ILLINOIS ? A 27-year-old man was charged with murder Thursday in the slaying of an Illinois college student whose body was found in a burned-out Mississippi chicken coop.

Maurice Wallace was also charged with auto theft and concealing a homicide in the death of 21-year-old Olamide Adeyooye, an Illinois State University senior who was last seen Oct. 13 at a video store near her off-campus apartment in Normal.

State’s Atty. Bill Yoder refused to answer questions about the case ahead of a court hearing today.

But according to court papers, the woman was killed in her apartment on the day she was last seen. Wallace tried to clean blood from the floor of her apartment, then put her body in her car and left the area, the court papers said.

Adeyooye’s badly burned body was found Oct. 21 in Mississippi when the chicken coop’s owner was cleaning up from a fire four days earlier. She was later identified through dental records.