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narrator:
A girl with big ambitions...
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She wanted to find
a cure for cancer.
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Narrator: ...And with her
whole life ahead of her...
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She was about to get married.
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These two were peas in a pod.
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Tell me we're doing
the right thing.
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Everything's gonna be fine.
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Narrator: ...Goes into a
building and doesn't come out.
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When was she last seen?
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We weren't 100 percent sure
what had happened.
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Kline: You only have a very
short amount of time
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to find a missing person.
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Where is she?
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Narrator: Detectives are
led into a dark world
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with terrifying consequences.
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Dadio: We had to find her
in order to prove
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that something happened to her.
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narrator:
24-year-old student annie le
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is a final-year graduate at
the prestigious yale university.
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More coffee?
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Simpson: Annie and I
first met in 2006.
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She had a bubbly personality,
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just this wonderful package
in this one person.
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Narrator:
Born in san jose, california,
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to a vietnamese family,
annie dreams of becoming
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a biomedical researcher
and one day curing cancer.
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Simpson: Annie was absolutely
driven and motivated.
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She was curious.
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She was intelligent,
and she wanted to use
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her curiosity
for the common good.
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Narrator:
But her studies at yale
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aren't the only thing
keeping annie busy.
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Simpson: Annie was going to
marry her longtime boyfriend
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and best friend,
jonathan widawsky.
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They loved one
another completely.
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Jon was earning his own
doctoral degree
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at columbia university
in new york,
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and annie was living
in connecticut.
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Annie was really busy
balancing life,
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balancing the wedding plans,
balancing academic studies.
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Narrator: With the wedding set
for this coming Sunday...
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Good morning, deborah.
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...Annie takes time off
from her studies
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to find the right look
for the big day.
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I think annie was extremely
excited about the wedding.
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She was very precise
about the way it had to be done.
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I believe she wanted to be
the best version of herself.
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How's jonathan doing?
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Oh, I think he's a little bit
more excited than me. [ laughs ]
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it's always nice
when the groom's excited.
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[ laughs ]
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kiley: I felt close to her.
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I felt like she trusted me.
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It's perfect.
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-Yeah?
-Thank you.
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Okay, good. I was worried.
[ laughs ]
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I was worried you weren't
gonna like it.
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No. I love it.
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Okay, good.
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Kiley: Keep it pretty.
Keep it simple.
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That was my job.
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Good?
Yeah.
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Yeah? Okay.
I'm just...
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Relax. Breathe.
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You look wonderful.
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Narrator:
But with just six days to go,
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it appears annie is having
last-minute nerves.
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Tell me I'm doing
the right thing.
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Simpson: Annie called.
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She just wanted to know
if they were too young
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to be getting married,
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and I assured her that
she should definitely go ahead
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with marrying jon.
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Thanks, jennifer.
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I love you.
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[ cellphone beeps ]
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narrator: The following evening,
annie doesn't return home.
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with her roommate
reporting her missing,
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yale police immediately
call in the fbi for help.
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Lawton: We usually get called in
at the early stages
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for missing persons,
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particularly somebody
that everybody is surprised
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is missing and doesn't stay
out of communication.
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Annie le was
that type of person.
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People generally knew
where she was.
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The yale police department
interviewed some family members
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telephonically,
roommates in person,
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and some other people
that knew her,
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and nobody knew
of her whereabouts.
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Narrator: Agent lawton
begins his investigation
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at annie's office.
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Lawton: First thing that
I wanted to see was her desk
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and maybe get a feel
for what kind of person she was
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and also if there had been
a struggle there.
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I noticed her purse and her
phone were there at her desk.
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That was a little surprising.
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Narrator:
With no sign of a struggle,
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he wants to know
if anybody saw annie leave.
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Lawton: The yale police had been
briefed by coworkers
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that she had started
an experiment.
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They said that she had gone
from her desk,
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walked over to her lab,
and basically vanished
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and never came back
to finish the experiment,
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which is completely unlike her.
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narrator:
With annie not in her office,
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special agent lawton heads
straight over to annie's lab,
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which is located on
10 amistad street
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in the basement of
the yale animal research center,
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a one-minute walk away
from her office.
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Film everything.
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Lawton: They have a record
what the basement looked like.
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Extensive video footage
was taken
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by the connecticut state police.
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first thing that hits you
when you walk through the door
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is the acrid smell
of animal waste.
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it's a place where the doctors
and the scientists
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perform experiments
on laboratory animals.
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the laboratory setup is
many, many doors,
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rooms within rooms,
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different spaces
where things are stored,
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a lot of
stainless-steel paneling.
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It's almost catacombed.
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Narrator: Investigators take
an initial look in annie's lab,
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g13, where she conducts
her experiments.
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Lawton: G13 lab is an unusual
type of room.
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You can't see from the door
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all the way
to the other side of the lab
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because the racks block
your view.
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During our cursory search of
the lab building for annie le,
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we did look in g13,
and nothing was found.
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Nothing suspicious that met
the naked eye could be seen.
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narrator: With no leads,
police reach out to the public
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for information
on her mysterious disappearance.
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Reporter: The fbi is now involved in the search for
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a yale university grad student, 24-year-old annie le,
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last seen on Tuesday.
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simpson:
It was a picture of annie.
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I couldn't function.
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I couldn't process my emotions.
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[ crying ]
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jon wasn't answering,
so I was calling
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one friend after the other.
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I was just so worried.
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I wanted her to be okay.
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narrator: With no response
from the public,
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the fbi call in reinforcements
to help find her.
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Once we had established that
annie le was a missing person,
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we decided that we had
to get more people
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involved in the case.
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Sergeant kline,
connecticut state police.
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You only have a very short
amount of time
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to find a missing person.
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Lieutenant lisa dadio.
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We are trying to figure out
what happened,
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whether or not if it's
a suspected kidnapping
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or something much worse.
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Lawton:
She was about to get married.
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She was in communication
with somebody all the time,
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so for her to just stop cold
was not only unusual
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but really suspicious.
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narrator: As fear
for annie's safety grows,
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investigators desperately
need answers.
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[ keypad beeps ]
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anybody who worked at
yale animal research center
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had a badge,
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and they were responsible
to badge their way in and out.
