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The police in Atlanta, GA now say that Maurice Lashon Wallace of Normal “is involved or has knowledge” of what happened to Olamide Adeyooye. Maurice Lashon Wallace was in custody on identity theft charges in Atlanta; however, is now being called a suspect in the disappearance of Olamide Adeyooye.
Normal police Lt. Mark Kotte said 27-year-old Maurice Lashon Wallace of Normal “is involved or has knowledge” of what happened to Olamide Adeyooye, based on interviews and evidence collected in an investigation that spans three states. Kotte declined to elaborate, saying that information could jeopardize the investigation.
No charges have been filed against Wallace in connection with the death of Adeyooye, a 21-year-old student from the Chicago suburb of Berkeley.
Fiends of Wallace and Adeyooye have made the connection that the two knew each other and that they lived in the same apartment complex.
Wallace has been in custody since a week after Adeyooye disappeared when he was picked up at an Atlanta shopping center on a warrant in an unrelated identity theft case in Normal. Kotte said the identity theft case involved multiple victims, but he declined to say if Adeyooye was one of them.
Friends say Adeyooye and Wallace knew each other and that he had been to her off-campus apartment. Kotte declined comment on any connection between the two.
Seems that Maurice Lashon Wallace has a past history of convictions.
Wallace was convicted Sept. 6, 2001, of entering a taxi and striking the driver. A memorandum in a court file indicates late in the same month, he bought a one-way ticket to Heathrow Airport in London, turned himself over to immigration officials and asked for political asylum.
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November 4th, 2005 at 09:15pm
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The remains of the missing Texas woman Sheril Susan Moore were identified and confirmed. She was found about 1/2 mile away from her vehicle in a field in Oklahoma. She was on her way to Colorado to visit with her son as she was in the process of evacuating from Hurricane Rita.
The cause of death is unknown at the time and investigators are considering it to be a homicide even though her husbands seems to think it was an accident caused by fatigue.
“We are continuing to investigate this as a homicide until we get evidence that shows us otherwise,” said Grady County Undersheriff Irene Perske.
Remains discovered in a rural area near Amber have been identified as that of a missing Hurricane Rita evacuee from Houston, who was headed to her son’s Colorado home, Grady County officials said Thursday.
Search crews discovered the remains of Sheril Susan Moore, 59, on Tuesday in a pasture less than one mile from where the woman’s sport-utility vehicle was found last week, Grady County Undersheriff Irene Perske said. She had been missing for a month.
On Friday, authorities resumed their search for the woman after a farmer found her car abandoned in a pasture near Amber. The 2001 Ford Explorer was about 300 yards from the road sitting along a creek bed.
The Equusearch team was the first to find the remains, McMullen said.
Grady County Sheriff’s deputies and Equusearch, a search and rescue team out of Houston, Texas, began searching the farmland Tuesday morning following fruitless searches both Thursday night and Friday to find a woman missing from Texas.
Sheriff Kieran McMullen said the Equus team was in the southwest corner and Layton had a group in the southeast corner when the two groups decided to start toward each other.
The Equusearch team was the first to find the remains, McMullen said.
By noon, volunteers from across the county had assembled to aid in the search for remains. McMullen said besides Equusearch and the deputies, volunteers from the Grady County Volunteer Fire Departments, Rush Springs Fire Department, Oklahoma State Troopers, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Amber Police and Grady County reserves deputies showed up to assist in the search.
Moore’s husband, Barry Moore of Houston, said he believes his wife was suffering from fatigue and stress from being on the road for about 48 hours and that she became lost and disoriented.
November 4th, 2005 at 08:19pm
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According to authorities the body found in LaGrange County has been positively identified as the missing 79 year old Rosemary Reinel. She had been missing for approximately five weeks.
A missing person investigation has now turned into a homicide investigation after police positively identify a body found in rural LaGrange County.
Police suspected the body was that of 79-year-old Rosemary Reinel of Sturgis, Michigan. Using dental records, police confirmed the body was Reinel.
Investigators say they are still trying to determine when and how Reinel was killed.
Police say they are looking at 53-year-old Dannie Gayheart as a person of interest in the case.
