haven police chief, said the authorities were assuming they were of Ms. Le, 24, a slight, California-bred daughter of Vietnamese immigrants who was studying pharmacology. The discovery appeared to have ended the six-day search for Ms. Le that began with speculation of a runaway bride but quickly gave way to near certainty that a crime had been committed. Yale University’s president, Richard C. Levin, wrote in an e-mail message to students Sunday night, “Our hearts go out to Annie Le’s family, fiancé and friends, who must suffer the additional ordeal of waiting for the body to be identified.”
At the elite Ivy League university’s medical school campus in the Hill section of New Haven, about half a mile from the main campus of neo-Gothic and Georgian Revival architecture, students seemed shocked and fearful Sunday night. “I’m freaked.” said Lucas Cheadle, 26, who is studying for his doctorate in neuroscience. Mr. Cheadle appeared agitated as he spoke, taking out a cigarette as he walked a fewblocks from 10 Amistad Street, where the body was found. “My awareness of danger has definitely increased,” he said. The authorities have not identified any suspects, but Ms. Le’s disappearance recalled a disturbing case from December 1998: the stabbing death of Suzanne Jovin, 21, a Yale senior whose body was found in a neighborhood not far from campus; that crime remains unsolved.
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Ms. Le’s absence was first noted on Tuesday, hours after she was seen on surveillance video entering the four-story lab building at 10 Amistad Street, down the street from Yale New Haven Hospital and about 10 blocks south of the main Yale campus. A young woman, 4-foot-11 and 90 pounds, she was wearing a brown skirt and bright green T-shirt. Her purse containing her ID, cellphone and money was found in her office in another Yale building a few blocks away. Ms. Le was not naïve about her safety. In February, she wrote an article for a student magazine offering tips on how to avoid becoming a crime victim. “New Haven is a city, and all cities have their perils,” she wrote, “but with a little street smarts, one can avoid becoming yet another statistic.”
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On Saturday, the police reportedly found bloody clothes above ceiling tiles in the lab building on Amistad, thoughother reports said the clothes were not the same ones Ms. Le was last seen wearing. On Sunday, the search appeared to have moved to a waste-processing facility on the industrial fringe of Hartford where trash from much of New Haven, as well of the rest of the state, is burned to generate electric power. Officials did not say if they had found anything there.
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Joe Avery, a New Haven police spokesman, said that the body was found behind a basement wall in a chase, the hollow space that carries utilities from one floor to another.”
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“This is Annie’s bouquet,” a woman said to a television reporter earlier, proffering a sad-looking array of roses. “It’s wilting.” On Bittersweet Place in Huntington, the Widawsky family remained in seclusion. The Le family, who had traveled to New Haven, was not heard from either.
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Robert Davey, Angela Macropoulos and Sarah Wheaton contributed reporting.
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