Annie Le has gone home for the last time.
The body of the slain 24-year-old Yale grad student was flown back to the small, rural California town where she grew up yesterday morning, accompanied by devastated relatives, sources told the New Haven Register.
An invitation-only funeral is expected to take place in Placerville this week.
About a dozen of Le’s family members took part in a prayer service in both English and Vietnamese Thursday at the Lincoln Hawley Memorial Funeral Home in Connecticut, the Register reported.
Yale also held a private memorial mass last week.
Le was found murdered and hidden behind a wall in the campus lab where she worked on Sept. 13, the same day she was supposed to get married to boyfriend Jonathan Widawsky.
Her body was released by the medical examiner Wednesday, the Register reported.
Lab technician Raymond Clark, 24, was arrested and charged with the murder. He is being held at a high-security prison on $3 million bond.
Police are still collecting evidence, including a red Ford Taurus that sources said belongs to Clark’s father.
The car was towed last night from the Super 8 where Clark and his father were staying before Clark was arrested, a state trooper told the AP.