IL - Olamide Adeyooye, 21, Normal, 13 Oct 2005

[kpass]

Missing Student's Dental Records Being Sent To Miss.
Unidentified Body Found By Authorities In South

POSTED: 3:57 pm CDT October 24, 2005
UPDATED: 4:16 pm CDT October 24, 2005

CHICAGO -- Normal, Ill., police said Monday that they are sending medical and dental records to Mississippi authorities to determine if a body found there is a missing 21-year-old Illinois State University student.

http://www.nbc5.com/family/5163257/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65193

 

[Brains & NoBull]

This article is a little old now that it has been announced about using dental records to make a match to the body in Mississippi, but I was happy to see that LE is checking her email account. There was just so much information on her blog that she would not have been difficult to track.

I keep hoping that she just disappeared as Jennifer Wilbanks or Audrey Seiler did, but it certainly does not look as though that is the case.

Landfill Checked in Hunt for Missing Student

NORMAL, Ill. -- Personal items found earlier this week near a trash dumpster not far from the apartment of missing Illinois State University student Olamide Adeyooye led police to search a landfill in Bloomington, police said Friday.

Police Lt. Mark Kotte said the items were documents with her name, but declined to be more specific. No evidence was found at the dump, he said.

Adeyooye, 21, of west suburban Berkeley, has not been seen or heard from since Oct. 13, leaving her father to say he starts each morning with hope only to crash to disappointment at day's end.

Abiodun Adeyooye, a computer network technician from Maryland who is separated from Olamide's mother, said, "We just feel for my missing daughter. Where[ever] she is, [to] who might be in control of her, we just say to release her.

Police said Friday the investigation into Adeyooye's disappearance is progressing, with more than 40 people, including local police, state troopers and FBI agents, involved in the search.

Police have identified six to eight "persons of interest" and are in the process of tracking them down and interviewing them, Kotte said. No arrest warrants have been issued, and none of those people is considered a suspect, he said.

Adeyooye's financial and telephone records have been subpoenaed as have e-mails she sent and received in the weeks before her disappearance.

Illinois State Police officers continued using a plane to search the shallows of area lakes and irrigation ponds for Adeyooye's car, a green 1996 Toyota Corolla with an Illinois license LBG 927.

Adeyooye's father said police have taken a sample of his blood for testing.

Kotte said it is not unusual for police to gather such evidence early in an investigation so that it will be ready for testing if something is found.

"The police should do more until I see my daughter face to face," Abiodun Adeyooye said. "The more time it is taking, the more risky it is."

 

[WackyLadyCaet]

Oh my god! I really hope that it's not her. Just a question to a novice in missing person cases, if the person has only been missing a week or so, and they find a body, woudln't the body most likely be pretty much identifiable ? Just reading along here, and it is sounding like bodies decompose fairly quickly.. if this is Olamide that they've found, wouldn't you still be able to tell?

 

[fourboys]

Body found in Mississippi could be missing student's

Tribune staff reports
Published October 24, 2005,

NORMAL, Ill. -- A body found in Mississippi may be that of a 21-year-old Illinois State University student from suburban Chicago who disappeared earlier this month from her off-campus apartment, authorities said today.

At a press briefing this afternoon, Normal police said they were sending medical and dental records to Mississippi and hoped to know Tuesday if a body found there was that of Olamide Adeyooye, of west suburban Berkeley.

A Mississippi Highway Patrol officer found the body either today or over the weekend, police said.

Police would not disclose where the body had been located or what caused them to suspect it was the missing student's. They would not say if a comforter like the one reported missing from her apartment was found with the body.

The woman's green 1996 Toyota Corolla has not been found, police said.

Adeyooye is a graduate of Proviso West High School in Westchester and a senior at ISU majoring in laboratory science.

She was last heard from during an Oct. 13 telephone conversation with her boyfriend, who was touring with his band on the East Coast, friends said. The next day, the woman did not attend classes or show up for work at a Ruby Tuesday's, and friends could not reach her at home or on her cell phone.

The friends contacted police. On Oct. 15, police went to her apartment and found a television set and fan turned on, food in the microwave, and her cell phone on the couch. Adeyooye was missing, along with her purse, car and the comforter.

A couple of days later, police announced they found some documents with Adeyooye's name on them in a waste receptacle about three blocks from her apartment. At that point, they declared the case a criminal investigation. They searched a landfill with cadaver-finding dogs but found nothing.

Normal police were joined early in the case by Illinois State Police and the FBI.

