The hunt for Annie Le's murderer is reportedly focusing on a fellow Yale student who flunked lie detector tests and has defensive wounds on his body.
ABC news reported that cops are looking closely at the student, who failed two lie detector tests.
A body found stuffed in a wall at a Yale lab on Sunday is believed to be Le, a 24-year-old pharmacology graduate student who had been missing since Tuesday.
Bloody clothing found in the lab on Saturday "does belong to the likely killer," a New Haven police source told the Daily News.
Police insist no one else on the Ivy League campus is in danger.
"We're not believing it's a random act" said Officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman.
Le was supposed to have been married on Long Island Sunday to a Columbia University graduate student.
"It's a frightening idea that there's a murderer walking around on campus," said 20-year-old Muneeb Sultan, a chemistry student. "I'm shocked that it happened in a Yale building that had key-card access. It's really sad."
Le was last seen in the secure five-story building about 10 a.m. Tuesday. The body was found in an area that houses utility cables that run between floors, police said.
More than 100 investigators from the FBI and three police departments spent five days poring over blueprints and surveillance footage, and used bloodhounds to search every inch of the building.
"At first we didn't know what happened to her," said Avery. "We didn't know if she ran away from her wedding or what could have happened. It didn't take us long after we searched the building to find her body."
Medical examiners began an autopsy Monday morning to determine a cause of death and to officially identify the body.
Investigators spent Sunday searching for Le's remains and evidence in a Hartford garbage dump. Cadaver-sniffing dogs and officers in hazardous material suits picked through the trash for hours.
The grisly find came hours after Le was expected to walk down the aisle with fiancé Jonathan Widawsky in an outdoor ceremony in Syosset, L.I.
"Our hearts go out to the family of Annie Le," said Yale President Richard Levin.
Levin met with Le's family, Widawsky and his family on Sunday and pledged the university's full resources to solve the crime.
Widawsky is not a suspect and is assisting with the investigation, police said.
"I feel so badly for Jonathan," said Cantor Sandra Sherry of Temple Beth El in Huntington, L.I., who would have led the wedding service. "This really makes a mark on your whole life."
The couple had planned to fly to Greece for their honeymoon later this week.
"It was a lovely day . . . and now it's just sad," said Lucille Mayer, a neighbor and family friend of the Widawskys. "It's not only horrible for Annie's life being gone, but for Jonathan and his life being changed forever," she said.
The gruesome discovery plunged an already weary campus into mourning and fear.
Students received an e-mail from college President Levin titled "Tragic News."
"It shows that Yale is no different then any other place in this country," said engineering student Ken Hargrove, 26. "This idea that despite all the crime around New Haven, Yale was somehow immune was burst in a heartbeat."
Le had penned an article for the medical school's magazine in February in which she noted higher instances of robbery in New Haven compared with other Ivy League college towns.
She told fellow students that street smarts was the way to "avoid becoming yet another statistic."
"It's ironic," said Sherry, the cantor. "It was as if someone tried to prove her wrong - that they could get to her anyway."
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