FSU Grad Student's Body Found

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- Police have identified the body found Wednesday morning in a field in St. Johns County is that of a 29-year-old Florida State University graduate student reported missing earlier this month.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said investigators found a man's body about 8 a.m. in an open field near the intersection of Interstate 95 and State Road 16 in St. Johns County.

FDLE said the body was found by agents who were looking for evidence as part of an ongoing investigation.

Wednesday afternoon, the Tallahassee Police Department released a statement saying the body was that of Vincent Binder, who was reported missing from his Tallahassee apartment on April 2.

Authorities said Binder's his death is linked to three prisoners who escaped from Louisiana and were arrested in Miami on April 12.

Louisiana officials said Kentrell Johnson, 39, Peter Hughes, 22, and Quentin Truehill, 22, escaped from a jail in Avoyelles Parish on March 30 after holding a makeshift knife to a corrections officer's throat.

WPBF-TV said one of the fugitives told one of the officers that arrested them in Miami that they might have something to do with Binder's disappearance.

Police said the body was found due to FDLE's search of hundreds of miles from Tallahassee that ended when they found the body in St. Johns County.

FDLE's crime scene unit is processing the scene and the body was turned over to the medical examiner for an autopsy. Detectives with the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office and FDLE agents are investigating.