01x04 - A Fatal Shopping Trip

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I said, "I love you,"

and that's the last words
that I ever spoke to her.

We didn't know
what had happened.

Kelsey was just gone.

The clock's ticking.

We were just praying
she's still alive.

You see a flash of a figure
come up from behind her.

Kelsey's not
necessarily all alone.

It's just, like, your
heart just drops.

Just tell me where her phone is.

Just... just where is it?

Pardon my French, it was really

an oh, sh... moment.

narrator: May 25th, 2007.

Overland Park, Kansas.

18-year-old Kelsey Smith

is graduating from Shawnee
Mission West High School.

I remember the day, clearly,
when Kelsey graduated.

We were very proud of her.

My name is Missey Smith,

and Kelsey Smith is my daughter.

Her boyfriend, John,
had an air horn,

and when she walked
across the stage,

he had hit the air horn.

There was a lot of noise
and clapping and stuff.

The principal asked her,

"Is that your
hooligan family?"

And she was laughing and
said, "Yeah. That's them."

I'm Greg Smith, and
I'm Kelsey's dad.

And I was happy
that she graduated.

I was happy that she
hit that milestone.

It was a neat night to see that.

Kelsey was born May 3rd, 1989.

She was our third daughter.

She was very inquisitive.

She got the nickname No-No

because she was
always into things.

Kelsey was very, very outgoing,

even at a young age.

We had five kids.

She was the middle child,
so she went out of her way,

I think, to be noticed.

I met Kelsey in middle school.

She was very loud,

and at first I thought
she was kind of bossy,

but, like, not in a bad way.

I'm Megan Lang. I'm
Kelsey's best friend.

We were in marching
band together.

We both played clarinet.

It was a lot of fun.

Every year, the marching
band played at halftime

at the football games.

She took a lot of pride in that.

Narrator: During
her senior year,

Kelsey's life changes
when she meets

her high school
sweetheart, John.

When she first met
him, she was like,

"Hey, there's this
guy, and he is so cute

and he's just awesome,"
and I was like, "Oh, cool."

John was over at our
house all the time

once they started dating,
I mean, all the time.

They went to senior
prom together.

We all got a limo.

Kelsey had this big, beautiful
yellow dress that looked

just like the Disney
princess Belle,

and we had so much fun.

After graduation,

Kelsey and me were super
excited to go to K State.

I had always assumed

that Kelsey would go
to Kansas University

because John was going
to KU for college,

and I told my wife,

"Who do you want
to bet moves first?

Is it going to be Kelsey or
John that changes schools?"

narrator: On June 2nd,

a week after her high
school graduation,

Kelsey was excited and
getting ready for a big date.

She and John were gonna
go out that night.

It was their
6-month anniversary,

which I had no idea was a thing,

but apparently when you're
18, it's a big deal.

Kelsey said that she
had to go to Target

to get a gift for John

before they went out that night,

and while she was there,
she talked to her mother,

Missey, on the cell phone.

It was about 7:00
in the evening.

Kelsey had called me to
ask me about the gift

she was looking for for John.

There was this scrapbook box
that she wanted to find for him

because she had given him a card

and his mom accidentally
threw it away,

not knowing that it
was important to him,

and it really upset him.

So I was explaining to her

which aisle she
could find this box

that she was looking
for at Target.

She was just in a
hurry to get home

because she was meeting
John for dinner.

And then, um, I said to her, uh,

I said, "Bye, baby.

I'll see you when I
get home. I love you,"

and that's the last words
that I ever spoke to her.

Narrator: A short time later,
a little after 7:00 p.m.,

Kelsey's boyfriend arrives
at the Smith family's home.

John came over to the house
to pick her up for the date.

He was so excited, but
Kelsey wasn't there.

Started calling and texting.

But she's just not answering,

and I just knew
something was bad.

Narrator: A veteran
police officer,

Kelsey's father
doesn't waste any time

trying to find her.

Kelsey's older sister,
Lindsey, and John got in a car

and went out looking for Kelsey.

In the meantime, I started
calling police departments

and asking, "Hey, have you had

any accidents or traffic stops
with this car or whatever?"

And I remember Lindsey
calling and saying,

"Hey, dad. We found her
car. It wasn't at Target."

It was at Oak Park
Mall, across the street.

Kelsey wasn't there.
It was just her car.

We knew something was wrong.

And then Lindsey said,

"John want to get
inside and look around."

