Burned Body Found in Miss. Is Ill. Student (Olamide Adeyooye)

SFGate.com ^ | October 26, 2005 | JAN DENNIS

[morans14]

It is so disturbing. We live and work in Bloomington-Normal. Our daughter attends college here. I'm not a paranoid type but I sure hugged my daughter tight before she left for class today. I hope they catch the person that did this.

[smartin]

I do too. This is really a terrible thing to happen anywhere.

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for the ping.

This is so sad.
She had a lot going for her.
And, she was a very pretty young lady.

[SuziQ]

"We don't believe any locals are involved," said Lt. Raymond Delk of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation. "Nothing has turned up."

I don't know how he can say that. How would someone who didn't live around there know how to find that chicken coop. Were they driving around for hours with her body in the trunk looking for someplace to dump it and just happen upon the abandoned coop?

[vetvetdoug]

Hood will try to pin it on someone that has had prior association with the Klan; its his MO. Was Killen loose on the date she went missing?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Headlines from the local Bloomington/Normal IL newspaper, The Pantagraph:

An unexplainable end - ID confirmed for missing ISU student
Heartbroken family seeking justice
'It's never hit so close to home'

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

My oldest sister was going to school at Illinois State when Carol Rofstad was murdered. This was especially scary because my sister was living in a nearby apartment building. Typically, Bloomington/Normal is a pretty sleepy kind of town. But it's known its scary shares of co-ed murders.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Typical response of the Normal (IL) Police. We used to call them the Keystone Cops. Back 25 years ago, they were kind of known for being inept and being thugs.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

My sister's husband is an ISU prof. My grandfather's family lived at the NW corner of Monroe & Towanda in the 1910's/1920's. I was living on Franklin Park in the mid 1980's when I met my (then) future husband; I used to walk to work in downtown Normal every day except when the winter weather got really, really, well, like blizzard conditions ;-).

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Link to ISU Campus newspaper article:

Police announce Mississippi body is Adeyooye

[morans14]

We used to live on Fell Ave just north of Willow. We would walk through Downtown Normal. It is currently being renovated. It is really a sight to see. We live in Bloomington now but we go to the campus for football and basketball games.

[bubbleb]

No, it seems to be one of our local boys....

Waiting For Autopsy Results Channel 25
Oct 27, 2005 - Normal police hope to have results from a second autopsy soon in the death of an Illinois State University student found dead in Mississippi last week.

A preliminary autopsy on Olamide Adeyooye was inconclusive and did not determine the cause of death .

Normal police say establishing a cause of death could provide more answers as to how Adeyooye wound up in Mississippi.

Police recovered her body from a burned up barn in Newton County last Friday.

Lieutenant Mark Kotte says police believe the fire was deliberately set. He says right now, they're concentrating on finding her 1996 Toyota Corrola.

On Wednesday, Normal police searched an apartment at 917 Market, not too far from Adeyooye's apartment.

They're not saying whether or not the search was made in connection to the case.

Kotte insists that Adeyooye's death is not reflective of someone preying on college students.

[bubbleb]

I think it's a misquote or liberal media trying to twist it into their own "Christianity."
I've watched this father through teared eyes, and he sounded as if he has it straight.
This is heartbreaking and frightening, my oldest is 19yr. old in another college nearby.

[bourbon]

Thanks for the links. I am from MS, but I used to live in Chicago. I have driven through Normal/Bloomington several times, but I never really stopped there.

From all of your posts, it sounds pretty darn nice (well, except for the creepy co-ed murders). I'll be sure to stop there, if I'm ever passing by again. I really like Central and Downstate IL.

[pollyg107]

Yes, I hope her killer is brought to justice, too.

A body was found off I-55 in Jackson next to the water works today. I guess that will be in the C-L tomorrow and on the news tonight.

[bourbon]

No joke! So that's why there were t.v. vans and police hanging out near the water works when I drove home this morning! I'm definitely watching the 10pm news tonight.

[pollyg107]

I had to come home at lunchtime today to let my dogs out and saw all the tv crews, crime scene tape, etc.

I just watched the news on WLBT. Apparently the remains were skeletal. They said clothing found with the bones was at least a year old.

Every time I hear about remains being found, I think of Annie Laurie Herrin. Do you remember when she was kidnapped? They have never found her body. I can't imagine how awful that must be for her daughter.

[bourbon]

On the 10pm news last night they said the remains were at least 8 years old. What is really strange is that they said another unidentified body had been found at the water works in 1994.

creepy.