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