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Narrator:
While investigators download
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the key-card-access data,
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agent lawton notices
something else.
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Luckily for us, yale has
closed-circuit tv cameras.
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I need to view
that camera now.
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narrator: Less than 24 hours
after yale phd student annie le
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was reported missing,
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investigators recover
surveillance footage
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from the campus
security cameras.
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Lawton:
There was too many cameras
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at the
yale animal research center.
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The camera in front,
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which is mostly where
the employees come in and out,
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and then there's
a side entrance,
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and there's a camera there, too.
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narrator: They start by
reviewing the camera
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covering the main entrance.
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Investigators want to confirm
that annie arrived
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at the research center,
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so they cue the footage
to just after 10:00 am,
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when she was last seen
leaving her office.
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wait. Pause it there.
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lawton:
We found video of annie le
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entering the
yale animal research center,
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and she got to work
that morning at 9 past 10:00.
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There was nothing unusual
about the way she was acting.
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She didn't seem scared.
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She didn't seem like
she was under duress.
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narrator: Now lawton wants to
get a timeline of her on cctv
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once entering the facility,
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but there is only one camera
on the basement level,
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covering a corridor
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close to where annie conducts
her experiments.
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they keep watching in case
she walks past.
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but there's no sign of annie.
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while investigators continue
to trawl through the footage,
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detective lisa dadio meets
with annie's family.
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Dadio: Around the same time
that this had happened,
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there was an infamous case
of a runaway bride
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that had made national news,
and at the time,
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yale didn't know if this was
one of those types of cases.
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How was annie feeling
about the wedding?
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Was the pressure so intense
with annie
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that she ran away
from everything?
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Not annie.
She was excited.
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us friends who knew her better,
her family who knew her better,
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we knew there was no way
annie would have run away.
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There was definitely something
wrong and something amiss.
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narrator: It's been 24 hours
since annie went missing.
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While investigators
continue to wait
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for annie's key-card data
to confirm
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if she entered lab g13,
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investigators check
other internal cameras
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in case she went upstairs.
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It literally took several people
hours and hours and hours
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to comb through
all that video surveillance
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of all the different cameras
and the angles.
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Narrator: There's no sign of
annie inside her lab building,
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so investigators decide
to turn their attention
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back to the exterior cameras
to establish when annie left.
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One of the main objectives
is to see if, in fact,
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she did leave the building.
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If she did, who was she with?
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Did she appear to be
under duress?
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Which direction did she walk in?
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♪
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narrator:
Investigators scour both exits.
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Hours go by as employees walk in
and walk out of the building.
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♪
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there's no sign of annie.
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Wait. What's that?
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Narrator: At 12:50 pm,
less than three hours
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after annie entered
the lab building...
273
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What's going on?
274
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Narrator: ...Detectives notice
a swarm of people
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suddenly pour out from
both exits, covering their ears.
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It dawned us, looks like
the fire alarm did go off
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because, at this time, everyone
is leaving the building.
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This was a big concern for us
because we were worried
279
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that annie could have slipped
through the cracks, so to speak.
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♪
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reload all of the footage.
282
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I want to review it
all again frame by frame.
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♪
284
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kline: We were very attentive
to that time frame
285
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and to every single person
leaving every exit at that time.
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Play it again.
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Kline: She should have left
the building at that time
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because everyone else did.
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♪
290
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narrator: Detectives continue to
search through the footage,
291
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but annie isn't seen again
on either camera.
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♪
293
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lawton: We reviewed it,
re-reviewed it, scrutinized it.
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We had no video footage of her
leaving the facility -- none.
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♪
296
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narrator: With no sign of annie,
detectives need to consider
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The whole mind set
and the atmosphere
298
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changed at that point.
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♪
300
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narrator: As annie is
less than 5 feet tall,
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detectives need to consider
whether she has been harmed
302
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and carried out of the building
against her will.
303
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We were looking at people
leaving the building
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and whether they were
carrying an object
305
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that could have
possibly contained annie,
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whether she was alive
or not alive.
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♪
308
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narrator:
They watch the footage again.
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♪
310
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kline: But nothing left
that building in a way
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that would have said to us,
312
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"oh, she may be
with that person,"
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or, "she may be in that object
314
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or that item or that bag
or that box."
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♪
316
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narrator: Detectives are rapidly
running out of options.
317
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I was the initial investigator
on the case,
318
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and I didn't sleep for days.
319
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The only other possibility was
she went out with the trash.
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♪
321
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might not have been
too difficult to do
322
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because there was five or six
different trash streams
323
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that left the
yale animal research center --
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animal carcass, animal waste.
325
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And if somebody put her
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in one of those real strong
type of contractor bags,
327
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she would have gone right out
into the dumpster
328
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with the rest
of the other trash,
329
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as horrible as that sounds
to even say.
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♪
331
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kline: We were searching
in garbage bins and the dumps
332
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where all this garbage
from this facility was going to.
333
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We were searching everywhere
to no avail.
334
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It's like she disappeared
and vanished into thin air.
335
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Lawton: As the hours ticked by,
it became more and more apparent
336
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that she had never left
the building,
337
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but we had no idea
where she was.
338
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♪
339
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narrator: Back at the station,
340
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annie's fiancé has arrived
from new york,
341
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and investigators are eager
to question him.
342
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♪
343
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dadio: So, typically when
somebody goes missing,
344
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it's usually the person
closest to them,
345
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a significant other,
a family member, a spouse.
346
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Where were you
on September 8th,
347
00:17:03,887 --> 00:17:06,656
the night that annie
disappeared?
348
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I was at home
in long island.
349
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♪
350
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narrator: While officers
confirm jonathan's alibi,
351
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♪
352
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the data from annie's
key card comes in.
353
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♪
354
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lawton: Our key-card-access
records showed her enter a room
355
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at 10:11 in the morning,
which was lab g13.
356
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♪
357
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when we scrutinized the records
and found out that
358
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that was the last place
359
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that electronically
we could track her,
360
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we started to believe
that something may have happened
361
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to her inside that room.
362
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♪
363
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we started to dig deeper into
what was going on at the lab.
364
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♪
365
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narrator: Investigators conduct
a second search of lab g13.
366
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Come take a look at this.
367
00:18:06,919 --> 00:18:09,084
What the investigators
were able to find
368
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were minute pieces of evidence.
