Jennifer Hromadka

September 15, 2009

Tragic student’s body was found on clothing last seen wearing when he entered the university research building a week ago yesterday - a brown skirt and green top, the source said.

Le, 24, apparently killed in a single room in the basement of the laboratory - in which small blood drops found by probers - and then moved to another room where the pivot, the source told the paper.

A source close to Clark’s family confirmed to The Post that the technician - who was working with laboratory mice in this morning’s Le was last seen there - failed a lie-detector test. Sources Clark added that the scratch on his body, too.

“He did not pass the polygraph test … But of course, they do not always work correctly, too, especially when you ask nerved up so many questions,” the source insisted sympathetic.

While fresh wounds Clark, “He had scratches on his arm from a cat,” said one. Clark said the source, who called the family “Ray Ray,” worked in the laboratory along with his fiancee, sister and her husband.

“But he did not really know [Le],” the source said. “He left the area before he left that morning. He was never seen it and say ‘hi’ and kept going.”

Le’s body found in channel Sunday - the same day he was married to a graduate student at Columbia University on Long Island.

A neighbor Clark and his fiancee, Jennifer Hromadka, said the couple left their apartment in a hurry that day.

“They’re really in a hurry,” she said, adding that the couple had dragged the suitcase and jumped into a silver Taurus with an elderly couple, leaving Clark behind the red Mustang.

Hromadka’s father, Bud, called Clark “a quality, a wonderful man.

“The police forced the wrong person,” he told The Post, noted that Clark had been tailed by approximately 15 FBI agents while at the local fair over the weekend.

“He was there on that day, he saw himself, and the polygraph says he did not pass. That’s all there is to it.”

Additional reporting by Rebecca Rosenberg in Middletown, Conn., Austin Fenner in New Haven, Conn., Dan Mangan in NY and AP

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