I said, "I don't care if
you have to tackle him,

don't let him touch the car.
I'm calling the police."

narrator: Patrol
officers respond

to the call at 10:00 p.m.

I'm retired Detective
Sergeant Bob Miller

with the Overland Park,
Kansas Police Department.

Kelsey's car was located.

It was on the opposite
side of the mall,

a good third of a
mile from Target.

The mall was closed,

and it wasn't even parked
in a parking stall.

It was just kind of
parked in a dark spot.

After, the police met
us, and they immediately

treated the car like
it was a crime scene.

Her purse was found in the car,

but her cell phone and
car keys were missing.

The shopping bag from
Target was in there,

which just adds
to the strangeness

and the urgency of
the whole thing.

And then the police noticed

something was hanging
out of the trunk.

It was like a paper
strap or something.

It set off all kinds
of alarm bells.

My fear was she
was in the trunk.

Watching them open
the trunk of her car,

as a mom, it's just agony.

I'm just sitting there,
holding on to Greg,

and he wouldn't let
me watch them open it.

But it was empty.
She wasn't in there.

And then when she wasn't,

you're just like, "Where
the hell is my kid?"

The car was towed

to the Johnson County
Sheriff's Office crime lab,

where they started processing
for fingerprints and for DNA,

and then the police asked us
to come down to the station

to be interviewed.

I'm Detective Candace Bridges,

and I worked the
Kelsey Smith case.

When I first arrived
at the station,

Kelsey's family was there.

Her boyfriend, John,
was there as well.

Everyone was on a
heightened sense of alert.

Kelsey was, by all
accounts, a good kid.

Her father, Greg,

was a law enforcement
officer himself,

so he knew when to
raise a red flag

to let us know this
was something serious.

They brought us into
an interview room,

sat us down in there,

walked out, closed the door.

I looked at Missey and I said,

"You know why
we're here, right?"

I said, "We're suspects."

narrator: The
Smiths tell police

that Kelsey left for
Target around 6:30 p.m.,

and was supposed to meet
John sometime after 7:00.

But she never showed.

The timeline lets
us know what she did

before she went missing,

which may sometimes hold the key

as to why she was missing,
and that became more important

when we interviewed
John a little bit later.

John told us,
"Kelsey's very excited

about going off to college."

narrator: But what
John says next

catches investigators
by surprise.

John told us they
were going to split up

when they went to college.

That's a highly
emotional situation

between John and Kelsey.

We asked, "Was she upset?
Was she upset with him?"

At that point, we were thinking,

"John did something to her."

narrator: The race
to find Kelsey.

The first 24 hours passed,
and you become more anxious.

Narrator: Clues buried in
Kelsey's final moments.

We just... we were dumbfounded.

I just lost it. I just...
I just fell apart.

Narrator: And a suspect's
chilling statement.

He goes, "Yeah. I saw
her. She had great legs."

And just, my skin started
crawling at that point.

Narrator: Kansas police are
questioning the boyfriend

of a missing teen, Kelsey Smith.

At that point we were thinking,

"She's upset at her
boyfriend, John,

or John did something to her."

We asked John, did
he know anything

that might tell us
where she had gone?

We went pretty hard at
John with the questioning.

'Cause the clock's ticking.

Narrator: But John says he
has no idea where she is

or why she never showed up
for their date that evening.

And then John
showed us his phone.

We were surprised.

I mean, kids don't like
to show their phones.

We learned that he was
texting Kelsey's phone

and trying to get her to answer.

We expected at least
something from her saying,

"Not now," or, you know,
something to turn him off

or shut him down, but
there was nothing.

Narrator: To
validate the story,

investigators request
John's cell phone records,

which confirm that
he was, in fact,

waiting for Kelsey at her home
at the time she went missing.

So that's pretty much
what helped us clear John.

Narrator: Authorities request

Kelsey's cell phone
records as well.

We wanted to know the last
calls that Kelsey had made.

Had she talked to somebody?
Had somebody called her?

So we set out to get
her phone records,

but we were told
they were unavailable

because they would
require upper management

to release them.

And as the wife of
a police officer,

I just found it unbelievable
that I had so many obstacles.

The phone was in my name.

There was no reason
for them to not do it.

Just tell me where her phone is.

Just... just where is it?

Narrator: Next, detectives
head to the site

of Kelsey's last known location.

The Target store
didn't open till...

Gosh, 10:00 or 11:00 on
Sunday, the next morning.

So we called Target,

and they opened the store for us

and let us see the CCTV footage.

