1 00:00:05,267 --> 00:00:08,527 WHEN A BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL TEENAGE GIRL 2 00:00:08,533 --> 00:00:10,265 MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS, 3 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:12,335 HER LOVING FAMILY IS TORN APART. 4 00:00:12,370 --> 00:00:14,332 WHEN SHE WASN'T THERE, 5 00:00:14,367 --> 00:00:16,127 IT WAS LIKE, "SO, WHERE IS MY CHILD?" 6 00:00:18,267 --> 00:00:19,897 THE POLICE HAVE NO CLUE. 7 00:00:20,867 --> 00:00:22,927 WE WERE STILL UNSURE 8 00:00:22,933 --> 00:00:27,318 IF SOMETHING CRIMINAL HAD HAPPENED TO HER. 9 00:00:27,353 --> 00:00:31,703 BUT ONE WITNESS HAS SEEN IT ALL... 10 00:00:34,233 --> 00:00:36,498 "MY GOD. DID YOU SEE THAT?" 11 00:00:36,533 --> 00:00:38,565 ...AND THE SECRETS IT HOLDS 12 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,330 MAY REVEAL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO KELSEY SMITH. 13 00:01:11,067 --> 00:01:16,067 SATURDAY, JUNE 2nd. OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS. 14 00:01:18,833 --> 00:01:22,633 IT'S A REGULAR WEEKEND FOR OFF-DUTY COP GREG SMITH, 15 00:01:22,668 --> 00:01:26,617 HANGING OUT AT HOME WITH HIS FAMILY... 16 00:01:26,652 --> 00:01:30,567 INCLUDING HIS 18-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER KELSEY 17 00:01:30,602 --> 00:01:32,797 WHO JUST GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL. 18 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,850 KELSEY SAID, "I'M GONNA RUN TO TARGET. 19 00:01:34,885 --> 00:01:36,865 I NEED TO GET A PRESENT FOR JOHN." 20 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:38,230 - WHAT TIME IS IT? - WHERE ARE YOU GOING? 21 00:01:38,233 --> 00:01:40,503 JOHN IS KELSEY'S BOYFRIEND, 22 00:01:40,538 --> 00:01:42,065 AND SHE WANTS TO BUY HIM A GIFT 23 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:44,070 TO CELEBRATE THEIR SIX-MONTH ANNIVERSARY. 24 00:01:44,105 --> 00:01:45,886 MWAH! I LOVE YOU, DAD. 25 00:01:45,921 --> 00:01:47,632 I SAID, "OKAY." 26 00:01:47,667 --> 00:01:49,267 AND SHE GOES, "I'LL SEE YOU IN A LITTLE BIT. LOVE YOU." 27 00:01:49,302 --> 00:01:51,267 BYE. 28 00:01:52,733 --> 00:01:55,333 THEN SHE WAS OUT THE DOOR, AND I SAID, "LOVE YOU," BACK. 29 00:01:55,368 --> 00:01:57,873 UM... 30 00:02:00,767 --> 00:02:04,097 IT SHOULD BE A QUICK, UNEVENTFUL ERRAND. 31 00:02:09,733 --> 00:02:12,303 BUT IT WON'T BE. 32 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,330 KELSEY CALLS HER MOM FROM THE STORE. 33 00:02:22,333 --> 00:02:26,633 SHE NEEDS HELP FINDING A GIFT, A GIFT BOX. 34 00:02:26,668 --> 00:02:29,098 I SAID, "OKAY, LOOK IN STATIONERY." 35 00:02:29,133 --> 00:02:31,403 AND I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO HER WHERE IT WOULD BE. 36 00:02:31,438 --> 00:02:34,832 AND I REMEMBER, BEFORE I HUNG UP, 37 00:02:34,867 --> 00:02:37,597 SAYING, "BYE, BABY, LOVE YOU. SEE YOU WHEN I GET HOME." 38 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:45,665 SHE WAS AT TARGET AROUND 7:00, 7:00-ISH. 39 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:47,570 AND I KNEW SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO GO OUT WITH JOHN 40 00:02:47,605 --> 00:02:49,067 LIKE 7:30 OR SO. 41 00:02:49,102 --> 00:02:50,697 COME ON IN. 42 00:02:53,333 --> 00:02:55,133 BUT WHEN JOHN SHOWS UP, 43 00:02:55,168 --> 00:02:58,203 KELSEY'S STILL NOT HOME. 44 00:02:58,238 --> 00:03:00,830 WATER? YEAH. 45 00:03:07,067 --> 00:03:10,527 AFTER A HALF-HOUR, JOHN AND GREG START TO WORRY, 46 00:03:10,533 --> 00:03:13,333 ESPECIALLY AFTER GETTING NO ANSWER FROM KELSEY'S CELLPHONE. 47 00:03:15,938 --> 00:03:18,732 THAT'S ENOUGH. 48 00:03:18,767 --> 00:03:23,767 KELSEY WAS THE KIND OF TEENAGER, UNLIKE MOST, 49 00:03:23,802 --> 00:03:25,967 THAT EVEN IF SHE WAS A FEW MINUTES LATE, 50 00:03:26,002 --> 00:03:27,832 SHE WOULD CALL TO LET US KNOW 51 00:03:27,867 --> 00:03:29,697 BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANT US WORRYING. 52 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:31,930 SHE HASN'T ANSWERED ANY OF MY TEXTS. 53 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:36,632 I'M JUST GETTING VOICEMAIL ALL THE TIME. 54 00:03:36,667 --> 00:03:39,127 THEN I SAID, "CAN YOU GUYS JUST DRIVE OUT THERE AND SEE? 55 00:03:39,133 --> 00:03:42,173 "MAYBE HER CAR'S BROKEN DOWN IN THE PARKING LOT OR SOMETHING, 56 00:03:42,208 --> 00:03:44,297 AND MAYBE HER PHONE DIED." 57 00:03:48,433 --> 00:03:51,503 KELSEY'S SISTER LINDSEY AND JOHN 58 00:03:51,538 --> 00:03:53,930 TOOK OFF IMMEDIATELY FOR THE MALL. 59 00:03:53,933 --> 00:03:57,873 THEY EXPECT TO FIND HER STRANDED IN THE PARKING LOT, 60 00:03:57,908 --> 00:03:58,967 WAITING FOR HELP. 61 00:04:03,433 --> 00:04:05,973 BUT THERE'S NO SIGN OF KELSEY... 62 00:04:06,008 --> 00:04:07,167 I DON'T SEE IT ANYWHERE. 63 00:04:07,202 --> 00:04:10,497 ...OR HER CAR. 64 00:04:11,767 --> 00:04:14,827 MY BIGGEST CONCERN WAS THAT SHE HAD BEEN IN A WRECK, 65 00:04:14,833 --> 00:04:16,698 SHE COULDN'T CALL US. 66 00:04:16,733 --> 00:04:18,903 60 MINUTES AFTER SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME, 67 00:04:18,938 --> 00:04:20,730 GREG HOLDS OUT HOPE 68 00:04:20,733 --> 00:04:24,703 THAT THERE'S AN INNOCENT REASON FOR KELSEY'S ABSENCE. 69 00:04:24,738 --> 00:04:26,230 I'M NOT GONNA PANIC JUST YET. 70 00:04:26,233 --> 00:04:28,465 SO, I STARTED CALLING 71 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:31,100 THE DIFFERENT POLICE AGENCIES AROUND THE AREA 72 00:04:31,135 --> 00:04:34,865 AND TALKING TO THE DISPATCHERS... 73 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:38,230 JUST TO SEE IF MAYBE SHE'D BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT 74 00:04:38,233 --> 00:04:39,932 AND, YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T KNOW YET, 75 00:04:39,967 --> 00:04:41,797 SEE IF SHE'D BEEN STOPPED BY THE POLICE 76 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,830 FOR A TRAFFIC VIOLATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 77 00:04:44,833 --> 00:04:50,073 BUT POLICE HAVEN'T SEEN KELSEY, EITHER. 78 00:04:50,108 --> 00:04:53,067 I WAS -- I WAS PRETTY ALARMED BY THAT TIME. 79 00:04:54,767 --> 00:04:58,667 EVERYBODY WAS OUT DRIVING AROUND TRYING TO FIND HER CAR. 80 00:05:02,533 --> 00:05:04,365 MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST HEAD HOME. 81 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,197 JOHN AND LINDSEY DETOUR 82 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,200 THROUGH A MALL PARKING LOT NOT FAR FROM THE TARGET. 