Washington, September 14: THE search for a missing student that has gripped Americans for six days has ended with the discovery of a body in a university laboratory wall.
Annie Le, 24, was last seen outside a lab at Yale University on Tuesday and while some 75 security cameras captured her entering the building, none showed her coming back out.
Le was going to be married on Long Island yesterday.
Overnight, New Haven police issued a statement claiming they had found a body in a basement at the university, in an area that housed utility cables running between floors.
They would not confirm the body was Le, but the Associated Press reports they have contacted Le’s family and were now treating the case as a homicide.
As late as yesterday, investigators had expanded their search 40 minutes up the highway from New Haven and were sifting through trash that originated at the Yale laboratory.
On Saturday, bloodied clothes were found on the roof of the laboratory building, but they didn’t match those Le was wearing when she entered.
Her mobile phone, credit cards and cash were found in her office at another building.
Now, on the same day she was due to be married, it seems one part of the Le mystery has, sadly, been solved.
“Our hearts go out to Annie Le’s family, fiancé and friends, who must suffer the additional ordeal of waiting for the body to be identified,” Yale president Richard C. Levin wrote in email message to students which was reprinted in the New York Times.
“Law enforcement officials remain on the scene; this is an active investigation, and we hope it is resolved quickly.”
—Agencies