Raymond Clark played softball as cops closed in on accused Annie Le killer On the day investigators found Yale grad student Annie Le’s body stuffed behind a basement wall, her accused killer was playing softball. Raymond Clark 3rd betrayed no emotion as he played shortstop for his team, the Wild Hogs, in a playoff loss Sunday. The Yale lab tech even impressed the plainclothes cops tailing him. “We had detectives in the crowd,” Lt. John Velleca, head of the New Haven police department’s narcotics unit, told the New Haven Independent. “He’s actually pretty good.” Vinnie Mauro, an opposing player, said the 24-year-old Clark didn’t seem on edge during the game at East Shore Park in New Haven. He called Clark “nondescript” and noted that he didn’t interact much with his teammates. Clark is known for wearing a David Wright Mets jersey, Mauro added. Later that day, Clark spent time with some relatives before heading to a country fair in Hebron, about 50 miles northeast of New Haven. It was the last day Clark would experience true freedom. From Monday until his arrest early Thursday, the narc unit tailing Clark came out of the shadows in a bid to get him to speak, the New Haven Independent reported. The cops wore their badges openly and often parked their vehicles in front of his Middletown, Conn., home. The unit reportedly changed tactics because evidence was mounting against Clark, who clammed up during FBI interviews. Clark was charged with murder on Thursday, nine days after Le vanished from her Yale medical lab. Authorities believe Clark, who is said to have ruled the Yale lab where he cleaned rodent cages as his fiefdom, snapped because he thought Le wasn’t following the rules. “Ray has always been very controlling over what goes on in the mouse room …often bothering people to the point of damn near harassment,” a co-worker told NBC’s “Today Show” Friday. “Last thing I knew was Annie got a message from him saying her cages were dirty.” The overbearing mouse-wrangler is believed to have hit Le before strangling her and stashing her body behind a wall. As to why, police said they may never know. “The only person who knows the motive is the suspect,” New Haven Police Chief James Lewis told The Associated Press. “It’s true in many cases. You never know absolutely unless the person confesses, and in this case it’s too early to tell.” Le’s remains were discovered Sunday, the same day she was set to wed her fiancé, Columbia grad student Jonathan Widawsky. Cops swooped in and arrested Clark at a Super 8 hotel in Cromwell, Conn., after his DNA was found on her body and clothes. Electronic records show that Clark moved quickly among several rooms, some he had no business being in, on the day Le went missing, sources say. The muscular lab tech was sent to a high-security prison on $3 million bond. — this article managed to blow my mind thrice. 1) really, officers — are these approppriate comments for you to be making? -and- 2) seriously?  that’s why he killed her? 3) overbearing mouse-wrangler?!  goddamnit, Daily News — a woman is dead!

Raymond Clark played softball as cops closed in on accused Annie Le killer

On the day investigators found Yale grad student Annie Le’s body stuffed behind a basement wall, her accused killer was playing softball.

Raymond Clark 3rd betrayed no emotion as he played shortstop for his team, the Wild Hogs, in a playoff loss Sunday.

The Yale lab tech even impressed the plainclothes cops tailing him.

“We had detectives in the crowd,” Lt. John Velleca, head of the New Haven police department’s narcotics unit, told the New Haven Independent. “He’s actually pretty good.”

Vinnie Mauro, an opposing player, said the 24-year-old Clark didn’t seem on edge during the game at East Shore Park in New Haven.

He called Clark “nondescript” and noted that he didn’t interact much with his teammates.

Clark is known for wearing a David Wright Mets jersey, Mauro added.

Later that day, Clark spent time with some relatives before heading to a country fair in Hebron, about 50 miles northeast of New Haven.

It was the last day Clark would experience true freedom.

From Monday until his arrest early Thursday, the narc unit tailing Clark came out of the shadows in a bid to get him to speak, the New Haven Independent reported.

The cops wore their badges openly and often parked their vehicles in front of his Middletown, Conn., home.

The unit reportedly changed tactics because evidence was mounting against Clark, who clammed up during FBI interviews.

Clark was charged with murder on Thursday, nine days after Le vanished from her Yale medical lab.

Authorities believe Clark, who is said to have ruled the Yale lab where he cleaned rodent cages as his fiefdom, snapped because he thought Le wasn’t following the rules.

“Ray has always been very controlling over what goes on in the mouse room …often bothering people to the point of damn near harassment,” a co-worker told NBC’s “Today Show” Friday.

“Last thing I knew was Annie got a message from him saying her cages were dirty.”

The overbearing mouse-wrangler is believed to have hit Le before strangling her and stashing her body behind a wall.

As to why, police said they may never know.

“The only person who knows the motive is the suspect,” New Haven Police Chief James Lewis told The Associated Press. “It’s true in many cases. You never know absolutely unless the person confesses, and in this case it’s too early to tell.”

Le’s remains were discovered Sunday, the same day she was set to wed her fiancé, Columbia grad student Jonathan Widawsky.

Cops swooped in and arrested Clark at a Super 8 hotel in Cromwell, Conn., after his DNA was found on her body and clothes.

Electronic records show that Clark moved quickly among several rooms, some he had no business being in, on the day Le went missing, sources say.

The muscular lab tech was sent to a high-security prison on $3 million bond.

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this article managed to blow my mind thrice.

1) really, officers — are these approppriate comments for you to be making?

-and-

2) seriously?  that’s why he killed her?

3) overbearing mouse-wrangler?!  goddamnit, Daily News — a woman is dead!