#annie le

[morbidology]

24-year-old Annie Le was a doctoral student at the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology. On the morning of the 8th of September, 2009, Annie made her way to 10 Amistad Street. This was where her laboratory was located. When she didn’t return home that evening, she was reported missing.

Annie’s wedding was scheduled for five days later. Her family and fiancé knew something was amiss. It wasn’t like Annie to just up and leave. Furthermore, her purse, cell phone, credit card and cash were all left behind in Sterling Hall on the college campus. Police soon discovered CCTV footage which showed Annie entering the laboratory but not leaving. This led them to focus their attention to the building.

On the day of her wedding, Annie’s body was discovered behind a wall in the basement of 10 Amistad Street. She had been shoved inside the wall cavity upside down with her bra pushed up over her head and her underwear was around her ankles. She had been beaten around the head and manually strangled. Bloody clothing was found hidden behind tiles in the ceiling. Due to the fact that a Yale key cards were required to enter the building, police focused on Yale students and employees.

26-year-old Raymond Clark was soon apprehended after providing a DNA sample which matched that found on Annie’s body. Raymond was a lab technician alongside Annie. Raymond Clark pleaded guilty to Annie’s murder and sentenced to 44 years in prison.

[eeveelutiongirl2026]

Leo: Don't go to the kitchen.

Annie: Why?

Leo: I saw a spider.

Annie: Well, did you kill it?

Leo: It has 8 arms and I only have 2, it's not fair…

[letsgethaunted]

Murder of Annie Le - Wikipedia

The murder of Annie Le occurred on September 8, 2009, while she was working in the New Haven, Connecticut campus of Yale University. 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. She was last seen in a research building on the New Haven campus on September 8. On September 13, the day that she was to be married, she was found dead inside the building.

On September 17, police arrested the perpetrator, Raymond J. Clark III, a Yale laboratory technician who worked in the building. Clark pleaded guilty to the murder on March 17, 2011. Clark was sentenced to 44 years imprisonment on June 3. The case generated frenetic media coverage.

[darkhorsenews-blog]

The Murder Of Annie Le

The Murder Of Annie Le

Annie Le worked hard to save so many lives and increase the quality of life for humankind. But someone else had other plans.

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[psychlist]

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Without losing sight of the tragedy befell Annie Le, a graduate student and research at Yale who was murdered last week, her fiancé, family, and friends, on a New York Times article about the investigation of Annie's murder. The article suggests that police are on the verge of arresting Raymond Clark III, a technician who worked in the same lab as Annie did. The article starts off by mentioning that Clark joined the Asian Awareness Club when he was in high school. I'm curious about what the authors trying to convey. Without any real qualifications to follow this up, they create the image of a White man with an Asian fetish. We're led to think: "Of course he would kill this Asian woman -- he's been in love with her since he first laid eyes on her and now she is going to marry another man! If he can't have her, no one should!" Equally troubling to me is the article's conclusion:

Conor Reardon, 23, who was on the [baseball] team with Mr. Clark, said that he and other teammates got Mr. Clark to succumb to a baseball rite of passage, chewing tobacco. “But the next day, he came to school late because it had made him so sick that when he got out of his car that night he could barely stand up,” Mr. Reardon said, adding that Mr. Clark “ended up falling asleep in the bath tub in his baseball uniform after taking a shower fully clothed.”

Again, how is this relevant? The authors dig up something that happened over five years ago, and use it to end an article about Clark's pending arrest. This anecdote in no way paints Clark in a positive light; rather, it points to immaturity and irresponsibility that characterizes most, if not all, high schoolers in some way. If we weren't convinced that he's a sexual pervert with the hots for Asian women, we're at least convinced that he's a dumb jock who is capable of murder. What bothers me most, though, is that we live in a nation that argues in favor of "innocent until proven guilty," and we live in a nation in which the media should present facts while attempting to weed out bias. I will be the first to admit that eliminating bias entirely is impossible. However, for an article that is not an op/ed piece, it is clear that the article's authors have already reached a verdict and have set out to convince their readership of the same. How this piece made it through the editing process and into publication boggles my mind.

