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17 year old Kara Kopetsky has been missing since May 4, 2007 from Belton, MO. She was last seen leaving Belton High School.
See the many looks that Kara Kopetsky has had over the years.
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- Kara is 17 years old and would have just finished her junior year in high school
- 5′ 5″ tall
- brown hair
- hazel eyes
- As you can tell from the pictures, she is known to change her hair color. She no longer has braces as seen in some of the pictures
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The question remains that could the case of missing Kara Kopetsky have a connection to that of Kelsey Smith? Could Edwin R. Hall, the individual charged in the murder of Kelsey Smith have any connection to the disappearance of Kara Kopetsky? As police found a body 6 miles from where Kara Kopetsky lived, her parents feared for the worse. As it turned out, the body found was that of Kelsey Smith. Is it a coincidence that Kelsey’s body was found so close to where Kara lived. One does wonder whether there is a connection.
Jim and Rhonda Beckford, like thousands of others across Kansas City, watched with trepidation Wednesday as news unfolded about a body found just six miles from their Belton home.
Theirs, though, was a special brand of fear. Their 17-year-old daughter, Kara Kopetsky, has been missing since May 4. So while the search for Kelsey Smith took place, the Beckfords’ fears mounted.
Tarnished relief came after about an hour, when a Belton police sergeant arrived to tell them it wasn’t Kara Kopetsky. (Kansas City.com)
Smith Murder May Hold Clues in Kopetsky Disappearance
Investigators are saying they can’t rule out the possibility that the kidnapping and murder of 18-year old Kelsey Smith is related to the disappearance of a Missouri girl.
VIDEO of links between murdered Kelsey Smith and missing Kara Kopetsky.
Police consider links to missing teens
When investigators in the Smith case announced Wednesday that a body had been found in Longview Lake Park, Kopetsky’s parents, Jim and Rhonda Beckford, waited nervously until Spears told them the body was that of Smith, and not Kara’s.
”Sitting here, a month later, and then you see somebody that has the same physical characteristics and not less than 30 minutes apart in distance wise and you start associating things,” said Jim Beckford, Kara’s stepfather. ”We didn’t have the resources and the video tape, and we didn’t have proof that Kara was abducted.”
Beckford also noted that his stepdaughter disappeared the same day a tornado struck Greensburg, Kan. The story dominated media coverage in the area.
Spears said most media didn’t give Kopetsky’s disappearance the attention he thought it warranted. (Ark City.net)
June 9th, 2007 at 12:40pm
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Kelsey Smith has been missing since June 2, 2007. Police are saying that she has been the victim of an abduction.
Description:
- Kelsey is 18 years old
- 5 feet 6 inches tall
- weighs about 120 lbs
- brown hair
- brown eyes
- When she was last seen, Kelsey was wearing a pink tank top, black cotton shorts, and tennis shoes.
- She was driving an ’87 gray Buick Regal with a Nebraska temp plate (“30 Day 458″) on the front. This car was recovered at Oak Park Mall – its original plate read WOZ 965.
Family Says Car Found But ATM Card, Cell Phone Missing
Family members said they later found her car across the street in front of Macy’s. Her purse and keys were inside the car, but her ATM card and cell phone were missing. Authorities said surveillance video from the Macy’s parking lot was not clear enough to identify the person who drove her car.
Officials said Smith’s ATM card and cell phone have not been used since the kidnapping. (KMBC-TV)
Go to the family web site, Find Kelsey.com
Flier of Kelsey Smith
Target Store surveillance video.
Cops: Kelsey Was Abducted
Cops in Overland Park, Kan. say 18-year-old Kelsey Ann Smith was abducted from the parking lot of a Target store. Police say a man pushed her into her car at around 7:09 p.m. Kelsey was supposed to meet her boyfriend at home to go to a graduation party, but when she didn’t show up. (AMW)
Update I: Volunteers Search for Missing Teen, Kelsey Smith
Family and friends gathered again Tuesday morning in the Target parking lot near 97th & Quivira where missing teen, Kelsey Smith, was last seen. Volunteers canvassed area parks and pass out updated fliers. (FOX 4 – KS)
Update II: Video shows Kan. teen forced into car
“As she opened the driver’s side door, the individual sprinted up behind her and pushed her into the car,” Police Capt. Tom Fredrickson said.
Her car was found two hours later in the parking lot of a mall across the street.
