Annie Marie Thu Le (July 3, 1985 – September 8, 2009) was a 24-year-old doctoral student at the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology.

[2] On September 17, police arrested the perpetrator, Raymond J. Clark III, a Yale laboratory technician who worked in the building.

On Sunday, September 13, her planned wedding date, authorities discovered Le's body in a cable chase inside the wall of a basement laboratory in the Amistad Street building.

[7] The Connecticut medical examiner's autopsy found that Le's death was a result of "traumatic asphyxia due to neck compression".

[9] She was valedictorian of her graduating class at Union Mine High School in El Dorado, California,[10] and voted "most likely to be the next Einstein".

She was due to be married on September 13, 2009, in Syosset, New York to Jonathan Widawsky, a graduate student in applied physics and mathematics at Columbia University.

[14][15] She had previously written an article for Yale Medical School's B Magazine titled "Crime and Safety in New Haven", published in February 2009.

[16][17] The case of Annie Le generated frenetic media coverage, with a news producer trampled in a rush to a briefing.

"[20] Connecticut Post columnist MariAn Gail Brown argued that there is a "pecking order in many things", including the investigation of crimes, and that Le's murder attracted media attention because she was an Ivy Leaguer and "[s]omeone who might earn beaucoup bucks, [s]omeone who possesses sky's-the-limit potential, [v]ivacious and attractive, too.

"[21] After his arrest, Clark was held on $3 million bail at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison in Suffield, Connecticut.