369
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An eraser-tip speck of blood
on one of the instruments.
370
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If that was indeed
annie le's blood,
371
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that would indicate
some harm came to her.
372
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♪
373
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lawton.
374
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Narrator: They keep searching,
desperate to find annie.
375
00:18:30,373 --> 00:18:32,242
I think there's
something up here.
376
00:18:32,344 --> 00:18:36,512
We now know that something bad
has happened to annie.
377
00:18:36,614 --> 00:18:39,216
♪
378
00:18:40,619 --> 00:18:44,588
♪
379
00:18:44,723 --> 00:18:47,555
narrator: Three days after
student annie le vanished
380
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from yale university,
381
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investigators find a speck
of blood in her lab, g13,
382
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so they begin tearing the room
apart to try to find her.
383
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Lawton, I think
there's something up here.
384
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♪
385
00:19:04,710 --> 00:19:08,108
lawton: They found a ceiling
panel, which had been opened up.
386
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Above that ceiling panel,
there was a bloody sock
387
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and a discarded rubber glove.
388
00:19:14,019 --> 00:19:16,550
[ camera shutter clicks ]
389
00:19:16,689 --> 00:19:18,187
this is a significant
piece of evidence
390
00:19:18,289 --> 00:19:19,787
because of the blood.
391
00:19:19,889 --> 00:19:21,491
♪
392
00:19:21,593 --> 00:19:23,491
narrator:
Agent lawton wants to know
393
00:19:23,593 --> 00:19:26,429
if the sock belongs to annie.
394
00:19:26,531 --> 00:19:31,300
Can you load up the footage
of annie entering the building?
395
00:19:31,402 --> 00:19:35,370
The day that annie went missing,
we can see what she's wearing.
396
00:19:35,472 --> 00:19:38,408
♪
397
00:19:38,510 --> 00:19:41,041
pause it there.
398
00:19:41,143 --> 00:19:42,912
Can you zoom in on her feet?
399
00:19:43,014 --> 00:19:45,749
♪
400
00:19:45,851 --> 00:19:49,520
you can see she's wearing
white ankle socks.
401
00:19:49,622 --> 00:19:51,120
It matches.
402
00:19:51,222 --> 00:19:54,624
That's telling us that the sock
that we found in the ceiling
403
00:19:54,726 --> 00:19:57,291
has got to be annie's.
404
00:19:57,393 --> 00:19:59,228
Lawton: It's pretty obvious
that violent harm
405
00:19:59,330 --> 00:20:02,432
had come to annie le
inside the confines of the lab.
406
00:20:02,534 --> 00:20:04,799
♪
407
00:20:04,901 --> 00:20:08,603
narrator: With annie's
bloodied sock found in g13,
408
00:20:08,705 --> 00:20:11,474
investigators believe
that whoever harmed annie
409
00:20:11,576 --> 00:20:13,374
had access to her lab.
410
00:20:13,476 --> 00:20:16,845
♪
411
00:20:16,947 --> 00:20:18,449
there were two people --
412
00:20:18,551 --> 00:20:21,715
raymond clark, who was an
animal research assistant,
413
00:20:21,817 --> 00:20:25,319
and larry godfrey,
who was a contractor,
414
00:20:25,421 --> 00:20:28,090
who also were in the room
at the time.
415
00:20:28,192 --> 00:20:30,024
That is interesting to us.
416
00:20:30,126 --> 00:20:37,698
♪
417
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,236
narrator: First to be
interviewed --
418
00:20:39,338 --> 00:20:42,840
24-year-old lab technician
raymond clark.
419
00:20:42,942 --> 00:20:45,007
♪
420
00:20:45,109 --> 00:20:48,344
one of the employees was a man
named raymond clark,
421
00:20:48,446 --> 00:20:50,511
who had worked at the
yale animal research center
422
00:20:50,613 --> 00:20:51,548
for years.
423
00:20:51,650 --> 00:20:53,781
He seemed to know
every inch of the place.
424
00:20:53,883 --> 00:20:56,986
Narrator: Annie's lab, g13,
is one of the rooms
425
00:20:57,088 --> 00:20:59,823
he is assigned to maintain.
426
00:20:59,925 --> 00:21:01,890
Lawton: Raymond clark was calm,
cool, and collected.
427
00:21:01,992 --> 00:21:03,160
He was helpful.
428
00:21:03,262 --> 00:21:05,594
He said he felt bad
that nobody could find her.
429
00:21:05,696 --> 00:21:07,464
He wanted to help out.
430
00:21:07,566 --> 00:21:11,335
Narrator: Clark says he arrived
at work at 7:00 am
431
00:21:11,404 --> 00:21:17,039
and saw annie in room g13
at around 10:30 am.
432
00:21:17,141 --> 00:21:20,243
He said that he had seen her
leave her laboratory
433
00:21:20,345 --> 00:21:21,943
about 12:30 that afternoon.
434
00:21:22,045 --> 00:21:23,377
Didn't know where she was going.
435
00:21:23,479 --> 00:21:24,981
Said that she had an armload
of stuff, and she was leaving,
436
00:21:25,083 --> 00:21:27,281
and nothing seemed
out of the ordinary.
437
00:21:27,383 --> 00:21:30,085
Narrator: Clark then says
he returned to work
438
00:21:30,187 --> 00:21:33,256
10 minutes after
the alarm sounded
439
00:21:33,358 --> 00:21:35,689
but did not see annie again.
440
00:21:35,791 --> 00:21:40,364
He then left for the day
around 4:00 pm.
441
00:21:40,466 --> 00:21:42,697
Lawton: We banged out an
affidavit and a warrant
442
00:21:42,799 --> 00:21:45,435
to take hair,
buccal swab for dna,
443
00:21:45,537 --> 00:21:49,172
and other items from his body.
444
00:21:49,274 --> 00:21:53,009
Narrator: Clark is released
while they check out his story.
445
00:21:53,111 --> 00:21:55,509
Detectives load the footage
from the main entrance
446
00:21:55,611 --> 00:21:59,714
to just before 7:00 am,
when clark said he arrived.
447
00:21:59,816 --> 00:22:06,855
♪
448
00:22:06,957 --> 00:22:09,126
you see raymond clark
enter the building
449
00:22:09,228 --> 00:22:14,330
just after 7:00 in the morning
on September 8th.
