I just posted this in the motive thread (btw, apologies if I am not supposed to post twice, I'll delete one). Anyway, I'm leaning towards premeditation based on his behavior after the murder....
The working theory seems to be he is a control freak that just snapped. Annie was also on edge for her upcoming wedding and so, his controlling behavior coupled with her fiestiness made for the perfect storm for muder.
But here's my problem.
Number one, a student who saw Raymond in the lab on the Friday after Annie had gone missing is quoted:
"He appeared very relaxed, very normal," the woman told Pinkston. "I didn't sense any anything different in his behavior from what I'd observed previously."
This concerns me. If this really was some sudden rage attack, why would he be "very relaxed and normal" knowing Annie's body was on the same floor, maybe even just feet away for where they were? I would think someone who had snapped, would be far too concerned of being caught then to go back to the place of the murder. Ever.
Second, the day her body was found, he was playing softball. Again, his behavior is described as being unemotional, unconcerned:
Raymond Clark betrayed no emotion as he played shortstop for his team, the Wild Hogs, in a playoff loss Sunday.
The Yale lab tech even impressed the plainclothes cops tailing him.
"We had detectives in the crowd," Lt. John Velleca, head of the New Haven police department's narcotics unit, told the New Haven Independent. "He's actually pretty good."
He called Clark "nondescript" and noted that he didn't interact much with his teammates.
So this makes me wonder if he wasn't a sociopath, with all the detached arrogance that goes along with it.
For reasons only a sociopath can understand, perhaps he deliberately lured Annie to the lab via that text message. Maybe there was no exchange at all, no angry words, which might explain why no one heard anything amiss. When he saw the right moment, say her head was turned, he attacked. He then set off the alarm, again preplanned, left the building with the others and tried to conceal his identity from the camera's by holding his head in his hands.
He was so confident of his crime, that he went back to the scene of the crime appearing without a care in the world, played softball days later and just went on with his life, thinking Annie's body would never be found.
Maybe Ramond Clark concluded he was too smart to get caught.
The working theory seems to be he is a control freak that just snapped. Annie was also on edge for her upcoming wedding and so, his controlling behavior coupled with her fiestiness made for the perfect storm for muder.
But here's my problem.
Number one, a student who saw Raymond in the lab on the Friday after Annie had gone missing is quoted:
"He appeared very relaxed, very normal," the woman told Pinkston. "I didn't sense any anything different in his behavior from what I'd observed previously."
This concerns me. If this really was some sudden rage attack, why would he be "very relaxed and normal" knowing Annie's body was on the same floor, maybe even just feet away for where they were? I would think someone who had snapped, would be far too concerned of being caught then to go back to the place of the murder. Ever.
Second, the day her body was found, he was playing softball. Again, his behavior is described as being unemotional, unconcerned:
Raymond Clark betrayed no emotion as he played shortstop for his team, the Wild Hogs, in a playoff loss Sunday.
The Yale lab tech even impressed the plainclothes cops tailing him.
"We had detectives in the crowd," Lt. John Velleca, head of the New Haven police department's narcotics unit, told the New Haven Independent. "He's actually pretty good."
He called Clark "nondescript" and noted that he didn't interact much with his teammates.
So this makes me wonder if he wasn't a sociopath, with all the detached arrogance that goes along with it.
For reasons only a sociopath can understand, perhaps he deliberately lured Annie to the lab via that text message. Maybe there was no exchange at all, no angry words, which might explain why no one heard anything amiss. When he saw the right moment, say her head was turned, he attacked. He then set off the alarm, again preplanned, left the building with the others and tried to conceal his identity from the camera's by holding his head in his hands.
He was so confident of his crime, that he went back to the scene of the crime appearing without a care in the world, played softball days later and just went on with his life, thinking Annie's body would never be found.
Maybe Ramond Clark concluded he was too smart to get caught.