Raymond Clark's high school girlfriend Jessica Del Rocco
Jessica Del Rocco, accused Annie Le killer Raymond Clark’s high school girlfriend, has finally come forward to tell her story. Although constrained by police requests that she not speak about the alleged sexual abuse she may have experienced at Clark’s hands, Del Rocco spoke with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America (the full GMA interview can be seen here) about her relationship with the man under arrest for the murder of Yale student Annie Le.
Other high school friends of Raymond Clark have spoken of him as a normal decent guy whom they consider the unlikeliest of killers. Jessica Del Rocco saw that side of him, too.
“He was very popular. He was a very nice guy. Everybody loved him. He was a good student. He was a great baseball player. At first, he was perfect – he was charming, he was sweet, took me out.”
As their relationship proceeded, however, Del Rocco began to see another side to Raymond Clark. ”About three months into everything, he started to get a little controlling,” she said in the GMA interview.
Clark began dictating what she could wear and where she could go. She would be upbraided for speaking to the wrong person or even using the wrong voice in conversation. If she got out of line, Clark’s dark side began to show through. ”He would get very angry. He would frighten me. He did get physical,” said Del Rocco.
Del Rocco was not the only one to see the controlling side of Raymond Clark. Neighbor Anna Marie Goodwin saw similar displays of controlling behavior toward his current girlfriend, Jennifer Hromadka, as well. “He would never let her talk to anyone. I would hear a lot of yelling upstairs,” says Goodwin.
Clark began to display the sort of rage towards Jessica Del Rocco that Annie Clark may have seen on the fateful day of her murder. ”He’d get this little look in his eye. Sometimes it would be best just to do what he said, just to avoid the fight.” Perhaps Annie Le made the mistake of standing up to the controlling lab technician.
Says Jessica Del Rocco, “If things didn’t go his way, then he’d make them go his way.”
When Del Rocco tried to end the relationship, Clark became violent. ”He didn’t want it to be over, and an incident occurred.” That incident has been reported by media sources to be a forced sexual encounter, but Del Rocco has been asked by police not to speak of the incident.
Unable to free herself from the man who would be tried as Annie Le’s killer, Del Rocco contacted the school and ultimately the police. For about two weeks, she had to be escorted from school to her car until she and Clark both began to date other people and his rage finally cooled off.
Jessica Del Rocco offers advice to anyone who finds herself in a similar predicament. ”If any girl feels uncomfortable in a relationship. Take a stand and realize you don’t deserve to be treated like that. You deserve better.”
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