my prayers are with her and her family. i really hate seeing this type of thing happen:( i hope she is found unharmed and soon! rm

Her parents are on CNN right now and seem pretty calm given the circumstances. Hope all turns out well

My heart breaks for her parents ..... scary, scary stuff :(

Ttt

Someone must recognize this freakin loser! That's a pretty good shot of him. Pray the young lady is alive and found soon!

She's in our prayers, it is on the
TODAY show at this moment.:(

it was just on Good Morning America what a beautiful and nice girl she seems to be, my prayers and heart go out to her family. I lived in that town for about 3 years, it was a very nice community. Hard to belive that something like that could happen in daylight and no one see anything. Sure will make me more aware in the parking lots of all the stores I visit.

it hit our papers this morning. My daughter just got her lic. saturday. Made her read this. I remember when we were young it wasn't this bad. It just sucks that we have to worry about our kids and wives like this.

It`s 7:05 AM Central time right now --- about to have a feature on The Today Show in a few minutes.

I am not sure if it will help find her quicker, but the fact that she called home a lot and let her parents know when she would be home certainly helped them know she was missing a lot sooner. I know kids want a lot of independence but this should drive home the message on how important a quick phone call home can be.

At 10 o'clock last nite they held a press conference releasing video information on a truck that was recorded driving around the back of the Target and then pulled in behind Ashley as she parked her car. Later, video surveillance recorded the truck driving out of the Target lot approximately 10 minutes after her car was abandoned in the mall lot across the street. It's a mid 70's Chevy, dark colored.

http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/...49/detail.html

We live in OP and this kind of stuff gets the entire community involved. You should see the news video of the literally 100's of people helping out!

Praying for a safe return.

Good thing for the parking lot video's. It sure does help that they are all over the place. It's just to bad they don't have someone montoring them all the time. I know it isn't cost effective but it might have to come to that one of these days

I can`t believe that nobody has identified the "person of interest" driving the black pickup. The video of him is fairly clear and SOMEBODY out there should recognize him.

This is just one more of the reasons I don't mind surveillance cameras at all. Every time I hear the "big brother" complaints about cameras, I wonder what those people have to hide?

Hoping for a safe return.

Anyone one the Lee Summit area should keep an eye out for her or the male in the 70 Chevy pickup. I used heard they did get something from her cell phone in the Longview lake area.
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/...43/detail.html

I had them installed on my house, and it resolved a situation I had across the street, the neighborhood is peaceful again. Camera's work.

Bad news! They found her body a while ago. Hope they catch the guy soon. Pray for the family.

Terrible News!!

Sorry to hear that. :(

oh damn it :(

very sad.

What a shame, she was a pretty girl. I hope they catch the bastard.

says they have I.D.'d the suspect who lives 2 miles from where body was found, which is 20 miles from the Target store. He will face death penalty in Kansas as state lines were crossed. I don't think he is in custody yet.

I'm f-ing sick of all these crimes against kids. They should make an example of who ever did this.

Unbelievable. So sad. My condolences. :( :( :(
I hope they catch the basturd!

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Report: Missing Kansas Teen Found Dead
CBS News Interactive: Out Of Sight: Missing Kids

(CBS News) OVERLAND PARK, Kan. CBS station KCTV-TV in Kansas City, Mo., is reporting that searchers have found the body of missing 18-year-old Kelsey Smith, according to an official an Overland Park, Kan., woman's church.

The executive director of the Hillcrest Church told a KCTV-TV that Overland Park Police Capt. Thomas Fredrickson notified him police were telling Smith's parents that they had located her body.

The Associated Press is also reporting that police found a body Wednesday in the area where they have been looking for a missing teenager, according to media reports.

Police had been searching in the Grandview area after tracing signals from Smith's cell phone.

A young, goateed man videotaped leaving a Target store moments before the apparent abduction of an 18-year-old woman from the adjoining parking lot is being sought for questioning, investigators said.

Experts had been analyzing signals from the Kelsey Smith's cell phone on Saturday night after she was abducted. A police spokesman estimated the signals - "pings" - sounded about 15 miles from the store.

