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.

Haiti Earthquake News: Main Prison Destroyed, 4000 Prisoners Escape

NEW YORK (CBS): Amidst the horror and devestation of the massive 7.0 earthquake that has rocked Haiti, almost all of the 4000 inmates in the capitol's main prison have escaped.

"They obviously took advantage of this disaster," Marcal Izard, a spokesman for the International Red Cross, said.

CNN's Anderson Cooper visited the jail in Port-au-Prince and filed a report Friday. "We heard the prison was destroyed. We didn't realize we'd find the door wide open," he said.

Cooper reported seeing four dead bodies and dried blood on the floor. He also found bloody handprints and a rope that hung 30-40 feet from the guard wall to the street outside.

UN officials believe the prisoners rioted after the quake, overwhelmed the guards and escaped, Cooper reported.

"When you have criminals, bandits, assassins who terrorize the population - and we have all those types here - it's a big problem for the country," the prison's warden Alexandre Jean Herisse, told Cooper.

Hunt under way for escaped murder suspect in Louisiana

(CNN) -- More than 100 police officers and others were searching Friday in a southeastern Louisiana parish for a murder suspect who escaped from jail with three other inmates, a law enforcement official said.

Searchers are still focusing inside St. Tammany Parish, on the northern shore of Lake Pontchartrain, 30 miles north of New Orleans, said Capt. George Bonnett of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office.

At large is Timothy Murray, 29, who is charged with murder, Bonnett said. Authorities believe Murray may have been injured during the escape, but Bonnett wouldn't elaborate.

The inmates escaped about 9 p.m. Thursday from the St. Tammany Parish Jail in Covington, Bonnett said. As many as 250 sheriff's deputies, Covington police officers, Louisiana State police and corrections officials were involved in the search overnight, using dogs, two helicopters and thermal-imaging equipment loaned from Livingston Parish, Bonnett said.

The other three men were found about 1:30 a.m. Friday in a wooded area about a mile from the jail, he said.

Three of the inmates were awaiting trial; one already had been convicted, Bonnett said.

The captured inmates were Gary Slaydon, 27; Eric Buras, 30, and Jason Gainey, 27. Slaydon is charged with attempted murder. Buras is a murder suspect and Gainey has been convicted of murder, Bonnett said.

He said the escape was not discovered until a resident and Covington police reported seeing what appeared to be inmates in jail uniforms walking down a street.

About the time those calls came in, jailers were doing a routine head count and found the four men missing, Bonnett said.

He said the means of escape was under investigation, but it has been determined that their escape wasn't due to human error.

He repeated what St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said early Friday: "Four inmates were able to defeat the structure of the maximum security area of our jail."

Deputies have canvassed neighborhoods, going door to door to warn residents that an inmate is still at large.