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NORMAL, Ill. – The search for a missing college student may have reached a critical point, as officials in Mississippi waited Tuesday for medical and dental records to determine whether a body found in a burnt-out chicken house could be that of 21-year-old Olamide Adeyooye. Elsewhere, investigators continued to interview several "persons of interest" in a case that gained attention through an Internet campaign launched by Adeyooye's friends. The popular senior at Illinois State University had been studying laboratory sciences and biology, and was due to graduate in December. She was last seen nearly two weeks ago at a video...

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...