Investigators have searched the surrounding farmland by air, looking for her car, and have scoured the area on foot, using dogs. Family members went to Normal, where campus officials gave them housing and a cell phone to use as the search continued.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/c...ack=1&cset=true

 

[petra]

Thanks for the update Four Boys.....what an awful night for family and friends.

Thoughts and prayers for Olamide , her family and dear friends.

Such a weird situation..tragic and sad.

 

[Marilynilpa]

Oh my god! I really hope that it's not her. Just a question to a novice in missing person cases, if the person has only been missing a week or so, and they find a body, woudln't the body most likely be pretty much identifiable ? Just reading along here, and it is sounding like bodies decompose fairly quickly.. if this is Olamide that they've found, wouldn't you still be able to tell?

Under normal circumstances, you would expect to be able to identify the body. However, if her face was damaged by beating, a gunshot, or animal activity, then dental records would need to be obtained. Also, even if LE felt they could identify her, they would still need proof positive of her identity.

 

[Brains & NoBull]

Body in Mississippi May Be Student

Sheriff Jackie Knight of Newton County, Miss., said a work crew cleaning debris found an unidentified body Friday morning along State Highway 80, between 50 and 60 miles east of Jackson. He said linking the body with Adeyooye would be speculation, but he said Normal police were notified. Newton County is in the southern half of the state, between the cities of Jackson and Meridian. Officials with the Mississippi Highway Patrol and department of public safety did not return calls Monday afternoon.

 

[SewingDeb]

Oh my god! I really hope that it's not her. Just a question to a novice in missing person cases, if the person has only been missing a week or so, and they find a body, woudln't the body most likely be pretty much identifiable ? Just reading along here, and it is sounding like bodies decompose fairly quickly.. if this is Olamide that they've found, wouldn't you still be able to tell?

That article mentions the body was found when crews were cleaning up after a fire in a chicken coop. If the body was burned, dental records would be very necessary.

 

[Marilynilpa]

That article mentions the body was found when crews were cleaning up after a fire in a chicken coop. If the body was burned, dental records would be very necessary.

How awful, I didn't know that. I'd heard that she was found when work crews were cleaning up debris, but nothing was mentioned about a fire. That would certainly explain the need for dental record.

Whether it's Olamide or someone else, this poor woman was someone's daughter, sister, friend, or lover, and she certainly deserved better than this.

 

[SewingDeb]

I do feel for the family involved, no matter who it turns out to be. Too many young women are being murdered in this country.

 

[ketel0ne]

Olamide Adeyooye: Body Found Matches Description Of Missing Student

A body found in Mississippi matches the description of Olamide Adeyooye. The time frame of the fire where the body was found would be consistent with the disappearance of Olamide as well. The fire occurred on Oct. 17th, 4 days after she went missing in Normal, Ill.

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Body Found Matches Description Of Missing Student
NORMAL, Ill. — Authorities in Mississippi said they are working to identify a body found around 10 a.m. Friday in a burned out chicken house off of Interstate 20 in central Mississippi.

Mississippi Highway Patrol spokeswoman Delores Lewis said firefighters had put out a fire in the structure on Oct. 17, and workers cleaning up the property found the body Friday.

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http://www.thejacksonchannel.com/news/5171586/detail.html

http://www.thejacksonchannel.com/news/5171586/detail.html

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-miss25.html

Remains may be those of missing ISU woman
Police would not say whether the woman found is Adeyooye, but family and friends have been told the physical similarities are striking. It could be several days until the coroner can make a final identification, authorities in Mississippi said.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-miss25.html
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[Lesleegp]

Boy, this myspace.com place is sure popping up in cases all around this board!

One of my good friends 15-year old daughter snuck out of their house last week with a 22 year old she met on some myspace.com site. My friend and her hubby awoke to find her "missing".....she came home later, but after much panic. And her parents thought they had very stringent security on her computer usage.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

One of my good friends 15-year old daughter snuck out of their house last week with a 22 year old she met on some myspace.com site. My friend and her hubby awoke to find her "missing".....she came home later, but after much panic. And her parents thought they had very stringent security on her computer usage.

i'm sorry but i find nothing good about myspace.com. I think that is one of the worst, most contributing to these types of crimes sites out there

 

[Lesleegp]

i'm sorry but i find nothing good about myspace.com. I think that is one of the worst, most contributing to these types of crimes sites out there

I couldn't agree more. My girls will have ZERO access to the internet from my home. I know they can't always be under my control, but I can at least refrain from even making it available.

Anyway, does Ollie have any ties to the area where this body has been located?

