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- My supervisor called me
and let me know that

the Yale Police Department
had asked for our assistance

because one of their graduate
students,

a woman named Annie Le,
had gone missing.

She was due to get married
in the coming weekend.

She was seen on the
external CCTV video

going into
the Amistad building.

- And that's the last time
we see her.

- No one saw Annie
coming out of the building.

- They didn't know if
she was a runaway bride,

if her family had
kidnapped her.

- We don't know what
happened to her

and the pressure is
starting to build.

We started to focus
on the CCTV.

- And then we started finding
evidence that had blood on it.

- That someone
had attempted to clean up.

- In the FBI, we make
a lot of headlines.

Drug busts,

mob stings,

terrorist takedowns.

- Get down! Get down!

- We understand why people
want to tell stories about us.

- Mark it.

- Freeze!
- FBI.

- FBI!
- Action!

- But they don't know
the half of it.

What really goes down,

we save that for each other

when we're talking
agent-to-agent.

This is "FBI True."

- Hey.
There she is.

- Hey.
- Hello.

- How are you?
- What's happening?

- Lisa Dadio served
as a lieutenant

for the New Haven PD,

commanding
the major crimes unit,

which focused on criminal and
crime scene investigations.

- How are you?
Great to see you.

- Jim Wines spent
25 years with the FBI,

specializing in violent crime,
organized crime,

and gang investigations.

- Let's go inside.

Lisa, when did you first
get involved in this case?

- Kristy Kottis is a
24-year veteran of the FBI.

She worked gangs,
crimes against children,

as well as human
and drug trafficking.

- I was actually
driving into work.

I was in charge of the
major crimes division

for the New Haven
Police Department.

And a sergeant in the Yale
University Detective Division

had reached out to me on
my way in to say that

they needed resources.

They had a missing person.

- Jim, when do you get
involved with this case?

And what is your role?

- At the time,
I was working as an agent

in the New Haven division.

And my supervisor called me
and let me know that

the Yale Police Department
had asked

for our assistance because one
of their graduate students,

a woman named Annie Le,
had gone missing.

She was reported missing
by one of her roommates

who was concerned that she
hadn't come home because

it wasn't normal behavior for
her and she was due to get

married in the coming weekend.

- Annie was a doctoral student

with the Yale School
of Medicine

and she was brilliant.

She had been awarded
a multimillion dollar grant

from the NSF to conduct
research pertaining

to metabolic disease.

She graduated from
the University of Rochester

very high in her class,
which is where

she met her fiancé, Jonathan.

- And so what's the
information you have?

- Annie, the day
that she goes missing

was the last day that she
was going to be on campus

until after her wedding.

Her office was in the
Sterling Hall of Medicine,

which is about a
block, two blocks

away from her research room.

Yale University Police
Department went to her office,

and they actually
found her cell phone there

and, like, her wallet and
some other personal belongings.

- All we knew was that
she had left her house,

come over to her office
at the medical school,

then gone and went
into the lab.

The last time she was seen was
on the external CCTV video

going into the Amistad building
at about 10:00 in the morning.

- And that's the
last time we see her.

- Yes.

- On the CCTV
image that we had,

she was wearing a green
short-sleeve shirt,

a brown skirt, and she
had dark-colored shoes on.

- We had good video footage
and also the ID cards.

Building where the
lab is located,

there was a very
extensive ID card system,

so you had to basically
card into the building.

You had to card into the lab.

So we were able to determine
that she did

card into the building that
morning and that she did card

into her lab, and then
there was no additional

card swipe information.

But all the video coverage in
that building is all external.

There is--
- That's right.

- No CCTV in any of the labs
or in any of the indoor space.

- No hallways,
no elevators, no--

so it's only exit-entryways.

Once you got into the building,
no matter who you are,

we couldn't tell
where you went--

- Right.
- Unless you had a key card.

So even outside contractors
that were coming in

to work on the heating
and air conditioning,

everybody had a key card
to get in.

- So Yale takes the
initial police report

and they see that she
went into the building,

so I'm sure they're feeling
perplexed at this point.

- Yeah, there were multiple
theories at the time.

The first one
we had was just she--

she had just kind of
dropped off the grid

and didn't want to be found
for a couple of days.