83 00:05:14,567 --> 00:05:16,097 IT'S RIGHT THERE. 84 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:17,132 THAT'S IT. 85 00:05:18,433 --> 00:05:20,065 OUTSIDE A MACY'S STORE, 86 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:24,430 THEY FINALLY FIND WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR -- 87 00:05:24,433 --> 00:05:26,203 KELSEY'S CAR. 88 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,165 BUT NO KELSEY. 89 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:33,500 HER PURSE IS HERE, BUT... 90 00:05:33,535 --> 00:05:34,932 SHE'S NOT THERE. 91 00:05:34,967 --> 00:05:39,067 LINDSEY CALLED AND SAID THAT THEY'D FOUND KELSEY'S CAR 92 00:05:39,102 --> 00:05:43,397 ACROSS THE STREET AT THE MALL IN THE PARKING LOT. 93 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:44,930 WELL, THAT WAS A BAD SIGNAL TO ME, 94 00:05:44,933 --> 00:05:47,032 THAT THE CAR WAS IN A DIFFERENT PLACE. 95 00:05:47,067 --> 00:05:50,067 A SIGNAL THAT THIS COULD BE A CRIME SCENE. 96 00:05:50,102 --> 00:05:53,067 AND SO I SAID, "OKAY, JUST STAY AWAY FROM IT. 97 00:05:53,102 --> 00:05:55,632 LET ME CALL THE POLICE." 98 00:05:55,667 --> 00:05:59,667 FOUR HOURS AFTER KELSEY WAS LAST SEEN, 99 00:05:59,702 --> 00:06:02,697 DETECTIVES ARE CALLED IN. 100 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:09,330 WE RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL FROM THE FAMILY 101 00:06:09,333 --> 00:06:12,603 AROUND 11:00 P.M. THAT NIGHT. 102 00:06:15,700 --> 00:06:17,530 THEY HAD LOCATED HER CAR 103 00:06:17,533 --> 00:06:21,073 ON THE EXACT OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE SHOPPING AREA 104 00:06:21,108 --> 00:06:23,727 WHERE SHE HAD LAST BEEN KNOWN TO BE. 105 00:06:23,733 --> 00:06:25,781 AND IT JUST -- IT LOOKED SUSPICIOUS. 106 00:06:36,433 --> 00:06:40,603 THEY SCOUR THE CAR FOR EVEN THE SMALLEST OF CLUES... 107 00:06:42,567 --> 00:06:46,367 ...ANYTHING THAT COULD TELL THEM WHERE KELSEY IS. 108 00:06:46,402 --> 00:06:48,797 WE DID FIND KELSEY'S PURSE. 109 00:06:52,567 --> 00:06:55,567 AS WE WERE WATCHING THE POLICE BAG KELSEY'S CAR, 110 00:06:55,602 --> 00:06:58,927 YOUR STOMACH IS IN YOUR THROAT. 111 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,600 WE FOUND THE WRAPPING PAPER AND THE PRESENT 112 00:07:04,635 --> 00:07:08,330 THAT SHE HAD PURCHASED AT TARGET. 113 00:07:08,333 --> 00:07:11,498 IT WAS KIND OF ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS 114 00:07:11,533 --> 00:07:14,650 WHERE YOU LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND GO, "THIS MIGHT NOT BE GOOD." 115 00:07:14,685 --> 00:07:17,767 AND THINGS WERE ABOUT TO GET MORE OMINOUS STILL. 116 00:07:17,802 --> 00:07:20,667 THERE WAS SOMETHING HANGING OUT OF THE TRUNK. 117 00:07:22,567 --> 00:07:23,897 A BAG OR SOMETHING. 118 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:26,370 IT KIND OF LOOKED LIKE A TAIL HANGING OUT OF THE TRUNK. 119 00:07:26,405 --> 00:07:29,267 THAT WAS A SIGNAL THAT SOMETHING WAS DIFFERENT. 120 00:07:29,302 --> 00:07:32,932 AND TOOK EVERYTHING WITHIN ME 121 00:07:32,967 --> 00:07:34,827 NOT TO JUST WANT TO WALK OVER THERE AND OPEN THE TRUNK. 122 00:07:34,833 --> 00:07:38,473 BUT THIS IS NO JOB FOR A FATHER. 123 00:07:38,508 --> 00:07:41,467 THEY ANXIOUSLY WAIT FOR FORENSICS 124 00:07:41,502 --> 00:07:44,197 TO COME AND OPEN THE TRUNK. 125 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,500 WE HOPED THAT SHE WAS IN IT, BUT PRAYED SHE WASN'T. 126 00:07:47,535 --> 00:07:49,865 I WAS LITERALLY HOLDING MY BREATH 127 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:52,865 'CAUSE I THOUGHT MAYBE THAT'S WHERE SHE WAS. 128 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:55,600 AND I WAS HOPING, IF SHE WAS THERE, THAT SHE WAS ALIVE. 129 00:08:09,067 --> 00:08:11,067 AND THEN WHEN SHE WASN'T THERE, IT WAS LIKE, 130 00:08:11,102 --> 00:08:14,327 "SO, WHERE IS MY CHILD?" 131 00:08:16,133 --> 00:08:18,203 KELSEY ANN SMITH. 132 00:08:18,238 --> 00:08:19,730 YEAH! 133 00:08:21,867 --> 00:08:26,197 KELSEY GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL NINE DAYS AGO. 134 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,730 SHE WAS GOING TO GO TO KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY 135 00:08:29,733 --> 00:08:31,198 TO BECOME A VETERINARIAN. 136 00:08:31,233 --> 00:08:36,233 SHE'S A MODEL STUDENT, POPULAR AND INDEPENDENT. 137 00:08:36,268 --> 00:08:41,103 VERY OUTGOING. FUN KID TO BE AROUND. 138 00:08:41,138 --> 00:08:42,932 VERY HEADSTRONG. 139 00:08:42,967 --> 00:08:48,067 SHE WENT OUT OF HER WAY TO MAKE YOU FEEL WANTED. 140 00:08:48,102 --> 00:08:49,497 MOST LOVING KID AROUND. 141 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:55,530 AND JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REST OF HER LIFE. 142 00:08:58,533 --> 00:09:01,473 AND NOW SHE'S SIMPLY VANISHED. 143 00:09:03,300 --> 00:09:05,032 WE HAD AN 18-YEAR-OLD GIRL 144 00:09:05,067 --> 00:09:08,567 WHO, BY ALL ACCOUNTS, WAS VERY RESPONSIBLE. 145 00:09:08,602 --> 00:09:10,727 IT'S VERY LATE AT NIGHT. 146 00:09:10,733 --> 00:09:13,165 HER CAR IS FOUND IN A LOCATION 147 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,165 THAT SHE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE IN. 148 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,865 WHY IS THE CAR NOT WHERE KELSEY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE? 149 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:23,200 POLICE DUST FOR PRINTS SO THEY CAN PUT TOGETHER 150 00:09:23,235 --> 00:09:26,765 A FULL PICTURE OF WHO'S BEEN IN KELSEY'S CAR. 151 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,770 BUT THERE ARE NO FURTHER CLUES TO SUGGEST FOUL PLAY. 152 00:09:29,805 --> 00:09:32,127 THERE WASN'T ANYTHING TO INDICATE 153 00:09:32,133 --> 00:09:34,116 THAT THERE WAS A STRUGGLE IN THE CAR. 154 00:09:34,151 --> 00:09:36,100 IT WAS JUST DRIVEN THERE AND LEFT. 155 00:09:38,667 --> 00:09:43,067 KELSEY'S DISAPPEARANCE REMAINS SHROUDED IN MYSTERY. 156 00:09:43,102 --> 00:09:46,667 BUT DETECTIVES FIND A WITNESS AT THE PARKING LOT 157 00:09:46,702 --> 00:09:50,727 THAT MAY HAVE SEEN IT ALL. 158 00:09:59,067 --> 00:10:04,367 KANSAS TEENAGER KELSEY SMITH HAS VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE, 159 00:10:04,402 --> 00:10:08,167 BUT INVESTIGATORS MAY HAVE FOUND A VITAL, NEW WITNESS. 