<p>Interesting comments on the girlfriend’s blog. We may find there is a lot more to this story.</p>
<p>Cross-posted with dadx.</p>
<p>So persons of interest are usually brought to police station handcuffed? Is it possible that the girlfriend did it, if he has been released?</p>
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<p>If you’ve been reading the articles, it’s explained, eucalyptus. He was taken into custody on a search warrant so that DNA samples could be obtained. It was not an arrest warrant. If he’d refused to supply the samples, then he could have been arrested. Clearly, he provided the samples and he’s been released. It’s not unusual that he would be handcuffed when taken into custody, according to a police chief I saw interviewed last night. The surveillance will continue while the testing is being done.</p>
<p>He has been released because he has not been charged with a crime. I would imagine police want to have more physical evidence before they charge him - or anyone else - in this crime.</p>
<p>Thanks alwaysamom - I was not critisizing, I was just asking. I did not know about the handcuffs.</p>
<p>I had glossed over the fact that his girlfriend worked there too, as well as two other relatives. This makes an investigation much more difficult, I think. You can’t rely on whatever normal truthfulness in testimony might be. </p>
<p>With the old blog comments from the girlfriend, one wonders whether this case is going to have elements like the Texas murder involving the two service academy students where the girl was a driving force behind the crime after learning that her boyfriend had been involved with the victim.</p>
<p>NY Daily news has speculation that a conflict over following lab protocols could have been a flash point for what happened. They also have interesting info regarding the suspects routine, indicating that he normally appeared to be methodical in his movements withing the building…based on swipe card records. But on the day of the disappearance, he apparently swiped his card all over the place…which they speculate may be indicative that he was searching for a place to conceal the body. </p>
<p>Maybe this guy is mentally ill. That is probably the best defense available to him.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to sound obsess over this, but I heard on the news that the cause of death is strangulation. So why bloody clothes? Did he kill animals in the lab, and was cut by the victim?</p>
<p>In a choking it would be very likely for one of the parties to end up with at least a bloody nose. If you fell to the floor, there’s a chance of a laceration on the head or face. And it seems probable that a punch or severe slap might have occured prior to a strangulation.</p>
<p>Another question: How did police know he had defensive marks on his chest days ago?</p>
<p>Defensive wounds - It had to be someone close to him who told the police. Unless they asked everyone they interviewed to remove their shirt because they noticed something on the victim’s nails/hands.</p>
<p>Local news also reported that his family members have hired attorneys for themselves to guard against obstruction charges. Don’t know if that would be done routinely if you were related to a possible murderer, but at this point no charges are pending against his family.</p>
<p>Where I am, they are just about to release the death report.</p>
<p>I wonder what the girlfriend’s facebook shows today. Real busy?</p>
<p>It’s down now.</p>
<p>Cause of death - traumatic asphyxiation. Annie was strangled… Whenever I think about this case, it makes my blood boil. There is nothing, nothing that justifies taking away an innocent life!</p>
<p>On one news network, they speculated that she was the one mishandling lab animals and he was the one upset about it. They read e-mails send from his work computer. Isn’t it werd?</p>
<p>As interested as I am in this case, I really wish the New Haven cops would STOP leaking info. While the FBI was in charge, reporters were stonewalled–maybe even too much so. Now, the pendulum has swung and too much info is being given out unofficially.</p>
<p>New Haven Independent says Clark’s keycard has him at the scene of the crime and he sent a texe message to Annie Le looking for a meeting.</p>
<p>This guy is in big trouble. I’d set fire to the motel and hope to sneak away.</p>
<p>[New</a> Haven Independent | Cops Stake Out Annie Le Target’s Motel](<a href=“http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/cops_stake_out.php]New”>http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/cops_stake_out.php)</p>
<p>He is in big trouble. The computer tracked both their movements from room to room. The swipe cards left damning evidence. He had no criminal record.</p>