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Annie Le's Murder Defies Preconceptions

A post from guest blogger Amanda Marcotte:

If the police are right, and Ray Clark killed Annie Le over a power struggle in their shared lab, then that means that the narrative that the media initially plugged this story into doesn't quite fit the circumstances. A pretty, petite woman about to be married who disappears? We're all conditioned to think of sex crimes, instead of workplace violence. That said, it's not completely accurate to assume that because this act of violence began as a power struggle at work doesn't mean that gender doesn't play a role in it ... (Read more in DoubleX.)