160 00:10:08,202 --> 00:10:10,732 THE VIDEO CAMERA, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN 161 00:10:10,767 --> 00:10:14,267 KIND OF LOOKING DOWN, SOUTHEAST, INTO THE PARKING LOT. 162 00:10:14,302 --> 00:10:17,197 BUT IT'S LATE, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT 163 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,313 CAN'T GET HOLD OF ANYONE TO ACCESS THE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM. 164 00:10:21,348 --> 00:10:25,427 EVERYONE WILL HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE WHAT THE CAMERA REVEALS, 165 00:10:25,433 --> 00:10:27,833 IF IT REVEALS ANYTHING AT ALL. 166 00:10:29,867 --> 00:10:33,427 MEANTIME, POLICE LOOK FOR ANSWERS CLOSER TO HOME... 167 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:37,500 ...STARTING WITH KELSEY'S PARENTS. 168 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:42,130 WHERE IS SHE, GREG? 169 00:10:42,133 --> 00:10:43,303 I DON'T KNOW, BABY. 170 00:10:43,338 --> 00:10:44,530 THANK YOU. 171 00:10:44,533 --> 00:10:47,218 I MEAN, THEY PUT US IN A QUESTIONING ROOM, 172 00:10:47,253 --> 00:10:49,826 AND THEY LEFT US THERE FOR A LITTLE BIT OF TIME, 173 00:10:49,861 --> 00:10:52,400 AND THERE WAS A CAMERA UP IN THE CORNER, YOU KNOW. 174 00:10:52,435 --> 00:10:53,867 AND I LOOKED AT MISSEY AND I SAID, 175 00:10:53,902 --> 00:10:55,265 "YOU KNOW THEY'RE WATCHING US, RIGHT? 176 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:57,070 YOU REALIZE WE'RE BOTH SUSPECTS RIGHT NOW?" 177 00:10:57,105 --> 00:10:59,332 SHE SAYS, "YEAH." 178 00:10:59,367 --> 00:11:01,532 AND I SAID, "SO, WE'RE GONNA ANSWER THE QUESTIONS 179 00:11:01,567 --> 00:11:03,967 "SO THEY CLEAR US SO THEY CAN LOOK FOR THE RIGHT PERSON. 180 00:11:04,002 --> 00:11:05,967 BUT IT'S JUST ROUTINE. THEY HAVE TO DO THIS." 181 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:14,932 HOW YOU DOING? 182 00:11:14,967 --> 00:11:16,632 I JUST WANT TO FIND MY DAUGHTER. 183 00:11:16,667 --> 00:11:19,927 AND THEY ASKED THE QUESTIONS THAT THEY NEEDED TO ASK. 184 00:11:19,933 --> 00:11:23,633 THE PARENTS ARE QUICKLY CLEARED OF ANY SUSPICION. 185 00:11:23,668 --> 00:11:26,985 BUT THERE'S SOMEONE ELSE THE COPS NEED TO TALK TO. 186 00:11:27,020 --> 00:11:30,303 WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT KELSEY'S BOYFRIEND, 187 00:11:30,338 --> 00:11:32,132 JOHN BIERSMITH? 188 00:11:32,167 --> 00:11:33,927 HE'S A GOOD KID. 189 00:11:33,933 --> 00:11:37,703 IT'S TYPICALLY THE PERSON WHO SAW THEM LAST, 190 00:11:37,738 --> 00:11:39,365 WHO KNEW WHERE THEY WERE LAST, 191 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,170 JUST HAD GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR LAST LOCATION 192 00:11:43,205 --> 00:11:46,627 OR CONTACT WHO WE KIND OF FOCUS IN ON. 193 00:11:46,633 --> 00:11:48,132 OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS, 194 00:11:48,167 --> 00:11:51,667 KELSEY'S SPENT MOST OF HER TIME WITH HER BOYFRIEND, JOHN. 195 00:11:51,702 --> 00:11:53,232 ALL INDICATIONS WERE 196 00:11:53,267 --> 00:12:00,267 WAS THAT JOHN ABSOLUTELY HAD THE LAST CONTACTS WITH KELSEY -- 197 00:12:00,302 --> 00:12:03,527 TEXTS, PHONE CALL, YOU KNOW? 198 00:12:03,533 --> 00:12:06,903 SO, WHERE WAS JOHN JUST BEFORE HE ARRIVED AT THE SMITH HOUSE 199 00:12:06,938 --> 00:12:09,032 TO PICK UP KELSEY? 200 00:12:09,067 --> 00:12:10,327 DID THEY HAVE A FIGHT? 201 00:12:10,333 --> 00:12:14,773 WAS THERE ANYTHING KELSEY TOLD HIM THAT WAS UPSETTING? 202 00:12:14,808 --> 00:12:17,297 AND WE PRESSED A LITTLE BIT HARDER, 203 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:20,070 REPHRASING THE SAME QUESTION IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS 204 00:12:20,105 --> 00:12:22,397 TO SEE IF HE WOULD ANSWER IN A DIFFERENT WAY. 205 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,430 WE PROBABLY PRESSED HIM A LITTLE HARD. 206 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:31,130 IT WAS, LIKE, TEARING MY MIND APART WHY THEY WERE DOING THIS. 207 00:12:34,433 --> 00:12:36,603 IT PROBABLY LASTED ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF, TWO HOURS. 208 00:12:36,638 --> 00:12:39,230 AND HE WAS ROCK-SOLID. 209 00:12:39,233 --> 00:12:41,653 JOHN'S STORY CHECKS OUT. 210 00:12:41,688 --> 00:12:44,073 HE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF WHERE KELSEY IS 211 00:12:44,108 --> 00:12:45,527 OR WHY SHE'S GONE MISSING. 212 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:51,330 HOURS INTO THE INVESTIGATION, POLICE ARE NOWHERE. 213 00:12:58,933 --> 00:13:01,498 DAWN THE NEXT DAY, 214 00:13:01,533 --> 00:13:04,603 AND THE FAMILY KICKS OFF ITS OWN SEARCH. 215 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:09,813 OUR DAUGHTER'S FRIENDS WERE COLLEGE-AGE 216 00:13:09,848 --> 00:13:12,527 AND VERY COMPUTER SAVVY AT THE TIME. 217 00:13:12,533 --> 00:13:15,403 SO THEY GOT A FLYER TOGETHER AND STARTED PRINTING IT OFF. 218 00:13:19,700 --> 00:13:23,400 KELSEY'S POLICE-OFFICER DAD TAKES CHARGE OF THE OPERATION. 219 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,165 WE'RE ON THE CLOCK. 220 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,330 WE'VE GOT 48 HOURS, OR WE'RE NOT GONNA FIND HER. 221 00:13:29,333 --> 00:13:31,733 AND IF WE DO FIND HER, WE'RE NOT GONNA FIND HER ALIVE. 222 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:37,570 THEY WOULD ASSIGN PEOPLE TO CERTAIN AREAS 223 00:13:37,605 --> 00:13:39,032 AND SAY, "YOU LOOK HERE." 224 00:13:39,067 --> 00:13:44,197 AND THOSE PEOPLE WOULD TAKE FLYERS AND KNOCKED ON DOORS. 225 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,070 WE WERE GOING DOOR TO DOOR ASKING IF ANYBODY'S SEEN HER LATELY. 226 00:13:47,105 --> 00:13:48,797 WE HAD THIS PRINTOUT. 227 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,730 WE WOULD DIVIDE AND CONQUER, 228 00:13:51,733 --> 00:13:53,298 PRETTY MUCH, THE OVERLAND PARK AREA, 229 00:13:53,333 --> 00:13:55,533 TRYING TO TELL EVERYBODY AND ANYBODY THAT WOULD LISTEN 230 00:13:55,568 --> 00:13:56,865 WHAT'S GOING ON. 231 00:13:56,900 --> 00:13:59,370 KELSEY'S FAMILY DOES EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER 232 00:13:59,405 --> 00:14:01,727 TO TRACK DOWN THEIR DAUGHTER. 233 00:14:01,733 --> 00:14:05,081 BUT 12 HOURS SINCE KELSEY'S DISAPPEARANCE, 234 00:14:05,116 --> 00:14:08,430 INVESTIGATORS MAY HAVE AN EYEWITNESS AFTER ALL 235 00:14:08,433 --> 00:14:10,065 WHEN THEY FINALLY GAIN ACCESS 236 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:12,930 TO THE PARKING LOT'S CCTV CAMERA. 237 00:14:12,933 --> 00:14:16,503 WE WENT BACK, AND WE GOT THE MACY'S VIDEO. 238 00:14:16,538 --> 00:14:20,830 WE TOOK A COPY BACK TO OUR COMMAND CENTER. 