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Narrator:
Up next, the big day for
a Yale research scientist
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is fast approaching.
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She was due to be married
in about five days.
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And then, she disappears.
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Is this a case
of a runaway bride?
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A Yale University
graduate student
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who is supposed to
get married this weekend
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has suddenly vanished.
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Narrator: This image shows
the last time she was seen
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on surveillance video.
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On that day,
we saw Annie going in.
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Narrator:
But she's never seen coming out.
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You don't get in or out without
being captured on camera.
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Narrator:
People don't simply vanish.
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Or do they?
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Yale is one of the oldest
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and most-respected universities
in America.
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Founded in 1701, the campus is
dotted with beautiful buildings
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designed by generations
of noted architects.
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But few people would call
the building known
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as 10 Amistad distinctive.
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In fact, it's designed
not
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10 Amistad is very nondescript
for reasons.
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It's a research facility.
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So, there are all types
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of highly confidential
multi-million dollar research
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that is done from foundations
and organizations
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from throughout the world.
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Narrator:
One of the Amistad researchers
was Annie Le,
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a 24-year-old doctoral student
of great ambition
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and brain power.
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Strollo:
She didn't go out much.
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She had a very strict routine
of going to work at the lab,
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her studies, and back home.
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[ Beeps ]
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Narrator:
On the morning of Tuesday,
September 8, 2009,
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Annie followed
her usual routine.
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The building where she worked
required people to log in
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using electronic keycard.
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Her movement,
after going into the building,
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she went into her lab,
which was G13,
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and she logged in there a little
after 10:00 in the morning.
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Narrator:
At 11 o'clock that night,
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Annie's roommate called police.
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Annie hadn't come home.
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Even more concerning
to this roommate
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was that Annie never called.
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She would always hear from Annie
a couple of times
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throughout the day,
and she never did.
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Narrator:
Normally, police are slow to
move on missing persons cases.
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Most people turn up
within a day or two.
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But Annie was known for being
so reliable that in her case,
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police started right away.
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The nervousness about
the community was very real,
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from the president
of Yale University
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all the way down
to the students.
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Narrator: With her wedding
just five days away,
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police thought Annie
might be a runaway bride,
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but this theory
was quickly discarded.
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Strollo:
They actually started to look
to see what Annie Le's
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credit card activity was
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and try to see
if she just took off.
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And that was not the case.
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There was no credit card
activity,
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phone activity,
or anything from Annie Le.
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Narrator: In fact, her purse
and her cell phone
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were still in her office.
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Insalaco:
She didn't take anything
with her.
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That was a big issue.
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People just don't leave
that type of stuff behind.
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Narrator:
And everyone who knew Annie said
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she was excited
about her upcoming wedding.
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She actually already started
to sign her future
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married name to certain things.
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Narrator:
Investigators now went
frame by frame
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through the hundreds of hours
of security video
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from in and around
the Amistad building.
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Chayes: 10 Amistad has 70 or so
surveillance cameras
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covering every entrance
and exit to the building.
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So you don't get in or out
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without being captured
on camera.
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We could see Annie Le coming
into the building
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and she was wearing
a brown necklace,
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she had a brown skirt,
she had a blouse on.
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Far as we know,
she never left the building
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after going into it
on September 8th.
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Narrator: Days passed
and there was still no sign.
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Investigators had to consider
the possibility
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that someone had
harmed Annie Le.
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She was so small --
less than five feet
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and under 100 pounds --
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that police believed an attacker
might have been able to kill her
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and
out of the building
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by using one of the large
garbage receptacles
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in 10 Amistad.
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Strollo:
Dumpsters were checked.
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Investigators went to the dump
and went through all the trash
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to see if there was
any evidence of Annie Le,
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and none was found.
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Narrator: All investigators
had was this image,
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and in it,
Annie looked perfectly happy,
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perfectly healthy,
just like it was any other day,
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except, of course,
that no one could find her.
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Narrator: Yale University
and the city of New Haven
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were desperate for answers
after graduate student Annie Le
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seemingly vanished from
campus in September of 2009.
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I've been in conversations
with Annie Le's family.
