POLICE launched a murder probe after finding the body of a missing graduate student from an elite US university in a college building where she had last been seen five days before.
New Haven Assistant Police Chief Peter Reichard said officials presumed the body was that of Yale University doctoral student Annie Le, who has been the focus of a massive police search since Tuesday.
Mr Reichard said: “We assume it is her, so we are treating it as a homicide.”
State police found the body in an area of the building that houses utility cables.
