The Yale lab technician busted yesterday in the murder of brilliant grad student Annie Le may have had help hiding her body — and there could be another arrest, it was reported last night.
Cops are interrogating another employee who works in the lab where Raymond Clark allegedly killed Le, sources told Hartford TV station WTIC/Fox61.
It was not known who that employee might be.
Clark’s fiancée, sister and brother-in-law all work at the lab.
The bombshell report came after Clark, 24, was arrested yesterday, hours after a State Police lab confirmed that DNA samples taken from him matched evidence found at the Amistad facility.
Le’s corpse was found stuffed into a wall at the research center on Sunday — the day she had been scheduled to be married on Long Island.
Evidence found in the ceiling and the space where her body had been hidden contained both Le’s and Clark’s DNA — and that was the final piece of the puzzle that led to Clark’s arrest, according to the Hartford Courant.
The lab tech also aroused suspicion by trying to hide cleaning equipment, which authorities later found contained blood spatters, according to the paper.
More blood and a bead from Le’s necklace were found in another area of the lab, indicating she struggled with Clark, the Courant added.
Records taken from his swipe card show Clark left the building several times and went to rooms in the lab where he had no reason to be, the paper said.
Meanwhile, authorities indicated yesterday that Le’s death may have been a deadly case of “work rage.”
Clark was described by co-workers as a “control freak.”
And ABC News reported that early on Sept. 8, the day Le disappeared, Clark sent her a text message asking to meet with her to discuss the cleanliness of mice cages.
Clark’s obsession with controlling things at Yale’s Amistad animal research center in New Haven may have set the stage for the awful crime, authorities said.
New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said there was no evidence of a romantic connection between Clark and Le.
The arrest went down yesterday morning as cops moved in on a Cromwell, Conn., motel room, which had been under constant police surveillance.
“Mr. Clark?” said a cop as he banged on the door.
Minutes later, the door swung open, and a group of FBI agents, State Police and New Haven cops went in, and others waited in the hallway as Clark was handcuffed.
They then hustled him downstairs.
Clark didn’t say a word as he was placed in a car and driven off. Onlookers burst into applause.
Hours later, a stunned-looking and shackled Clark was ordered held in lieu of $3 million bail when a judge shot down his public-defender lawyer’s effort to reduce bail to $1 million.
Clark is being held in a maximum-security prison awaiting an Oct. 6 court date.
Le, 24, who was seeking double Ph.D. and MD degrees, had been due to wed Columbia University grad student Jonathan Widawsky five days later.
Widawsky’s and Le’s families said in a statement, “Annie will live in our hearts forever.”
Additional reporting by Rebecca Rosenberg and Ed Robinson