![]() ![]() I shared a picture today on Facebook that a friend had posted when we went to Texas on our last family vacation. She would be loving our eight grandchildren, for sure. “She'd be married with kids,” Missey said. Missey also misses the mundane, like the chance to watch Kelsey interact with her nieces and nephews. “It would just be nice to be able to check in (with Kelsey) - ‘Hey, how are things going? What's going on?’” Greg said. The Smiths have enjoyed watching their other four children blossom into adults - starting families, careers and forging their own lives. In addition to her parents, Kelsey is survived by four siblings - two older sisters, Stevie and Lindsey, along with a younger sister, Codie, and younger brother, Zach. It’s those every-day moments the Smith family misses most. “It would fill the whole room and sound like a trucker, which would just drive her mom nuts.” “One way (Kelsey) would try to get a rise out of Missey was she would drink a bunch of soda and then just do a big belch,” Greg said with a laugh. Some of the things that stick with a person 15 years after the death of a loved one can be unexpected. ![]() It’s a bittersweet fight for Greg and Missey Smith. Once an engineer armed with the data from Verizon narrowed down the search area, investigators located Kelsey’s remains within 45 minutes.ĭuring the 15 years since her death, Kelsey, who would have turned 33 on May 3, has become the face of a movement to force telecommunications providers to be responsive in emergency situations, especially as GPS and cell-phone technology has continued to improve and evolve. Her body was dumped in a wooded area near Longview Lake, but it wouldn’t be found for four days as the family fought with Verizon to obtain location data from her phone. That just doesn't happen, especially in Overland Park, Kansas.”Īs she left Target, Kelsey was abducted by Edwin Hall in the parking lot and eventually murdered. No one thinks you're just going to go pick up a gift from Target or the department store and not come home. “She's just an all-American girl that went to Target and that was it. “I think there's such an interest, because she just went to Target,” Missey said. Perhaps that’s precisely why the story continues to resonate a decade and a half later. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about June 2, 2007, when Kelsey popped into a Target store in Overland Park to pick up a gift for her boyfriend. All Rights Reserved.Darrius Smith/KSHB 41 Greg and Missey Smith spokes to KSHB 41 News on the 15th anniversary of the abduction of their daughter, Kelsey Smith, from an Overland Park retailer. For questions or complaints, contact: Equity Compliance Officer - Norm Anderson, Deputy Superintendent, 1450 Herndon Avenue, Clovis, CA 93611, (559) 327-9000, Title IX Coordinator - Shareen Crosby, Risk Manager, 1450 Herndon Avenue, Clovis, CA 93611, (559) 327-9000, Assistant Title IX Coordinator – Steve France, Assistant Superintendent of Education Services, 1450 Herndon Ave., Clovis, CA 93611, (559) 327-9380, Section 504 Coordinator - Wendy Karsevar, 1680 Herndon Avenue, Clovis, CA 93611, (559) 327-9400. The Clovis Unified School District prohibits discrimination, intimidation, harassment (including sexual harassment) or bullying based on a person’s actual or perceived ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, immigration status, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. ![]()
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