We're watching this video on
the small computer screen.

And we watched Kelsey.

She parked and went inside.

So now we know that Kelsey
did make it to Target.

She was there and she was safe

and going about her
business, doing her shopping.

We see Kelsey walk
around the store,

collect the items that
she was purchasing.

She was on the
phone with her mom.

She talks to Missey for
just a few more seconds,

hangs up the phone.

She pays for her items,

and we see Kelsey
exit the store.

The video shows Kelsey
walking out through the doors,

and then the next view is
the camera in the corner

of the parking lot near
where her car is parked.

The outside video shows
Kelsey walking to her car,

putting her items in
the passenger side door,

and getting in the
driver's side door.

Then she drives away.

And that's the last
time you see the car.

Everything looked normal,
just business as usual.

Narrator: But investigators
can't rule out

something more sinister.

We couldn't say for sure
that we had a missing person

taken against their will, or
if we just had a young lady

who wasn't ready
to be found yet.

Narrator: Will this
fleeting glimpse of Kelsey

offer any clues
to help find her?

We went on with
the investigation

because we had a girl to find.

At the time, the family
had already started

searching the neighborhood.

We still have no
idea where Kelsey is,

and that was a
really scary feeling.

That first day, we
all took out flyers

and hung them around businesses,

going door-to-door
and searching.

Hundreds of volunteers
will set out again today,

passing out flyers,
looking for Kelsey.

I kind of just
went on autopilot.

I was also mostly running on
energy drinks and no sleep,

and it was a mess.

Narrator: While the search
for Kelsey continues,

detectives are busy following up

on their next lead.

The next morning, when
the Macy's store opened,

we obtained their video footage

of the parking lot

where Kelsey's
car had been found

late the previous evening.

It is VHS tape, so it
was pretty poor quality.

It's so grainy and it's dark,

and the only light
in the picture

is the low watt lighting
in the parking lot.

And then a little
bit after 9:00 p.m.,

you see the headlights
of Kelsey's car coming in

and then parks in the dark.

Then you see the door open.

A figure that you
can't exactly make out

gets out of the
car and walks away.

We could tell that
it wasn't Kelsey

that got out of that car
and walked off camera.

You could just see
the way they walked.

It wasn't the gait
of a teenage girl.

Narrator: Investigators
believe the figure is male.

So that was a surprise to us.

Narrator: After
Kansas teenager

Kelsey Smith goes shopping,

she never returns
home to her family.

It wasn't considered
officially an abduction

or a missing person.

It's just, she hadn't come back,

suspicious circumstances.

I remember in the morning,

after the first day
that she was missing,

I remember getting up
and going in the shower,

and I just...

I just lost it.

I just... I just fell apart.

Um.

That... that was really hard.

It wasn't readily apparent
what had happened to Kelsey.

Narrator: But the day
after her disappearance,

investigators observe
something disturbing:

surveillance footage
of an unidentified man

parking Kelsey's car two
hours after she went missing.

So we knew right away
that kind of ingrains

an acquired sense of suspicion.

Narrator: Authorities
then give added scrutiny

to the footage that may contain

Kelsey's final moments,
in search of any sign

of the male figure seen
driving Kelsey's car.

My boss was a big tech guy,
so we had a big command center

with all these big
Proxima projectors,

and he could blow it up
on a wall that was 15x12.

Rather than viewing
it on a CCTV screen,

which is a smaller screen,

this time we watched it again
with a different perspective.

She goes through the store,

she comes out the doors,

and she's walking to her car.

She puts her items in
the passenger door...

and then walks around
the back of her car.

We expected to see
her get in the car,

back out and drive away,

just like we had seen on
that small computer screen.

Then just a split-second
before she shut the door,

we saw a flash.

The second you saw that
flash on the video,

I felt that rush, you know?

The room got very hot.

At that moment, I believe
all of us stopped breathing.

You could've heard a pin drop.

I remember turning to
someone and saying,

"Did you see what I saw?"

As Kelsey's opening
her driver's side door,

you see a flash of a figure
wearing a white shirt

and dark colored pants,
come up from behind her.

It's very small. It's
very hard to see.

It's blurry.

We believe the blurry figure

was forcing Kelsey into her car.

We then knew

this was much more
serious than we thought.

Pardon my French, it was really

an oh, sh... moment.

At that point, we realized
we had an abduction.

Narrator: But police
still need to figure out

who abducted her and why.

