Clark was arrested early Thursday on 17 /09/2009 at a Super 8 motel in nearby Cromwell. Clark is being held on $3 million bond, Lewis said, but he would not provide details of what prompted Clark's arrest or whether DNA linked Clark to Le's murder. He said Clark's arrest warrant was sealed, so he was prohibited from discussing the evidence. Yale President Richard Levin said the school's administration is "relieved" by the news of an arrest, but warned, "We must resist the temptation to rush to judgment."
Annie Le, whose body was found on the day she planned to wed, was mourned Monday by family members and friends from her hometown in the scenic Sierra Nevada foothills as smart and vibrant, kind and funny. The Yale University graduate student of Vietnamese heritage grew up in a remote, hilly area off a twisting, one-lane gravel road with an aunt and uncle she regarded as parents. "She may be small, but she be fierce," Chris Le wrote of his 24-year-old sister, who was pursuing a degree in pharmacology. "Stuck in a 4' 11" frame, she had a 7' tall personality. She will always live on through us." Le graduated from Union Mine High School in nearby El Dorado, valedictorian of a class of 362 and one of two students voted "Most Likely to Be the Next Einstein." In a picture of the victorious pair, Le wears a white lab coat and her broad smile, and holds a partly dissected cat.
Le volunteered hundreds of hours at Marshall Medical Center in El Dorado County and was volunteer of the year for the 2002-03 academic year. Scores of high school volunteers have tromped through the mountain hospital's corridors, enough that they tend to blend together. That's particularly true in pathology, a discipline glamorized by the likes of television's "NCIS" and "CSI." But Le, who graduated from high school in 2003 with a 4.28 grade point average, stood out. "Her motive was science. She was curious in cell biology and how all these things work on the microscopic level," Martin said. "Every one of my pathologists saw themselves in Annie. At her valedictorian speech, she talked about what pathology meant to her."
"So, I've got to go to school for about 12 years first," the clear-eyed girl said, "get my MD and be certified as a surgeon. I just hope that all that hard work is going to pay off and I'm really going to enjoy my job." Although Le ended up pursuing a career in pharmacology, she was quoted in her senior yearbook as gunning for a future as "a laboratory pathologist -- it's one step above surgery." said Gary Martin, director of operations for the hospital's pathology department. "We used to joke that she could do a calculus problem quicker than she could wash a bottle." But bottle washing she did -- happily. When she was done with the "mundane chores," Martin said, she'd get to pick a slide, sit next to a pathologist, look through the microscope and learn.
Union Mine High Principal Tony DeVille said Monday that Le labored for hours every day during the college admissions process and earned more than $160,000 in scholarship money. "The teachers that knew Annie and interacted with her are distraught," said DeVille, who came to the school after Le graduated. "They talk about the terrible waste of potential. It's very sad for everyone." DeVille said the school was considering a memorial and wanted to "offer whatever kind of assistance and support to her family" that was possible. ......More For non-commercial review & promotional use only. No copyright infringement intended. Pictures, photos & material contents are copyright of its original owners or holders. All rights and credit go directly to its rightful owners
The funeral for slain Yale grad student Annie Le will take place on Saturday at a church near her family's rural California home.
The family planned an invitation-only service at Holy Trinity Church in El Dorado Hills. Le will be laid to rest at a cemetery in nearby Rescue, a family spokesman said Monday.
"Now the family is away from where the crime happened, and I think that's probably good," the Rev. Dennis Smith, a New Haven pastor, told the Yale Daily News. "There are still major events ahead of them with the funeral and all that it entails."
The 24-year-old pharmacology student was killed on Sept. 8 - five days before her wedding - and hidden in a Yale lab basement. A lab technician, Ray Clark 3rd, 24, has been charged with the murder. Smith said the Le family felt some closure after Clark's arrest.
Chris Le, Annie's younger brother, told an ABC station in Sacramento Sunday his sister "lived a good life" and said his family wants privacy.
The brother said his family wants people to donate money to the I Have a Dream Foundation, a non-profit that helps low-income families afford college.
Le's fiance, Columbia grad student Jonathan Widawsky, 24, emerged from his parent's Huntington, L.I. home Monday and told reporters he was "not in a position to talk."
He and his family will hold a memorial service for Le at Temple Beth El in Huntington on Wednesday night. Back in New Haven, the lab where Le's body was found reopened as the campus tries to move past the troubling events of the past two weeks.
Anton Bennett, the pharmacology professor who was Le's adviser, said she was "a bright light of enormous potential prematurely extinguished."
"The tragic loss of Annie Le, who had become an integral member of our laboratory, now seeds another source of inspiration," he said. "Annie Le's work will continue. We will draw upon the energy of Annie Le's life to help us fulfill our efforts of striving to make a difference in this world."
Investigators said Monday they don't expect to make more arrests in the murder, indicating that they believe Clark acted alone.
All In One Network (AION), a non-profit Christian Ministry, was established in the year 2003 with the vision to equip and unite the Body of Christ in Malaysia.
It was founded by Pastor Matthew, a Licensed Minister with the Assemblies of God, Malaysia. Under this ministry, Pastor Matthew started the National Transformation Conference (NTC), a ministry that emphasizes very much on Unity, Reconciliation, and Transformation.