- The sergeant from
Yale University

had said that they didn't know
if she was a runaway bride,

if her family had kidnapped her

because she was marrying
outside of her culture.

Annie is a Vietnamese American
from California,

and her fiancé was Jewish
from Long Island.

We had to really
look at everything

as to why she never came home.

So in speaking to Jonathan,

he obviously becomes a
person of interest, right?

- He has to.
- He has to, right?

- He has to.

- Sometimes you just don't know

what's going on between
two people.

- Thursday morning, we had
a coordination meeting,

and we put together
interview teams to go out

and interview people who
had contact with Annie

right before she had
gone missing to try

to figure out what happened.

As we started to
do the interviews,

what we learned is on the day
that she went missing,

there had been a fire alarm
at the Amistad building,

so everyone had
to exit the building.

We pulled the CCTV video
from Yale

to see if we could see Annie
coming out of the building

during the fire alarm.

And we reviewed
hours of CCTV video.

- You have all these people
exiting the building.

You have tons of footage
to go through,

frame by frame, just to make
sure you don't miss her.

And at the same time, you have
masses of people walking out.

- And no one saw Annie
coming out of the building

for the fire alarm.

But during the interviews,

we also learned that there
were a couple of people

that were in the vicinity
of the lab room

that Annie was in close in time
to when she swiped into--

into the room.

The first person was Ray Clark.

He had been the person who
had most frequently been

in that room that Annie was
conducting her research in.

Ray Clark is basically
a member of the staff.

- He was an animal technician.

- Animal technician who
worked for Yale University

and his responsibilities
were essentially to maintain

the mouse colonies,
to make sure that the mice

stayed healthy and that
the cages were clean

and things of that nature.

And there were a couple
of things that stood out

to us during that interview.

The first one was he was
the last person to see her.

And then during the interview,

I noticed that he had kind
of significant bruising

on the insides of both biceps.

And I asked him about that

and he told me he had been
wrestling with his cat.

- Oh, wow.
- That's a big kitty.

- And the first thing
I thought was, yeah,

what do you have at home,
a bobcat?

- Yeah, yeah, right.

- We photographed
his injuries that

were consistent with
something other than a cat.

- But the other thing that he
told us during that interview

is that there was an individual
who was working the day

Annie went missing named Larry,
who was a HVAC technician.

And he had access to all
the rooms in the building.

And he was there
to service the building

to make sure the HVAC was
working correctly.

- And he was in Annie's room
shortly after she went in.

- And subsequent interviews
I did with other lab staff,

they all also mentioned Larry.

They described him as kind of--
kind of an odd or weird guy.

After our first round
of interviews,

even though we developed
some additional leads,

we still don't know
where Annie is,

and we still don't know
what happened to her.

And the national
media is starting

to become aware of the case.

- The FBI continues to
head up the investigation,

numbering some 100 law
enforcement authorities

from Yale, the city
of New Haven,

and the state of Connecticut

in an all-out effort
to find Annie Le.

- And the pressure
is starting to build.

But that quickly started
to change once we learned

of some of the blood evidence.

- There was a box
of white balls

that was in Annie's lab room

that had what appeared
to be blood on the box.

And it wasn't just a
little bit of blood.

It was a decent amount.

Then what started happening
in the search for other things

is we started finding more
evidence that had blood on it.

And then in a ceiling,
a drop ceiling of the lab,

they find, actually,
like a white ankle sock

that had blood on it.

- She had a favorite
beaded necklace,

and we found beads
that were consistent

with that type of necklace

in several places
in the lab complex,

including up in an HVAC vent.

In addition to the
biological evidence that

was found by the state
police in the lab room itself,

there was a lab coat
with blood smears on it.

It was found in kind of in
a biohazard trash container

that was due to be sent out.

The state police started to do
the crime scene investigation.

They determined that there was
a significant amount

of blood evidence
and other biological evidence

in that room that someone
had attempted to clean up.

- It looks like we have
a murder on our hands.

- On Saturday morning,
at that point,

enough information
had been developed

to point the
investigation towards more

of a homicide investigation.

