<p>One must also consider the possibility that the killer was a person who was authorized to be in the laboratory building and thus had keycard access.</p>
<p>There are few obvious ways to protect against that.</p>
<p>This story is very sad, and to hear about it made me mad. Here someone who could have make a positive difference in the world. Instead, she was killed and disposed of. As for security, a lot could have been done. How about employees sitting at every entrance, and everyone signing in and out. How about security cameras inside the lab, and someone actually monitoring them. Panic buttons. So many think could have been done, but the concern is money. Probably too expensive.</p>
<p>Eucalyptus, those measures might have helped if the killer was someone who did not belong in the building. But if it was an person who belonged there, very little could have been done. It seems, at this moment, that the killer had a good working knowledge of the building. Also, I read that to get into the basement where they found the body, it was necessary to have swipe access. It seems unrealistic to arm every room, including dorm rooms, on every college (and for that matter, every place of business) with panic buttons which are only effective if the person being grabbed or hit over the head is close enough to reach. Even then, it only takes a few seconds to kill someone. Cameras can bear witness, they can deter, but they cannot fully prevent a tragedy.</p>
<p>I guess you are right Mimk6, that is what make it so disturbing. But my point is that it is one thing to have “swipe” access to the building, and swipe access to the actual lab. Years ago, I worked for a contact lenses company, and there were areas of the building I could not access (by punching a code, that was changed every month, and more when someone was fired or left) because I had no reason to be there. So maybe this is the way the lab was set up? I don’t know.</p>
<p>The security cameras were critical in the rapid discovery of her body. They showed her entering the building; they did not show her leaving. Otherwise they might not have searched the building as carefully as they did.</p>
<p>The piece I just saw on the news did say the bloody clothes found in the ceiling tiles did not belong to Annie Le. I am really hoping the police have a clue to the owner/killer and arrest him soon.</p>
<p>The latest development is that a student is a suspect. The student has defensive wounds and failed a polygraph. </p>
<p>It seems to me that only a limited number of people could be suspected as a swipe is needed to get into the lab within the building itself. I also never thought this was random.</p>
<p>Other news sources are reporting a suspect, a failed lie detector test (hard to believe the suspect agreed to it), and defensive wounds on the suspect. </p>
<p>[Annie</a> Le Case: Suspect Failed Lie Detector Test - ABC News](<a href=“Evidence in Murder of Yale Student Annie Le May Point to Suspect - ABC News”>Evidence in Murder of Yale Student Annie Le May Point to Suspect - ABC News)</p>
<p>Is there any possibility that the assailant could be female? In some ways that would fit with the implausibility of the time of the crime and some of the other circumstances. Normally you would think male, and most likely it is, but the raw circumstances are so hard to come to grips with that it would seem that anything is possible here.</p>
<p>I hope the police are crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s on the miranda rights and other escape avenues.</p>
<p>They will get them. Whomever did this was a fool. Too many pieces of evidence left behind, including the body. Was it another crazy med student like that dude at Boston Univ last year? Or was it jealousy over something else? Was it sexual assault or another motivation? Truly bizarre. </p>
<p>Monitors inside the building, plus a clear record on who enters. True, the alarm meant they didnt record who left and when…but that was also stupid as they can determine what set off the alarm and where and why. </p>
<p>No college is safe. You never know who is around you. You have to be vigilant. Sad, but true…you have to always have your guard up.</p>
<p>She also left her purse, cellphone and wallet in her office in another building. Thus police can see clearly who called her and whom she called…and likely her motivation for going to the lab, carrying something to deliver and intending on departing quickly and returning to her office. </p>
<p>Her professor abruptly cancelled class that day. But why? Unrelated? Coincidence? That is strange.</p>
<p>Though he apparently isnt a suspect. At least not officially by the police department (Miranda rights would immediately attach to him if they said he was.) </p>
<p>They will get this B’ast***. Such a sweet young lady with so much promise.</p>
<p>My prayers to her, her family and her fiance.</p>
<p>Does this mean that Fox News will stop implying that she’s the new runaway bride?</p>
<p>I read somewhere that she was very tiny, so I suppose that the assailant (killer) could be a larger female. The fact that the police thought for a while that the clothes they found could have been Annie’s points this way (assuming that the clothes belonged to the killer). They said eventually that the clothes were not the ones she had been wearing, not that they were male clothes.</p>
<p>This is really unbelievable, and sickening on so many levels. What a loss for everyone she knew, and for society.</p>
<p>I only wish she were a runaway bride.</p>
<p>NYMom, that was my hope as well. My heart goes out to her family and friends.</p>
<p>NYMomof2: Yes, she was tiny, at 4’ 11" tall and 90 pounds.</p>
<p>I wonder if the killer was someone who was jealous of her success in the lab.</p>
<p>Given all the attention to this case, and the evidence that has turned up, and the resources that are being poured into it, I’m sure they will solve this.</p>
<p>
Are you a sheep?<br>
Other sheeps said Fox News jumped the gun and declared her dead. You, the black sheep, said Fox News implied she ran away.