By piecing together
the collection

of Kelsey's final moments,

investigators hope to
uncover what happened.

We went back to the
inside Target video

and watched it again
to see if we could spot

anybody wearing a white
shirt and dark colored pants.

We literally watched
everything frame-by-frame.

I forget how many hours
of footage Target gave us.

Hundreds.

It was just... It
was overwhelming.

What we discovered is,

Kelsey's not all alone
inside the store.

She's being watched.

When Kelsey enters the frame,

shortly after, you see this male

enter the frame behind her,

and this happens repeatedly.

Every time Kelsey
walks down an aisle,

you see him walk down the aisle.

He's watching her.

You see the "National
Geographic" shows

where the predator is circling,

that's what you see.

You see the suspect looking,
and he walks past the aisle

where Kelsey's at, and he locks.

I mean, his head
snaps and he locks.

Unfortunately,
Kelsey's preoccupied.

She's talking on the phone,

and she's just not aware
of what's going on.

He sees Kelsey move
towards the checkout lane.

As Kelsey's paying,
he exits the store.

The camera angle is perfect
as he's walking out the door.

You can tell he's in his 20s.

He's got a goatee.

At that point, we knew we wanted

to identify this person.

I remember Greg and I
going to the command center

and them showing us the footage.

Once the video actually revealed

that it was a kidnapping,

it was just, like,
your heart just drops.

The only thing

that was really going
through my mind was,

"He knows where my child is."

I needed them to find
him so I could find her.

We were just praying
that she's still alive.

Narrator: An officer wracked
by guilt vows to make amends.

I was only 600 feet away
when she was kidnapped.

And Andy thinks that he
should've been able to stop it,

and he's hundreds of yards away.

Narrator: Critical clues
across state lines.

Captain Fredrickson said,
"You need to brace yourself."

I was shocked, and
I think all of us

were kind of panicked
at that point.

Narrator: Leading to
an expl*sive encounter

with their prime suspect.

He was just, he was livid,

and that's when he
screamed in my face,

"This is all you got?"

narrator: After combing
through surveillance footage,

investigators identify
a suspicious white male

who was following Kelsey Smith

and may have even kidnapped her.

Once we identified our suspect,

we went to the media
to help us find him.

Police are chasing hundreds
of leads looking for this man,

a person of interest, they say,

seen on the same store camera

leaving Target
moments before Kelsey.

I was shocked, and
I think all of us

were kind of panicked
at that point.

Narrator: As Kelsey's story
quickly becomes national news,

one local in the community

is working hard
to help find her.

I'm Officer Andy Black

of the Overland Park,
Kansas, Police Department.

I was the liaison officer
for Oak Park Mall,

and on the day of this case,

I was actually working
there off duty.

The evening Kelsey disappeared,

I was doing the habit
of smoking a cigar,

taking a break outside the
corner of the building,

and that's when it happened.

I was only 600 feet away
when she was kidnapped.

And, uh...

Andy thinks that he should
have been able to stop it,

and he's hundreds of yards away.

Nobody anywhere expects
him to see what's going on

and be able to intervene,

but, um...

To this day, I think he
still blames himself.

It weighs heavy on me.

I just wished I
would've caught him.

Narrator: Plagued by guilt
and determined to find Kelsey,

Officer Black volunteers
to work the tip line.

As soon as a suspect
comes on the TV

and throws up the 800 number,

we're overwhelmed with
a huge amount of calls,

but the majority of
them weren't valid.

Narrator: As calls
continue to come in,

one tip stands out.

We got multiple calls
on an individual

by the name of Edwin Hall.

That name went into the
log of all the other names

that we had gathered
from the tips hotline

to track down and investigate.

The first thing that we do
whenever we got a name is,

we see if we can find

a driver's license
photo of that person

so that we can indeed verify

if they match the description
of who we're looking for,

and Edwin very much
matched the description

of the person from
the Target video.

So Edwin Hall was put
to the top of the list.

He was a local resident

with a couple of different
addresses on file.

We ended up going
to an old address

that he no longer lived at,
so we couldn't find him.

Narrator: But law
enforcement soon homes in

on another suspect.

We got several calls
calling in to say

that that individual
resembled someone they knew

by the name of Jack.

As you can imagine, just
having the name "Jack"

in a metro of over
a million people,

that's not necessarily
going to be

your best lead to track down.

Narrator: Authorities have
two potential suspects,

but can't track either
one of them down.

Then, on June 6th, three days
after Kelsey's kidnapping,

investigators catch a break

when another tip comes
in to Officer Andy Black.

