Murder at Yale: The True Story of a Beautiful Grad Student and a Cold-Blooded Crime

Review “The book you won’t be able to put down.”--Cosmopolitan magazine Product Description Annie Le seemed to have it all. A beautiful graduate student at one of the world’s most prestigious universities, she was also deeply in love. But just days before she was set to get married, Annie went mysteriously missing…and her fiancé started to fear the worst. Raymond Clark III seemed like an average, all-American boy next door. He was a sports hero in high school, adored by friends and family. But he had a secret dark side—and a history of violence that was about to come to light. Annie and Ray worked in the same lab facility. Security records indicated that, on September 8, 2009, Annie entered a restricted basement area…followed by Ray. On the thirteenth, the date of her wedding, Annie’s lifeless body was found. DNA evidence at the crime scene was eventually linked to Ray. Why did he do it? What did Annie do to set him off? This is the shocking true story of a Murder at Yale. From the Back Cover A DREAM LIFE Annie Le seemed to have it all. A beautiful graduate student at one of the world’s most prestigious universities, she was also deeply in love. But just days before she was set to get married, Annie went mysteriously missing…and her fiancé started to fear the worst. A TROUBLED PAST Raymond Clark III seemed like an average, all-American boy next door. He was a sports hero in high school, adored by friends and family. But he had a secret dark side—and a history of violence that was about to come to light. A LIVING NIGHTMARE Annie and Ray worked in the same lab facility. Security records indicated that, on September 8, 2009, Annie entered a restricted basement area…followed by Ray. On the thirteenth, the date of her wedding, Annie’s lifeless body was found. DNA evidence at the crime scene was eventually linked to Ray. Why did he do it? What did Annie do to set him off? This is the shocking true story of a Murder at Yale. With 8 pages of alarming photographs About the Author Stella Sands is Executive Editor of Kids Discover, an award-winning magazine with over 400,000 subscribers geared to children 7 to 12 years old. She is author of two true crime books, Behind the Mask—available from St. Martin’s Press True Crime Library—and Baby-faced Butchers, as well as other works including Odyssea and Natural Disasters. Her plays, Lou Passin’ Through, Black-eyed Peas, and E-me, have been produced in Off-Off Broadway theaters in New York City. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. ONE The story of Annie Marie Le’s disappearance grabbed the nation by the gut—and from the very beginning, it was a mystery that boded ill. It began quietly enough. When Le didn’t come home on the night of Tuesday, September 8, 2009, her roommate called the Yale Police Department to report that Le, a grad student at the university, had seemingly disappeared. By Wednesday, word swirled around campus. Where could Annie Le have gone? Was she out partying somewhere? Wait . . . wasn’t she engaged? Do you think someone did something to her? On Thursday, September 10, the Yale Daily News published an article: “Graduate Student Goes Missing.” That same day, NYDailyNews.com reported: “Yale grad student Annie Le disappears 5 days before New York wedding.” On Friday, September 11, the search for Le began heating up in earnest, along with a tumult of media. The New Haven Independent (an online local news site) reported a “$10,000 Reward Posted in Annie Le Case.” By then, the police had officially labeled Annie Le a “missing person.” Across the country that morning, the TV screamed the news. In the critical first half hour of their morning broadcasts, CBS, NBC, and ABC focused their reporting on the circumstances surrounding Le’s disappearance. The major networks not only reported from their studios in New York, but they also sent camera crews and reporters to the Yale campus to interview students and faculty. At 7:01 a.m., on NBC’s Today show, Matt
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