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

[Brains & NoBull]

Search for Illinois State Student Goes On

Some have wondered whether Adeyooye's blog, which contains information about her school and where she worked, might have contributed to her disappearance.

"I often speak to students and tell them not to share so much information online. You don't even know who's reading it," Normal Police Lt. Mark Kotte said. But so far, he said, investigators have no indication that the blog is a factor, though they are checking Adeyooye's recent e-mails.

Well, that answers my thoughts about her blog being a concern.

 

[docwho3]

. . . 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.

I agree! I also notice that there doesn't seem to be the same effort put forth in schools to educate students about internet safety. And I think some active safety demonstrations of just how it can work might even be in order to show them how easily they can be fooled & how easily their house can be targeted if they put enough info in a post or chat room or even by private chat messengers. We (society) educate students about the dangers of drugs but I think that its time to spend more money & time holding internet safety classes to show students how to be safer and to make them aware that many bad people troll the web looking for women,children to harm - anyone they can get.
And that I haven't even mentioned identity theft.

 

[mysteriew]

I agree! I also notice that there doesn't seem to be the same effort put forth in schools to educate students about internet safety. And I think some active safety demonstrations of just how it can work might even be in order to show them how easily they can be fooled & how easily their house can be targeted if they put enough info in a post or chat room or even by private chat messengers. We (society) educate students about the dangers of drugs but I think that its time to spend more money & time holding internet safety classes to show students how to be safer and to make them aware that many bad people troll the web looking for women,children to harm - anyone they can get.
And that I haven't even mentioned identity theft.

In most schools, as soon as they get access to internet at school, they get the safety discussions. But kids seem to think that their nicname hides their identity, and that if they talk to someone once, they can tell if the person is a danger or not.
It isn't that they don't know. They just feel invincible.

 

[Brains & NoBull]

• There was a delay in identifying the body because it took longer than expected to get Olamide's dental records from Chicago.
• Body burned beyond recognition.
• No records of missing persons from county where body was found.
• Results of identification expected tomorrow.
• The fire in Mississippi was arson.
• The news anchor called it a "fatal fire".

Does this mean that they have determined that the woman was alive at the time of the fire?

If so, that is BEYOND horrible. I really hope that the anchor just chose his words poorly.

 

[SandyBee]

http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/102505/new_20051025048.shtml

NORMAL -- Normal police likely won't know until at least today if a body found in Mississippi is that of a missing Illinois State University student.

 

[docwho3]

In most schools, as soon as they get access to internet at school, they get the safety discussions. But kids seem to think that their nicname hides their identity, and that if they talk to someone once, they can tell if the person is a danger or not.
It isn't that they don't know. They just feel invincible.

I could say several things in response to that that but I won't because its sort of off topic for this thread and I am not looking to be argumentative. I do feel strongly that more needs to be done but this isn't the place for me to get indepth about that.

I hope everyones loved ones are found safe.

 

[Brains & NoBull]

Body Not Yet Identified

Normal Police Lt. Mark Kotte said Tuesday the body of a black woman about the same height as Adeyooye was found in the remains of the chicken coop off Mississippi State Highway 80 in Newton County. The woman could have been between 20 and 40 years old, he said.

Newton County is between the cities of Jackson and Meridian in the southern half of the state.

On Tuesday, authorities in Normal sent dental records to a medical examiner’s office in Mississippi, Kotte said, but he does not expect results until late Wednesday.

 

[amandab]

Brains-

Thank you for the updates. I was so hoping for a good ending for Olamide.....

I know they haven't confirmed the body as hers, but I'm jumping to conclusions tonight.

-Amanda

 

[Brains & NoBull]

Video of Olamide.

 

[mysteriew]

Police this afternoon released more information about a woman's body found in Mississippi but were still awaiting word whether it was that of a student reported missing from her apartment near Illinois State University in Normal.

Dental records for the missing woman, Olamide Adeyooye, 21, of west suburban Berkeley, have been sent to the Newton County, Miss., medical examiner's office to assist in the identification of a woman's body found there, according to Normal police.

A fire was reported Monday morning in a chicken coop off U.S. Highway 80 in Newton County, police said. A property owner discovered in the debris the body of an unidentified woman. The owner called the county sheriff's office.

The Mississippi Highway Patrol processed the crime scene, and the sheriff's office contacted Normal police on Monday afternoon, police said. They declined to say what the Mississippi investigators found that led them to connect the body to Adeyooye's disappearance.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-051025missing,1,4548371.story?coll=chi-newslocal-hed

 

[amandab]

From the above article:

The criminal investigation into Adeyooye's disappearance "is progressing pretty rapidly," Kotte said, with several "persons of interest" being questioned.

