BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Bail has been set at $2 million for a man who allegedly killed an Illinois State University student to be a martyr and be in the news.
Maurice Wallace of Normal, Ill., lived near the victim, Olamide Adeyooye, and prosecutors say the two were acquaintances, the Chicago Tribune reported. Adeyooye disappeared Oct. 13, and her body was found a week later in a burned abandoned chicken coop in rural Mississippi.
Assistant State's Attorney Kim Campbell said at Friday's hearing Wallace made a telephone call the night Adeyooye vanished.
"He stated that he was depressed and wanted to leave the country and that he felt like killing someone to pursue his personal cause, become a martyr, and get his name in the news," she said.
Wallace was arrested in Atlanta Oct. 20. Adeyooye's car was found there, although Wallace was driving a rental at the time of his arrest.
Andy Wildrick, Adeyooye's boyfriend, told the Tribune he hopes Wallace "has no chance ever of harming anybody else."
"He's already screwed up enough lives as it is because he felt depressed," Wildrick said.