[arianamarie717]

If there were ever a more perfect blog for me to get assigned, it would be The XX Factor.

Not going to lie when we were each assigned a blog to read, my initial reaction was hoping that I wouldn't get something boring/unrelated to my life. And then I got the XX Factor and everything got better.

Essentially I am this blogs target audience. The blog's title "XX Factor" is a reference to the xx chromosome of women. Annie Le and Yale: How Much Can a University do to Protect Women is an example of this target audience. The blog appeals to the college aged working woman. She is someone that goes to class full time but can also be someone that is making her way up in the working world. Though there are a few guest contributions from male bloggers (which I'll get to in a bit), primarily the bloggers are female. Having the target audience be a specific gender might seem like it is limiting the topics that can be discussed. However, I think that it is a way to make a blog more personal. As a female, I read this blog knowing it was written with someone like me in mind. The Annie Le article is a good example because it is relevant to someone my age. Annie Le was a college grad student at Yale who was brutally murdered in 2009. The parents of Le have recently announced a law suit against Yale with the reasoning as follows:

          "According to the Yale Daily News, the suit alleges that Yale fostered “an atmosphere of tolerance of sexual harassment and sexual assaults” that “emboldened” Clark and points to a Title IX sexual discrimination complaint lodged by students against the University as evidence. Yale has responded by stating that there is no basis for the charges." This is a fact presented by another source but what The XX Factor does that I think is a good example of blogging is they give their opinion with the source. And when I say give their opinion, it's not in an "I'm right and here's why I'm right sort of way." The usage of photos, videos, links, etc. are effective ways to blog because they can be used as either support for your post or another interactive tool to engage the audience. I found myself engaged in The XX Factor because before I even began to read a post, I knew what the article was about based on the image.

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The above image comes from the article Discouraging Math Smarts in Girls. As you can see, the image is simple; a teenage girl in a classroom, but it's the simplicity that really engages the reader in the story. Out of all the post I read on this blog, this article was the one that stuck out to me the most. Maybe it was the Hermoine Granger reference, the fact that I have actually seen the "allergic to algebra" shirt in Forever 21, or even my young sister being the focus of the post but I found myself agreeing with a ll of the points raised in the story.

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This quote to me just might be the strongest point raised in the article,

"The problem isn't so much that the girls who go with "smart" are going to have to wait until they're a little older to feel the warm bath of male attention so much as that the girls who choose to downplay their intelligence when they're young in order to be popular will pay the price for the rest of their lives.  Young women may not really grasp that once you turn 21 or so, you get to be both sexy and smart, and I worry that bad decision-making may be the result. "

Personally, when I was in middle school and high school (the target audience for that shirt), grades took priority over getting a boyfriend. Yeah I may have disliked algebra but I was decent at it. The reason I focused more on school was just because I knew I wanted to make something of my life.

I think that is what the bloggers are trying to get across and I think that this is what makes The XX Factor blog so relatable. They write with a conversational, personable tone that not only makes you agree, but it makes you think what's next.

Like I said before, a lot of the blogs will start off with an introduction from a different link. This is the case in the article, "How to Prevent More Boy Scout Sex Crimes". I picked this blog to talk about because it was written by a male contributors to the primarily female blog. Anyway, the author of the blog, got the idea for the post from a link off the Great Falls Tribune. Rather than just report that article and leave it with just the facts, the author goes and gives his thoughts on it. J. Bryan Lowder, the author, is an eagle scout so having the perspective of someone with that personal relatable experience give the post a little something extra.

Overall, I really enjoyed reading this blog. Maybe it was because I'm the audience, maybe I like pictures a little too much, but I think what really stood out to me was there really wasn't a consistent topic the blog focused on. Yeah it's for women, but like I posted, there are things for guys too. I'm happy to have been assigned this blog/ I think The XX Factor gained a new reader!