Yale student remembered at service

HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (AP) — A slain Yale University graduate student whose body was discovered on the day she was to be married was remembered Wednesday night at her fianc ’s synagogue as a bright, vivacious, ambitious dynamo whose death cheated those who loved her, as well as those who never had a chance to meet her.

“Instead of celebrating a wedding, we are memorializing a life,” said Lauren Widawsky, the younger sister of Jonathan Widawsky, the fianc of Annie Le.

In an hourlong service attended by about 300 people at Temple Beth El, clergy, friends and relatives lamented the loss of Le, 24. She and Widawsky were to be married Sept. 13 by the synagogue’s cantor at a nearby catering hall on Long Island.

That’s the day her body was found stuffed behind the wall in the basement of a Yale research building where she worked. A technician who worked in the lab, Raymond Clark III, has been charged with her murder. Police have said they don’t know a motive for the slaying.

Investigators returned to the campus research building in New Haven on Wednesday to examine potential new evidence, said Officer Joseph Avery, a police spokesman. Authorities do not expect to make more arrests.

A former high school girlfriend of Clark’s said Wednesday that he was extremely controlling, telling her what clothes she could wear, where she could go and what friends she could have.

Jessica Delrocco said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that Clark would get very angry and “physical” with her, to the point where she was frightened.