450
00:22:14,432 --> 00:22:16,697
Narrator: Sergeant kline
switches to the camera
451
00:22:16,799 --> 00:22:18,801
covering the emergency exit.
452
00:22:18,903 --> 00:22:21,905
♪
453
00:22:22,007 --> 00:22:23,471
next time we see him on video
454
00:22:23,573 --> 00:22:28,276
is with the fire alarm
going off at 12:50.
455
00:22:28,378 --> 00:22:30,446
He was walking out
with everyone else,
456
00:22:30,548 --> 00:22:33,146
and he looked
like everybody else,
457
00:22:33,286 --> 00:22:37,150
walking out normally,
holding the door for people.
458
00:22:37,252 --> 00:22:39,988
He comes back into
the building at 1:10
459
00:22:40,123 --> 00:22:43,459
through the front entrance.
460
00:22:43,561 --> 00:22:46,596
The next time we see him
leaving that building
461
00:22:46,698 --> 00:22:49,563
was at the end of the day,
462
00:22:49,669 --> 00:22:54,171
so now we have a timeline of him
under video surveillance.
463
00:22:54,273 --> 00:22:57,738
There was nothing suspicious
at all in any of his movements
464
00:22:57,877 --> 00:23:03,712
or any of his actions
in how he was responding
465
00:23:03,814 --> 00:23:07,250
to people around him.
466
00:23:07,352 --> 00:23:09,483
Narrator: Investigators now
turn their attention
467
00:23:09,585 --> 00:23:12,654
to contractor larry godfrey,
the other man
468
00:23:12,756 --> 00:23:16,558
who swiped into room g13
the day annie went missing.
469
00:23:16,660 --> 00:23:19,829
♪
470
00:23:19,931 --> 00:23:23,466
contract employee
was a temporary employee.
471
00:23:23,568 --> 00:23:25,900
He'd come down to yale
a couple of times
472
00:23:26,002 --> 00:23:28,104
to repair and replace lighting.
473
00:23:28,206 --> 00:23:33,774
The contract employee admitted
that he had gone into g13.
474
00:23:33,876 --> 00:23:35,578
He got in there about 11:30,
475
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,378
so he was within
that two-hour window.
476
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,516
You didn't see
annie le at all?
477
00:23:40,618 --> 00:23:43,687
No, not at all.
478
00:23:43,789 --> 00:23:46,253
Narrator: Godfrey says he left
via the side exit
479
00:23:46,355 --> 00:23:50,457
when the fire alarm went off
and returned with everyone else,
480
00:23:50,559 --> 00:23:56,532
only to leave again at 2:30 pm,
after finishing his work.
481
00:23:56,634 --> 00:23:59,736
Lawton:
He was a possible suspect.
482
00:23:59,838 --> 00:24:01,403
He was there every now and then,
483
00:24:01,505 --> 00:24:05,174
might have seen somebody
that he wanted to harm,
484
00:24:05,276 --> 00:24:07,374
so we had to focus
in on him a little bit.
485
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,345
♪
486
00:24:10,447 --> 00:24:13,049
narrator: Investigators
immediately check out the story
487
00:24:13,151 --> 00:24:15,049
against the
surveillance footage.
488
00:24:15,151 --> 00:24:23,928
♪
489
00:24:24,030 --> 00:24:28,032
kline: Looking at
larry godfrey's movements,
490
00:24:28,134 --> 00:24:32,069
we see that he enters the
building at 11:30 in the morning
491
00:24:32,171 --> 00:24:34,336
♪
492
00:24:34,438 --> 00:24:38,773
and that he leaves out
the side entrance at 12:50
493
00:24:38,875 --> 00:24:40,577
when the fire alarm went off.
494
00:24:40,679 --> 00:24:42,677
♪
495
00:24:42,779 --> 00:24:45,781
and at the end of the day,
he left at 2:30,
496
00:24:45,883 --> 00:24:49,319
and through all those movements,
he looked like everybody else.
497
00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:52,623
His movements were consistent
with his interview
498
00:24:52,725 --> 00:24:59,527
and also consistent with
everything else that we found.
499
00:24:59,629 --> 00:25:01,498
Narrator:
Both stories check out.
500
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,968
But the footage does not show
what either man did inside g13
501
00:25:06,070 --> 00:25:08,002
or in the surrounding rooms.
502
00:25:08,104 --> 00:25:12,473
♪
503
00:25:12,575 --> 00:25:15,643
with no prime suspects
and no sign of annie
504
00:25:15,745 --> 00:25:17,481
leaving the lab building,
505
00:25:17,583 --> 00:25:21,318
all focus is on
10 amistad street.
506
00:25:21,420 --> 00:25:24,352
Finding her was paramount.
507
00:25:24,454 --> 00:25:29,593
We had to find her
in order to prove
508
00:25:29,695 --> 00:25:33,060
that something happened to her.
509
00:25:33,162 --> 00:25:35,364
Narrator: So forensic teams
expand their search
510
00:25:35,466 --> 00:25:37,868
across the entire
basement level.
511
00:25:37,970 --> 00:25:40,001
♪
512
00:25:40,103 --> 00:25:44,539
five rooms along from
annie's lab is room g22.
513
00:25:44,641 --> 00:25:49,176
One of the things that
the investigators find in g22
514
00:25:49,278 --> 00:25:54,351
is little metal type of beads.
515
00:25:54,453 --> 00:25:56,851
Narrator: Detectives
re-analyze the cctv
516
00:25:56,953 --> 00:25:59,288
of annie entering
her lab building.
517
00:25:59,390 --> 00:26:02,559
♪
518
00:26:02,661 --> 00:26:06,026
she has on this beaded necklace.
519
00:26:06,128 --> 00:26:11,501
And so the beads that are found
in g22 are consistent with
520
00:26:11,603 --> 00:26:14,001
the beads of the necklace
that annie was wearing
521
00:26:14,103 --> 00:26:16,338
at the time that she went
into 10 amistad.
522
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,809
♪
523
00:26:18,911 --> 00:26:21,309
narrator: Police in room g22
apply luminol
524
00:26:21,411 --> 00:26:23,813
to the walls and floor.
