Missing Student's Body Found

The body of Olamide Adeyooye, a senior at Illinois State University was found in a burned down chicken coop located in Mississippi. This article on MSNBC news states that the 21 year old senior had been missing for about 8 days (since October 13) and her body was found Friday, October 21. It was said on the article that since her disappearance, parents and friends have been using blogs and the internet (the power of technology) in addition to other means in order to send out messages to people. The cause of death is not yet known, but the police and FBI are still investigating.

It seems that lately many tragic events have been taking place involving college/university students, which sadly lead to their deaths at an extremelly young age. These incidents, however, are not quite new occurences. Though it is unknown the cause of Adeyooye's death, it can be compared to an event that occured in the 1960's. On June 21, 1964 three men were victims of political assassinations in Mississippi, according to an article on Wikipedia. The men were James Chaney from Mississippi, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, both from New York. Goodman had been a student in New York and all three were in their twenties. It is said that local police and the Ku Klux Klan had been involved in their murders.