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All of us who are parents
can only imagine
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what they are
going through.
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Narrator:
With no logical explanation
for where Annie had gone,
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investigators turn
to a darker theory
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about what might
have happened to her.
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Insalaco:
Everybody's a suspect.
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In all the cases,
everybody's a suspect --
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loved ones, friends,
last person with them.
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You know, you've got
to keep an open mind.
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Narrator:
Detectives questioned her
husband-to-be Jonathan Widawsky,
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a student in New York City,
about 90 minutes from Yale.
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But he had a solid alibi.
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Dadio:
There was no reason to believe
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that Jonathan was
at all involved in this.
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Narrator:
Then on Sunday, five days
after Annie Le disappeared,
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detectives were alerted
to a basement bathroom
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in the 10 Amistad building.
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All of a sudden,
I smelt a weird smell,
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and I sat there and I looked
and I went, "That's decomp."
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And I'm like,
"What's going on here?"
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Narrator:
Behind a metal wall panel
about 13 inches across,
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investigators found
Annie Le's body.
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She'd been sexually assaulted
and stuffed behind the wall.
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A broken jaw and collarbone
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indicated a crime
of extraordinary violence.
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Annie was still wearing
surgical gloves,
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indicating she had been
working when attacked
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and was likely
caught unaware.
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No murder weapon was recovered.
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It appeared her killer
had used his bare hands,
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a possible indication
of a spontaneous attack.
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The coroner said the cause
of death was strangulation.
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Narrator: The Yale community
and the country at large
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were shocked by the uncommon
violence of this murder,
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and even more tragic,
Annie's body was found
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on what would have been
her wedding day.
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What could possibly be worse
than having her body
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found on the day
she was to be married?
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Narrator: The pressure
to find who did this
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and how it could have happened
on a campus
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with such a large
security presence was immense.
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The FBI was involved, the
New Haven Police was involved,
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the State Police was involved,
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and the Yale Police Force
were all involved.
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Insalaco: There's a meeting
probably with 40, 50 detectives.
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Everybody's in that one room
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just trying to figure out
what we have.
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Narrator: Dozens of items
found with the body
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were sent to forensic analysts.
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One of those items didn't seem
to fit with the other evidence.
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Found underneath Annie Le
in that wall was a green pen.
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And that was very important
to this investigation.
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Narrator:
DNA tests were done on Annie's
clothing and the green pen,
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as well as in the area
where Annie's body was located.
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In a startling development,
DNA from two different men
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was recovered from the area
behind the wall.
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Both DNA samples were entered
into CODIS,
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the national DNA database.
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In a crime this brutal,
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it was likely Annie's killer
had been violent before
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and that his DNA
would be in the system.
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Sure enough,
analysts got a hit.
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A DNA profile came back,
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and it came back
to a convicted felon.
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Narrator:
His name was Kieran Robinson,
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and he was convicted in 2001
on drug charges.
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Now, investigators were sure
they had a positive lead
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on a suspect,
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until the background check
on Robinson came in.
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It turned out that the person
who was the convicted felon
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had worked building
the building,
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and then he was killed,
shot in a bar
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sometime before
Annie Le had gone missing.
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Narrator: A dead end.
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And even worse,
the other DNA profile
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turned up no matches
in the CODIS database.
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As the investigators used
video surveillance to check
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every person who went in
and out of the Amistad building,
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they turned to yet
another aspect of Yale security
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that might reveal
Annie's killer --
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employee key cards.
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Those cards kept track
of everyone's movements
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in the building at all times.
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The keycard system is something
that is done
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to secure the research
that's being done in rooms,
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who has access to it,
and who goes in.
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Narrator: That information can
be used to track people's
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activity over weeks,
even months,
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and the investigation showed
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that one person's
activity underwent a big change
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right about the time
Annie Le went missing.
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When we were looking at who may
have gained access,
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we saw one person kept going
into Annie's research room,
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utilizing his keycard.
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Altimari: He was the last person
that swiped into the lab
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that Annie had been seen in.
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Narrator: On the day
Annie Le went missing,
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shortly after she was
last seen alive,
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a fire alarm went off
in 10 Amistad.