525
00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:26,984
And the room lights up.
526
00:26:27,086 --> 00:26:28,884
It's now a crime scene.
527
00:26:28,986 --> 00:26:31,888
♪
528
00:26:32,023 --> 00:26:34,121
initially, we hope she's
gonna pop up every day,
529
00:26:34,256 --> 00:26:36,992
but as every day
in the investigation goes on
530
00:26:37,094 --> 00:26:38,692
and we can't find her
531
00:26:38,794 --> 00:26:42,596
and we're finding more and more
items that contain blood on it,
532
00:26:42,698 --> 00:26:46,167
the possibilities of annie
being alive
533
00:26:46,269 --> 00:26:47,804
are significantly diminished.
534
00:26:47,906 --> 00:26:51,875
♪
535
00:26:51,977 --> 00:26:59,412
it just became more evident that
something sinister or horrible
536
00:26:59,552 --> 00:27:03,383
had gone wrong,
and by that time...
537
00:27:03,485 --> 00:27:07,054
♪
538
00:27:07,156 --> 00:27:09,858
it just felt like
she wasn't coming back.
539
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:15,129
♪
540
00:27:15,231 --> 00:27:17,899
narrator: The search then moves
into the locker rooms
541
00:27:18,001 --> 00:27:20,737
just outside g22.
542
00:27:20,839 --> 00:27:23,604
Dadio: As we're combing through
everything on that lower level,
543
00:27:23,706 --> 00:27:28,545
investigators start
smelling decomposition.
544
00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:30,912
Human decomposition is a smell
like no other.
545
00:27:31,014 --> 00:27:34,716
There's nothing that smells
anything like it.
546
00:27:34,818 --> 00:27:38,453
And now it's, "all right.
Where is she?"
547
00:27:38,555 --> 00:27:40,591
♪
548
00:27:40,693 --> 00:27:44,995
the decision was made
to bring in a cadaver dog.
549
00:27:45,097 --> 00:27:50,932
In this case, the dog alerted
to a wall in a room
550
00:27:51,034 --> 00:27:52,132
in that lower level.
551
00:27:52,234 --> 00:27:53,836
[ barks ]
552
00:27:53,938 --> 00:27:58,307
there was a little mechanical,
metal chase wall piece
553
00:27:58,409 --> 00:27:59,507
that was in a wall.
554
00:27:59,609 --> 00:28:03,811
They removed the
nuts and bolts of that.
555
00:28:03,913 --> 00:28:07,649
As soon as they take off
that first bolt
556
00:28:07,751 --> 00:28:09,786
and the metal
comes off of the wall,
557
00:28:09,888 --> 00:28:13,223
♪
558
00:28:13,292 --> 00:28:14,323
you can smell it.
559
00:28:14,425 --> 00:28:17,223
♪
560
00:28:18,797 --> 00:28:21,295
♪
561
00:28:21,397 --> 00:28:23,999
[ barks ]
562
00:28:24,101 --> 00:28:27,536
narrator: On the day annie le
was supposed to get married,
563
00:28:27,638 --> 00:28:30,207
investigators find something
hidden in a wall
564
00:28:30,309 --> 00:28:33,007
of her lab building.
565
00:28:33,109 --> 00:28:36,078
Kline: There was an access panel
to a plumbing chase.
566
00:28:37,546 --> 00:28:40,249
We opened up the panel
and immediately knew
567
00:28:40,351 --> 00:28:43,653
that something was wrong.
568
00:28:43,755 --> 00:28:48,390
We found her on the day
that was supposed to be
569
00:28:48,492 --> 00:28:51,327
the happiest day of her life,
her wedding day,
570
00:28:51,429 --> 00:28:55,632
and yet we find
her lifeless body
571
00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:59,236
dumped inside of a wall
upside down.
572
00:28:59,338 --> 00:29:02,536
♪
573
00:29:02,638 --> 00:29:07,144
we had to then make
the notification to her fiancé,
574
00:29:07,246 --> 00:29:08,377
to her mother,
575
00:29:08,479 --> 00:29:12,515
to family that on the day
she was to get married,
576
00:29:12,617 --> 00:29:15,219
we now know
she's in fact deceased.
577
00:29:15,321 --> 00:29:17,685
♪
578
00:29:17,787 --> 00:29:23,056
annie was found in the manner
that she was found,
579
00:29:23,158 --> 00:29:27,564
and it was so, so horrible.
580
00:29:27,633 --> 00:29:30,264
[ crying ] jon, I'm so sorry.
581
00:29:30,366 --> 00:29:36,139
I couldn't believe that
such a horrific act
582
00:29:36,241 --> 00:29:39,639
was done against annie.
583
00:29:39,741 --> 00:29:41,443
Kiley: It made me cry.
It made me upset.
584
00:29:41,545 --> 00:29:44,347
It made me feel, like,
a chill in my body
585
00:29:44,449 --> 00:29:48,451
and made me think...
586
00:29:48,553 --> 00:29:50,751
You know, "who would want to
do that to her?"
587
00:29:50,853 --> 00:29:52,989
♪
588
00:29:53,091 --> 00:29:57,526
narrator: The search for the
24-year-old bride-to-be is over,
589
00:29:57,628 --> 00:30:00,193
and the case is now a homicide.
590
00:30:00,332 --> 00:30:01,664
[ police radio chatter ]
591
00:30:01,766 --> 00:30:04,801
[ camera shutter clicks ]
592
00:30:04,903 --> 00:30:08,839
the body is carefully removed
and taken for autopsy.
593
00:30:08,941 --> 00:30:12,643
Based upon decomposition,
594
00:30:12,745 --> 00:30:16,409
you could see that she had
trauma to her face area.
595
00:30:16,511 --> 00:30:20,480
Her underwear
are not on her waist.
596
00:30:20,582 --> 00:30:25,455
They're down a little bit,
and so investigatively we think
597
00:30:25,557 --> 00:30:29,359
that maybe an attempt was made
to sexually assault her.
598
00:30:29,461 --> 00:30:31,526
♪
599
00:30:31,628 --> 00:30:34,796
narrator: Around annie's neck is
a broken necklace,
600
00:30:34,898 --> 00:30:39,234
the beads identical to the ones
found in room g22.