I got a call from a
lady, and she said,

"I know that guy."

She told me that he went
by the name of Jack,

and he lived in
the city of Olathe.

Narrator: Once authorities
received Jack's address,

they immediately
head to his home.

When they arrive,

they're surprised
by what they find.

As they pulled up, they see
this person packing boxes

into the back of this vehicle,

looking like they're
getting ready to leave.

Narrator: The man confirms

that his name is, indeed, Jack,

and tells detectives that
he was just getting ready

to leave with his wife

and four-year-old son on a trip.

We didn't want to
take the chance

that he was gonna skip town.

So at this point,

the suspect actually willingly
comes into the station.

Narrator: With
the clock ticking,

authorities now only hope

that they've caught
the right suspect.

I got a phone call
from my boss saying,

"Hey, this guy, Jack,

"He's coming in
for an interview.

I need you back here now."

So we were beelining
back to the station.

Narrator: Four days
after the abduction

of Kansas teenager Kelsey Smith,

authorities track down

a 26-year-old
suspect named Jack.

When questioned, he reveals
something surprising.

As he's being interviewed
by investigators,

he admits that he
goes by the name Jack.

That is his nickname
that he's given himself.

And then he gave his
birth name, Edwin Hall.

So that was a surprise to us.

Narrator:
Investigators realize

that Edwin Hall
is the same person

that the tip line had
received numerous calls about,

and that detectives have
been trying to track down.

It all started
falling into place

as to this was our person
that we were looking for.

And then that's
when they started

with some very
pointed questions.

Narrator: Detective
Miller shows Edwin

a picture of Kelsey

in order to gauge his reaction.

Edwin denied ever seeing Kelsey,

but then we showed him
a surveillance footage,

and at that time he says
he's the guy in the video.

Narrator: While
Edwin acknowledges

going to the store,

he insists he's
never seen Kelsey.

So he offered up
DNA, fingerprints,

anything he could do to
help eliminate himself,

which was quite
surprising, and the county

took those fingerprint
cards and his DNA swabs.

Narrator: Despite
Hall's willingness

to provide evidence,
Detective Miller persists.

We went back in, and I basically

just put her picture
on the table.

It was the picture of
Kelsey inside Target,

and I mentioned to Edwin, I
said, "So, you never saw her?

"Very attractive
young lady, you know?

I'd give her a second
look, you know?"

So I kind of went locker room
talk with him, and he bit.

And he goes, "Oh,
yeah. Yeah. Okay.

I saw her. She had great legs."

And just my skin started
crawling at that point.

He claimed he noticed Kelsey,
thought she was pretty,

and watched her,

but then also claimed he
left and never saw her again,

doesn't know what
happened to her.

And I said,

"Now you're saying you saw her.

Why didn't you tell
us that before?"

narrator: But a smug
Edwin refuses to answer.

In order to charge him,

Detective Miller
needs more evidence.

I knew he was lying but
was gonna be let go.

Narrator: In the meantime,

investigators catch
an unexpected break

when a waitress
calls the tip line

saying she recognized the
man's picture on the news.

She called the police and
said, "That's the guy.

That's the guy that
was bothering me

in the restaurant."

The suspect, he went in there
before he kidnapped Kelsey,

and he was being real
rude to the waitress.

That really upset her,

and the manager asked
him to leave the store.

Narrator: Then the man leaves
without paying his bill.

And he did, like,
a dine and dash.

Narrator: Upon
hearing the news,

Detective Miller immediately
notifies his suspect.

I told Edwin, "We're
holding on to you.

We're gonna book
you for the theft."

And so they took him downstairs

where he was being booked,

and Edwin was literally in
custody and laughing at us.

He says, "This is all you got?

This is ridiculous. I'll
be out in 48 hours."

narrator: Meanwhile,
across town,

investigators are following
up on a critical new lead.

As soon as Kelsey
was reported missing,

we immediately
started requesting

her cell phone records
from the wireless carrier,

but we were told they
were unavailable.

We continued to
request the records,

but it was three days
before we got them.

Once we did finally get
her cell phone records,

what we saw was the text

that John was sending
to Kelsey's phone

the evening she went missing.

Those texts pinged off
of the cell phone towers,

and proved to be a road map.

We tracked Kelsey's
cell phone pings

down the highway in Kansas

and into the Missouri
side of the metro area.

The final ping on her
phone was in a wooded area

known as Longview Lake.

