Police Puzzled Over Illinois Student's Death

Illinois authorities are looking for clues in trying to determine how Illinois State University student Olamide Adeyooye died and how her body ended up in a burned chicken coop in Mississippi.

The remains of the 21-year-old native of Nigeria were identified by dental records after workmen cleaning up debris from a chicken coup, where fireman extinguished a fire four days earlier, found her body. An autopsy failed to reveal a cause of death.

Adeyooye was last seen Oct. 13 renting a movie at a video store near her Normal, Illinois apartment. She was reported missing when she failed to show up for ISU classes and her weekend waitress job. Her green 1996 Toyota Corolla is still missing.

Investigators believe Adeyooye was dead before her body was placed in the chicken coup near Lake, Mississippi about 60 miles from Interstate 55, which also passes through Normal.

Adeyooye was a laboratory science and biology major at ISU and was expected to graduate in December.

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