601
00:30:39,336 --> 00:30:43,805
She had a broken clavicle,
a broken jawbone.
602
00:30:43,907 --> 00:30:45,742
The cause of death
was asphyxiation.
603
00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:48,509
She was strangled to death.
604
00:30:48,611 --> 00:30:50,013
Narrator: And there's more.
605
00:30:50,115 --> 00:30:51,513
Dadio:
She was also missing a sock,
606
00:30:51,615 --> 00:30:53,584
and the other sock
wasn't in there.
607
00:30:53,686 --> 00:30:57,721
Annie also had on
a blue disposable glove,
608
00:30:57,856 --> 00:31:01,421
but only one,
so for us looking back,
609
00:31:01,556 --> 00:31:02,825
we're like, "wait a minute."
610
00:31:02,927 --> 00:31:05,492
we found a white sock.
611
00:31:05,594 --> 00:31:09,229
We found another glove.
612
00:31:09,331 --> 00:31:13,233
Somebody took the time
to hide items of evidence,
613
00:31:13,335 --> 00:31:15,771
and so we know that now
we're looking at somebody
614
00:31:15,873 --> 00:31:18,004
who has access to this floor,
615
00:31:18,143 --> 00:31:19,941
who's very familiar
with the floor.
616
00:31:20,043 --> 00:31:22,312
♪
617
00:31:22,414 --> 00:31:24,979
[ camera shutter clicks ]
618
00:31:25,081 --> 00:31:27,316
narrator: Investigators
forensically search
619
00:31:27,418 --> 00:31:28,916
the crime scene for clues
620
00:31:29,018 --> 00:31:31,187
that will lead them
to annie's killer.
621
00:31:31,289 --> 00:31:33,820
♪
622
00:31:33,922 --> 00:31:38,662
dadio: Find in the recycle bin
a yellow disposable lab coat
623
00:31:38,764 --> 00:31:41,629
that had blood on it.
624
00:31:41,731 --> 00:31:44,666
Narrator: When entering each
room in the basement level,
625
00:31:44,768 --> 00:31:47,770
everyone is required
to sign a log sheet.
626
00:31:47,872 --> 00:31:54,274
We found in the wall with annie
a green-inked pen.
627
00:31:54,376 --> 00:31:56,378
This turned out to be
quite significant.
628
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:02,682
♪
629
00:32:02,784 --> 00:32:05,186
lawton: We went back to
the key-card-access logs
630
00:32:05,288 --> 00:32:07,624
and found out who had
gained access to the room.
631
00:32:07,726 --> 00:32:09,657
♪
632
00:32:09,759 --> 00:32:11,761
come take a look at this.
633
00:32:11,863 --> 00:32:15,228
What we found was that
there was an unusual uptick
634
00:32:15,330 --> 00:32:22,636
in activity in g22,
which was close to annie's lab.
635
00:32:22,738 --> 00:32:25,074
And raymond clark
actually was in that room
636
00:32:25,176 --> 00:32:28,511
11 times within
this short period of time
637
00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:30,478
that we were looking at.
638
00:32:30,580 --> 00:32:31,915
Wait.
639
00:32:32,017 --> 00:32:37,286
And that was very unusual for
him to be there that many times.
640
00:32:37,388 --> 00:32:40,090
The pen color changes.
641
00:32:40,192 --> 00:32:42,690
Kline: What we realized was
that raymond clark
642
00:32:42,792 --> 00:32:44,727
was signing into each
of his rooms
643
00:32:44,829 --> 00:32:49,765
with the initials r-c
with a green-inked pen.
644
00:32:49,867 --> 00:32:53,836
Narrator: The pen found
with annie is also green.
645
00:32:53,938 --> 00:32:58,706
Raymond clark's pen
changes color after 1:30 pm.
646
00:32:58,808 --> 00:33:01,977
We know that he had
his green pen at 1:30,
647
00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:06,748
and at 3:48, we know
he had a black pen.
648
00:33:06,850 --> 00:33:09,685
Narrator: No one else uses
a green-colored pen.
649
00:33:09,787 --> 00:33:12,052
The evidence points
to raymond clark being
650
00:33:12,154 --> 00:33:13,723
the prime suspect,
651
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:17,693
but so far,
it's all circumstantial.
652
00:33:17,795 --> 00:33:20,260
The more and more
the investigation wore on,
653
00:33:20,362 --> 00:33:22,831
the more and more it looked
like raymond clark
654
00:33:22,933 --> 00:33:27,402
might have had something to do
with annie le's murder.
655
00:33:27,504 --> 00:33:29,906
Narrator:
To prove he is annie's killer,
656
00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:33,510
detectives need more evidence.
657
00:33:33,612 --> 00:33:36,743
So they go back
to his movements on cctv.
658
00:33:36,845 --> 00:33:44,685
♪
659
00:33:44,787 --> 00:33:49,422
kline: We found raymond clark
walking in the lab area
660
00:33:49,524 --> 00:33:52,126
wearing blue scrubs
and a yellow lab coat.
661
00:33:52,228 --> 00:33:53,693
Wait.
662
00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:56,364
Can you rewind that?
663
00:33:56,466 --> 00:33:59,068
Dadio: So, we make a connection
like, "wait a minute.
664
00:33:59,170 --> 00:34:01,734
Raymond clark is wearing,
in video,
665
00:34:01,836 --> 00:34:04,305
a yellow disposable lab coat
666
00:34:04,407 --> 00:34:05,872
on the day
that annie goes missing."
667
00:34:05,974 --> 00:34:08,776
and then we find
a yellow disposable lab coat
668
00:34:08,878 --> 00:34:11,547
that was discarded
that had annie's blood on it.
669
00:34:11,649 --> 00:34:14,584
♪
670
00:34:14,686 --> 00:34:16,751
narrator:
Investigators scroll forward,
671
00:34:16,853 --> 00:34:19,321
waiting for clark
to next reappear.
672
00:34:19,423 --> 00:34:22,926
♪
673
00:34:23,028 --> 00:34:24,692
there he is again.
674
00:34:24,794 --> 00:34:28,263
We know that around 10 o'clock,
he left the building.
675
00:34:28,365 --> 00:34:29,630
Maybe he was on a break.