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It turned out to be
a false alarm,
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but everyone was forced
to leave the building.
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Strollo: And all that video
surveillance was viewed
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by the police time
and time again,
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and Annie Le never left
the building
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during the fire alarm at 12:55.
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Narrator: So, if Annie didn't
evacuate 10 Amistad,
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she was probably dead
before the fire alarm went off.
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But who had killed her and why?
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Investigators used
employee key cards
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to retrace Annie's final steps.
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Chayes: You needed a keycard
to get into certain rooms,
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including the one where
Annie would do her experiments.
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Narrator: Keycard
records showed that room,
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a lab known as G13,
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was Annie's last-known location,
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and some potentially interesting
things were turning up there.
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Another student tipped off
a Yale police officer
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that she had seen
what she thought was blood
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on a box of wipes on a cart,
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and it turned out that
that was indeed blood.
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There would be no reason
for blood
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to be in the research room.
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Narrator: While this blood
was being tested,
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a police officer was posted
to guard the room,
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which technically
was not yet a crime scene.
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The lab was not closed down
when Annie went missing.
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Multi-million dollar research
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is being conducted
in that facility,
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and there was no reason
to close it down.
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Narrator:
But the police presence
didn't stop a lab worker
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named Raymond Clark
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from attempting to handle
the bloodstained box of wipes,
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a potential
piece of evidence.
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Raymond Clark entered the room,
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and he walked over
near the cart,
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made some small talk
with the officer,
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and then moved
this bloody towel dispenser
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to a different part
of the cart
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where the blood
wouldn't be as obvious.
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Narrator: Raymond Clark was
a 24-year-old lab technician.
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Like Annie, he was engaged
to be married.
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Altimari:
He was not a graduate student.
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He was a Yale employee.
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He basically took care
of the animals,
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cleaned up after them,
took care of them, in fact.
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So, he would've had access
to every lab.
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Narrator: But Clark's past
was not without some red flags
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for investigators.
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One of Ray's former girlfriends
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had actually reported
domestic violence.
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So, there was a side
of Raymond Clark
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that was not told to us
up until we started digging.
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Narrator: Keycard activity
showed Clark was in the G13 lab
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the same time as Annie,
and they were alone.
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Raymond Clark entered that room
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and stayed in that room
for approximately 46 minutes.
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Narrator: There was nothing
particularly unusual about this,
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but since it appeared Clark
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might have been the last person
to see Annie alive,
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he was brought in
for questioning.
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Raymond Clark was very
cooperative in the process.
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[ Fire alarm sounding ]
Narrator: But now investigators
were taking a closer look
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at Raymond Clark.
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And in the security footage,
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they found something haunting
on the day Annie was killed.
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After the fire alarm,
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when every employee of the
Amistad building was evacuated,
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Clark's behavior
seemed highly suspicious.
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We actually saw Ray Clark
exit the building,
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go across the street,
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and sit on a wall,
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and he looked distraught.
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He actually was sitting there
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and put his head
down on his hands,
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and it's all captured on video.
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His face is actually in his
hands and he's kneeling forward,
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and he actually looks like
he almost passes out
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and falls into the street.
So, he's definitely under
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a lot of stress in that video.
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Narrator:
But what was Raymond Clark
stressed out about?
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And was it a coincidence
or something worse
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that he was acting this way
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just after Annie Le
was murdered?
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Narrator:
When Raymond Clark was first
questioned about Annie Le,
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he said he had no idea
what happened to her
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and that he and Annie
were coworkers, nothing more.
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But on the day Annie was killed,
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his keycard showed him
moving a lot
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between Annie's last known
location, a lab called G13,
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and a seldom-used storage area
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called G22 just down the hall.
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Detective Insalaco
had become convinced
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that the G22 storage room
would connect Raymond Clark
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to what happened to Annie Le.
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I said, "Alright, here's
what we're gonna do.
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We're gonna turn off the lights,
we're all gonna get down
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real low to the ground, and
we're gonna use our flashlight.
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I'm gonna side-light the floor."
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Narrator:
On the floor of the storage room
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was the usual dust and debris,
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but there was also
something else.