- Her fiancé, Jonathan,
was interviewed,

asked to give everything
about his day,

his whereabouts, who can
put him where he was,

anything to back up
what he had stated.

And pretty quickly
we were able to rule

him out as being involved
in Annie's disappearance.

- That's always a relief.
- It was huge.

- Did you start
thinking of Larry again?

- Yes.

- We found the beads
in the HVAC vent,

and we knew Larry had
been in Annie's lab.

- The keycard swipe
showed that he

had been in Annie's
laboratory that day when

he was servicing the HVAC.

We made contact with him.

He was staying
at a really fleabag motel

a couple towns over.

So my partner and I went over
there and interviewed Larry.

When I walked into the room,
the first thing I saw

was a big bottle of bourbon
and a big bottle of Coke.

We told him we were trying
to find out some information

about a graduate student who
worked in the lab building

where he had been working
who had gone missing.

- So what is his reaction?

- He told us he really didn't
know anything about it.

He didn't pay a
lot of attention

to the people who were
working in the building.

He was just there
to service the HVAC.

He let us search the room.
He let us search his van.

We went through
all his equipment

that he had been using
the day before in the lab,

and we just told him
that we would want

to maintain contact with him
and to not leave the area

without letting us know.

- So we have Larry swiped into
the room when Annie was there.

- Yeah, he had
swiped into the room

after she had swiped
into the room.

- Do we have any other
of those type of swipes

where other individuals
swiped after?

- Yes. Well, Ray Clark
had swiped into that room

several times on that day.

After the interview
with Ray Clark,

because of some of his answers
had not made a lot of sense

to us, such as the wrestling
with the cat,

- the bruising on the arms...
- Yeah.

- We started to focus
on his movements

on the CCTV for that day.

- On the morning of Tuesday,
September 8th,

prior to 10:00 a.m.,
Ray Clark can be seen

leaving the Amistad building
with several coworkers.

- And as he's coming back
into the Amistad building,

he's very jovial.

He's joking around
with his coworkers.

He's very upbeat.

In the afternoon when
the fire alarm goes off,

we observe him coming out
of the building.

And he goes and sits on
some steps across the street

from the Amistad building.

And he's just by himself

and he's just got his head
in his hands.

- We definitely saw
a shift in his emotions.

But it could be anything.
Did he just get bad news?

Did something happen?

Did he--you know,
did he just get in trouble

at work or whichever?

But when we go back at looking
at all the CCTV footage,

when he comes back in,

we notice he's wearing
different scrubs.

We noticed that when
he went for coffee,

he had on blue scrubs
with a red string

you can see it on the CCTV.

And then the fire alarm,
when he goes out...

And comes back in,

you see the string on his
scrubs are a different color.

So we're like,
he changed his scrubs.

- The next really
big thing that

happened is on Sunday
evening, the state police

was still actively
processing the crime scene

and started to be the
smell of decomposition

down in the Amistad lab
complex.

- So we smell it.

But it's a research building.
There's animals everywhere.

There's a multimillion-dollar
ventilation system.

So where is she?

The decision was made
to bring in a cadaver dog.

While the dog is trained
to smell and alert

to where a body possibly is, he
had difficulty at first because

of the state-of-the-art
HVAC system

that is throwing his scent off.
- Mm-hmm.

- Ultimately,
the smell of decomposition

led them to an area
in the men's bathroom

behind a pipe chase, like
a stainless steel access panel.

- So like this.
- It's a small plate.

So we're like, there's no way.

There was no evidence
that the wall was retaped

or painted or anything.

- So the doggie's alert and
he's like, it's right here.

- No doubt.

As soon as you remove
that first screw, and--

- The wave.
- The wave.

- It's horrible.

- Annie's body was found.
- Oh, no.

- And you know,
Annie was found on the day

that she was supposed
to get married.

- So whoever did this
was able to squeeze her

into this basically like
1x1 foot square,

maybe less, and just,
like, force her in there.

- Her body was pushed down

from where
the access vent was.

- After an autopsy,

the medical examiner
found she was strangled.

And in addition to
being strangled,

she had suffered a broken
collarbone, a broken jaw bone,

and had sustained some
pretty significant

physical injuries as well.