676
00:34:29,732 --> 00:34:34,905
And at that time,
he was wearing blue scrubs.
677
00:34:35,007 --> 00:34:38,705
He was outside for about
20 minutes,
678
00:34:38,844 --> 00:34:42,742
and he came back inside
wearing the same blue scrubs.
679
00:34:42,844 --> 00:34:45,013
♪
680
00:34:45,115 --> 00:34:47,350
and the next time we
see him on video
681
00:34:47,452 --> 00:34:51,154
is with the fire alarm
going off at 12:50,
682
00:34:51,256 --> 00:34:54,288
and he leaves again
with blue scrubs.
683
00:34:54,423 --> 00:34:58,925
♪
684
00:34:59,027 --> 00:35:03,400
narrator: Suddenly, something
jumps out at sergeant kline.
685
00:35:03,468 --> 00:35:05,900
Wait. Rewind that.
686
00:35:06,002 --> 00:35:07,604
Now go back to
the footage of him
687
00:35:07,706 --> 00:35:09,537
leaving the building
at 10:00 am.
688
00:35:09,639 --> 00:35:11,641
♪
689
00:35:11,743 --> 00:35:12,975
pause it there.
690
00:35:13,077 --> 00:35:15,075
♪
691
00:35:15,177 --> 00:35:17,045
look at that.
692
00:35:17,147 --> 00:35:19,612
There was a change.
Something was different.
693
00:35:19,714 --> 00:35:22,116
♪
694
00:35:23,688 --> 00:35:27,723
♪
695
00:35:27,825 --> 00:35:29,723
narrator:
Investigators believe that
696
00:35:29,825 --> 00:35:36,265
lab technician raymond clark
killed phd student annie le,
697
00:35:36,367 --> 00:35:40,136
and surveillance footage
could be about to prove it.
698
00:35:40,238 --> 00:35:42,836
When he left the building
around 10 o'clock,
699
00:35:42,938 --> 00:35:46,373
the blue scrubs he was wearing
had a red drawstring.
700
00:35:46,475 --> 00:35:50,044
♪
701
00:35:50,146 --> 00:35:54,214
when he returned to the building
at 1:10 after the fire alarm,
702
00:35:54,316 --> 00:35:58,919
you can clearly see
that he had a blue drawstring.
703
00:35:59,021 --> 00:36:00,723
Why did he change his scrubs?
704
00:36:00,825 --> 00:36:02,623
From a video-surveillance
perspective,
705
00:36:02,725 --> 00:36:05,927
it was very important.
706
00:36:06,029 --> 00:36:08,697
Narrator: Police have
their man in sight.
707
00:36:08,799 --> 00:36:11,697
And the dna results are in.
708
00:36:11,799 --> 00:36:15,235
Dadio: When that green pen
was sent up for analysis,
709
00:36:15,337 --> 00:36:18,906
both ray's dna and annie's dna
710
00:36:19,008 --> 00:36:22,643
both came back to being on
that green pen.
711
00:36:22,745 --> 00:36:24,314
[ camera shutter clicks ]
712
00:36:24,416 --> 00:36:27,947
the blood on the lab coat,
on the sock,
713
00:36:28,049 --> 00:36:31,751
and on the blue glove
were in fact annie's.
714
00:36:31,853 --> 00:36:34,955
Ray's dna also came back
to being on
715
00:36:35,057 --> 00:36:38,326
that yellow disposable lab coat.
716
00:36:38,428 --> 00:36:43,864
Ray's dna came back
to being on the white sock.
717
00:36:43,966 --> 00:36:46,034
♪
718
00:36:46,136 --> 00:36:50,905
so now we have our victim's dna
and our suspect's dna
719
00:36:51,007 --> 00:36:54,376
on the same items of evidence
that were hidden,
720
00:36:54,478 --> 00:36:57,047
most of them,
throughout the scene.
721
00:36:57,149 --> 00:37:02,417
That ties ray to the murder
of annie le.
722
00:37:02,519 --> 00:37:04,484
♪
723
00:37:04,586 --> 00:37:07,421
narrator: The dna evidence,
the surveillance footage,
724
00:37:07,523 --> 00:37:11,759
and the key-card data completely
exonerate both annie's fiancé
725
00:37:11,861 --> 00:37:14,930
and the external contractor
from the investigation.
726
00:37:15,032 --> 00:37:18,500
♪
727
00:37:18,602 --> 00:37:21,971
raymond clark is arrested
for annie's murder.
728
00:37:22,073 --> 00:37:29,946
♪
729
00:37:30,048 --> 00:37:32,813
they find him at a hotel
in cromwell,
730
00:37:32,915 --> 00:37:36,817
30 miles from yale university.
731
00:37:36,919 --> 00:37:40,821
This morning at
approximately 8:25 am,
732
00:37:40,956 --> 00:37:42,558
they effected their
arrest warrant
733
00:37:42,660 --> 00:37:44,625
for raymond clark.
734
00:37:44,727 --> 00:37:46,296
Mr. Clark has been
taken into custody
735
00:37:46,398 --> 00:37:48,729
and is returning
to new haven as we speak.
736
00:37:48,831 --> 00:37:53,400
[ siren wailing ]
737
00:37:53,502 --> 00:37:57,671
narrator: With clark locked up
in police custody,
738
00:37:57,773 --> 00:38:01,641
investigators search
for a possible motive.
739
00:38:01,743 --> 00:38:08,183
We scrutinized her e-mail
and his e-mail traffic.
740
00:38:08,285 --> 00:38:10,183
Narrator: On the day
of annie's murder,
741
00:38:10,285 --> 00:38:14,354
clark received an e-mail
from his coworker.
742
00:38:14,456 --> 00:38:16,524
Annie le sent out an e-mail
743
00:38:16,626 --> 00:38:18,995
announcing that she was
gonna be married,
744
00:38:19,097 --> 00:38:22,195
that she was gonna be
out of work for a couple days
745
00:38:22,297 --> 00:38:24,399
on her honeymoon.
746
00:38:24,501 --> 00:38:26,899
Narrator: Investigators
believe that this was
747
00:38:27,001 --> 00:38:29,537
the catalyst for the attack.