239 00:14:20,833 --> 00:14:25,373 WE NEEDED TO KNOW WHAT TIME KELSEY'S CAR WAS PARKED THERE, 240 00:14:25,408 --> 00:14:27,427 AND IF WE COULD SEE ANYONE 241 00:14:27,433 --> 00:14:29,573 GETTING OUT OF HER CAR AFTER IT WAS PARKED. 242 00:14:29,608 --> 00:14:32,827 IT'S THE MOMENT OF TRUTH. 243 00:14:47,367 --> 00:14:51,097 POLICE SCROLL THROUGH HOURS OF VIDEO, 244 00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:53,032 AND AT 9:17 P.M., 245 00:14:53,067 --> 00:14:56,127 TWO HOURS AFTER KELSEY WAS LAST HEARD FROM, 246 00:14:56,133 --> 00:14:59,498 THEY SPOT SOMETHING. 247 00:14:59,533 --> 00:15:03,373 THE MACY'S VIDEO WAS VERY GRAINY. 248 00:15:03,408 --> 00:15:06,627 THERE ARE ALSO PARKING-LOT LIGHTS 249 00:15:06,633 --> 00:15:09,032 THAT ARE SHINING AT THE CAMERA, 250 00:15:09,067 --> 00:15:10,727 SO EVERYTHING IS A LITTLE OBSCURED. 251 00:15:14,700 --> 00:15:18,750 AND ALL WE CAN SEE IS HEADLIGHTS 252 00:15:18,785 --> 00:15:21,727 COMING INTO A DARK PARKING LOT. 253 00:15:21,762 --> 00:15:24,670 IT'S KELSEY'S CAR. 254 00:15:28,833 --> 00:15:32,573 THE CAR DOOR OPENS, AND SOMEONE GETS OUT. 255 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:40,632 BUT THE FOOTAGE IS TOO BLURRY TO SEE WHO. 256 00:15:40,667 --> 00:15:43,797 SO, WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE FROM THE MACY'S VIDEO 257 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:50,070 IS KELSEY'S CAR ARRIVES AT 9:17 P.M. AND PARKS. 258 00:15:50,105 --> 00:15:52,497 THAT'S ALL WE CAN SEE. 259 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:54,700 IT'S A HUGE LETDOWN. 260 00:15:58,133 --> 00:16:02,030 BUT FOR KELSEY'S PARENTS, THERE'S A NEW RAY OF HOPE. 261 00:16:02,065 --> 00:16:05,927 THE FAMILY'S PUBLICITY GENERATES A PROMISING TIP. 262 00:16:05,933 --> 00:16:08,233 YES, SHE WAS WEARING A PINK SHIRT. 263 00:16:08,268 --> 00:16:09,498 THAT'S RIGHT. 264 00:16:09,533 --> 00:16:11,898 SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT 265 00:16:11,933 --> 00:16:16,933 HAVE CAPTURED SOMEONE MATCHING KELSEY'S DESCRIPTION. 266 00:16:16,968 --> 00:16:19,365 THAT LESS-THAN-FIVE-MINUTE DRIVE, 267 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,630 IT'S JUST RIGHT UP THE STREET FROM OUR HOME, 268 00:16:21,633 --> 00:16:25,032 THE ENTIRE TIME, YOUR STOMACH IS IN YOUR THROAT 269 00:16:25,067 --> 00:16:28,167 AND YOU'RE JUST HOPING, "PLEASE, LET THIS BE MY CHILD." 270 00:16:33,133 --> 00:16:35,032 I HOPED THAT IT REALLY WAS HER, 271 00:16:35,067 --> 00:16:37,627 BECAUSE THEN I KNEW SHE WAS ALIVE, AT LEAST. 272 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:43,370 THE SMITHS STRAIN TO GET A GOOD LOOK 273 00:16:43,405 --> 00:16:46,127 AT THE GIRL WITH HER BACK TO THE CAMERA. 274 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:52,130 IS IT KELSEY? 275 00:16:52,133 --> 00:16:57,073 YOU HOPE IT IS BECAUSE YOU'RE HOPING FOR ANY GLIMPSE 276 00:16:57,108 --> 00:17:00,527 OR ANY GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR YOUR CHILD. 277 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:07,500 MY HEART JUST DROPPED WHEN I SAW THAT. 278 00:17:07,535 --> 00:17:09,600 IT WASN'T HER. 279 00:17:16,667 --> 00:17:19,697 THAT'S -- THAT'S NOT HER. SORRY. 280 00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:21,170 THANKS FOR YOUR TIME. 281 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,100 IT'S A HEARTBREAKING DISAPPOINTMENT. 282 00:17:30,833 --> 00:17:32,933 THEIR DAUGHTER IS STILL OUT THERE, 283 00:17:32,968 --> 00:17:35,073 AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE. 284 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,035 YOU KIND OF PUT YOURSELF IN PLACE OF THE PARENTS. 285 00:17:43,070 --> 00:17:45,232 BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE EMOTION KICK INTO IT TOO MUCH, 286 00:17:45,267 --> 00:17:48,127 'CAUSE YOU KIND OF LOSE SIGHT OF YOUR OBJECTIVE AS A DETECTIVE. 287 00:17:56,833 --> 00:18:00,003 WITH THE CLOCK TICKING, DETECTIVES' ONLY HOPE 288 00:18:00,038 --> 00:18:03,173 IS TO TRACE KELSEY TO THE POINT OF HER DISAPPEARANCE. 289 00:18:05,167 --> 00:18:07,127 THEY KNOW SHE CALLED HER MOM FROM TARGET 290 00:18:07,133 --> 00:18:09,281 SOMETIME BEFORE SHE WENT MISSING. 291 00:18:09,316 --> 00:18:11,430 IN THE TARGET STORES, 292 00:18:11,433 --> 00:18:13,573 THEY HAVE AN INCREDIBLE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM, 293 00:18:13,608 --> 00:18:15,627 AND THEY'RE KNOWN NATIONWIDE 294 00:18:15,633 --> 00:18:18,133 AS KIND OF A CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY 295 00:18:18,168 --> 00:18:19,573 IN RETAIL SURVEILLANCE. 296 00:18:23,933 --> 00:18:25,698 WE KNEW THEY HAD CAPABILITY 297 00:18:25,733 --> 00:18:28,551 TO NAIL DOWN SPECIFIC TIMES AND DATES. 298 00:18:28,586 --> 00:18:31,332 IF KELSEY WENT TO TARGET, 299 00:18:31,367 --> 00:18:34,147 SURELY SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT ON CAMERA. 300 00:18:34,182 --> 00:18:36,927 WE WERE HOPING THAT'S WHERE THE KEY WOULD BE. 301 00:18:43,467 --> 00:18:44,827 INVESTIGATORS WOULD BE HAPPY 302 00:18:44,833 --> 00:18:48,873 WITH JUST ONE CAMERA'S GLIMPSE OF KELSEY. 303 00:18:48,908 --> 00:18:50,327 LITTLE DO THEY KNOW, 304 00:18:50,333 --> 00:18:54,933 THE STORE'S 40 CAMERAS HAVE FILMED HER ENTIRE SHOPPING TRIP. 305 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,265 KANSAS TEEN KELSEY SMITH 306 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:12,130 VANISHED INTO THIN AIR 17 HOURS AGO. 307 00:19:12,133 --> 00:19:15,533 MY CHILD IS MISSING. HELP ME FIND HER. 308 00:19:15,568 --> 00:19:18,933 HER FAMILY IS RACKED WITH WORRY. 309 00:19:18,968 --> 00:19:20,698 SHE'S MY LITTLE GIRL. 310 00:19:20,733 --> 00:19:25,273 AND HOPE NOW RESTS IN ONE PLACE... 311 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,530 ...SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE FROM THE 40 CAMERAS 312 00:19:32,533 --> 00:19:34,773 SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT STORE. 313 00:20:01,367 --> 00:20:03,727 CAN YOU MOVE IN A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THAT AREA? 314 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,430 RIGHT THERE. YEAH, THERE SHE IS. 315 00:20:09,433 --> 00:20:11,998 YEAH. 316 00:20:12,033 --> 00:20:15,165 IT'S KELSEY. 317 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,732 SHE HAD INDEED ARRIVED AT THE LOCATION 318 00:20:17,767 --> 00:20:19,597 THAT SHE HAD TOLD HER PARENTS SHE WAS GOING. 