Investigators believe that Adeyooye was not a victim of someone randomly "preying on college students," he said.

"Our investigation leads us to believe that is not the case," Kotte said.

But he said he could not comment on the possibility that Adeyooye knew the person responsible for her abrupt disappearance. No arrest warrants had been issued as of late Tuesday, Kotte said.

Adeyooye, a senior majoring in laboratory sciences, disappeared from her off-campus apartment along with her car. Police have not located her green 1996 Toyota Corolla with Illinois registration LBG 927, or a missing comforter.

The body was discovered Oct. 21 in the remains of an abandoned chicken coop near U.S. Highway 80 east of Jackson, Miss. Local firefighters extinguished a blaze there Oct. 17 but did not find the body, said Newton County, Miss., Sheriff Jackie Knight.

The landowner "went in to clean it up--or some of his hands did--and at that point in time they found the body," Knight said.

Knight said it did not appear the body was clothed, although "there was remnants of something laying under her."

 

[Brains & NoBull]

Dental Records of Missing Woman Mailed to Mississippi

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[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Dental records for the 21-year-old Adeyooye -- who has been missing for two weeks from an off-campus apartment in Downstate Normal -- were sent to Mississippi on Tuesday in the hopes that they can be used to identify the body found last week in Newton County, Miss. [/font] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The records were initially faxed to the Newton County medical examiner's office, but they had to be resent by mail because the faxed images were too dark, said Newton County Sheriff Jackie Knight. [/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"This isn't the kind of thing you want to be wrong on," Knight said. "We're not trying to jump to conclusions or speculate on who it is. We're waiting like everyone else." [/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The body could be identified as early as today, officials said.[/font]

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[Brains & NoBull]

The more I think about this, the more I think that Olamide left with someone that she knew. She took her purse and her car keys, but left her cell phone. Her dinner was still in the microwave, the lights were on, and her fan was still going. She had to have thought that she was going somewhere for just a short time and would be back.

Could someone have come to her door needing help with something, perhaps a ride somewhere, and then she left with them expecting to be home at the end of the errand? Or did she receive a call that she was suppose to go into work to pick up a check or something?

It is so strange that she disappeared from the safety of her own home in a community that does not have very much crime. I have not read anything about a struggle or a break and enter and there have been no reports of the neighbours hearing anything. She just had to have been lured away by someone that she knew.

I heard again that Thursday's "Without a Trace" is supposed to be covering Olamide's disappearance. I don't know if that means that the show will be based on the events or if she will be the missing person showcased at the end of the show. Either way, I hope that some tips come in as a result of the coverage.

I feel for Olamide's family and friends. What horrific news to be waiting for today.

 

[2luvmy]

I feel for Olamide's family and friends. What horrific news to be waiting for today

I hear ya brains. Someone's family and friends are going to get bad news.

 

[ketel0ne]

Burned body in Mississippi is that of ISU student

JAN DENNIS
[size=-1]Associated Press[/size]


NORMAL, Ill. - A body found in a burned-out chicken house in Mississippi is that of missing Illinois State University senior Olamide Adeyooye, authorities said Wednesday.

Dental records were used to identify the badly burned body, a police source told The Associated Press.

A native of Nigeria who moved to suburban Chicago when she was 8, Adeyooye was last seen Oct. 13 at a video store near her off-campus apartment in this central Illinois city.

Her body was found Friday in central Mississippi as workers cleaned up the chicken house where firefighters had put out a blaze four days earlier.

 

[Lesleegp]

Gee, I hate to hear that. I guess it's good to have some sort of resolution, but such a strange case. How on earth did she up there?

 

[jodierenee]

oh goodness

I am anxious to hear who did this horrible crime and how the heck they ended up in mississippi.

 

[Brains & NoBull]

Prayers for Olamide, her family, and her friends. How horrible.

She was such a beautiful girl with so much going for her.

Now it is time for LE to find the ba$tard who did this and fry the h3ll out of him.

:furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious: :furious:

 

[2luvmy]

WoW! Even though I suspected, I really hoped it wasn't her.

Now we need to find out any aquaintences she had that had ties to the MS area. This small amount that has been leaked out about the case tells me it is not a murder by a stranger.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

I did not want this to be her. Not at all.
I'm guessing it was someone obsessed with her, honestly. More than likely a guy who couldn't have her. Terrible.