Raymond Clark Arrest

Raymond Clark Arrest

A Yale lab technician was arrested and charged with murder Thursday morning in the killing of Annie Le, the grad student whose body was found in the basement wall of a university building after she was strangled, authorities said. Raymond Clark III was taken into custody at about 8:10 a.m. ET at a Super 8 motel in Cromwell, Connecticut, according to New Heaven police. The 24-year-old had spent the night there after being released Wednesday following his submission to DNA testing.

Police matched DNA from Clark to evidence found at the crime scene on the university where the medical examiner said Le was suffocated. Clark and Le worked in the same building, but little beyond that was known about whether there was any connection or relationship between them. Le, a pharmacology student, was last seen alive on September 8. Undercover investigators were massed in the parking lot overnight - and one motorist passing by shouted, "Get him, get him!" at police.

Clark apparently decamped to the motel after cops hauled him from his home in handcuffs Tuesday, obtained DNA samples and let him go. While police were waiting for DNA results, they had gathered circumstantial evidence. Clark reportedly failed a lie detector test and had scratch marks on his chest. And computer records from Yale suggested he was the last person to see Le. Swipe cards Le and Clark used to move through different areas of college buildings showed they were in the same room shortly after 10 a.m. on Sept. 8, The Hartford Courant reported. Le, 24, wasn't seen alive after that, and her card wasn't used again. But Clark swiped into the area where she was found strangled five days later in a crawlspace, a law enforcement source told the paper.