Police were working to enhance the quality of that video, which has not been released because it is so poor, Detective Matthew Bregel said. (Houston Chronicle)
UPDATE IV (7:55 CT): This just in … Tim Miller and TES Joining the Search for Kelsey Smith
I just got off the phone with Tim Miller and he an 10+ TES members will be traveling to Kansas to help search for Kelsey Miller. They will be bringing boats and the drone airplane capable of taking aerial footage. TES has been asked by the search director and law enforcement to help aid in the search for the missing Kelsey Smith. We have also learned that the family of Jodi Sanderholm is also going to help search. (developing)
UPDATE V: Person of Interest
(Fox News)
Overland Park Police Chief John Douglas said searchers have received over 200 tips in the disappearance of Kelsey Smith at a Tuesday evening press conference.
Update VI: Kidnapping of Kelsey Smith caught on Video surveillance
Update VII: More updates and the Press Conference discussing White Pick up truck
UPDATE VIII: Kelsey Smith’s Body Found, Police Confirm
Kelsey Smith’s family spoke on Wednesday evening, following the discovery of her body earlier in the day. Police confirmed Smith’s body was found near a shallow creek bed near Longview Lake in south Kansas City in a heavily wooded area. Members of the Hillcrest Covenant Church plan to hold a vigil tonight at 7. (Fox-KS)
Body of Kansas Teen, Kelsey Smith, Found
The body of Kelsey Smith, an eighteen year old Overland Park, Kansas, has been found today. She was found about fifteen miles away from the site of her abduction.
Videos of breaking news, body found that of missing Kelsey Smith.
UPDATE IX: Arrest made in the murder of Kelsey Smith.
26 year old Edwin R. Hall has been arrested by police in the murder of Kelsey Smith. Hall will be charged tomorrow with first degree murder and kidnapping charges.
June 5th, 2007 at 07:37pm
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18 year old Randle Terry had been missing since Tuesday, May 29, 2007 while swimming in Spring Creek near Riley Fuzzel Road. Volunteer members of Texas Equusearch joined the efforts to help find the missing Terry.
Texas EquuSearch crews used boats to search the water.
“The current is not as strong as I thought it was going to be,” said Tim Miller with Texas EquuSearch. “The waters went down considerably since yesterday, so all we need now is a little bit of luck and a lot of prayers.”
The Coast Guard and local law enforcement agencies searched the area until about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, and then again on Wednesday but found nothing.
Searchers said the water is very murky and about 20 feet deep because of recent rainfall.
The searched turned into a recovery mission by Wednesday afternoon. Volunteers believe Terry’s body is near where he was last seen.
“Normally, they don’t go too far. But, we do realize we’ve got quite a current here,” Miller said.
However, on Thursday the body of Randle Terry was found by members of Texas Equusearch in Spring Creek.
TES crew members have found the body of Randle Terry about a mile from where he went underwater in the creek. We pray that this family can now find the peace and begin to heal as they find ways to deal with this tragedy. We wish to thank everyone for their genuine care and concern to find this young man. A special thank you to all of our members who continue to dedicate themselves for such a tough job. Thank you to all of Randle’s classmates, teachers, family and friends that came to support each other. May you all continue to stay close and keep each other through this difficult time and always. God Bless you all.
This beautiful photo was provided by Carolyn Mitchell. Randle’s family wanted us to share this photo with you all. May You Rest In Peace. (TES)
June 2nd, 2007 at 06:28pm
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It has been a little over 6 months since 15 year old, Bonny Eagle High School 
sophomore Coreen Wiese went missing on November 8, 2006. Just recently a 6 months vigil was held for missing Coreene Wiese.
During the search for the missing teen suicide notes were found as well as possible sighting of Coreen Wiese. On late Friday night a body was found floating in the Saco River that is being speculated as being that of the missing Coreen Wiese. A group of teenagers found the body around 11:55pm on Friday night about 6 miles downstream from where Coreen Wiese was reported last seen. It looks like this case has come to an all to sad end.
The family of missing teenager Coreen Wiese is awaiting word on whether the body of a female found floating in the Saco River late Friday night is that of the 15-year-old girl.
State medical examiner Dr. Margaret Green-wald plans to perform an autopsy on the body this afternoon, according to her office.
“The hope is a positive identification will take place at this time,” said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for Maine’s Department of Public Safety.
A woman answering the phone at the Wiese home identified herself as a family member and said the girl’s parents would have nothing to say before the autopsy.
The woman added that everyone in the community probably can understand how the family must feel about “not knowing.”
The Maine Warden Service said that after the body was found, it canceled a search for Wiese that had been scheduled for May 20. (Portland Press Hearald)
Body Found In Saco River
VIDEO from WCSH
Buxton Police say a body was found floating in the Saco River by several teenagers just before midnight Friday night. The body was found near Warren Road in Buxton, which is between Routes 112 and 35. (WCSH)
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UPDATE I: Today’s announcement, the body of a girl found in the Saco River early Saturday is Coreen Wiese.
