Posted on 10/20/2005 3:34:17 PM PDT by smartin
Oct. 20, 2005 — Police in Illinois are searching for a 21-year-old college student who vanished from her off campus apartment last week.
Olamide Adeyooye, a senior at Illinois State University, was last seen on Thursday. She was to graduate in December with a degree in criminal laboratory sciences and planned to return home to the Chicago area to work at a hospital lab.
Samantha Troha, Adeyooye's best friend, said her friend "isn't the type of person to run away" and not tell anybody.
"We spoke every day last week up until the day she disappeared," Troha said. "She would call somebody. She has too many people that love her, and she loves too many people."
Police initially considered the disappearance a missing persons case but now have declared it a criminal investigation after discovering personal items in a nearby lot.
"When you get this type of information it's time to shift focus and go down the criminal road here," said Lt. Mark Kotte, of the Normal, Ill., Police Department. The FBI and Illinois State Police have joined the investigation.
"We have persons of interest," he added. "We still have some more people to interview."
Kotte said that some of the people being interviewed by police were known to Adeyooye and some were not.
Police believe Adeyooye visited a video store before she disappeared. Police say her car, a green 1996 Toyota Corolla, is missing, as well as a comforter from her apartment. Her family says her cell phone was left on the couch and the lights were still on in her apartment. A video she apparently rented on Thursday was still in the VCR.
Last Saturday, her parents called police when they didn't hear from her.
"Let her come home. I know she misses me. She misses her brother and her family. All my family are praying for her to come back," said her mother, Oluwayianka Adeyooye.
Troha said the student's friends and her family are hoping that Adeyooye is still alive.
"If someone does have her, let her go," Troha said. "She's the most gentle and kind person you're ever going to meet."
Not allowed, ABC. She's not a white girl, blond-haired, blue-eyed. sarcoff/
:-)
Is she a Nigerian - or is this just a fashionable legal name change?
She is indeed Nigerian.
There are way too many college students going missing these days....
Yes, there are.
As soon as they can photoshop her into a white girl Greta will get right on the case.
Only fair, since Greta went through her own photoshop before moving to Fox.
She's still the ugliest person on Fox.
And the most liberal. I so wish they'd get rid of her.
Years ago they were just listed as run aways and ignored, unless a body was found.
She is also a scientologist.
And her husband is a trial lawyer.
Yep, they got it all. ;-)
Oh dear, I hate these stories. She's very pretty. These stories really make me worry about my kid.
There was a story in the NY Daily news today about some college gal who got grabbed off the street, at 4:30 in the afternoon. She kicked her way out of the van the guy threw her in and escaped.
Maybe if the "feminists" hadn't decided that what women need to do most is kill their babies something could have been done to actually help women, world wide.
They identified her body. Very sad.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/10/26/national/a140519D54.DTL
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