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Medical examiner says Yale student was suffocated
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-09-17 09:32 The young woman did not pursue the case, and no charges were filed. The Independent reported that Clark was warned in 2003 that police would pursue criminal charges against him if he contacted the girl. Branford Police Lt. Geoffrey Morgan told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his department would not release the unsubstantiated 2003 report. Morgan would neither confirm nor deny the news report, citing cooperation with police investigating the killing.
"He was a seriously good pitcher and a good infielder," Roy said. "He wasn't a typical off-the-wall knucklehead kind of kid who bounced all over the place," he said. On her MySpace page, Clark's fiancee, Jennifer Hromadka, calls Clark was a "wonderful boyfriend." She added that she's not perfect, but cautioned people not to judge her. "Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean!!" the 23-year-old wrote. The date of the MySpace posting is unclear. The page has since been taken down. Police are not commenting on a possible motive. Yale technicians like Clark help care for the research animals used by labs around the Ivy League campus. They tend to rodents, mostly mice, used in experiments. They also monitor breeding and weaning and help with paperwork. Since researchers generally try not to move animals from their housing for testing, students and faculty conducting experiments often visit the building where Le was found dead, school officials said. The basement where Le's body was discovered houses mostly mice, which her faculty adviser uses in his experiments. The Le case has some parallels to the 1998 murder of 21-year-old Suzanne Jovin about 2 miles from the Yale campus. The slaying is still unsolved. In that case, a professor was named as a suspect early in the investigation and was later fired. He was never charged, and authorities never presented evidence against him. Without mentioning Jovin's name, Lewis referred to the case Wednesday while defending his department's handling of Le's death. "We don't want to be in the future accused of tunnel vision and saying that we focused on one person and only one person," Lewis said. Noting that "tragedy has again struck Yale," Jovin's parents released a letter to Gov. Jodi Rell pleading for more funds for the state's forensic science lab. Thomas and Donna J. Jovin said they share the agony of Le's loved ones. "We hope that the person guilty of this terrible crime can be apprehended quickly," they wrote, "which was unfortunately not to be true in the case of our daughter."
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