- One of the other things
that was found back

in the kind of crevice
where Annie was

found was a--
was a green pen.

And one of the things we had
learned in the investigation

is Ray Clark would make all
his notations in green pen

right up until the time
that Annie Le went missing,

and then his notations were
made in a different color pen.

And the bruising
on Ray Clark's arms

was consistent
with someone reaching in there

to push the body down
and then bruising his arms

on the rim of the panel.

So the evidence was
really starting to narrow

the focus on Ray Clark.

So we went to arrest them at a
hotel in Cromwell, Connecticut.

Someone had leaked the
fact that we were going

to go arrest him to the media.

There was just lines and lines
of media vans and cameramen.

And if you see
the video footage,

you see the conga line
of cars coming in.

Well, he was up in the
hotel room with his father.

He stood up, turned around,
let us handcuff him,

and we walked him out.

Then Ray Clark was taken over
to the state police complex

and DNA samples
were taken from him.

And they were actually--

where the state
police complex was,

it's right across the parking
lot from the forensic lab.

So these samples
were literally

run over to the forensic lab

to be processed

as quickly as possible.

Ray Clark's DNA was on Annie.

And then we also found the DNA
of a second male individual.

- Wait a minute. So we've got
Ray Clark locked in.

You got his DNA on her body,
and now there's

another DNA of another male.

- Yes, and that
caused a lot of alarm

because there was a lot of
noise being made about it

by Ray Clark's attorneys.
- Sure.

- Trying to claim that there
was a second individual

and he was the one who actually

was responsible
for killing Annie.

- Well, it definitely
opens the door for that.

- But we found that the
person whose DNA it was

had died over a year prior
to Annie's body being found

and that he had been working
as a carpenter's apprentice

at the Amistad building when
it was being constructed.

He was rubbing up against
the framing and the pipes,

leaving his DNA behind.

And because the lab was a
completely climate-controlled,

DNA was able to stay pristine
for almost two years...

- Wow.

- Before it was transferred
onto Annie's clothing.

But once we were able
to fully explain it,

it put a lot of the
conspiracy theories to bed.

- And about a year or so later,
Ray pled guilty.

- And what did
he plead guilty to?

- Homicide and attempted
sexual assault.

- Yep.

- Standing in court,
the man accused

of killing Yale
graduate student

Annie Le said very little.

- Mr. Clark, I read you your
rights downstairs earlier

in the presence
of your attorneys,

and you understood
those rights.

- Yes.

- Did we ever get a motive?

- So motive, that's the
million-dollar question.

No.
Ray never spoke to us.

- But in addition to
the blood evidence,

there were also traces
of Ray Clark's semen

recovered from some of the
clothing Annie was wearing

when her body was recovered.

That was what led
to the attempted

sexual assault charge.

We were unable to determine
whether it happened

post mortem or ante mortem.

But there was some sort
of sexual component to it,

and that is a
possibility for motive.

And a matter of fact,

the only thing that Ray Clark
ever said,

he made a statement
the day of the guilty plea.

And I could read it
for you if you'd like.

- Yeah, sure.
Love it.

- "I take full responsibility
for my actions.

I alone am responsible
for the death of Annie Le

and causing tremendous pain
to all who love

and cared about Annie.

I am truly sorry
I took Annie away

from her friends, her family,
and, most of all, her fiancé.

I blame only myself
and there are no excuses

for what I have done.

Annie was and will always
be a wonderful person,

by far a better person than
I will ever be in my life.

I'm sorry I lied.

I'm sorry I ruined lives.

And I'm sorry for
taking Annie Le's life.

- Clark, now 26 years old,
was sentenced immediately

after his statement
to 44 years in prison.

He won't get out until 2053.

- What does this
case mean to you?

- It rattled me to the core.

The magnitude of the case,
the nonstop investigation,

the finding of Annie's body

on the day she was
to get married,

I mean, literally, just within
the past couple of years,

I was able to talk
about the case

without getting
choked up about it.

But we made an arrest
in the case.

We truly were one team.

There were no egos
and we got the job done

to a very successful resolution

with Ray confessing in court
and getting a conviction.

- You guys did an amazing job.

Cheers to Annie.

- Cheers to Annie.
- Annie.