How did traumatic asphyxiation kill Annie Le of Yale?
Authorities have finally released the autopsy report on slain Yale graduate student Annie Le, who went missing on Sept. 8, 2009. The state medical examiner says that the promising medical researcher died of traumatic asphyxiation by neck compression. Traumatic asphyxiation is characterized as a severe compression of the thorax, or the chest, and is sometimes called “crush asphyxiation”. The method of choking requires intense pressure on the victim, comparable to the way a python kills its prey. A short statement about the autopsy was released Wednesday by Dr. Wayne Carver’s office. The report comes three days after 24-year-old Annie Le was found hidden inside the basement wall of a Yale medical school research building. Police have called Yale lab technician Raymond Clark III a “person of interest” in the case and have collected DNA and other physical evidence. No charges have been filed. Sources:
Annie Le was choked to death, the Connecticut medical examiner’s office said Wednesday. Le, a graduate student at Yale whose body was found in a lab Sunday, died of “traumatic asphyxia due to neck compression,” the medical examiner’s office said. Le’s body was found Sunday stuffed in a wall at the lab. Police have collected DNA samples from lab technician Raymond Clark, named a “person of interest” in the slaying of Le, and released him from custody early Wednesday, police said. New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery said Clark was cooperative. Police executed two search warrants on the Middletown apartment where Clark, 24, lives with his fiancee Jennifer Hromadka, 23. Police collected DNA samples, and a red Ford Mustang neighbors say was used by Clark was towed away. Sources: http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/medical-examiner-annie-le-was-choked-to-death-1.