The album "JUBILEE" was produced in conjunction with Malaysia's celebration of 50 years of independence. Songs in the album are all written by Malaysians, arranged by Indonesians, and performed by Malaysian top artistes like Jaclyn Victor, Juwita Suwito, Patrick Leong and Vince. The theme of the album is on prayer, reconciliation, unity, and transformation, with a call for Malaysians to pray for our own country of Malaysia, even as we celebrate the year of Jubilee.
Deb is a dynamic singer / songwriter who has achieved so much and with a long career ahead. Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia of Chinese descent, Deb is one of a new generation of performers - full of life, inspiration and focus.
Deb Fung
Winner of the 2003 National Gospel Award for Best New Gospel Artist with her music debuting the public arena in late 2002, this Australian-born Chinese singer/songwriter continues to lift her audiences with her inspiring lyrical melodies and soul-searching tunes. With an acoustic ballad, pop/rock flavour, Deb's songwriting and performance harnesses the power and beauty of music in communicating to people at all stages of life. Her Exclusive EP release (March 2006) entitled “Rebirth” was recently awarded a finalist position for the song “Hear the Angels” in the Australian Songwriter’s Association Competition 2006. From heart warming songs such as “I Understand You Understand” through to songs of personal struggle such as “Darkest Place”, Deb’s signature theme in her music is her unquenchable joy and tenacity for life and an inner strength which pervades her music and draws her listeners into moments of reflection, rest, questioning and release – a necessary antidote in the midst of our busy 21st century existence.
Coming from a commerce/law background, having grown up in Melbourne Australia, at 23 years of age Deb took the plunge in pursuing her passions for this career of music full time. No stranger to performance, Deb was singing and playing before audiences from the age of 8, has enjoyed the throes and woes of playing in orchestras, singing in choirs and performing in musicals all through her high school years. With her roots in Gospel songwriting, Deb has gone on to perform commercially throughout Australasia, in concert and festivals such as the Mosaic Music Festival in Singapore last March at the Esplanade, performing alongside a plethora of artists such as Incognito, Pat Metheny and Jason Mraz.
Based in Sydney, Deb has just released her third album "WHOEVER YOU ARE". Featuring some of Australia's leading musicians such as drummer Damian Rogers (Delta Goodrem, Guy Sebastian, Christine Anu) and guitarist Mark Cullen (Parachute Band, Darlene Zschech), Deb has also captured international flavours through New York based jazz bass maestro Christian McBride and UK based rhodes player Dave Tymo. Produced by Brad Evans, mixed and mastered in Nashville by Salvo (Mercy Me, Israel Houghton, Amy Grant) Deb's new album is hot off the press and sure to please.
Deb completed her commerce law degree at the end of 2001 at Monash University, Melbourne and has been working part time in law since early 2001, completing her practical legal training in 2003 at the Sydney College of Law. Whilst in Melbourne she was also involved in the youth and worship ministries for over six years before relocating to Sydney in early 2003. .
On the music side, throughout her primary and secondary school years she studied AMEB music and completed 8th Grade piano and 5th Grade Theory in year 11. Deb also practiced violin for 3 years in secondary school. Her older brother taught her guitar at the age of 14 and she has thoroughly enjoyed this instrument.
Deb has a passion for song writing and music and performs contemporary Gospel music in ways that people readily receive and listen openly to. In July 2001 she had a deep personal conviction to utilize her skills in music and gifts in songwriting to communicate the Word of God in a tangible way. She made a decision at this time to take the year off in 2002 after finishing her tertiary studies to produce an original album.
Spending most of the first half of 2002 songwriting and studying the Psalms and Proverbs, it was only in July that Deb set the final date of the launch of her debut album, "Innermost Being" in Melbourne for November 2002 and in Sydney for February 2003. To date, some 1,300 Innermost Being albums have been sold and in November 2003 she was awarded "Best New Gospel Artist 2003" at the Australian Gospel Music Awards for the success of this album. The track "Hear The Angels" was also a finalist in the APRA endorsed Australian Gospel Songwriting Competition 2003.
Her second album, "Higher Way" features songs born out of 2003 - a year of change, challenges, difficulties and joy. Produced in Melbourne at Baker Street Studios in early January 2004, this album also encompasses two of her favourite Psalms put to original arrangements, her pet song "Crossroads" and a title track "Higher Way" which speaks of yearning for something more than this world can give. The theme is crying out to God for a deeper relationship with him and in this, finding answers and guidance for living in this fragile and fallen world.
Deb's music style is generally soft pop ballad with some rock, latin, R&B and jazz variety, inspired by Jewel, with a full acoustic band (drums, bass, electric & acoustic guitar, piano, synth, violins, vocals). Deb also performs the songs solo on guitar (as they were originally arranged) at live venues. Deb has performed across Australia, Singapore and the United States to enthusiastic accolades and sales.
Name: Deb Fung
Genre: Pop, Christian, Folk, Jazz, R&B
Home Town: Sydney NSW Australia
Awards: Best New Artist - Australian Gospel Music Awards 2003
Highlights: CD launches Sydney & Melb, AGMA Award, Singapore concerts
Fanbase: Australia, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, UK, USA
