Special Prosecutor Ed Parkinson to Help Prosecute Maurice Wallace in Olamide Adeyooye Murder Case
Special prosecutor Ed Parkinson confirmed that he has been asked to help with the McLean County case, the murder of Illinois State University student Olamide Adeyooye.
McLean County State’s Attorney William Yoder has asked the state appellate prosecutor’s office to assist with the case against Wallace, 27, of Normal, The Pantagraph has learned.
Parkinson is part of the state’s prosecution team preparing for the Maurice LaGrone Jr. triple-murder trial set to begin Feb. 21 in McLean County. LaGrone and former girlfriend Amanda Hamm of Clinton are accused of drowning Hamm’s three young children in Clinton Lake in September 2003.
Maurice Wallace has been charged with three counts of murder in the death of Olamide Adeyooye.
Wallace stands accused of the death of Adeyooye, a 21-year-old ISU student who disappeared from her apartment Oct. 13. Police found Adeyooye’s body Oct. 21 in a burned-down chicken house in rural Mississippi.