<p>This is absolutely heartbreaking. Today was supposed to be the happiest day of her life.</p>
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<p>I’ve been following this story for the past few days and I’m heartbroken that this is the outcome. What a tragedy.</p>
<p>Truly heartbreaking.</p>
<p>[Police:</a> Body found could be missing Yale student - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/13/missing.yale.student/index.html]Police:”>Police: Body found could be missing Yale student - CNN.com)</p>
<p>Here is the breaking news from CNN. I’m in tears. I was hoping for a different ending.</p>
<p>That poor girl. :(</p>
<p>That is so terrible.</p>
<p>MSNBC is reporting it, too:</p>
<p>[Police:</a> Body believed to be Le - Crime & courts- msnbc.com](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32810822/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/]Police:”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32810822/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/)</p>
<p>This is one of the saddest stories I’ve ever heard. I can’t imagine what her family, her fiancee, and her friends are going through.</p>
<p>I hope they find the monster who did this.</p>
<p>I have been following this from the start. It touches every parent in the gut. I was just at my D’s graduate school over the weekend and was telling her about this. It is so heartbreaking and I can’t imagine how her family, fiance and friends are coping. And on top of everything, that this was to have been her wedding day.</p>
<p>Inside a medical complex is a very strange place to go to kill someone. I hope they can catch the horrible person to killed her.</p>
<p>There is a finite number of people who had access to the building given the security system to get in and there is surveillance of who entered and who left. That alone narrows it down. </p>
<p>What seems odd is how all this transpired during the day in a building with people in it. They must have to recount every move she made. </p>
<p>In my gut feeling, I just don’t think it was random. And it may be coincidence but I just wonder if whomever wanted to kill her was in relation to the fact that she was about to be married this week, if indeed the killer knew her. </p>
<p>This just is chilling and breaks one’s heart. A young promising life and a senseless tragedy and pain for so many loved ones.</p>
<p>Soozie, the fire alarm went off that day and the building evacuated (steam from a lab set it off.) Yale’s procedure after an evacuation (according to DD) is to unlock the doors for a finite time so that all the people who emptied out can quickly get back in. Everyone swiping in one at a time when the entire building empties out is time-consuming. That day, it was possible for someone else to enter the building who did not have clearance. However, I don’t think that is the explanation. That would mean someone who happened to have murder on his/her heart was standing around hoping for an evacuation – the authorities seem to feel the alarm was set off legitimately. My gut feeling is also that it was not random.</p>
<p>This is just such a tragic end to a life so full of promise! My heart is breaking for her fiancee and family–I cannot even imagine how I would deal with this happening to our daughter! God rest Annie Le’s soul!</p>
<p>And it is frightening for those who work in that building–I would think everyone is a suspect. Hopefully the clothing they found belongs to the person responsible, and the police will be able to get some kind of DNA evidence from it.</p>
<p>This was a young woman with so much promise; just tragic.</p>
<p>Like Soozievt, I too feel that this was personal. I think someone was stalking her, waiting for a chance.</p>
<p>The NY Daily News said that a fellow student has flunked a polygraph.</p>
<p>This has been in the news quite a bit here since the girl and her fiancee met at the U of R as undergrads, we were all hoping for a better outcome and are now so heartbroken. I hope they find whoever did this, and soon…I have a feeling like others that it was someone who would rather kill her than let someone else have her…</p>
<p>I was heartbroken to hear about the outcome. A life of such promise, a young woman who offered so much to the world and had worked so hard to achieve her academic success - it’s just such a loss. </p>
<p>It would seem likely that the criminal had some familiarity with the building, judging by where she was hidden. I hope the police find him soon. What a sad story.</p>
<p>What good did the 70 cameras around that building do? I am very angry & upset about this. How could something like this happen in the middle of the day in an academic building. I, too, wonder if there was a stalker involved who wouldn’t “allow” her to be married to anyone else.
I feel so badly for her family & fiance.</p>
<p>The cameras did confirm she had been in the building and that she had not left and I hope they help authorities figure out who did it.</p>
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<p>Cameras don’t stop people from entering buildings. Swipe-card and key-entry do not work if people are in the habit of holding the doors for others, or someone just waits for another person to enter and then tags along.</p>
<p>In general, academic labs are not secure places. There is usually a loud ventilation system (hoods, etc.) that pretty much sound-proofs enclosed spaces. Add to that the whine of centrifuges and other equipment, and it is hard to be heard. This young woman’s lab is in a basement area. While I don’t know this building, many basement labs are on dead-end hallways, with little foot traffic.</p>
<p>Strangers may not be stopped, because universities are busy places, and people wear all sorts of clothing–it is difficult to pick out who belongs and who does not. Add to that the general reluctance of academics to put strangers on the spot for fear of being accused of harassment (my lab office was robbed twice (!) by a guy who everyone knew should not have been in the building but no one wanted to be the one to question him).</p>
<p>So, I am not surprised that something horrific happened in a university lab building, but there are are some unusual things about this story: it happened in the middle of the day, and the murderer seemed to know that no one else was going to be showing up in the lab for a while. To me, this says she was being watched closely, and/or the killer was quite familiar with both the lab and the schedule of the lab’s occupants.</p>
<p>I don’t know what could have been done to keep this young woman safe. It is impossible to insist on always having someone else in the lab while working without slowing down research or even making it impossible. I no longer do lab work, but when I did, the projects often required having me show up in the dead of night, on weekends, on holidays. Even as an undergraduate, I was known to remain in a lab overnight, wandering up and down deserted halls and going in and out of walk-in refrigerators to babysit some troublesome experiment. Young people think they are indestructible. </p>
<p>This story makes me sad, and it makes me worry.</p>