He said the signals show that her phone passed through certain sites along a route that led to an area around a park south of Kansas City, Mo. The last signal was recorded at about 8 p.m. Saturday. The signals are believed to be Kelsey's family trying to reach her.

The man in the surveillance tape had not been identified as of Wednesday morning and was not being called a suspect, but he might have information about the disappearance of Smith, Overland Park Police Chief John Douglas said.

Her parents say no one in the immediate family recognizes him.

The video shows a mid-1970s Chevy pickup parking near Smith's car just seconds after she had pulled in and entered a Kansas City-area Target store, reports CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers.

Roughly 10 minutes later, Smith returned to the parking lot. This video seems to show someone shoving the 18-year-old into her car.

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.

"You see two individuals come together, and there is no separation of those two individuals," Douglas said. "So it is easy to conclude there was some kind of incident at the back of the car. Then the car leaves."

But the tape was "just not detailed enough" and was being enhanced at a forensics lab, Douglas said.

"We see activity," Douglas said of the videotape. "We are moving on the assumption - because the prudent thing to do is to treat this as an abduction - that there was some kind of force involved."

More than 50 detectives and officers from the area and the FBI were involved in the case, he said.

About two hours after Smith disappeared, her grandparents found her gray 1987 Buick in a parking lot at a mall in suburban Kansas City with her purse and packages still inside. Her cell-phone and ATM card were not, reports Bowers.

The Smith family has 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 plans to be a veterinarian.

"At least once or twice a day, you have your breakdown where you just have to go somewhere and let everything out. Then you pull yourself back together and remember we're trying - we're going to get Kelsey back, we're going to find her," Greg Smith said on CBS News' The Early Show.

Hundreds of people spent long hours searching for her, passing out flyers, going door to door, and using the Internet.

"From her friends to people we don't know, church groups, the Red Cross was out there. Many restaurants are donating food for the volunteers that are out there. It's been absolutely amazing how much people are out helping us," her mother Missey told Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen.

But Kelsey Smith's 23-year-old sister, Stevie Hockersmith, said she was sure her sister did not know the man police were seeking.

Wherever Kelsey was, Hockersmith said, she felt sure her sister put up a fight.

"He doesn't know what he's in for," she said. "Honestly, she'll raise all hell, and she won't stop. Kelsey won't stop until her body makes her stop basically, until she just can't go on anymore."

(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. )

terrible what the phuq is wrong with people.............

:( :mad: :( :mad: :(

String this fugger up!!!!!!!!!

Sick sob , I just don't get it! Prayers for the family.

So very sad. :( :(

extremely sad.:(
There are too many crazed phucks out there.

i just saw the report on msn.com about the body found my prayers are with family that it is not her

Absolutely unbelievable. What the hell is wrong with people? This sweet girl didn't have a chance. Sincerest condolences to her family.

So sad! I have three daughters and this kind of thing scares the hell out of me. They don't nderstand that in todays world with MySpace and the like, its a very different place. I just watched an interview with one of her friends and she thought that the girl had posted her address and phone number on her webpage as information for her graduation party.

God bless her and her family. Keep our kids safe

RIP. This is so sad and upsetting. I hope Justice is swift and sure.

A stout rope and a tall tree - time for some old-style Kansas justice, if you ask me.

Our thoughts and prayers are with her family. :( :( :(

:( Very sad. RIP

This is getting to be too common...the sh!t will be when they find out the scum who did this was "just released" and, or has a prior history of this sick crap...so sad!
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My prayers are with you. My daughter has been taken out of the state by her mother and I have not been able to speak with her for 5 days despite emergency custody orders granted to me. I am losing my mind but my daughter is more than likely ok with her mother. I could not imagine the heartache and pain that family is going through right now. Such a tragedy and I am so sorry.

they found her a few miles from my house in lees summit. whatever "justice" the family gets wont be near enough. i say turn the sick sob's over to the girls father so they can have real justice. who says capital punishment doesnt deter crime. one less sicko on the streets :mad:

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family. So sad. :(