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Forensic Files

Covet Thy Neighbor

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

When a college co-ed vanished without a trace, her fellow students were concerned about her safety… and their own. Weeks later, the body of an unknown female was discovered 700 miles away in the ashes of a barn fire, and an alert police officer realized the two crimes might be connected.

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Up next, to college co-ed vanishes without a trace.

0:04.0

The television was still on.

0:06.0

It was almost as if her activities had been interrupted.

0:09.0

It's just really scary to think about that.

0:11.0

It happens here.

0:12.0

Her fellow students prayed for her safe return.

0:15.0

Police feared her reductor might be among them.

0:18.0

Everybody was a suspect, but we had no direction to go.

0:21.0

Eventually, the trail led to a barn fire, hundreds of miles away.

0:26.0

A senseless murder with no motive.

0:30.0

Who?

0:32.0

Who?

0:34.0

Who?

0:36.0

Who?

0:38.0

Science played a big part in Olamadeh Adiyoye's life.

0:44.0

Ever since she was a little girl, she dreamt of a career in medical research.

0:50.0

And she was halfway there, entering her senior year at Illinois State University.

0:56.0

Olamadeh liked science a lot.

0:58.0

I could definitely see her going into the forensic field, working in a laboratory, doing DNA analysis.

1:05.0

Olamadeh worked her way through school as a waitress.

1:08.0

Friday nights were usually the busiest.

1:11.0

So it was unusual when Olamadeh didn't show up one Friday when she was scheduled.

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