319 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:21,930 POLICE HAVE HIT PAY DIRT. 320 00:20:21,933 --> 00:20:25,573 KELSEY'S ENTIRE TRIP HAS BEEN CAPTURED ON CAMERA. 321 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,400 THEY CAN NOW PIECE TOGETHER HER JOURNEY THROUGH THE STORE. 322 00:20:31,435 --> 00:20:34,870 AT 6:54, SHE ARRIVES IN THE PARKING LOT. 323 00:20:38,433 --> 00:20:40,632 SHE'S SEEN GETTING OUT OF THE CAR 324 00:20:40,667 --> 00:20:43,467 AND WALKING TOWARDS THE STORE OUT OF SIGHT. 325 00:20:47,967 --> 00:20:51,027 AND THEN ADDITIONAL CAMERAS COULD THEN BE PULLED UP, 326 00:20:51,033 --> 00:20:53,503 WATCHING HER WALK IN THE FRONT DOOR. 327 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,030 AT THIS POINT, WE WERE LOOKING TO SEE 328 00:20:58,033 --> 00:21:02,103 JUST IF KELSEY HAD MADE CONTACT WITH ANYONE INSIDE THE STORE. 329 00:21:09,067 --> 00:21:11,097 WE BASICALLY JUST FOLLOWED HER THROUGH THE STORE 330 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:14,632 CAMERA BY CAMERA. 331 00:21:14,667 --> 00:21:18,527 JUST BEFORE 7:00, KELSEY MAKES THAT CALL TO HER MOM. 332 00:21:36,233 --> 00:21:40,203 SO FAR, IT LOOKS LIKE AN ORDINARY SHOPPING TRIP. 333 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,032 SHE WAS VERY CALM IN THE VIDEO. 334 00:21:46,067 --> 00:21:50,797 SHE'S CASUALLY WALKING AROUND THE STORE SELECTING HER ITEMS. 335 00:22:05,833 --> 00:22:08,433 SHE GOES TO THE CLERK... 336 00:22:12,267 --> 00:22:15,267 ...CHATS WITH THE CLERK AS SHE'S PAYING FOR HER ITEMS... 337 00:22:18,067 --> 00:22:20,097 ...AND THEN LEAVES THE STORE. 338 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:23,970 JUST 10 MINUTES AFTER ARRIVING, KELSEY RETURNS TO HER CAR. 339 00:22:24,005 --> 00:22:25,327 THERE SHE IS. SHE'S LEAVING. 340 00:22:28,533 --> 00:22:31,433 THE CAR BACKS UP AND LEAVES THE PARKING LOT. 341 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:41,330 AT NO POINT DID WE SEE HER TALK TO OR MAKE CONTACT WITH ANYONE. 342 00:22:43,067 --> 00:22:45,997 DETECTIVES ARE STUMPED. 343 00:22:46,032 --> 00:22:48,927 VERY NORMAL SHOPPING EXPERIENCE. 344 00:22:48,933 --> 00:22:51,603 OR IS IT? 345 00:22:53,967 --> 00:22:57,197 WE KNEW THERE WAS THAT ONE PIECE OF INFORMATION 346 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:58,665 THAT WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE, 347 00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:02,632 AND WE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE OR WHO WE WOULD GET IT FROM. 348 00:23:02,667 --> 00:23:05,927 WE HAVE NO FURTHER LEADS AS TO WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED TO HER. 349 00:23:05,933 --> 00:23:11,198 WE ARE...SORT OF IN THE DARK. 350 00:23:11,233 --> 00:23:14,133 ONCE MORE, COPS ARE AT A DEAD END. 351 00:23:25,367 --> 00:23:29,727 AS AN EMOTIONALLY EXHAUSTING DAY DRAWS TO A CLOSE, 352 00:23:29,733 --> 00:23:34,073 THE SEARCH FOR KELSEY HITS THE 18-HOUR MARK 353 00:23:34,108 --> 00:23:37,597 AND DREAD SETS IN. 354 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,648 AS THOSE MINUTES START TICKING AWAY, 355 00:23:40,683 --> 00:23:43,697 YOUR GUT IS JUST CONSTANTLY IN KNOTS. 356 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:50,270 AND YOU DO PANIC A LITTLE BIT WONDERING, WHERE IS YOUR CHILD? 357 00:23:50,305 --> 00:23:53,067 ONE SIDE OF ME WAS A POLICE OFFICER, 358 00:23:53,102 --> 00:23:54,397 JUST TRYING TO LOOK AT IT STRICTLY -- 359 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,070 "THIS IS JUST EVIDENCE. JUST LOOK AT THE FACTS." 360 00:23:57,105 --> 00:23:58,927 AND THEN THE OTHER SIDE WAS THE DAD. 361 00:23:58,933 --> 00:24:04,103 AND THEY HAD A HARD TIME GOING SIDE BY SIDE. 362 00:24:06,267 --> 00:24:08,097 AND THE POLICE SIDE 363 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:12,065 WAS NOT NEARLY AS OPTIMISTIC AS THE DAD SIDE WAS. 364 00:24:12,100 --> 00:24:15,400 YOU DON'T EAT BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOUR CHILD'S EATING. 365 00:24:15,435 --> 00:24:18,265 YOU DON'T SLEEP. 366 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:22,900 IT WAS JUST THE MOST GOD-AWFUL TIME IN MY LIFE. 367 00:24:34,433 --> 00:24:38,933 IT'S 24 HOURS SINCE KELSEY SMITH VANISHED, 368 00:24:38,968 --> 00:24:41,203 AND THE CLOCK IS STILL TICKING. 369 00:24:44,533 --> 00:24:46,265 WITH NOWHERE ELSE TO TURN, 370 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:49,470 FRUSTRATED POLICE TAKE A SECOND, MORE DETAILED LOOK 371 00:24:49,505 --> 00:24:51,127 AT THE TARGET FOOTAGE. 372 00:24:53,867 --> 00:24:57,897 ALL RIGHT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET'S TAKE A LOOK. 373 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:01,932 WE DECIDED TO VIEW THE VIDEO AGAIN 374 00:25:01,967 --> 00:25:04,527 TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANYTHING THAT WE HAD MISSED. 375 00:25:04,533 --> 00:25:08,465 ALL RIGHT, SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR ANYTHING. 376 00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:10,270 "WELL, LET'S TAKE IT OVER TO COMMAND AND CONTROL CENTER, 377 00:25:10,305 --> 00:25:13,136 AND WE'LL BLOW IT UP ON THE WALL." 378 00:25:13,171 --> 00:25:15,932 WE GATHERED IN A GROUP 379 00:25:15,967 --> 00:25:19,767 'CAUSE ALWAYS MORE EYES ON SOMETHING ARE BETTER. 380 00:25:19,802 --> 00:25:22,297 SHE ENTERS THE CAR PARK AT 6:57... 381 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:24,700 WITH THE FOOTAGE BLOWN UP, 10 SETS OF EYES 382 00:25:24,735 --> 00:25:28,270 EXAMINE EVERY FRAME FOR ANY OVERLOOKED DETAILS. 383 00:25:32,533 --> 00:25:35,303 WE WATCHED ALL THE SEGMENTS OF THE VIDEO. 384 00:25:37,367 --> 00:25:39,732 WE WERE HOPEFUL TO SEE ANYTHING -- 385 00:25:39,767 --> 00:25:41,897 THAT SHE PICKED UP SOMEBODY, AND THEY LEFT, YOU KNOW, 386 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:44,930 OR SOMEBODY ELSE WALKED OUT TO THE CAR WITH HER, AND THEY LEFT. 387 00:25:49,667 --> 00:25:54,627 WE WATCHED THIS VIDEO OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 388 00:26:04,867 --> 00:26:06,697 WHAT WE HAD SEEN BEFORE IS, 389 00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:09,370 WE HAD SEEN KELSEY WALK TO HER VEHICLE. 390 00:26:12,633 --> 00:26:14,298 SHE PLACES HER PACKAGES 391 00:26:14,333 --> 00:26:17,081 IN THE PASSENGER'S SIDE OF THE VEHICLE. 392 00:26:17,116 --> 00:26:19,830 SHE WALKS AROUND THE REAR OF HER CAR, 393 00:26:19,833 --> 00:26:22,950 AND SHE GETS IN THE DRIVER'S SIDE, 394 00:26:22,985 --> 00:26:26,032 AND THE CAR BACKS UP AND TAKES OFF. 395 00:26:26,067 --> 00:26:30,597 THEY WATCH THE CLIP OF KELSEY APPROACHING HER CAR AGAIN. 