It's a public park where
people go to, you know,

hike and walk their dogs,

and so that's where
we concentrated

our search for her.

Narrator: 45 minutes
into their search,

they make a gruesome discovery

when they find a female body
that was hidden from view.

She was covered with branches.

Her clothes had been taken off.

She had a nylon belt
around her neck.

It appeared as if she'd been
strangled with that belt.

Narrator: Although
they'll need a DNA test

to be sure, the body fits
Kelsey's physical description.

Then we realize that she's
been a victim of a homicide,

so now we go into full
investigative mode

narrator: Investigators
have just discovered

the body of a young woman

matching the description of
missing teen Kelsey Smith.

The Overland Park police
then alert Kelsey's family.

We got a phone call
that day, on June 6th,

about 2:00 in the
afternoon, and they said,

"Hey, we need to come
talk to you guys,"

from the police.

And I said, "Okay."

So we met them out
in the driveway

as soon as they
got to the house.

Captain Fredrickson said,
"You need to brace yourself."

He told us that they'd
recovered Kelsey

and that she was dead.

And I just started screaming,
"Not my Kels. Not my Kels."

But it was my Kels.

Narrator: DNA testing
later confirms

the family's worst fears:

the victim is Kelsey Smith.

Once we realized that she's
been the victim of a homicide,

we knew that we had

a very viable suspect
in Edwin Hall,

who was being interviewed

by investigators
at the same time.

Narrator: Shortly
after getting the news

that Kelsey's body
has been discovered,

the lab sends Detective Miller
some pressing new evidence.

When Edwin was on his way out

to the county jail
for the theft,

I had to run down to
the car and stop him.

They matched his thumbprint

on the back of the driver's seat

seatbelt buckle in Kelsey's car.

I let Edwin know that he was now

gonna be charged with
kidnapping and m*rder,

and that's when he
screamed in my face.

He was just... he was livid.

The next few days
were just a blur.

We were heartbroken,

but there was also
kind of relief

that we had actually found her.

After Edwin is arrested,

the examination of Kelsey's body

revealed that she had
been sexually assaulted.

They ruled the cause of death

as being by strangulation.

Edwin was charged with
m*rder in the first degree.

He was also charged
with r*pe and sodomy.

It wasn't until a
year and a half later

that we go to trial.

Edwin decides to plead
guilty to the charges

in order to avoid
the death penalty.

Narrator: As part of the plea,

Hall agrees to answer
some lingering questions.

It was a long time
coming for the family

to learn what happened to Kelsey

during her last
moments that night.

What he told us was that
after he sees Kelsey...

Then from that moment
on, he was hunting her.

We ended up finding out

it was kind of a
violent takeover.

He rushes in with this p*stol

and shoves it in the
back of her neck,

and his words to her was,

"If you cooperate,
I won't harm you.

I just need you to drive."

narrator: A terrified
Kelsey complies,

not realizing her life
would soon come to an end.

Edwin Hall was sentenced
to life in prison

with no possibility of parole.

Justice had been served.

I'm very grateful to
everybody that worked the case

because they all
did a great job.

Narrator: With the
m*rder case behind him,

Greg will forever cherish

the time he spent
with his daughter,

just hours before
she disappeared.

June 2nd, 2007 started
out as a fantastic day,

and I had all the
kids and we went

to a festival every year
called Old Shawnee Days,

so we spent the day
there riding the rides.

Whoo!

Kelsey had convinced us to
get on the Ferris wheel,

and her sister, Lindsey's,

like, screaming and
covering her face.

Kelsey would turn around and
look at me and just laugh,

and... so, you know,
we had a great time.

And so that was the last trip.

That was the last
time we were all...

all together before
she was k*lled.

Narrator: As for Megan,

she'll always miss
her best friend.

Getting married was really
hard without Kelsey.

And literally right before
I walked down the aisle,

Missey brought me this
little charm thing

to hang on my bouquet

that had pictures of me
and Kelsey on either side,

and then I ugly
cried really hard.

She's like, "No,
like, don't do that."

So she was definitely
incorporated.

Narrator: Missey will always
be grateful for the moment

she shared with Kelsey just
before she disappeared.

And I was fortunate
enough to talk to Kels.

She was at Target.

She's getting this
gift for John.

I said, "I love you,"

and that's the last words
that I ever spoke to her.

Sometimes, I just, um,

I just wish I could talk to her.

Um...

I miss her.

I know she knows
that we miss her.