New Haven Independent

Posted by: sad | September 16, 2009 1:44 PM

i know this is great speculation but if he was strangling her at a close distance which would be needed for the strength to compress an airway...the only thing her small arms could claw at would be his chest. The blood in her fingernails would be all they need, who knows the condition there.

Typing this made me ill. If the writer feels it is inappropriate feel free to delete it.

Posted by: Reynaldo | September 16, 2009 1:46 PM

Yale University bears a large part of the responsibility for this tragedy. They utterly failed to protect Annie Le, one of their most gifted scholars...

Posted by: robn | September 16, 2009 3:05 PM

Could the NHI find a word other than "stuffed" for this series? Truth is, nobody knows how her remains were put there; all we know is that her remains were concealed there.

Posted by: Giai Le | September 16, 2009 3:19 PM

If Annie was killed near Holywood, the police would clear the case as fast as homecide movies that producing by Holywood movie makers!
it's ridiculous, Annie was killed by a "Devil" in New .... Haven!
Yale should change its name to Hell University due to its unsafe!

Posted by: Rachael | September 16, 2009 3:54 PM

I have never seen the biggest lack of any information on a murder case in my life! Only today do we find she was strangled?! Hello? Does this take a special CSI investigation to take this long to tell us she was choked too death? Hello?! A secured area with over seventy video cameras and its going to take what another week to find the person who murdered her? I guess CSI Connecticut or CSI Yale won't be coming to any T V program soon if ever! The police and the FBI best not screw this up any more then they have!

Posted by: NewHaven Resident | September 16, 2009 4:11 PM

I think every woman who reads the unfolding details as to how Annie Le died gets a sick feeling in her core. We can all imagine the fear she must have experienced before she died at the hands of someone much larger than she was attacking her. At 4'11', 90lbs she could so easily be overwhelmed. It is not the way anyone would want to die.

Posted by: no | September 16, 2009 4:28 PM

stuffed is correct word. shaft is 2ft long. she's 4'11. that's the only way a body that size "fits" into a 2ft hiding spot.

Posted by: wondering | September 16, 2009 4:37 PM

Rachael - I'm just wondering why you belive any of us are entitled to any information in an ONGOING MURDER INVESTIGATION? Let the detectives do their job w/o second guessing every thing they do.

Posted by: ally | September 16, 2009 4:52 PM

They are stalling on releasing any details because they made horrible errors by not securing the scene..as in ..the basement and it has been terribly contaminated with people and reporters walking in and out for 3 days before they found her body. Watch Nancy Grace... she went off about this and so did forensic experts. They will have a dead case - because in any court - none of the evidence will stand up in court.

Posted by: ELD4676 | September 16, 2009 4:58 PM

The police were probably keeping her cause of death a secret to protect the case until they had a viable suspect. Therefore, only the police and the perpetrator would know how the crime was committed. Loonies stepping forward and claiming they "did it" after crime details have been released is not unheard of.

Posted by: streever | September 16, 2009 5:16 PM

Rachel why do you need to know????
Seriously, enough speculation. Let the police do their job. I'm feeling disturbed reading all the criticism of the police for not letting you & others rubberneck at this tragedy.

Just sit back & let them release the info as they do--

Posted by: Jessica | September 16, 2009 5:28 PM

To GAIA LEE: ... New Haven is one of the best cities with the best police force, along with the best universities.

Posted by: morgan feld | September 16, 2009 6:02 PM

i don think that the police are taking too long to release this information i think they're purposly pretending like they dont have evidence and stuff yet and trying to kep it as much under wraps as possible because with cases that get so pulicized like this one a lot of people come forward and pretend like they're the ones who murdered her. or that way if someone they're interviewing slips with a peice of evidence that was not yet released into the media then they could catch them that much faster because how else would that person have know.. (insert whatever here)

i could be wrong though. but for the sake of the american people i sure hope not.

Posted by: Me | September 16, 2009 6:31 PM

I dont understand one thing, if she was strangled where did the bloody clothe they found in the ceiling come from???

Posted by: Linda | September 16, 2009 10:32 PM

Maybe she took something and hit hit, causing him to bleed, or if it were a fight, she could have been bleeding. If she and the murderer both have defensive wounds, they fought before the strangulation started or was completed. She could have bloodied his nose. She could scratched him and caused the blood on the clothing in the ceiling. It does not seem farfetched to me that a strangulation had blood involved.

Posted by: Megan | September 17, 2009 12:36 AM

Reynaldo,
How did Yale "utterly fail to protect Annie Le"? The man suspected of killing her WORKED in the building and had key-card access! It's not as if someone just wandered into the building off of the street and murdered her.
Giai Le,
This case has been widely publicized and there are 3 police departments as well as the FBI investigating it so I really don't understand why you believe that a "hollywood murder" would be handled better.
It amazes me how people just make comments for the sake of saying something negative!!!

Posted by: kelly | September 17, 2009 2:10 AM

The bloody clothes could be from another crime that took place at the lab. Does anyone know how long the bloody clothes had been sitting up on the ceiling? confused?

Posted by: iPhon3n3wz.com | September 17, 2009 12:29 PM

Who would do such a thing? CraziiPeople this days

Posted by: Danette | September 18, 2009 3:30 PM

Small women CAN have advantages in life or death confrontations. The person who killed her is at fault, not Yale. With 70 + cameras, I'd say that they have safety and security in mind. It is YOUR right and duty to learn to defend yourself. Tragic as her death is, let it be a reminder to females to take a self defense course and possibly learn something that could SAVE your life. Training is imperative in awareness and learning to defend yourself is ultra empowering.