Stop attributing irresponsible journalism to only Fox News. Learn to form your own opinion.<br>
I can’t believe I’m preaching to a sheep.</p>
<p>I too, was hoping she would turn up as a runaway bride. So horribly sad. And so painfully ironic that she had written an article not that long ago about on-campus safety.</p>
<p>There’s still been no arrest for the last murder on the Yale campus, when Suzanne Jovin was killed in 1998. (If that’s the case I’m thinking of, some of you may remember it, and the many articles that were written about the primary suspect, one of her professors. There was never enough evidence to arrest him.) I hope this case has a different outcome, and it sounds like it will.</p>
<p>When I was there back in the mid-1970’s, one of my classmates, Gary Stein (whom I knew because we were in the same residential college) was shot to death by a 15-year old in a street robbery a few blocks from campus. It was so devastating for all of us who knew him, and for everyone on campus. It still upsets me to think about it. So I have some idea of how everyone must be feeling now. Heartbreaking.</p>
<p>My guess is that she was lured to the lab by someone she knew and thought she’d only be gone a little while which is why she left her purse and cellphone. I’m also guessing it may have been someone trying to dissuade her from getting married…a fellow student who had a crush on her.</p>
<p>^^^I think her office was on the third floor of the same building (news report earlier today mentioned that), so it is not at all unusual that she left her personal belongings in her office while tending to things in the lab.</p>
<p>It is truly sad, but I am getting kind of irked that somehow her lose is more important that the tens of thousands of women and girls who are assaulted daily, murdered for just being female. all over the world.</p>
<p>It is times like this we need to focus on why murdering females and assualting them isn’t taken more seriouslly world wide. </p>
<p>We get focused on one college student, who had such promise, as if those other three women murdered today had les value.</p>
<p>We as a society need to not just feel bad about the young college student with such promise who was murdered, very likely by someone she knew, but also pay attention to every girl, every mom, every elderly woman who is abused, sexaully assualted, killed.</p>
<p>We get so locked up in a victims potential, and what good she might have done, we lose that she is one of thousands in this country, and millons worldwide.</p>
<p>I feel horrible this happened, of course I do, but we can’t forget about the other women and girls who may not make the news who lives were just as valuable, and we as a society need to remember that just because they weren’t a yale student, they had value.</p>
<p>I guess it just bothers me that we tend to get all upset when its someone with such promise, as it were, but seem to shurg when its a woman who may just be your average lady whose husband beats her to death.</p>
<p>IlovetoQuilt…just because so many people are very broken up that this young woman died at the hands of another does NOT imply that we don’t care about other women who are victims. We are discussing this woman as this woman is a current story. I can assure you that when I read of abused, battered, oppressed, raped and murdered young women of any background, I am torn apart. Let’s not forget as well, that this forum is made up of parents of young adults close in age to this young woman and so we also can relate to the anguish that parents of a student might have in such a situation, broad daylight right in her school building. That doesn’t negate our outcry about other horrible atrocities against women. Further, to discuss this very recent news story and development doesn’t imply that we don’t care about other cases or that this case is any more important.</p>
<p>Example…the med student from BU who murdered a woman who solicited massage or escort type services over Craigslist…who had a different background compared to this Yale student, tore me up just as much.</p>