College student laid to rest two months after body found

<p>An Illinois State University student missing for more than a week before her badly burned body was found in the rubble of a Mississippi chicken house was remembered at her funeral service Saturday as a woman who "showed people the kindness in her heart."</p><p>Olamide Adeyooye, a native of Nigeria who moved to the Chicago suburbs when she was eight, "was as close to perfect as anyone can be," her younger brother, Adewale Adeyooye, said in his eulogy.</p><p>About 250 mourners, including ISU students, attended the funeral at St. Domitilla Church in suburban Hillside. A single candle atop a pedestal burned throughout the ceremony above her white casket. She was to be buried at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside.</p><p>A 27-year-old man who lived in the same block in Normal where Adeyooye lived while attending college has been charged in McLean County in her death.</p><p>Adewale Adeyooye said his sister was a loving person who guided him through some tough times in high school and believed that her compassionate behavior to others would be returned to her.</p><p>"She showed people the kindness in her heart," he said.</p><p>"Sometimes I cry at night because I wonder how my family will get on without her," Adewale Adeyooye said. "She was the glue that held our family together."</p><p>Olamide Adeyooye was scheduled to graduate several weeks ago from ISU. She was last seen renting videos on Oct. 13 near her off-campus apartment in Normal. Her body was found on Oct. 21 in a Mississippi chicken house that had burned four days earlier.</p><p>The man accused in her death, Maurice Wallace, knew Adeyooye and lived in the same block, but they were not friends, prosecutors have said.</p><p>Wallace has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, concealing a homicide and theft of a motor vehicle.</p><p>Prosecutors allege Wallace left a bloody fingerprint in Adeyooye's apartment and that personal belongings of his were found along with Adeyooye's keys in a rental car Wallace had when he was arrested Oct. 20 in Atlanta on unrelated charges. Adeyooye's car was later found abandoned in Atlanta.</p><p>Wallace, who is being held in the McLean County Jail in lieu of more than $2 million bond, is scheduled to appear in court again Jan. 6.</p>