Missing professor at Pennsylvania college found dead in woods four days after she vanished

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A missing 36-year-old professor was found dead Sunday, four days after she vanished.

Laura Wilkinson's body was found in some woods about 15 miles from the Pennsylvania college where she worked. 

The Westmoreland County Coroner's Office said that no foul play is suspected in her death.  

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Discovery: Laura Wilkinson's body was found Sunday morning, about 15 miles from where she worked at St. Vincent College

The coroner's office said in a news release that the 36-year-old's '[c]ause and manner of death will be pending autopsy results, toxicology results and further investigation.' 

Volunteer searchers found the part-time Saint Vincent College professor's body at 8:12am Sunday in Cook Township. They found Wilkinson's car Saturday in the same wooded area, about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Wilkinson had been missing since Wednesday.

The Westmoreland County Coroner's Office said that the professor's death was suspicious.

Funeral arrangements will be taken care of by a Greensburg funeral home, the office said. 

The coroner's office said Wilkinson's death was being looked into by Pennsylvania State Police in Greensburg.

School: Laura Wilkinson attended St. Vincent College, pictured, and later taught there

Trooper Stephen Limani, a state police spokesman, said in a Sunday news release sent to Daily Mail Online on Monday that 'Preliminary reports would indicate no signs of foul play. Toxicology reports are still pending.'

Limani also said that on Saturday, 'A search near [Wilkinson's] vehicle was conducted but turned up negative.'

Saint Vincent College in Latrobe is a private Catholic school that has about 2,000 students.

The school's president Brother Norman Hipps said in a statement to WTAE 'The entire Saint Vincent community is mourning the loss of Laura, who was a 2002 graduate of the College. Laura taught chemistry labs for the Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computing, where she had worked for approximately 10 years.

'We are sending our prayers and offering any assistance we can to her husband, Jay, and to their family.

'Campus ministers and counseling staff are available to members of the campus community, as are residence life staff. Plans are being made for a memorial service, and arrangements will be shared with the community as soon as they are available to allow students, faculty and staff to support her family and friends in their loss.'