396 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,130 THE PICTURE'S QUITE LARGE, SO IT'S PIXILATED, 397 00:26:33,133 --> 00:26:35,533 SO IT'S KIND OF BLURRY. 398 00:26:38,167 --> 00:26:40,527 AND AS WE'RE STANDING THERE, 399 00:26:40,533 --> 00:26:44,373 WE SEE SOMETHING THAT WE HADN'T SEEN BEFORE. 400 00:26:49,133 --> 00:26:52,098 LET'S PLAY THAT BACK AGAIN. 401 00:26:52,133 --> 00:26:54,300 SHE WALKS AROUND BEHIND THE CAR, 402 00:26:54,335 --> 00:26:56,432 AND AS SHE OPENS UP THE DOOR, 403 00:26:56,467 --> 00:26:59,727 BEFORE SHE GETS IN, BEFORE SHE SHUTS THAT DOOR, 404 00:26:59,733 --> 00:27:01,073 THERE'S A FLASH. 405 00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:10,330 MY GOD. DID YOU SEE THAT? 406 00:27:10,333 --> 00:27:15,673 SOMEONE COMES RUSHING UP FROM THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN, 407 00:27:15,708 --> 00:27:20,067 OUT OF VIEW OF THE CAMERA, AND RUSHES UP BEHIND KELSEY. 408 00:27:26,467 --> 00:27:27,932 THE CAR DOOR SHUTS, 409 00:27:27,967 --> 00:27:32,567 AND THERE'S PROBABLY A 12-, 15-SECOND HESITATION, 410 00:27:32,602 --> 00:27:36,767 AND THE CAR SIMPLY BACKS OUT AND DRIVES OFF. 411 00:27:43,067 --> 00:27:45,097 I THINK, FOR A MOMENT, 412 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:46,970 YOU PROBABLY COULD HAVE HEARD A PIN DROP IN THAT ROOM. 413 00:27:47,005 --> 00:27:49,627 EVERYBODY STOPPED WHAT THEY WERE DOING. 414 00:27:49,633 --> 00:27:51,773 "MY GOD. DID YOU SEE THAT?" 415 00:27:51,808 --> 00:27:53,927 WE STOOD THERE IN SILENCE. 416 00:27:53,933 --> 00:27:55,232 JUST, YOU KNOW, 417 00:27:55,267 --> 00:27:58,667 WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND SAID, "IT'S KIDNAPPING." 418 00:28:06,967 --> 00:28:09,227 OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS. 419 00:28:09,233 --> 00:28:11,203 POLICE HAVE FOUND WHAT COULD BE THE SMOKING GUN 420 00:28:11,238 --> 00:28:13,630 IN KELSEY SMITH'S DISAPPEARANCE. 421 00:28:13,633 --> 00:28:15,303 "MY GOD. DID YOU SEE THAT?" 422 00:28:16,733 --> 00:28:20,330 AN APPARENT ABDUCTION IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. 423 00:28:20,365 --> 00:28:23,927 WE KNEW SOMETHING CRIMINAL HAD HAPPENED TO HER. 424 00:28:23,933 --> 00:28:25,798 IT'S HUGE. 425 00:28:25,833 --> 00:28:30,073 IT'S HUGE BECAUSE WE HADN'T EVEN SUSPECTED AT THIS POINT 426 00:28:30,108 --> 00:28:32,597 IT WAS GONNA BE A KIDNAPPING. 427 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,032 YOU JUST KIND OF RUN THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD, 428 00:28:35,067 --> 00:28:41,297 KNOWING WHAT I KNOW, YOU THINK, "MAN, THIS IS BAD." 429 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:48,930 THEN I KNEW THAT SHE WASN'T -- 430 00:28:48,933 --> 00:28:52,030 YOU KNOW, SHE WASN'T MAD, SHE JUST DIDN'T COME HOME. 431 00:28:52,065 --> 00:28:55,127 IT WASN'T SOME, YOU KNOW, PRANK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 432 00:28:55,133 --> 00:28:56,933 WHICH I NEVER REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS, ANYWAY, 433 00:28:56,968 --> 00:29:00,098 BUT I WAS HOPING, MAYBE. 434 00:29:00,133 --> 00:29:01,903 I KNEW THAT SOMEBODY HAD HER. 435 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,370 THAT... 436 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,832 THAT FEELING OF POWERLESSNESS COMES BACK, 437 00:29:12,867 --> 00:29:16,267 AND IT'S LIKE, "I CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO HELP HER." 438 00:29:21,333 --> 00:29:25,373 AFTER SEEING THAT FIGURE RUSH BEHIND KELSEY IN THAT VIDEO, 439 00:29:25,408 --> 00:29:30,227 I KNEW THAT WE HAD TO FIND HER IMMEDIATELY. 440 00:29:30,233 --> 00:29:33,203 THERE'S LITTLE TO GO ON. 441 00:29:40,333 --> 00:29:41,365 IT'S A BLUR. 442 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,330 I MEAN, YOU GET THE GENERAL MALE FIGURE. 443 00:29:47,433 --> 00:29:49,132 THEY KNOW IT'S A LONG SHOT, 444 00:29:49,167 --> 00:29:53,497 BUT PERHAPS HE'D BEEN TRACKING HER BEFORE HE ATTACKED. 445 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:56,700 WE THOUGHT IF HE WAS OUTSIDE THE TARGET, 446 00:29:56,735 --> 00:29:58,765 WAS HE ALSO INSIDE? 447 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:03,298 SO WE WENT BACK TO THE INSIDE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO, 448 00:30:03,333 --> 00:30:07,797 AND WE STARTED GOING THROUGH IT PIECE BY PIECE. 449 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,830 IS THERE SOMEONE ON THE PERIMETER 450 00:30:10,833 --> 00:30:12,703 THAT MAY HAVE BEEN WATCHING HER? 451 00:30:12,738 --> 00:30:14,570 SOMEONE WE MISSED? 452 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,830 THEY PLAY AND REWIND OVER AND OVER. 453 00:30:53,033 --> 00:30:57,232 EVERY TIME WE SAW KELSEY ENTER THE CAMERA VIEW, 454 00:30:57,267 --> 00:31:00,697 THIS INDIVIDUAL WEARING THE LIGHT SHIRT AND DARK PANTS 455 00:31:00,700 --> 00:31:03,932 WOULD ALSO ENTER THE CAMERA VIEW, 456 00:31:03,967 --> 00:31:07,567 AND HIS EYES WERE ALWAYS FOLLOWING HER. 457 00:31:11,667 --> 00:31:14,297 HE WAS NOT SHOPPING. 458 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:17,070 THE TERM WE USE IS HE WAS TROLLING. 459 00:31:20,233 --> 00:31:23,250 JUST LOOKING, YOU KNOW, FOR OPPORTUNITY. 460 00:31:23,285 --> 00:31:26,267 SOMETIMES LOOKING BACK OVER HIS SHOULDER 461 00:31:26,302 --> 00:31:28,097 AS HE WALKED PAST HER. 462 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,465 HE'S WATCHING HER. 463 00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:35,900 HE WAS ABSOLUTELY WATCHING HER TO SEE WHAT SHE DID, 464 00:31:35,935 --> 00:31:40,530 IF SHE WAS MEETING ANYONE INSIDE THE STORE, 465 00:31:40,533 --> 00:31:42,332 IF SHE KNEW ANYONE INSIDE THE STORE. 466 00:31:42,367 --> 00:31:45,527 HE WAS WATCHING TO SEE WHEN SHE WAS GOING TO LEAVE THE STORE. 467 00:31:45,533 --> 00:31:50,533 ONCE HE SEES THAT KELSEY GOES TO THE CHECKOUT STAND, 468 00:31:50,568 --> 00:31:52,632 HE MAKES A BEELINE -- 469 00:31:52,667 --> 00:31:56,667 JUST STROLLING, MAKES A BEELINE OUT THE DOOR. 470 00:32:01,367 --> 00:32:04,427 HE WANTED TO BE OUTSIDE BEFORE HER. 471 00:32:06,233 --> 00:32:08,732 IT'S A HUGE BREAK. 472 00:32:08,767 --> 00:32:12,832 NOW IF ONLY THEY CAN GET A CLEAR SHOT OF HIS FACE. 473 00:32:12,867 --> 00:32:16,897 WE PULLED THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM THE EXIT DOOR. 474 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:20,070 THERE'S THAT SHORT HALLWAY IN BETWEEN THE DOORS, 475 00:32:20,105 --> 00:32:22,936 AND THERE'S A CAMERA LOOKS RIGHT DOWN. 476 00:32:22,971 --> 00:32:25,767 WE CAN VERY CLEARLY SEE HIS FACE. 477 00:32:25,802 --> 00:32:28,632 WE CAN VERY CLEARLY SEE HIS CLOTHING. 