Police presume body is Annie Le's

(NECN: New Haven, Conn.) – New Haven Police reported on Sunday night that a body was discovered inside a wall in the Yale University building at 10 Amistad Street where graduate student Annie Le was last seen on surveillance cameras entering the facility. New Haven Assistant Police Chief Peter Reichard said the body had not yet been identified as Le, but that investigators were presuming it was her. Reichard said that police had been in contact with her family, and offered his sympathies. Le went missing on Tuesday, after she had been last seen entering the building at 10 Amistad. She was slated to marry on Sunday in Syosset, New York, but that wedding was canceled on Friday after her disappearance. Reichard said that the search at the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority’s trash-to-energy plant in Hartford earlier in the day was procedural. According to Reichard, the case was being considered a homicide investigation. “At the present time, New Haven Police department is assuming the role of the lead agency in this case, which is more or less moving from a missing persons case to a homicide investigation,” Reichard said. New Have Police will continue to work in conjunction with the FBI, Yale University Police Department, Connecticut State Police and New Haven District Attorney’s Office. “Detectives and investigators have a large amount of physical evidence on the scene that we’re going through to determine if it’s linked to this case or not,” Reichard said. Reichard would not comment on any further details of the investigation, as it was ongoing. Material from The Associated Press used in this report.