Murdered Yale student Annie Le’s body found

The mystery of a missing graduate student that has confounded the authorities at Yale University, alma mater of George Bush and Dick Cheney, appears to have been solved with the discovery of a body at the Ivy League university's medical labs.

Connecticut state police found the body on Sunday night and are confident it is that of Annie Le, who went missing last Tuesday. The discovery was made on what should have been the 24-year-old's wedding night.

The body appears to have been hidden in a 'chase' - a vertical space used for pipes and wires in the basement of the medical building. Police said it was found alongside a large amount of physical evidence. "The body hasn't been positively identified as of this time," said Peter Reichard, the New Haven assistant police chief. "However, we are assuming it is her so we are treating it as a homicide."
 
A huge campus search for the pharmacology doctoral student from California had been conducted by more than 100 local, state and federal police after her disappearance. Le, a Vietnamese American, was captured on surveillance video entering the laboratory in which she worked at around 10am but there was no record of her leaving. Her wallet, along with credit cards, money and ID, were found in her office in a nearby building.
 
Annie Le, of El Dorado County, California, was to marry New York student Jonathan Widawsky, also 24, at a ceremony on Long Island last night. Police say that Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student, is not a suspect and is helping with the investigation.
 
Yale President Richard Levin offered support to Le's family and her fiancé. The New York Daily News reported on Saturday that New Haven police had questioned an unidentified Yale professor in connection with the case, although police refused to confirm this. ·