BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTStudents Andrew Williams, 19, left, and Peggy Liu, 20, hold hands during a candlelight vigil at Yale's campus Monday for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
Hartford CourantRaymond Clark III, as pictured in the 2001 Branford High School yearbook.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTHundreds of students gather at Yale's campus Monday for a candlelight vigil for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice from Yale, the FBI and the Connecticut State Police are investigating what happened to 24-year-old Yale School of Medicine graduate student Annie Le, who was last seen at 10 Amistad Street in New Haven, the Yale lab building where she worked, on Tuesday. In photo, investigators from the FBI Evidence Response Team, wearing plastic Hazmat suits, comb through the garbage from a dumpster behind the Amistad St. building Thursday evening.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTLocal and national news media gathered outside the research facility at Cedar street at Washington in New Haven Monday Sept. 14, 2009 where slain Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen.
STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTYale Police Officer Brian Donnelly passed out flyers describing Annie Le, the 24-year-old Yale School of Medicine graduate student who was last seen at 10 Amistad Street in New Haven and now appears to be missing. Off. Donnelly was standing in front of the Yale lab building at 10 Amistad where she worked.
Cloe Poisson / Hartford CourantRaymond Clark III is taken into custody by police at the Super 8 Motel Thursday morning. DNA results released this morning connected him to the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTLocal and national news media gathered outside the research facility at Cedar street at Washington in New Haven Monday Sept. 14, 2009 where slain Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen.
PATRICK RAYCRAFT / HARTFORD COURANTYale and New Haven police have are keeping access limited to the research facility on Amistad Street in New Haven where the search continues for missing Yale graduate student Annie Le.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTStudents gather at Yale's campus Monday for a candlelight vigil for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTStudents Ji Im, left, Taffany Hwang, (middle, not pictured) and Elaine Lee, right, comfort each other with a hug during a candlelight vigil at Yale's campus Monday for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le. The girls said identified with Le because they were students on the same path. They said that they were daughters of immigrants, also from California, and came to Yale to pursue their dreams and felt sad to see it all taken away.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTA lone violinist plays 'Amazing Grace' after hundreds of students gathered at Yale's campus Monday for a candlelight vigil for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTA wilted rose hangs off the police tape at Cedar street at Washington in New Haven Monday Sept. 14, 2009 outside the research facility where the body of slain Yale graduate student Annie Le was found.
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STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTInvestigators from the FBI Evidence Response Team, wearing plastic Hazmat suits, hold up a shirt as they comb through the garbage from a dumpster behind 10 Amistad St. in New haven Thursday evening searching for clues into the disappearance of a Yale medical student. Police from Yale, the FBI and the Connecticut State Police are investigating what happened to 24-year-old Yale School of Medicine graduate student Annie Le, who was last seen at 10 Amistad Street in New Haven, the Yale lab building where she worked, on Tuesday.
PATRICK RAYCRAFT / HARTFORD COURANTThe search continues in New Haven, Conn. for missing Yale graduate student Annie Le. This is the research facility on the corner of Amistad and Cedar Street in New Haven where Le was last seen entering the building on a security video camera.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTStudents Andrew Williams, 19, left, and Peggy Liu, 20, stand together during a candlelight vigil at Yale's campus Monday for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice from Yale, the FBI and the Connecticut State Police are investigating what happened to 24-year-old graduate student Annie Le, who was last seen on Tuesday. In photo, an investigator believed to be from the FBI brought a plastic bag of items out of the house where Le lived at 188 Lawrence St. and placed them in the trunk of a car shortly before leaving.
PATRICK RAYCRAFT / HARTFORD COURANTNew Haven and Yale police officers are only allowing limitied access to the research facility on Amistad Street where the search continues for missing Yale graduate student Annie Le.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice block off the section of Cedar street at Washington in New Haven Monday Sept. 14, 2009 where local and national news media gathered outside the research facility where slain Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen.
STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice from Yale, the FBI and the Connecticut State Police are investigating what happened to 24-year-old graduate student Annie Le, who was last seen on Tuesday. In photo, Harrison Korn, a Yale student and reporter for the Yale Daily News, the school newspaper, checks out the scene in front of 188 Lawrence St., the home where Annie Le rented an apartment.
CLOE POISSON / HARTFORD COURANTA police convoy drive up the entrance ramp to I-91 southbound at Exit 21 enroute to New Haven with Annie Le murder suspect Raymond Clark III moments after taking him into custody at the Super 8 Motel in Cromwell. Clark is in the third vehicle, a black Chevy Impala.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTA lone violinist plays 'Amazing Grace' after hundreds of students gathered at Yale's campus Monday for a candlelight vigil for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
Richard Messina, Hartford CourantRaymond Clark III, pictured here as the second to last person in the second row in the 2004 Branford High School yearbook as a member of the Asian Awareness club.
BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTStudents Ji Im, left, Taffany Hwang, (middle, not pictured) and Elaine Lee, right, hug during a candlelight vigil at Yale's campus Monday for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le. The girls said identified with Le because they were students on the same path. They said that they were daughters of immigrants, also from California, and came to Yale to pursue their dreams and felt sad to see it all taken away
PATRICK RAYCRAFT / HARTFORD COURANTThe search continues in New Haven, Conn. for missing Yale graduate student Annie Le. Yale graduate students who were acquainted with Annie Le posted this message outside the research facility on Amistad St. where Le was last seen.
CLOE POISSON / HARTFORD COURANTMembers of the media wait across the street from the Super 8 Motel in Cromwell for police to take Annie Le murder suspect Raymond Clark III into custody.
CLOE POISSON / HARTFORD COURANTRaymond Clark III is taken into custody by police at the Super 8 Motel Thursday morning. DNA results released this morning connected him to the murder of Yale graduate
STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTYale Police Officer Brian Donnelly passed out flyers describing Annie Le, the 24-year-old Yale School of Medicine graduate student who was last seen at 10 Amistad Street in New Haven and now appears to be missing. Off. Donnelly was standing in front of the Yale lab building at 10 Amistad where she worked.
STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice from Yale, the FBI and the Connecticut State Police are investigating what happened to 24-year-old Yale School of Medicine graduate student Annie Le, who was last seen on Tuesday at 10 Amistad Street in New Haven, the Yale lab building where she worked. In photo, investigators from the FBI Evidence Response Team, wearing plastic Hazmat suits, comb through the garbage from a dumpster behind the Amistad St. building Thursday evening.
CLOE POISSON / HARTFORD COURANTRaymond Clark III is taken into custody by police at the Super 8 Motel Thursday morning. DNA results released this morning connected him to the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le.
TIA ANN CHAPMAN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice surround a van carrying Raymond Clark III as it arrives at the New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday. Clark appeared in court for a preliminary hearing in the Annie Le murder case.- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTStudents Andrew Williams, 19, left, and Peggy Liu, 20, hold hands during a candlelight vigil at Yale's campus Monday for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
- Hartford CourantRaymond Clark III, as pictured in the 2001 Branford High School yearbook.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTHundreds of students gather at Yale's campus Monday for a candlelight vigil for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
- STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice from Yale, the FBI and the Connecticut State Police are investigating what happened to 24-year-old Yale School of Medicine graduate student Annie Le, who was last seen at 10 Amistad Street in New Haven, the Yale lab building where she worked, on Tuesday. In photo, investigators from the FBI Evidence Response Team, wearing plastic Hazmat suits, comb through the garbage from a dumpster behind the Amistad St. building Thursday evening.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTLocal and national news media gathered outside the research facility at Cedar street at Washington in New Haven Monday Sept. 14, 2009 where slain Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen.
- STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTYale Police Officer Brian Donnelly passed out flyers describing Annie Le, the 24-year-old Yale School of Medicine graduate student who was last seen at 10 Amistad Street in New Haven and now appears to be missing. Off. Donnelly was standing in front of the Yale lab building at 10 Amistad where she worked.
- Cloe Poisson / Hartford CourantRaymond Clark III is taken into custody by police at the Super 8 Motel Thursday morning. DNA results released this morning connected him to the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTLocal and national news media gathered outside the research facility at Cedar street at Washington in New Haven Monday Sept. 14, 2009 where slain Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen.
- PATRICK RAYCRAFT / HARTFORD COURANTYale and New Haven police have are keeping access limited to the research facility on Amistad Street in New Haven where the search continues for missing Yale graduate student Annie Le.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTStudents gather at Yale's campus Monday for a candlelight vigil for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTStudents Ji Im, left, Taffany Hwang, (middle, not pictured) and Elaine Lee, right, comfort each other with a hug during a candlelight vigil at Yale's campus Monday for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le. The girls said identified with Le because they were students on the same path. They said that they were daughters of immigrants, also from California, and came to Yale to pursue their dreams and felt sad to see it all taken away.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTA lone violinist plays 'Amazing Grace' after hundreds of students gathered at Yale's campus Monday for a candlelight vigil for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTA wilted rose hangs off the police tape at Cedar street at Washington in New Haven Monday Sept. 14, 2009 outside the research facility where the body of slain Yale graduate student Annie Le was found.
- COURTESY NEW HAVEN POLICE DEPARTMENT
- STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTInvestigators from the FBI Evidence Response Team, wearing plastic Hazmat suits, hold up a shirt as they comb through the garbage from a dumpster behind 10 Amistad St. in New haven Thursday evening searching for clues into the disappearance of a Yale medical student. Police from Yale, the FBI and the Connecticut State Police are investigating what happened to 24-year-old Yale School of Medicine graduate student Annie Le, who was last seen at 10 Amistad Street in New Haven, the Yale lab building where she worked, on Tuesday.
- PATRICK RAYCRAFT / HARTFORD COURANTThe search continues in New Haven, Conn. for missing Yale graduate student Annie Le. This is the research facility on the corner of Amistad and Cedar Street in New Haven where Le was last seen entering the building on a security video camera.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTStudents Andrew Williams, 19, left, and Peggy Liu, 20, stand together during a candlelight vigil at Yale's campus Monday for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
- STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice from Yale, the FBI and the Connecticut State Police are investigating what happened to 24-year-old graduate student Annie Le, who was last seen on Tuesday. In photo, an investigator believed to be from the FBI brought a plastic bag of items out of the house where Le lived at 188 Lawrence St. and placed them in the trunk of a car shortly before leaving.
