By CHUCK KURTZ
In 2007, just days before her high school graduation, 18-year-old Kelsey Smith, Overland Park, was kidnapped in daylight from the Target parking lot next to Oak Park Mall, driven 20 miles into Missouri, raped and killed by Edwin Roy “Jack” Hall, then 26, who now is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Four days after Kelsey was reported missing and just hours after police finally were given her cell phone information by Verizon, her body was found.
Since then here parents, Missey and now State Sen. Greg Smith, R-Overland Park, started Kelsey’s Army, a foundation that has been instrumental in not only establishing Kesley‘s Law in the state of Kansas making it easier for law enforcement to acquire cell phone records needed during an investigation of a missing person, but in nine other states as well.
Legislation also has been introduced in nine other states.
And they are wanting Kesley’s Law to be adopted at the federal level.
