The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner said early Friday he believes the body found in Whiskey Bay underneath Interstate 10 is Carrie Lynn Yoder.
Coroner Louis Cataldie said based on autopsy findings so far he can tentatively identify the body. He is waiting for a report from a dentist who specializes in identifying people based on their dental X-rays for confirmation.
Yoder is the 26-year-old biological sciences graduate student who has been missing since March 5. Police could last account for her at home March 3 at 7:45 p.m.
Police at Whiskey Bay would not say at that time whether the body was male, female, black or white. They removed the body and brought it to the University FACES lab for forensic testing.
      Some University custodians saw law enforcement officials deliver the body to the lab Thursday evening.
“I saw the coroner when he came,” said custodian Cothern Williams. “He pulled the bag out and pulled it into the FACES lab.”
Margaret Coleman, a custodian in Atkinson Hall, said she saw FBI, Louisiana State Police and East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office officials at the lab when the body was delivered.
Yoder’s body was found yards from where serial killer victim Pam Kinamore’s body was found July 16.
Despite media and public speculation, officials have not connected Yoder’s death to the four known serial killer victims–Gina Wilson Green, Charlotte Murray Pace and Pam Kinamore of Baton Rouge, and Trineisha Dene Colomb of Lafayette.
Bill Platt, Yoder’s major professor, told the Baton Rouge Advocate the Yoder family has established the Carrie Lynn Yoder Memorial Scholarship Fund and has begun accepting donations.
Donations can be made to the memorial fund through LSU Foundation at 3838 W. Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge, La. 70808.