478 00:32:28,667 --> 00:32:33,497 EVERYTHING DOWN TO WHAT TYPE OF SHOES HE'S WEARING. 479 00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:35,230 IT'S A PERFECT PICTURE. 480 00:32:38,967 --> 00:32:43,727 SKINNY WHITE MALE WITH A FLAT TOP, YOU KNOW. 481 00:32:43,733 --> 00:32:47,303 25 HOURS SINCE KELSEY SMITH WAS ABDUCTED, 482 00:32:47,338 --> 00:32:51,352 THE RACE IS ON TO FIND THIS PHANTOM. 483 00:32:51,387 --> 00:32:55,367 WE RELEASED THIS PHOTOGRAPH TO THE MEDIA 484 00:32:55,402 --> 00:32:57,627 TO ASK THE PUBLIC FOR HELP. 485 00:32:57,633 --> 00:33:00,032 WHEN WE PUT THE PICTURE OUT, 486 00:33:00,067 --> 00:33:03,297 THE PHONE CALLS ROLLED IN UNBELIEVABLY FAST. 487 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,070 MOST OF THEM WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE WAY OFF 488 00:33:07,105 --> 00:33:08,597 'CAUSE IT WAS A FAIRLY COMMON LOOK. 489 00:33:10,733 --> 00:33:13,503 WE RECEIVED ALMOST 2,000 TIPS. 490 00:33:14,567 --> 00:33:17,267 BUT EVEN WITH HELP FROM NEIGHBORING DEPARTMENTS, 491 00:33:17,302 --> 00:33:19,597 OFFICERS ARE OVERWHELMED. 492 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,830 IT'LL TAKE WEEKS TO CHECK OUT ALL OF THE TIPS, 493 00:33:22,833 --> 00:33:25,898 SO AGAIN THEY TURN TO CCTV 494 00:33:25,933 --> 00:33:30,280 TO SEE IF THEIR SUSPECT DROVE TO THE PARKING LOT. 495 00:33:30,315 --> 00:33:34,627 WE KNEW THAT WE HAD THIS FIGURE RUSH UP BEHIND HER 496 00:33:34,633 --> 00:33:38,298 AND PUSH HER INTO THE CAR, 497 00:33:38,333 --> 00:33:41,803 AND THAT HER CAR HAD BEEN FOUND WITH ALL OF HER BELONGINGS 498 00:33:41,838 --> 00:33:44,165 IN THE MACY'S PARKING LOT. 499 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,865 TWO HOURS AFTER HER ABDUCTION FROM TARGET, 500 00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:51,470 WHO IS PARKING KELSEY'S CAR IN THE NEARBY MACY'S PARKING LOT? 501 00:33:51,505 --> 00:33:55,286 WE SEE THE CAR COME INTO THE PARKING LOT AND PARK. 502 00:33:55,321 --> 00:33:59,067 THAT'S BASICALLY ALL WE CAN SEE FROM THE VIDEO. 503 00:33:59,102 --> 00:34:01,967 WHAT IT DOES GIVE US IS A TIME. 504 00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:06,232 DETECTIVES HAVE AN IDEA. 505 00:34:06,267 --> 00:34:10,197 MAYBE THE KIDNAPPER CAME BACK FOR HIS OWN CAR. 506 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:14,670 GOING OFF THAT 9:17 P.M. TIME STAMP, 507 00:34:14,705 --> 00:34:16,597 WE WENT BACK TO THE TARGET STORE, 508 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,900 LOOKED AT THE PARKING-LOT VIDEO FROM THE TARGET STORE AGAIN 509 00:34:20,935 --> 00:34:25,130 FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED AFTER 9:17 P.M. 510 00:34:34,867 --> 00:34:41,367 AND WE SAW A DARK-COLORED PICKUP LEAVING THE PARKING LOT. 511 00:34:41,402 --> 00:34:43,797 IS THIS THE KIDNAPPER 512 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,332 PICKING UP HIS TRUCK FROM THE TARGET PARKING LOT? 513 00:34:47,367 --> 00:34:50,667 IF IT IS, THEY OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO PICK OUT THE SAME VEHICLE 514 00:34:50,702 --> 00:34:54,032 ARRIVING EARLIER IN THE DAY. 515 00:34:54,067 --> 00:34:59,232 KELSEY ARRIVED AT THE TARGET PARKING LOT AT 6:54 P.M. 516 00:34:59,267 --> 00:35:02,597 SO, WE BASICALLY BACK THE VIDEO UP, PLAY IT BACKWARDS. 517 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,770 THIS TRUCK APPEARS JUST SECONDS BEFORE SHE DOES. 518 00:35:23,967 --> 00:35:26,032 AND SO WE FOLLOW IT ON THE VIDEO 519 00:35:26,067 --> 00:35:28,667 BACK AROUND TO THE BACK SIDE OF THE BUILDING. 520 00:35:32,767 --> 00:35:35,367 WE WERE ABLE TO GET A LOOK AT THE DRIVER. 521 00:35:35,402 --> 00:35:37,427 KIND OF FUZZY. 522 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,565 WHITE MALE, SHORT HAIR, WHITE T-SHIRT. 523 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,700 SO WE'RE THINKING, "OKAY, WE MIGHT HAVE THE TRUCK." 524 00:35:48,735 --> 00:35:51,116 WHITE MALE IN A BLUE PICKUP. 525 00:35:51,151 --> 00:35:53,497 IT NARROWS DOWN THE SEARCH CONSIDERABLY. 526 00:35:57,267 --> 00:36:01,232 THEY STILL NEED THE PUBLIC'S HELP, AND THEY GET IT. 527 00:36:01,267 --> 00:36:09,067 I ANSWERED THE PHONE AND SPOKE TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO TOLD ME, 528 00:36:09,102 --> 00:36:11,397 "I KNOW WHO THE GUY IS ON THE VIDEO." 529 00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:19,070 THE NAME THAT HE GAVE ME ON THE PHONE WAS EDWIN HALL. 530 00:36:19,105 --> 00:36:22,797 AND HE OWNS A BLUE PICKUP TRUCK. 531 00:36:31,533 --> 00:36:34,933 THREE AND A HALF DAYS AFTER KELSEY SMITH WAS KIDNAPPED, 532 00:36:34,968 --> 00:36:37,265 OVERLAND PARK INVESTIGATORS 533 00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:39,898 HAVE A LEAD ON THEIR FIRST SOLID SUSPECT. 534 00:36:39,933 --> 00:36:42,497 WE GOT A COUPLE OF PHONE CALLS -- 535 00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:47,630 A CO-WORKER WHO KNEW HIM AND ONE WAS A FRIEND. 536 00:36:47,633 --> 00:36:49,531 THEY WERE SURE THAT THE PICTURE 537 00:36:49,566 --> 00:36:51,430 WAS A GENTLEMAN NAMED EDWIN HALL. 538 00:36:51,433 --> 00:36:53,403 BUT WITH HIS FACE ALL OVER THE MEDIA, 539 00:36:53,438 --> 00:36:56,200 HE COULD BE MAKING A RUN FOR IT. 540 00:37:00,333 --> 00:37:04,233 OFFICERS ARRIVE AT HIS ADDRESS JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME. 541 00:37:04,268 --> 00:37:06,420 EDWIN HALL AND A FEMALE, 542 00:37:06,455 --> 00:37:08,532 WHO WE LATER LEARNED TO BE HIS WIFE, 543 00:37:08,567 --> 00:37:11,967 WERE LOADING A VEHICLE WITH BOXES AND BAGS AND THINGS, 544 00:37:12,002 --> 00:37:15,367 AND IT LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE GETTING READY TO LEAVE. 545 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,832 HOWDY. 546 00:37:22,867 --> 00:37:24,327 DETECTIVE MILLER. 547 00:37:24,333 --> 00:37:27,833 COULD THIS BE THE MAN WHO ABDUCTED KELSEY SMITH? 548 00:37:40,167 --> 00:37:43,032 POLICE TAKE EDWIN HALL'S FINGERPRINTS, 549 00:37:43,067 --> 00:37:47,797 AND THEY'LL BE COMPARED WITH THOSE FOUND IN KELSEY'S CAR. 550 00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:53,830 DETECTIVES PRESS HALL FOR ANSWERS. 551 00:37:53,833 --> 00:37:56,032 WHERE IS KELSEY SMITH? 552 00:37:56,067 --> 00:38:00,827 THROUGHOUT THE INTERVIEW, HE -- HE DENIED KNOWING KELSEY. 