Update: WNDU 16; Missing person case turns into homicide investigation
A body that was found in rural LaGrange County has been positively identified as a missing Sturgis woman, 79-year-old Rosemary Reinel. Reinel disappeared in September.
On Tuesday, Reinel’s body was found just three miles away from her home by LaGrange County farmers working on their crops.
Body confirmed to be missing Sturgis woman
A coroner has confirmed that a body found in an Indiana farm field is that of a Sturgis woman last seen leaving her apartment on September 19th.
The coroner made the identification based on dental records. An autopsy could determine exactly how and when 79-year-old Rosemary Reinel died.
Body buried in corn field identified as missing Michigan woman, Rosemary Reinel
A body found buried in a corn field near the Michigan state line has been identified as a Michigan woman missing since September.
Police said Thursday they are conducting a homicide investigation into the death of Rosemary Reinel, 79, of Sturgis. She was reported missing Sept. 22 and was last seen leaving her Sturgis apartment two days earlier, according to Sturgis police.
Reinel’s car was found last month in Sarasota, Fla. Gayheart was arrested there on charges that he violated his parole from Michigan.
Evidence in the car pointed to foul play, police said.
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November 3rd, 2005 at 03:14pm
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The missing car, a green 1996 Toyota Corolla, of a slain Illinois State University student Olamide Adeyooye was found in Atlanta. Atlanta, where police have a man in custody and awaiting extradition to Illinois on unrelated charges but may want to question him in the death of Olamide Adeyooye.
The missing car of a slain Illinois State University student has been found in Atlanta, where police say a man they may want to question is awaiting extradition to central Illinois on unrelated theft charges, authorities said Monday.
Normal police Lt. Mark Kotte declined to characterize the 27-year-old man as a suspect in the disappearance and slaying of 21-year-old Olamide Adeyooye, whose badly burned body was found Oct. 21 in a central Mississippi chicken house.
Adeyooye’s green 1996 Toyota Corolla, missing since she disappeared, was found abandoned Sunday in a residential neighborhood on Atlanta’s southwest side, Kotte said. Authorities are processing the car for fingerprints, weapons and other evidence such as hair or fibers, he said.
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October 31st, 2005 at 10:24pm
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Another unfortunate end has come to a missing persons case. This time it is Lynn Moran who was found Monday morning floating near the Maine State Pier in Portland.
The body of a 24 year old woman who disappeared three weeks ago was found Monday morning floating near the Maine State Pier in Portland.
The state Medical Examiner determined that Lynn Moran died by accidental drowning.
It would appear that the investigators are ruling this an accidental drowning as as Lynn Moran was seen intoxicated the night before her disappearance. The area in which Lynn Moran was last seen is approximately two blocks from The Maine State Pier where Lynn’s body was located this morning.
Now, investigators say there is a good chance Moran fell in the water the night of Oct. 10. She had been drinking and was described by witnesses as extremely intoxicated when she was seen at about 10:30 p.m. on Market and Middle streets. Her body was spotted at 7:30 a.m.
The Maine State Pier is about two blocks from where she was last seen.
From WCVB TV5 (Boston); Portland Harbor Body Identified As Mass. Woman. Investigators Believe Moran Fell In Accidentally
Acting Portland Police Chief Tim Burton said the state medical examiner’s office confirmed the identity of Lynn Moran, 24. He said the cause of death was determined to be accidental drowning.
The Shrewsbury, Mass., woman was last seen alive three weeks ago, as she was partying with friends in the city’s Old Port on Columbus Day.
Has Lynn Moran Been Found?
From earlier this morning.
October 31st, 2005 at 05:36pm
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According to the Clarion Ledger, authorities have picked up a individual in Atlanta who may be questioned in the death of Olamide Adeyooye.
Authorities say they found blood after search of man’s Illinois apartment
Authorities have picked up a person in Atlanta who might be questioned in connection with the slaying of Illinois student Olamide Adeyooye, whose burned body was found in Newton County.
Asked if someone was being questioned in Adeyooye’s death, Newton County Sheriff Jackie Knight said Thursday night he “could not comment on whether there was a person of interest and if he were in jail in Atlanta.”
