Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Sad News Of Kelsey Smith

I am just watching a very sad and grim news report about the discovery of a body by the Overland Park, Kansas, police on Wednesday. They believe it is that of a teenager who disappeared four days ago after she was apparently abducted from a department store parking lot.
Overland Park, Police Chief John Douglass said the body was found across the state line at a Grandview, Missouri., lake. Positive identification was pending, but authorities believed it was 18-year-old Kelsey Smith.
Officers had been searching woods at the lake since Tuesday after investigators isolated two signals from Smith’s cell phone to an area about 15 miles east of the Target store in suburban Kansas City.
Police have not identified a suspect or a motive in the slaying, Douglass said.
Authorities were still seeking information about a young man videotaped entering and leaving the Target store within moments of Smith. He said police still considered the unidentified man a “person of interest” and not a suspect.
Smith, who graduated from high school less than two weeks ago, left the store around 7:10 p.m. and put packages into her car when someone ran toward her, police said.
Investigators said they don’t know whether Smith was picked at random or abducted by someone she knew.
About two hours after Smith disappeared, her grandparents found her car in a parking lot at a mall in suburban Kansas City with her purse and packages still inside.
The Smith family increased the reward for information about Kelsey’s disappearance to $30,000. Greg Smith, who has been in law enforcement for 16 years, described his daughter as an outgoing young woman who planned to be a veterinarian.
I am so tired of watching these types of reports of murders of young people, children, innocents, by monsters. I hope that they catch this guy and that he tries to fight it out with the police and they blow him away. I do not want to see this man going to court where some slicky boy defense attorney can get him off or get him a reduced sentence, because he was "mentally" ill, or had a bad childhood or some other mumbo jumbo.
I am not usually for the death penalty, but I think that a message needs to go out to all child killers that you will die, no mercy in any child murder case, and at 18, she was still just a child, having just finished school two weeks ago.
The best that can be hoped for is this young lady, Kelsey Smith was killed quickly and not raped and brutalized before he killed her. My fear is that the news we will hear may say that she did not die quickly and the monster did do things too her. I will pray for the family and for her that his was not the case.
We need to put her killer down like a rabid animal, as we should to all child killers and she was still just a child who did not have time to enjoy her life.
May, this young lady, Kelsey Smith, Rest In Peace!
And May they find her murderer, may they kill him and, may he be allowed to Rest In Hell!!

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