Breaking: Arrest Made in Yale Murder

The New Haven police's sole "person of interest" in the Yale murder case—lab technician Ray Clark, 24—was arrested around 8:30 a.m. this morning at a Super 8 Motel in Cromwell, CT, and charged with murder. The police has taken him to the New Haven police headquarters in an unmarked police car, and he's expected to be arraigned within the next 24 hours. Clark's bond is set at $3 million, and Chief James Lewis did not designate a motive beyond “an issue of workplace violence.”

DNA tests at a state lab confirmed a link between Clark and Yale medical student Annie Le's murder on Wednesday, and an arrest was clear to be imminent by late Wednesday night, New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery said at the time. Clark was the last person to see Le alive, computer records confirmed on Wednesday. The 24-year-old Vietnamese-American student was strangled to death and found stuffed behind a wall on Sunday—the same day she was supposed to be married to her longtime boyfriend.

The police stopped short of calling Clark a suspect when they detained him on Tuesday to obtain DNA samples and searched his apartment. They released him from custody around 3 a.m. on Wednesday, when he subsequently fled to a Super 8 Motel less than 10 miles away from Middletown, CT, where he has been living in an apartment with his fiancee. The police surrounded the motel on Wednesday and were closely monitoring it.

The New York Times' profiles of both Annie Le and Ray Clark are tragic and worth reading. Meanwhile, Gawker has dug up Clark's old MySpace profile and other details on Clark, including that he complained to Le through e-mail about the way she was treating lab mice.