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all ages welcome

: The Other Place Olathe, Kelsey's family, Van Wall, and other local dealers are putting together a last minute ride to help raise money for a memorial fund.
The meeting time is 6:00pm on Thursday June 7 in the Target (97th and Quivira) parking lot. After everyone has arrived the group will be excorted to The Other Place in Olathe (16590 w. 135th st. Olathe, KS, 66062) for our normal bike night event. There will be a live band in the parking lot to help raise money.

You can contact The Other Place Olathe @ 913-791-9500 with any questions.
 
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Suspect On Surveillance Video Charged In Kansas Teen's Slaying
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Cyberspace Details About Kelsey Smith, Edwin Hall
Suspect's Neighbor Called TIPS Hotline
Abduction, Slaying Suspect Appears in Court
District Attorney News Conference - Kelsey Smith Case - June 7, 2007
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Edwin R. Hall, 26, Olathe, Kan.
Kelsey Smith, 18, Overland Park, Kan.
Also on KCTV5.com
Picture Emerging of Suspect in Suburban Store Abduction, Slaying
Complaint - Edwin R. Hall (.pdf)


Associated Links
FindKelsey.com
Kelsey Smith Fund
Protect Your Child From Abduction, Exploitation
City of Overland Park - News Release


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By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER
Associated Press Writer
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) -- Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline said Thursday he would consider seeking the death penalty against a man charged in the kidnap and murder of a teenager whose body was found three days after she was abducted from a Target store parking lot.
Kline said it was unclear if the case would be tried in state or federal court. But he said the death penalty would be a possibility in either jurisdiction.
"If we believe the crime is severe enough, and we do in this case, we will go to the jurisdiction that provides the most severe penalty," Kline said. "The discussions continue almost around the clock."
Edwin R. Hall, 26, was charged with premeditated first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping in the death of Kelsey Smith, 18. Bond was set at $5 million.
Hall was being held at a Johnson County jail in Gardner, and appeared in court via a video feed looking tired and downcast. He spoke briefly, waiving reading of the charges until he could hire his own attorney. His next appearance was scheduled for June 14.
If convicted, Hall faces a minimum sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the murder charge and more than 12 years for aggravated kidnapping, Kline said. Authorities have not said how or where Smith was killed.
Smith's sister, Stevie Hockersmith, 23, and several supporters also attended the hearing. Hockersmith left without speaking to reporters.
Smith had been missing since Saturday night, when she went to a Target store in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park to buy a gift for her boyfriend.
Surveillance video showed her being forced into her car around 7:10 p.m., and the car drove off. It was found in a nearby mall parking lot about two hours later.
Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass said Wednesday that Hall appeared to be the same person shown in the video leaving the Target soon after Smith. He was wearing a white T-shirt, sneakers, shorts and a goatee. He was clean shaven during the court appearance Thursday.
Police also said Hall's vehicle matched the description of a dark mid-1970s Chevrolet pickup that was seen entering the Target parking lot shortly after Smith's car.
Douglass said police had received more than 500 tips in the case and had questioned numerous people, including Hall, who was arrested at the end of his interview Wednesday.
Douglass said there was no evidence that Hall and Smith knew each other. He and Kline both have declined to offer a motive for the attack or specify whether investigators had determined that Smith was killed in Kansas.
Shortly after Kelsey's body was found in a wooded area not far from Longview Lake Park on Wednesday, detectives were talking with Hall. A tip from the public led them to Hall, who has been living with his wife, Aletha, and 4-year-old son in Olathe.
Their next-door-neighbor, Cameron Migues, 30, said he and his wife laughed when they noticed a similarity between Hall and the man pictured on the surveillance video. But that changed after the video of the truck was released.
"We put two and two together," said Migues, who called a police hot line Wednesday morning.
One day earlier, he said Hall's son had been in his backyard playing with Migues' 3-year-old son. Migues said he hasn't seen Hall's wife or son since then.
"The worst part is I just talked to him Monday," he said. "We were talking about cars."
Neighbor Harold Barry, 50, said he was surprised when he heard Hall had been arrested. He said Hall recently helped him repair his pickup truck.
"If I can go see him, I will see if I can help him out," Barry said.
He also said Hall seemed especially close to his son.
"He loved his son his so much," Barry said. "He had his small kid in that truck every time I saw him."

 
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