Raymond Clark III: Handcuffed And Escorted Out Of The Apartment Building

September 15, 2009

Police led away a man in handcuffs to the cheers of neighbors Tuesday and plans to take DNA samples in an attempt to relate them to the murder of a Yale student who died the week he will marry.

Authorities raided the apartment 24 years Raymond Clark III but not filed any charges against him. Police said he will release after they get the evidence they need from him and his apartment.

Clark, wearing a tight white shirt, handcuffed and escorted out of the apartment building in Middletown and into a silver car. Neighbors leaning over the iron fence building and cheered as police led him away.

New Haven Police Chief James Lewis did not describe Clark as a suspect. He said police hoped to compare DNA taken from Clark’s hair, nails and saliva to more than 150 pieces of evidence collected from crime scenes. Evidence can also be compared to the state laboratory with DNA samples voluntarily provided by others with access to the scene.

“We’ll narrow it down,” said Lewis. “We will do this as quickly as we can.”

Police have collected more than 700 hours of video recordings during the examination and sifted through the documents in a computer record which parts of the building where Le was found dead of research.

Investigators began to stake out Clark’s house on Monday, a day after they found the body of 24 years Annie Le hidden in the basement of a research building at Yale medical school. He had disappeared September 8.

Clark shared an apartment with his girlfriend, Jennifer Hromadka, which he was engaged to marry in December 2011, according to the couple’s wedding Web site is not complete. Middletown is about 20 miles north of New Haven.

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