 

[Marilynilpa]

i'm sorry but i find nothing good about myspace.com. I think that is one of the worst, most contributing to these types of crimes sites out there

I agree. I really knew nothing about myspace.com until the Taylor Behl disappearance and murder. Young people (especially females) need to be careful what they write about, especially if they are giving out personal information about themselves.

 

[Oceanbreeze]

I agree. I really knew nothing about myspace.com until the Taylor Behl disappearance and murder. Young people (especially females) need to be careful what they write about, especially if they are giving out personal information about themselves.

EXACTLY!! It's not the myspace website, it's what people put on them. There are hundreds of websites out there just like myspace. You just have to be careful what you put on them.
Myspace is HUGE. My 22 year old and 16 year old both have sites as do most of their friends.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

EXACTLY!! It's not the myspace website, it's what people put on them. There are hundreds of websites out there just like myspace. You just have to be careful what you put on them.
Myspace is HUGE. My 22 year old and 16 year old both have sites as do most of their friends.

you're right, it's not just myspace.com and I shouldn't generalize, but that site is really raunchy. Some of the icons on there
Disgusting. They should warn ya before ya enter. I pulled that site up at my work, because someone approached me about advertising there. My work would KILL me.

Back to Olamide.
I wonder why she was taken to Mississippi if this is her, and it sure sounds like it is. Who did this? Is this a random crime or was she picked out by someone who knew her, stalked her from the Internet or because she was in a band? She is a singer, right? That is what I read... public eye.
Could it have been someone who is jealous of her?
A lot of speculation now.
I am just so worried about her and her family.
Her parents shushed her friends pretty quickly.
I wonder what police had found early on that of course won't get out in the media... sort of like in Pamela Horowitz's case. I for one speculated the wrong person because there's so much that LE can't and won't share or it will blow the case right open. I wonder if they have a clue who did this or if they are really completely at a loss??

You just never know what info LE has.
Prayers for Olamide.

 

[Marilynilpa]

you're right, it's not just myspace.com and I shouldn't generalize, but that site is really raunchy. Some of the icons on there
Disgusting. They should warn ya before ya enter. I pulled that site up at my work, because someone approached me about advertising there. My work would KILL me.

Back to Olamide.
I wonder why she was taken to Mississippi if this is her, and it sure sounds like it is. Who did this? Is this a random crime or was she picked out by someone who knew her, stalked her from the Internet or because she was in a band? She is a singer, right? That is what I read... public eye.
Could it have been someone who is jealous of her?
A lot of speculation now.
I am just so worried about her and her family.
Her parents shushed her friends pretty quickly.
I wonder what police had found early on that of course won't get out in the media... sort of like in Pamela Horowitz's case. I for one speculated the wrong person because there's so much that LE can't and won't share or it will blow the case right open. I wonder if they have a clue who did this or if they are really completely at a loss??

You just never know what info LE has.
Prayers for Olamide.

I'm wondering if she knew anyone from Mississippi, if this does turn out to be her body. Also, why would someone take her personal papers and dump them in the trash? That really makes no sense.

She was such a pretty girl, I'm sure there must have been a lot of guys interested in her. Since she had a steady boyfriend, she must have turned down a lot of guys. Maybe one of them didn't like to be rejected.

 

[Brains & NoBull]

This morning it was reported on television that CBS's Without a Trace is working on a show that is based off of Olamide's disappearance.

Unfortunately I could not find an article about it.

 

[Brains & NoBull]

I'm wondering if she knew anyone from Mississippi, if this does turn out to be her body. Also, why would someone take her personal papers and dump them in the trash? That really makes no sense.

She was such a pretty girl, I'm sure there must have been a lot of guys interested in her. Since she had a steady boyfriend, she must have turned down a lot of guys. Maybe one of them didn't like to be rejected.

Based on what I saw at Olamide's boyfriend's band's MySpace account, the Junior Varsity seems to have quite a following. It might be possible that someone interested in her boyfriend followed the links through the friends' profiles and found Olamide's blog. She had so much personal information on there that she would have been at risk if the wrong person got a hold of it. Perhaps the documents that police found were print outs from her blog or something akin to that? Whatever they were, they were of enough importance for police to declare her disappearance a crime.

I have no idea what the link to Mississippi would be. Olamide was from Chicago and I don't think that she had much family in the States.

How heartbreaking if this is her.

The trouble with MySpace and the internet in general, is that young people feel a false sense of security. The fact that their friends read their blogs and respond make them feel like they are talking among friends when the fact of the matter is that what they type is there for all to see.