553 00:38:00,833 --> 00:38:02,732 SO, YOU KNOW KELSEY? 554 00:38:02,767 --> 00:38:06,697 HALL ADMITS HE IS THE MAN SEEN FOLLOWING KELSEY IN THE VIDEO. 555 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:09,915 "YEAH. YEAH, I THINK I DID SEE HER," YOU KNOW? 556 00:38:09,950 --> 00:38:13,130 "SHE WAS QUITE CUTE, AND SHE HAD NICE LEGS, TOO." 557 00:38:13,133 --> 00:38:16,973 HE ADAMANTLY DENIED HAVING ANY CONTACT WITH HER 558 00:38:17,008 --> 00:38:18,432 ONCE SHE LEFT THE STORE. 559 00:38:18,467 --> 00:38:22,967 THIS GUY STILL THINKS HE'S SMARTER THAN WE ARE. 560 00:38:23,002 --> 00:38:24,932 YOU COULD TELL HE WAS LYING. 561 00:38:24,967 --> 00:38:27,367 DETECTIVES BRIDGES AND MILLER 562 00:38:27,402 --> 00:38:31,132 ARE SURE HE KNOWS WHERE KELSEY IS, 563 00:38:31,167 --> 00:38:34,527 BUT THEY HAVE NO HARD EVIDENCE UNTIL... 564 00:38:34,533 --> 00:38:37,381 WHILE EDWIN WAS BEING QUESTIONED, 565 00:38:37,416 --> 00:38:40,230 THE LAB CAME BACK WITH A FINGERPRINT MATCH. 566 00:38:40,233 --> 00:38:44,150 HIS FINGERPRINT MATCHED A FINGERPRINT 567 00:38:44,185 --> 00:38:47,741 THAT WAS FOUND ON THE SEAT-BELT RELEASE 568 00:38:47,776 --> 00:38:51,297 OF THE DRIVER'S SIDE SEAT IN KELSEY'S CAR. 569 00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:53,730 THAT PROVES HE WAS THERE. 570 00:38:53,733 --> 00:38:58,633 THE FLASH OF THE FUZZY PERSON ON THE VIDEO WE SAW WAS HIM, 571 00:38:58,668 --> 00:39:00,173 AND THERE'S NO DENYING IT. 572 00:39:02,933 --> 00:39:05,653 SOON AS WE HAD THAT FINGERPRINT MATCH, 573 00:39:05,688 --> 00:39:08,373 I KNEW THAT HE HAD DONE SOMETHING WITH KELSEY. 574 00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:23,200 EDWIN HALL ADMITS TO STALKING KELSEY IN THE TARGET STORE. 575 00:39:27,867 --> 00:39:29,497 HE WATCHED HER SHOPPING, 576 00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:32,230 THEN WAITED FOR HER IN THE PARKING LOT. 577 00:39:41,733 --> 00:39:46,073 ARMED WITH A HANDGUN, HE MADE HIS MOVE. 578 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,230 MY GOD! WHAT IS -- STOP IT! 579 00:39:49,233 --> 00:39:50,680 DON'T MOVE. 580 00:39:50,715 --> 00:39:52,127 OPEN THE DOOR. 581 00:39:52,133 --> 00:39:53,503 PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. GET IN THE CAR! 582 00:39:53,538 --> 00:39:54,765 OKAY. DON'T SAY ANYTHING. 583 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,270 PUT THE KEYS IN THE IGNITION. OKAY. 584 00:39:56,305 --> 00:39:58,067 PUT THE KEYS IN. OKAY, OKAY. 585 00:40:04,300 --> 00:40:06,670 THEN HE FORCED HER TO DRIVE AWAY. 586 00:40:11,233 --> 00:40:15,565 TWO HOURS LATER, HE RETURNED ALONE... 587 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:20,030 AND ABANDONED KELSEY'S CAR IN THE MACY'S PARKING LOT. 588 00:40:20,033 --> 00:40:22,603 HE THEN WALKED BACK TO THE TARGET... 589 00:40:25,333 --> 00:40:27,973 ...GOT INTO HIS TRUCK, AND DROVE HOME. 590 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,900 THREE AND A HALF DAYS AFTER KELSEY'S DISAPPEARANCE, 591 00:40:38,935 --> 00:40:42,230 A SEARCH PARTY MAKES AN UPSETTING DISCOVERY. 592 00:40:45,833 --> 00:40:50,003 WE GET A CALL FROM THE SEARCHERS THAT THEY HAD FOUND KELSEY. 593 00:40:50,038 --> 00:40:53,070 SHE'S NOT ALIVE. 594 00:40:56,700 --> 00:40:58,570 KELSEY HAD BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED 595 00:40:58,605 --> 00:41:00,867 AND STRANGLED TO DEATH. 596 00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:06,530 WE WERE AT THE END OF OUR DRIVEWAY 597 00:41:06,533 --> 00:41:10,703 WHEN WE WERE TOLD KELS WAS GONE, THAT THEY HAD FOUND HER. 598 00:41:10,738 --> 00:41:13,700 AND I JUST REMEMBER SCREAMING, "NOT MY KELS! 599 00:41:13,735 --> 00:41:15,530 NOT MY KELS!" 600 00:41:22,133 --> 00:41:27,733 EDWIN HALL IS CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF KELSEY SMITH. 601 00:41:27,768 --> 00:41:30,584 HE GAVE A FULL CONFESSION TO THE CRIME 602 00:41:30,619 --> 00:41:33,400 IN ORDER TO AVOID THE DEATH PENALTY. 603 00:41:33,435 --> 00:41:35,730 HE PLEADS GUILTY 604 00:41:35,733 --> 00:41:39,298 AND IS SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. 605 00:41:39,333 --> 00:41:43,233 HE SET OUT THAT DAY LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY TO ATTACK, 606 00:41:43,268 --> 00:41:46,298 AND HE FOUND KELSEY. 607 00:41:46,333 --> 00:41:49,673 WE'VE ASKED EDWIN HALL ABOUT OTHER MURDERS IN THE MIDWEST 608 00:41:49,708 --> 00:41:52,127 THAT HE MIGHT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR, 609 00:41:52,133 --> 00:41:55,873 AND HIS REPLY WAS, "NO, I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY. 610 00:41:55,908 --> 00:41:59,852 THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME OF KILLING SOMEONE." 611 00:41:59,887 --> 00:42:03,797 MY POLICE INSTINCT TELLS ME IT'S A LIE. 612 00:42:08,067 --> 00:42:10,967 I DON'T THINK ABOUT HIM. I REALLY DON'T. 613 00:42:11,002 --> 00:42:13,899 HE DOESN'T MATTER IN KELSEY'S STORY. 614 00:42:13,934 --> 00:42:16,797 HE'S THE MEANS TO THE END OF HER LIFE. 615 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:21,730 BUT IF I FOCUS ON HIM, THEN HE TAKES MORE JOY FROM MY LIFE, 616 00:42:21,733 --> 00:42:24,673 AND I'M NOT GONNA ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. 617 00:42:28,067 --> 00:42:30,067 THERE'S A QUOTE FROM LINCOLN, WHICH I HAD READ, 618 00:42:30,102 --> 00:42:32,964 AND HE HAD SAID SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF, 619 00:42:32,999 --> 00:42:35,827 "IT'S NOT THE YEARS IN YOUR LIFE THAT MATTER. 620 00:42:35,833 --> 00:42:37,803 IT'S THE LIFE IN YOUR YEARS." 621 00:42:37,838 --> 00:42:39,465 AND THAT'S KELSEY. 622 00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:41,730 AND THAT'S WHAT -- THAT'S HER EPITAPH. 623 00:42:41,733 --> 00:42:44,073 THAT'S WHAT WE PUT ON HER HEADSTONE. 624 00:42:48,067 --> 00:42:50,567 YOU KNOW, I'VE OFTEN SAID TO OTHER PARENTS 625 00:42:50,602 --> 00:42:55,927 THAT EVERY BIT OF PAIN OF NOT HAVING HER HERE 626 00:42:55,933 --> 00:43:00,233 WAS WORTH THE 18 YEARS AND 30 DAYS OF JOY OF HAVING HER. 627 00:43:00,268 --> 00:43:02,433 I WOULDN'T GIVE IT UP FOR ANYTHING. 628 00:43:06,133 --> 00:43:09,551 THE VIDEO ABSOLUTELY SOLVED IT FOR US. 629 00:43:09,586 --> 00:43:12,970 IT DID TAKE SOME GOOD POLICE WORK. 630 00:43:13,005 --> 00:43:15,227 IT DID TAKE SOME LUCK. 631 00:43:15,233 --> 00:43:18,932 BUT HAD WE NOT HAD THAT VIDEO, 632 00:43:18,967 --> 00:43:21,427 I DON'T KNOW THAT THIS CASE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOLVED.