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up next to college co-ed vanishes
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without a trace the television was still
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on
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it was almost as if her activities had
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been interrupted it's just really scary
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to think about that it happens here
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her fellow students prayed for her safe
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return
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police feared her abductor might be
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among them
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everybody was a suspect but we had no
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direction to go eventually the trail led
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to a barn fire
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hundreds of miles away a senseless
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murder
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with no motive
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science played a big part in olamide
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adeyoye's life
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ever since she was a little girl she
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dreamt of a career
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in medical research and she was halfway
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there
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entering her senior year at illinois
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state university
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olamide likes science a lot i could
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definitely see her going into the
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forensic field working in a laboratory
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doing dna analysis
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olamide worked her way through school as
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a waitress friday nights were usually
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the busiest
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so it was unusual when olamide didn't
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show up one friday when she was
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scheduled
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the next day she didn't answer repeated
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calls to her apartment and cell phone
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her friends and family began to become
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more worried about
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olamide not being able to get a hold of
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her
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olamide's car was gone her apartment
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locked when police entered olamide's
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apartment
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they discovered her purse and her wallet
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were there
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her cell phone was on the sofa with more
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than 60
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unanswered messages the television was
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on
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it looked as if she had just gotten up
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and left
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until police entered her bedroom
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the search revealed large pile of
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clothing on
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the bedroom floor when we systematically
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went through
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each piece of clothing we began to see
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stains of bleach the odor of bleach
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leads all of us to believe that someone
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is trying to cover up or clean up
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a crime underneath the clothing
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was a large blood stain the blood
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was tested at that time and it wasn't
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ultimately identified back to olamide
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they also found a blood trail leading
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outside
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there were blood drops down the back
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porch down the back steps
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down across the parking lot ending about
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a foot
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from where the trunk of olamide's car
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would have been
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someone could have silently carried her
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down the stairs and placed her in a
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vehicle in the darkness
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although olamide lived in an apartment
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off campus
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her disappearance struck fear among the
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students
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you're a young female walking around
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campus i have a night class so
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usually when i get out of school i walk
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home and it's just really scary to think
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about that it happens here
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missing posters were put all over campus
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and the surrounding community
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days went by but there was still
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no sign of olamide i'm trying to do
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everything i can i mean i know she'd be
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doing the same thing for me
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as the search entered its second week
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investigators got a potential break from
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a small
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town 700 miles away
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a police officer in mississippi had
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heard about
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olamide and her disappearance by the
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news media
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he told illinois police about a body
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they'd found
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after a recent barn fire they had in
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mississippi
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the fire was an arson and all they knew
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was
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that the victim was a young female
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police were able to get the dental
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records of olamide from her family
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dentist
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the records along with the remains were
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taken to a
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forensic odentologist and he was able to
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positively
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identify the remains as olamide it
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probably is the worst feeling i've ever
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felt
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i felt horrible for her mother i feel
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horrible for her brother
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it blows my mind for someone to think
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that they can kind of play god
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and take someone else's life
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investigators now wondered
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who killed olamide and why
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he took her to mississippi
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students and faculty of illinois state
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university
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gathered on campus to remember olamide
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adeyoye
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she pushed people to be their best she
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wanted everyone to be their best
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including herself
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her family was understandably frustrated
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not knowing
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who was responsible or why when you
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think of olamide
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remember the young beautiful woman
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who had a hunger for knowledge
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intelligence and who wanted to help
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others at the autopsy
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the medical examiner concluded that
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olamide's death occurred
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long before the fire started the cause
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of death in the medical examiner's
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opinion
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was exsanguination which means loss of
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blood
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due to a penetrating injury
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investigators began
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their search for the killer by looking
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into olamide's
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friends associates any possible enemies
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and certainly anyone who had ties to
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mississippi
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on the night olamide disappeared friends
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said she had a date planned
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with a new boyfriend we talked about how
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she was excited about going out on a
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date with a
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gentleman named bertis partice was 25
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year old bartis harvester
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a criminal justice major at the
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university
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when interviewed by police partise
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claimed olamide canceled their date at
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the last
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minute sometime around 10 pm yes
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you gave her a call yes where were you
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when you called her
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at home yes that time she told you
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she changed her mind and she ran some
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movies and decided to
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just kind of call her tonight and say
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you know exactly
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partice denied any involvement in the
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crime
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the fact that she had canceled a date
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with the guy on the very night that
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she's last
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seen alive um it's certainly something
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that's gonna jump out
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another suspect was olamide's former
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boyfriend
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andy foley a guitar player in a band
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the two had recently broken up they
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loved each other a lot
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but it was definitely hard for them to
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be away from each other for such a long
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period of time
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but foley provided an airtight alibi
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andy was actually on tour and he was
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actually on the east coast
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and other band members of his verified
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his whereabouts on the night of her
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disappearance
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something else happened on the day she
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disappeared olamide told
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friends about an incident that happened
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while she was taking a shower in the
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afternoon
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one of olamide's former roommates ashley
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todd martin
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had entered olamide's apartment
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uninvited through the unlocked front
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door
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this apparently angered vomiting
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ashley's attitude was
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why don't you have your door locked
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while you're taking a shower
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olamide and ashley had recently decided
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to live separately
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olamide didn't want to be around this
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girl anymore
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according to olamide's close friends
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from home
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this girl seemed to be a bad influence
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on olamide
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and they were concerned about olamide's
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relationship with this girl
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i'd heard them have a couple of fights
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sometimes you know i'd be on the phone
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and they'd be fighting with each other
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and it just
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she wasn't normal when she fought with
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her it wasn't
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the olamide that i knew ashley todd
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martin
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vehemently denied any involvement in
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olamide's disappearance
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but police thought her constant
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appearances on television newscasts
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to discuss obama day were suspicious
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it's like i feel bad i feel guilty
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but i'm just glad that you don't have to
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sit here
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and wonder whether she's being hurt or
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tortured or you know she's just
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peaceful now it appeared to be more
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about
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ashley than about olamide
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since there were no signs of forced
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entry into olamide adeyoye's apartment
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investigators worked under the
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assumption
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that olamide was acquainted with her
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killer
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an informant called police suggesting
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olamide's neighbor
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might have been responsible we were
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contacted by
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a woman who had seen the news coverage
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of olamide's disappearance
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this woman was concerned that an
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ex-boyfriend of hers
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may have been involved in olamide's
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disappearance the man
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was 27 year old maurice wallace
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he lived in a building about a hundred
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yards from olamide's apartment
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though not a college student wallace had
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been living
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on or near campus for years many
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students remembered him
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and not fondly
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he would invite himself to parties
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people described him as kind of creepy
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and strange
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women especially he wasn't a student
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he wasn't a member of the community he
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was
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a bad person he was a bad person
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and myself and twenty five thousand
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other twenty somethings
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in normal we'll attest to that a
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background check revealed
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maurice wallace had served four months
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in jail shortly before olamide's murder
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maurice wallace had assaulted and
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battered someone
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in a taxi cab was a situation where he
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didn't know
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the victim prior to the assault and it
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was
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another example of his unpredictability
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and
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aggressiveness after he was released
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wallace had trouble finding work and he
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told a former girlfriend he was planning
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to commit
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violence he has said some very
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disturbing things
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he was going to make a name for himself
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or be become a martyr
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by going out and killing someone wallace
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also expressed his opinions on race
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he seemed to have a lot of opinions
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about society and racism
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and and his take on what was
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wrong with society as a whole
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he had indicated that he wanted to marry
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a nigerian woman
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witnesses said olamide and wallace met
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once
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and that wallace told olamide he
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objected to her dating
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white men there was one occasion where
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he had
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attended a party and olamide was there
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and he was kind of harassed in hilamide
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about her boyfriend
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but was this a possible motive for
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murder
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we think he may have been upset with her
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you know she's part of the problem
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because she's not
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promoting um her race
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she's a sellout if that's the term that
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he would use
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when police went to question him he was
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gone
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nabor said he hadn't been around since
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olamide went missing
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he did not have a vehicle and the fact
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that
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olamide's vehicle was missing it pointed
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even more directly towards wallace
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nationwide alerts were issued for
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wallace and for olamide's car
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when we say that yes we have reason to
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believe that he's involved or has
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knowledge
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that does not rule out that there could
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be other individuals
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there very well could be so we're still
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looking at that because we don't we
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don't have all the pieces put together
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yet
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wallace's credit card activity showed he
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purchased gasoline
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in mississippi the day after olamide
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disappeared
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the gas station was near the barn where
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olamide's body was discovered
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what we hoped to find out was did he
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purchase
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gas or an accelerant there that could be
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used to start the fire
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unfortunately there were no video
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surveillance cameras at that gas station
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investigators discovered wallace did
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have a connection
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to mississippi wallace had some
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connection to mississippi
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and that he had some relatives that were
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there
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while investigators searched for wallace
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they also had to search for forensic
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evidence
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and they weren't having much luck inside
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olamide's apartment
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it's a common misconception that there
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are hundreds of fingerprints left at
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every crime scene and
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a lot of times you may only find one or
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you may find none
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since the crime was committed at night
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investigators assumed the killer would
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have turned off the lights
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after cleaning up the blood but there
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were no visible blood stains on the
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light switch by the door
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that whole area was actually brought
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into the laboratory they cut out the
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wall
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and took the light switch and brought in
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all of that to us
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analysts viewed the switch plate with
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oblique