“We now know that the body found in the Saco River is our beloved daughter Coreen,” Wesley and Cynthia Wiese said in an e-mailed statement after the body was identified by the state Medical Examiner’s Office today.
“We are deeply saddened with her loss, she is loved and missed by all. We wish to thank the community of Buxton, all of Coreen’s family and friends, the media, and law enforcement personnel that have been so helpful with the search for Coreen during the past 6 months. Because of all your help and God’s will we are able to bring Coreen home.” (Maine Today)
Body found in river identified as that of missing teen
The Maine Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that the victim was Coreen Wiese of Buxton, a student at Bonny Eagle High School.
Preliminary identification was made by comparing orthodontic work, while confirmation came through DNA tests at the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory.
The autopsy Sunday revealed no significant injuries prior to death and the medical examiner concluded that the findings were all consistent with drowning. A ruling on the manner of death was deferred pending results of toxicology tests and further investigation. (Boston Globe)
May 13th, 2007 at 01:31pm
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Search and rescue workers continue to look for missing persons and possible survivors 
in Greensburg, KS after severe weather and tornadoes desimated the town on Friday and over the weekend. At least 8 people have died in the Greensburg area from the violent weather; however, authorities are still optimistic that they will find survivors and continue to call it a “search and rescue” mission.
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) — Searchers went back to work Sunday looking for anyone who might have been trapped since a tornado wiped most of this south-central Kansas town off the map. “At this point, it’s still a search and rescue mission,” Kansas state trooper Ronald Knoefel said. “We don’t want to give up hope.”
Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting, the state’s adjutant general, said officials did not know how many people are missing.
“A lot of people have gone to other places and it’s difficult to track them down,” he said.
At least 10 people were known dead from weekend storms. Eight of them were in the Greensburg area and two others died elsewhere in Kansas – one during the Friday night storms that hammered Greensburg and one in a second round of storms late Saturday, state officials said.
The storms in Kansas were parts of a weekend of violent weather, with tornadoes also dashing across other parts of the Plains states late Saturday. And on Sunday, the National Weather Service posted a new tornado warning for south-central Kansas, saying a funnel cloud was spotted near Corwin, 65 miles southeast of Greensburg.
The Greensburg, KS area has just been destroyed as almost every thing in the town was destroyed. The town has literally been wiped off the map. Check out the video of the damage and devastation caused by the tornado.
Hewitt estimated 95 percent of the town of 1,500 was destroyed and predicted rescue efforts could take days as survivors could be trapped in basements and under rubble.
“This is one of the most devastating tornadoes we have had in Kansas,” said U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran.
At a shelter in neighboring Haviland, Cheryll Behm said her home in Greensburg is probably repairable, unlike the rest of the town.
“I am concerned Greensburg never will be built,” said Behm, a nurse’s aide at the Greensburg hospital. “There is no place to go back to work to. All of Main Street is gone.”
Go to Post Chronicle.com for many more links to video footage.
May 6th, 2007 at 01:22pm
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Two Paul Smith College students, Sean Cornell, 20, of Manchester Center, Vt., and Lee Walker, 18, of Enosburg Falls, Vt., are missing after two canoes and a power boat capsized in Lower St Regis Lake in the Adirondacks.
The missing students from Paul Smith’s College were among six thrown into Lower St. Regis Lake just off shore from campus late Friday on the last day of classes before exams, college spokesman Kenneth Aaron said.
Four students got out of the water safely.
A state police helicopter, divers and rescuers from local fire departments were on the scene Saturday.
Aaron said state police were investigating why the boats capsized. The powerboat was not near the canoes when it overturned, he said.
The two missing students were in one of the canoes. They were identified as Sean Cornell, 20, of Manchester Center, Vt., and Lee Walker, 18, of Enosburg Falls, Vt. (AP)
UPDATE I: Body of Missing Paul Smith student, Lee Walker, Recovered from Lake
The body of one of the missing Paul Smith’s students has been recovered from Lower ST. Regis Lake.
Officials said a New York State Police scuba team recovered the body of 18-year-old Lee Walker late Saturday afternoon.
Walker was part of a group of six students whose two canoes capsized on the lake. Another student, 20-year-old Sean Cornell remains missing. Divers plan to resume their search this morning. (News Watch 50)
One student’s body found, another missing after boats capsize
The body of Lee Walker, 18, of Enosburg Falls, Vt., was recovered by State Police divers late Saturday afternoon, Aaron said. Sean Cornell, 20, of Manchester Center, Vt., remains missing. The search was suspended for the night and was to resume Sunday morning.