748
00:38:29,639 --> 00:38:31,774
And raymond clark had been
carrying a torch
749
00:38:31,876 --> 00:38:36,011
for her for years
and confronted her about it,
750
00:38:36,113 --> 00:38:38,978
and when she said that she was
with somebody else,
751
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,182
was probably taken aback
by the fact
752
00:38:41,284 --> 00:38:44,853
that he was romantically
attracted to her.
753
00:38:44,955 --> 00:38:49,124
♪
754
00:38:49,226 --> 00:38:52,128
narrator: Now investigators can
finally piece together
755
00:38:52,230 --> 00:38:54,894
what happened to annie le.
756
00:38:54,996 --> 00:38:58,365
Annie arrives at her
lab building at 10:09 am
757
00:38:58,467 --> 00:39:01,303
♪
758
00:39:01,405 --> 00:39:04,873
and then enters g13
two minutes later.
759
00:39:04,975 --> 00:39:06,540
♪
760
00:39:06,642 --> 00:39:10,244
at 10:35, raymond clark
returns from break
761
00:39:10,346 --> 00:39:12,215
and checks his e-mails.
762
00:39:12,317 --> 00:39:15,448
Five minutes later,
he enters lab g13.
763
00:39:15,550 --> 00:39:22,156
♪
764
00:39:22,258 --> 00:39:25,194
oh. Hi, raymond.
765
00:39:25,296 --> 00:39:27,227
What are you do--
raymond, what --
766
00:39:27,329 --> 00:39:29,065
what are you doing?!
Stop!
767
00:39:29,167 --> 00:39:30,398
Stop! Stop!
What are you --
768
00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:34,569
we believe that annie was
initially attacked in g13,
769
00:39:34,671 --> 00:39:35,769
and where she was attacked,
770
00:39:35,871 --> 00:39:37,606
you couldn't have seen
from the door.
771
00:39:37,708 --> 00:39:41,110
♪
772
00:39:41,212 --> 00:39:43,177
lawton: We think that after
she was murdered,
773
00:39:43,279 --> 00:39:46,081
raymond clark flew into
a minor panic,
774
00:39:46,183 --> 00:39:49,452
knew that he couldn't
keep her there,
775
00:39:49,554 --> 00:39:51,618
and she was moved over
to room g22.
776
00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:56,089
He started looking for a place
to hide the body.
777
00:39:56,191 --> 00:39:59,593
We saw fingerprints
on some stainless-steel panels
778
00:39:59,695 --> 00:40:02,564
up in the ceiling because he
tried to open one of them up
779
00:40:02,666 --> 00:40:04,564
to hide the body
up in the ceiling,
780
00:40:04,666 --> 00:40:07,235
but he realized that
that wasn't gonna work.
781
00:40:07,337 --> 00:40:10,306
He looked for another place
just to put her.
782
00:40:10,408 --> 00:40:11,906
[ alarm blaring ]
783
00:40:12,008 --> 00:40:14,610
narrator: But before clark could
find a place to hide annie,
784
00:40:14,712 --> 00:40:17,747
the fire alarm
goes off at 12:50 pm.
785
00:40:17,849 --> 00:40:20,014
♪
786
00:40:20,116 --> 00:40:23,518
not wanting anyone to notice
his bloodstained scrubs,
787
00:40:23,620 --> 00:40:27,122
he quickly changes
and discards the bloody ones,
788
00:40:27,224 --> 00:40:28,922
leaving the building
with everyone else
789
00:40:29,024 --> 00:40:30,526
through the side exit.
790
00:40:30,628 --> 00:40:32,659
♪
791
00:40:32,761 --> 00:40:36,863
annie was in that building,
more than likely in room g22,
792
00:40:36,965 --> 00:40:40,034
the storage room, because
we had aspirated blood there.
793
00:40:40,136 --> 00:40:44,205
♪
794
00:40:44,307 --> 00:40:45,805
narrator: After the fire alarm,
795
00:40:45,907 --> 00:40:50,880
raymond clark re-enters the
lab building and returns to g22,
796
00:40:50,982 --> 00:40:53,613
moving annie's body
into the bathroom.
797
00:40:53,715 --> 00:40:59,521
♪
798
00:40:59,623 --> 00:41:05,559
♪
799
00:41:05,661 --> 00:41:11,434
and then at some point
between the fire alarm and 3:48,
800
00:41:11,536 --> 00:41:13,034
she was put in the wall.
801
00:41:13,136 --> 00:41:15,604
♪
802
00:41:15,706 --> 00:41:18,504
lawton: This crime was what they
call a crime of passion,
803
00:41:18,606 --> 00:41:21,008
but I've often said
804
00:41:21,110 --> 00:41:23,646
for a criminal that committed
his first murder,
805
00:41:23,748 --> 00:41:26,846
he did a pretty good job
hiding a body.
806
00:41:26,948 --> 00:41:34,021
♪
807
00:41:34,123 --> 00:41:36,325
narrator: Raymond clark
takes a plea deal
808
00:41:36,427 --> 00:41:39,996
that will limit his sentence
to 44 years
809
00:41:40,098 --> 00:41:43,700
for the murder and attempted
sexual assault of annie le.
810
00:41:43,802 --> 00:41:51,770
♪
811
00:41:51,910 --> 00:41:56,445
annie is laid to rest in her
home of placerville, california.
812
00:41:56,547 --> 00:41:58,579
Friends and family pay tribute
813
00:41:58,681 --> 00:42:03,649
to a loving daughter,
sister, and fiancé.
814
00:42:03,751 --> 00:42:05,453
Her presence was there.
815
00:42:05,555 --> 00:42:08,087
We all felt her.
816
00:42:08,189 --> 00:42:13,828
Family, friends coming together,
celebrating her life.
817
00:42:13,930 --> 00:42:16,566
♪
818
00:42:16,668 --> 00:42:18,399
kiley: I still can't believe it.
819
00:42:18,501 --> 00:42:21,670
10 years later,
it's still in my mind.
820
00:42:21,772 --> 00:42:23,470
That happened.
821
00:42:23,572 --> 00:42:26,474
Simpson: As friends,
we've lost the best girlfriend
822
00:42:26,576 --> 00:42:29,045
anyone could have.
823
00:42:29,147 --> 00:42:31,878
We all lost someone
we really treasure.
824
00:42:31,980 --> 00:42:38,486
♪
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