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I immediately saw a brown
bead with a hole in it.
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Narrator:
Why was this important?
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Because Annie was wearing
a beaded necklace
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the last time
she was seen alive,
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and the bead was found
in a room Raymond Clark
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had gone in and out of 11 times,
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and Annie's keycard showed
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she had never swiped
into this room herself.
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So finding a bead
on the floor was huge.
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Narrator:
Then, above the ceiling tiles
near the storage room,
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investigators made more
ominous findings.
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They found a sock
with blood on it
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and a glove in a ceiling panel
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that they also sent
to get tested for DNA.
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This was later found
to have Annie's blood
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and DNA from Raymond Clark.
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More incriminating evidence was
found in a nearby laundry bag
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that had never been searched.
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When I dumped it out,
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I automatically saw
blue pair of sweatpants.
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I saw dark dried blood
on those pants,
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and I just looked at it
and I went,
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"There's his pants."
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Narrator:
And those pants contained
a mixture of Annie's blood
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and semen later
matched by DNA to Raymond Clark.
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Even the pen, which had
intrigued investigators
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ever since Annie's body
was found, implicated Clark.
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That pen really started to
connect things together for us.
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Raymond Clark habitually signed
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in and out of laboratory
logbooks with a green pen.
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But in the middle of the day,
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just about the time
Annie disappeared,
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he switched to a black pen.
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Detectives believe Raymond Clark
dropped the pen by mistake
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as he stuffed Annie Le's body
behind the bathroom wall.
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Dadio: All of us that worked
on the case were 100% confident
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that Raymond Clark was the
person that murdered Annie Le.
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Narrator:
Further proof came from
a physical check of Clark.
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It showed he had recently been
in a violent altercation.
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He had minor cuts
on his head and face.
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Dadio: You want to know
what compels somebody
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to violently attack a coworker
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with no provocation.
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Narrator:
To this day, no one knows,
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and Raymond Clark isn't talking.
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He was a foot taller than Annie
and more than twice her weight.
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Prosecutors believe this was
an unplanned attack
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and that she didn't
stand a chance.
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However it started,
the evidence is clear.
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Raymond Clark strangled
and sexually assaulted Annie
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in the G13 lab.
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During this altercation, blood,
later matched to her,
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landed on objects in the lab,
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including the box of wipes
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that Raymond Clark later
tried to hide.
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In an attempt to cover up
the crime,
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investigators theorized
he may have used
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the large rolling tables
in the building
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to move Annie's body
to a more isolated area --
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the storage lab known as G22.
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His keycard showed a flurry
of activity
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between Annie's lab
and that storage area
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just after Annie's
keycard activity stopped.
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His clothes with his DNA
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were covered with her blood
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and were later found
in a laundry bag.
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He was able to get Annie
to a nearby bathroom
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and stuffed her body
behind the wall,
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where he dropped his green pen
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covered with his DNA.
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Raymond Clark was able
to hide Annie's body,
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at least for a while,
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but he couldn't hide
the evidence
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that tied him to her murder.
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Altimari:
It was a woman that had
a lot to live for, you know?
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She was about to get married,
she was clearly
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a brilliant graduate student.
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Who knows what she would've
gone on to study or become,
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and her life was cut short.
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It was a senseless murder.
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Narrator: In March of 2011,
Raymond Clark pled guilty
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to first-degree murder
and sexual assault.
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He was sentenced to a minimum
of 44 years in prison.
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But one question,
perhaps the biggest of all,
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remains unanswered to this day.
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The "why?"
His side of what had happened,
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and the "why?"
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Stollo: The state's case
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was that
he sexually assaulted her
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and then killed her
to cover up that crime.
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Narrator: Investigators describe
Annie's murder
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as one of the most bizarre
they've ever encountered,
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and they're grateful
for the science
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that finally revealed
what happened to her.
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Stollo: Forensic evidence
was very important.
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It was what made the case.
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It allowed a quick suspect
to be developed,
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it allowed a quick arrest
to be made,
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and it made an incredibly
strong case for the state.
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Dadio: Annie would've changed
the world with her research
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and for what she wanted to do
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to make the world
a better place.