A community gathering was planned at the college Sunday morning.
“Our entire community is deeply saddened by this tragic event,” college president John Mills said in a prepared statement. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of both these young men.”
Paul Smith’s enrolls about 850 students and offers degrees in natural resources, forestry, hospitality, recreation, business and biology, according to its Web site. The school is located 124 miles north of Albany. (WCAX-TV3)
Updates from Paul Smith College
UPDATE II: Second body found, Identified as Sean Cornell
New York State Police said they have found a second body in Lower St. Regis Lake, and have tentitively identified it as Sean Cornell, 20,of Manchester Center, Vt.
Police found the body just gefore noon Sunday.
May 6th, 2007 at 08:33am
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19 year old Jennifer Rowland missing from Missouri since the end of March is thought to 
maybe be in Nashville, TN. Jennifer Rowland was supposedly left by her boyfriend at a Savannah Wal-Mart.
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Friends of a missing Missouri teenager believe the young woman may be in Nashville.
Jennifer Rowland, 19, went missing at the end of March when her boyfriend left her at a Savannah, Georgia Wal-Mart.
Family members said Rowland then took a bus back to Missouri.
She was last heard from in Chattanooga on April 5.
Relatives believe Rowland may have gotten off during a stop in Nashville.
They said she may not be able to find her way home because she is recovering from a brain injury.
Rowland was injured in an accident and is left with the mental capacity of a nine-year-old.
Angela Veninga said, “She… …got on the bus, she was fine, we talked to her when she was in Savannah, Georgia. She seemed okay, she was ready to come home… you know, she misses her family, she was just ready to come home.”
Rowland is about five feet eight inches tall. She has brown hair, blue eyes, and a scar on her left arm from a surgery.
Contact police if you have any information on Rowland’s whereabouts. (WKRN)
April 16th, 2007 at 04:27pm
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Raven Dinsmore and Amber Valdez are both missing in GA and considered runaways.
Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police need your help to find two missing teenage girls. Police say Raven Dinsmore and Amber Valdez both ran away from home. Dinsmore hasn’t been seen since March 28. She’s 15 years old, 5’5″ tall, weighs about 130 pounds and wears her hair in braids. She’s known to frequent Paradise Park and Timberland Apartments. Valdez is 14 and has been missing since March 21. (WTOC-11)
If anyone has any information please call Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Detective Sharpley at (912) 651-6742.
April 7th, 2007 at 08:09pm
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The search is underway for 13 year old Florida teen Zoey Freedman. 
She is described as a W/F, 5’2″, 100 pounds, brown hair, last seen wearing white shirt, blue jeans, pink sweatshirt and tennis shoes.
Bradenton, Florida – Late Saturday night, 13-year-old Zoey Freedman was picked up by her father from her friend’s house in Sarasota. Upon their arrival at home, Zoey ran out the front door of the house towards SR 70. Her father immediately called the Sheriff’s Office to respond to the residence. (Tampa Bay 10)
Police search for runaway
March 25th, 2007 at 09:02pm
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14 year old Jameesha Terry has been missing since Monday when she got off her school bus at 3:30pm and has not been seen from since.
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Description:
- 5’4” tall
- weighs between 90-100 lbs
- She was last seen wearing a red shirt and blue jeans.
Her family thinks that foul play is involved in her disappearance for a couple of reasons:
- Earlier this month, Terry was badly beaten up at school and her family has since pressed charges against her attackers.
- Since then, Terry has been bullied at school and on several occasions, harassed on her way home.
- On Monday, her family’s home was broken into and vandalized. The letters CWI were spray painted all over the exterior of the home.
If anyone has any information please call the California City Police Department at 760-373-8606.
UPDATE I: Authorities Search Home Of Missing Girl’s Uncle. Body Of Young Woman Found In Adjacent Field
The FBI and California City Police searched the home Monday of a man who is the uncle of a missing teenager, according to the FBI. A young girl’s body was found Sunday near the uncle’s residence. Authorities have not positively identified the body.
UPDATE II: California City Body Identified As Missing Girl
The body of a female found in a dirt field in California City last week has been identified as Jamesha Terry, 14, who has been missing for several weeks.
The coroner’s office is calling it a suspicious death, but need to complete further analysis before they can rule her death a homicide.
FBI agents and Kern County coroner’s officials used dental records to identify the body that was badly decomposed.
Terry was found before 6 p.m. Sunday in a field on the 21000 block of Neuralia Road.
Authorities searched Terry’s uncle’s apartment, which is 100 yards away from the field, and questioned him Monday, although he is not considered a suspect at this point. (KERO-23)
March 24th, 2007 at 06:34pm
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