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or angled lighting we take various
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different types of light sources
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and we bring them in from the side from
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the front and
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do a lot of tilting with the evidence in
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order to look at it on the surface to
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see if we can see anything
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on the surface itself and that's where
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they found
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a single high quality fingerprint and it
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looked like
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it was in plasma not all blood is
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red or brownish like you would think
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there are other components in the blood
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that are clear the plasma is a clear
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substance and it tends to separate out
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from the
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red part of the blood dna testing showed
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the blood
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was olamides which meant the print
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probably belonged to whoever harmed her
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that was key there's not a whole lot of
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innocent explanation for that
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it's like finding a print over blood on
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a murder weapon
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but where was maurice wallace
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investigators found a fingerprint on the
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light switch
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in olamide adeyoye's apartment the print
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didn't match olamide's former roommate
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ashley todd martin
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or any of the other suspects questioned
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in the case
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but police were still searching for
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their prime
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suspect maurice wallace according to his
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credit card activity
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he was traveling throughout the southern
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united states
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to track him more closely investigators
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focused
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on his cell phone activity through
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cellular phone forensics
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we're able to locate very specifically
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where maurice wallace was
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in real time
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when wallace made a call from a shopping
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mall in atlanta georgia
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police
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when police arrested maurice wallace
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they found olamide's keys in his
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possession
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which was a a big giveaway at that point
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wallace wasn't driving olamide's car he
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was driving
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a rental car instead there was a gas can
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that was located in his rental vehicle
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we suspected it may have been used to
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start this fire
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wallace denied any involvement in
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olamide's murder
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i've got to go ahead and read you a
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couple things i'm sure you've you know
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where's my turn why am i here without an
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attorney you're gonna ask me some
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questions
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nine times i tell you whatever i answer
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gonna be used against me so
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i want an attorney when police left the
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room
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wallace was alone unaware he was
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being recorded he made what looked like
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a speech
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to himself any sort of
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insurgency or revolution you don't just
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go at the
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oppressor you go at the people who
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helped the oppressor
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people who ate in the backyard send a
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message that if you cooperate with these
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people
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you're gonna whack you this revealed a
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potential motive
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for olamide's murder we think he may
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have been upset with her
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for dating a white man when police
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compared wallace's fingerprint
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to the bloody fingerprint found in
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olamide's bedroom
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it was a match ten
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days after wallace's arrest police found
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delamade's car
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abandoned in a residential area of
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atlanta
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olamide's blood was discovered in the
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trunk
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they also found bloody fingerprints on
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the rear view mirror
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i was able then to powder and lift those
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impressions
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and then lift them off of the rearview
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mirror and then do a comparison
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one of these was maurice wallace's
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thumbprint
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dna testing identified the blood
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as olamides investigators also found
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evidence
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on wallace's genes to the naked eye it
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didn't
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appear that there was anything unusual
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about them however
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later forensic testing found there was
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blood on those pants
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and that blood was olamides
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definitive proof that wallace was her
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killer
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police believe olamide let wallace into
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her apartment
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she knew him from the neighborhood
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once inside he may have made a sexual
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advance
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and was rejected
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he then snapped
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he stabbed olamide getting blood on his
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jeans
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he wrapped her body in a blanket and put
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olamide's body in the trunk of her car
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he tried to clean the bloodstains with
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detergent found in the apartment
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but as he turned off the light he left
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his fingerprint on the switch plate
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in plasma and left his bloody thumb
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print
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on the rear view mirror
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then drove to mississippi to burn her
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body
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he found an old barn put
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olamide's body inside then
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set it on fire the entire barn
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burned to the ground
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forensic odeontology identified her
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remains
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although wallace probably thought no one
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in mississippi
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would connect this fire to a girl's
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disappearance
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in illinois olamide's friends and family
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say
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the outstanding work of the
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investigators and scientists
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marked the end of a long difficult
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struggle
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she was a great person and she was
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always
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loving and open and as much as that's a
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great quality
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it can also be somewhat of a downfall
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because
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the world can be very ugly and you don't
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know who is out there
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in december of 2005 maurice wallace was
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charged with first
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degree murder his aberrant behavior
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didn't
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end with his arrest maurice wallace was
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very combative during court hearings
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one occasion he spit on the floor as he
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entered the courtroom
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talking when he was not supposed to be
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talking
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interrupting the judge because of the
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evidence against him wallace pled guilty
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and was sentenced to life in prison
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maurice wallace was a sociopath he's
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evil he certainly knew what he was doing
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every step of the way here
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he had a plan he carried it out didn't
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have any
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regard to his victim there's just an
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evil man that
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did what he told his friend on the phone
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he was going to go out and kill somebody
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and
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try to make a name for himself when the
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victim
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has been murdered or is no longer alive
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the only thing that's left to be able to
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speak for that person
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is the evidence itself
