Police in Downstate Normal said Monday that they do not yet suspect foul play in last week’s disappearance of a 21-year-old Illinois State University student from west suburban Berkeley, though close friends fear otherwise.
Olamide Adeyooye–Ola to her friends–is a good student completing her studies for a degree in laboratory sciences. Until this weekend, she reliably showed up for her shifts at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant, her friends said.
When police opened the locked door to her off-campus apartment Saturday, they discovered that the TV, lights and a fan were on, the video she had rented Thursday evening was in the VCR, there was food in the microwave, and her cell phone was on the couch.
Gone were Adeyooye, a comforter and her car–a four-door, green, 1996 Toyota Corolla. Friends suspect that Adeyooye may have gone to a nearby laundromat late Thursday to wash the comforter and ran into trouble there.
“Knowing Ola, we can’t see how she would [run away]. She’s a really good person. She wouldn’t do something like that,” said friend Laura Braun, 19, of Norridge. “We can’t help but suspect there might have been foul play.”
