(Updated 11:24 p.m.) The target in the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le had something in common with the victim — he, too, was engaged.
Yale grad student Annie Le went missing last Tuesday; State police Sunday found Annie Le’s body in a wall in the basement of a lab building where she worked at 10 Amistad St.; it was supposed to be her wedding day. No arrests have been made in her murder.
A prime suspect is a 24-year-old Yale lab tech who until this past week worked at 10 Amistad St. among other locations. His identity was confirmed by officials close to the probe. The Independent is withholding his name.
The suspect’s 23-year-old girlfriend has a blog on MySpace named after her and the suspect. The suspect is engaged to be married, according to a blog posting on the couple’s blog dated May 25. At the time, his fianc√©e described her mood as “giddy.”
The post was on a public section of the page that suddenly was changed to private around 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The girlfriend works in the same Yale lab tech department as the suspect.
After Annie Le was reported missing last week, more than 100 law enforcement agents swarmed the city for clues to her death. The media swarmed into town, too, as a transfixed nation has watched the mystery unfold.
On Tuesday afternoon, reporters traipsed up and down outside the Middletown apartment where the suspect and his fianc√©e live. They knocked on neighbors’ doors in search of clues to his identity.
A few clues were made public on the couple’s blog. Parts of the blog remain public; others were removed from public view.
“I … recently moved to Middletown, CT with my wonderful boyfriend,” wrote the suspect’s girlfriend. The couple used to play softball together on a New Haven team.
The suspect is an animal technician at an animal resources lab at Yale.
His fiancée apparently has an interest in animals, too.
“I love animals!! I have 2 horses, a shiba inu and 2 cats,” she wrote.
She described her boyfriend as “a bit naive, doesn’t always use the best judgement, definitly [sic] is not the best judge of character but, he is a good guy.”
He “has a hard time hurting peoples’ feelings,” she wrote.
“He has a big heart and tries to see the best in people ALL THE TIME! even when everyone else is telling him that the person is a psycho or that the person can’t be trusted. he thinks everyone deserves a second chance.”
She added a few loving words for her “great” inlaws.
“I love my extended family!!” she wrote.
Christine Stuart contributed reporting from Middletown.
If this is true, this is so sad.