The name of the man picked up by authorities remains unknown, but he reportedly lived in the same apartment complex in Normal, Ill., as the 21-year-old Nigerian native.
More interesting information on the arrested man in Atlanta. (Hat Tip: kshe78)
October 29th, 2005 at 01:58am
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An unfortunate ending came as the skeletal remains were found and was identified from dental records as being missing teen, Lourin Peralta. Her parents reported her missing in July, after she allegedly ran away from home.
Dona Ana County sheriff’s investigators are interviewing friends and family of 17-year-old Lourin Peralta, after her skeletal remains were found in the Rio Grande, near the Picacho bridge.
On Thursday, investigators confirmed Peralta’s dental records matched the skeletal remains found.
According to The El Paso Times, dental records identified a skull found Sunday in the river near the Picacho Avenue bridge as Peralta’s, he said. About 40 other bones have been found.
October 28th, 2005 at 09:19pm
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Henry County authorities stated that the dead body found in a lake was a 27-year-old Conyers woman, Shawntell Ranae Barnes, reported missing last week.
An autopsy completed Thursday determined that the woman, Shawntell Ranae Barnes, was stabbed to death, said Henry County police Lt. Jason Bolton. Barnes was discovered Wednesday by a jogger running past the lake, located near Metro Heights Baptist Church on Ga. 138, near Stockbridge.
Bolton said investigators want to talk to her husband, Dantel, who is described as a “person of interest” in the case. Dantel Barnes did not appear to take a lie detector test scheduled Monday by Rockdale sheriff’s investigators, Bolton said. Rockdale investigators have said there was a “history of domestic problems in the home.”
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Henry County police at 770-957-9121.
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October 27th, 2005 at 07:04pm
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The burned body recently discovered in a burned out chicken coop in Mississippi have been positively identified as the missing Illinois State University student Olamide 
Adeyooye.
Authorities say the body of a woman found in a burned out chicken coop in Mississippi has been positively identified as missing ISU student Olamide Adeyooye.
The 21-year old student was last seen almost two weeks ago at the Family Video near her off campus apartment.
Adeyooye’s body was found Friday in central Mississippi as workers cleaned up the chicken house where firefighters had put out a blaze four days after Adeyooye’s disappearance.
Burned body ID’d as ISU student (Chicago Sun Times)
A body found in a burned-out chicken house in Mississippi is that of missing Illinois State University senior Olamide Adeyooye, authorities in Downstate Normal said Wednesday.
Dental records were used to identify the badly burned body, although police did not release a cause of death.
The grim and tragic discovery of the Olamide Adeyooye occurred after owner of the chicken house who was cleaning up after a blaze there four days earlier.
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October 26th, 2005 at 06:47pm
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In what is every parent’s worst nightmare, Friday Taylor Marie Behl was laid to rest in Vienna. Taylor’s life memorialized by her friends and family.
A funeral today commemorating the life of Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Marie Behl was “beautiful and touching, short and sweet, just like Taylor’s life,” her mother said.
Such and event is beyond words as one could only understand the pain and agony that Taylor’s family is experiencing. One can only empathize with their despair and hope that justice id done for their daughter.
More than 500 friends and relatives said good-bye this morning to Behl, a 17-year-old teenager whose remains were found in a wooded area of remote Mathews County about a month after she disappeared.
She was memorialized in a 45-minute funeral held at Church of the Holy Comforter in her hometown of Vienna in Fairfax County.
After the service, a gaunt and devastated Janet Pelasara, Behl’s mother, told reporters she hoped the next time she speaks publicly about the case would be to announce the arrest of the “sick subhuman . . . who murdered my beautiful daughter.”
God Bless and rest in peace Taylor.
Update: An Outpouring of Grief for Slain Student, Taylor Behl, Slain Teen’s Mother Lashes Out
As hundreds of mourners poured out of the funeral yesterday for Taylor Marie Behl, her mother broke down and lashed out at the person who killed the college freshman and left her body in a ravine east of Richmond.
“May the courts see fit to give him the death penalty so he may continue his downward spiral into the depths of hell,” a sobbing Janet Pelasara said in a brief statement to reporters outside the Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna.
October 16th, 2005 at 01:17am
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