- PATRICK RAYCRAFT / HARTFORD COURANTNew Haven and Yale police officers are only allowing limitied access to the research facility on Amistad Street where the search continues for missing Yale graduate student Annie Le.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice block off the section of Cedar street at Washington in New Haven Monday Sept. 14, 2009 where local and national news media gathered outside the research facility where slain Yale graduate student Annie Le was last seen.
- STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice from Yale, the FBI and the Connecticut State Police are investigating what happened to 24-year-old graduate student Annie Le, who was last seen on Tuesday. In photo, Harrison Korn, a Yale student and reporter for the Yale Daily News, the school newspaper, checks out the scene in front of 188 Lawrence St., the home where Annie Le rented an apartment.
- CLOE POISSON / HARTFORD COURANTA police convoy drive up the entrance ramp to I-91 southbound at Exit 21 enroute to New Haven with Annie Le murder suspect Raymond Clark III moments after taking him into custody at the Super 8 Motel in Cromwell. Clark is in the third vehicle, a black Chevy Impala.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTA lone violinist plays 'Amazing Grace' after hundreds of students gathered at Yale's campus Monday for a candlelight vigil for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
- Richard Messina, Hartford CourantRaymond Clark III, pictured here as the second to last person in the second row in the 2004 Branford High School yearbook as a member of the Asian Awareness club.
- BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANTStudents Ji Im, left, Taffany Hwang, (middle, not pictured) and Elaine Lee, right, hug during a candlelight vigil at Yale's campus Monday for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le. The girls said identified with Le because they were students on the same path. They said that they were daughters of immigrants, also from California, and came to Yale to pursue their dreams and felt sad to see it all taken away
- PATRICK RAYCRAFT / HARTFORD COURANTThe search continues in New Haven, Conn. for missing Yale graduate student Annie Le. Yale graduate students who were acquainted with Annie Le posted this message outside the research facility on Amistad St. where Le was last seen.
- CLOE POISSON / HARTFORD COURANTMembers of the media wait across the street from the Super 8 Motel in Cromwell for police to take Annie Le murder suspect Raymond Clark III into custody.
- CLOE POISSON / HARTFORD COURANTRaymond Clark III is taken into custody by police at the Super 8 Motel Thursday morning. DNA results released this morning connected him to the murder of Yale graduate
- STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTYale Police Officer Brian Donnelly passed out flyers describing Annie Le, the 24-year-old Yale School of Medicine graduate student who was last seen at 10 Amistad Street in New Haven and now appears to be missing. Off. Donnelly was standing in front of the Yale lab building at 10 Amistad where she worked.
- STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice from Yale, the FBI and the Connecticut State Police are investigating what happened to 24-year-old Yale School of Medicine graduate student Annie Le, who was last seen on Tuesday at 10 Amistad Street in New Haven, the Yale lab building where she worked. In photo, investigators from the FBI Evidence Response Team, wearing plastic Hazmat suits, comb through the garbage from a dumpster behind the Amistad St. building Thursday evening.
- CLOE POISSON / HARTFORD COURANTRaymond Clark III is taken into custody by police at the Super 8 Motel Thursday morning. DNA results released this morning connected him to the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le.
- TIA ANN CHAPMAN / HARTFORD COURANTPolice surround a van carrying Raymond Clark III as it arrives at the New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday. Clark appeared in court for a preliminary hearing in the Annie Le murder case.
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Students Andrew Williams, 19, left, and Peggy Liu, 20, hold hands during a candlelight vigil at Yale's campus Monday for slain Yale graduate student Annie Le.
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A former Yale University lab technician has pleaded not guilty to killing graduate student Annie Le last September.
Raymond J. Clark III entered not-guilty pleas to two counts — murder and felony murder — during a brief appearance in Superior Court Tuesday morning.
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He also waived his right to a probable-cause hearing.
His next court date is March 3.
Also in court Tuesday, the judge agreed to return Raymond Clark’s mother’s car, a 1999 Ford Taurus, which had been confiscated shortly after Clark’s arrest in September. Police said Clark was a passenger in the Taurus the day Le disappeared. According to search warrants, police found “blood-like stains” in the car. Clark and his girlfriend were seen leaving a coffee shop in the Taurus hours after Le was killed, according to affidavits.
Probable-cause hearings, mandatory under state law in cases punishable by death or life in prison, require judges to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed. The hearings give both sides the chance to present evidence and call witnesses. Judges rarely rule that probable cause is lacking, and defendants usually waive such hearings.
Le’s body was found stuffed inside a wall at the Yale Animal Research Center in New Haven, which is part of the Yale School of Medicine complex where Clark worked and Le did research. Her body was found Sept. 13, the day Le was supposed to get married.