Kelsey Smith

The outside footage showed a suspicious 1970s-era Chevrolet truck leaving the lot, which was also found to have entered the lot just before Smith had.

According to the program See No Evil (also known as Murder on CCTV), the Macy's surveillance video showed that Smith's car had been left there at 9:17 p.m., about two hours after it had departed the Target lot.

A figure in white shirt and dark pants was seen leaving the vehicle and running toward the street.

Though it was too dark at that time to determine if the figure was that of a male or female, the person's clothing seemed to match that of the suspect in the Target footage.

When the video still of the man was released to the media, it generated hundreds of tips, but the leads were too general to be useful.

When the car was checked for forensic evidence, fingerprint experts isolated all of those who had legitimate reasons to be in the car, such as Kelsey's family, friends and boyfriend.

As a result, they found unidentified prints on the seat belt.

Detectives reportedly found Kelsey's body because of a cell phone ping that originated from the area on June 2, and a number of search areas were identified.

Despite efforts by local law enforcement and eventually the FBI, it took Verizon Wireless four days to hand over the cell phone records to investigators, which caused much controversy over the delay.

A Verizon technician pinpointed a cell-phone tower and told investigators to search 1.1 miles north of it.

Within 45 minutes, on June 6 at 1:30 p.m., searchers discovered Smith's body in a wooded area near Longview Lake in Grandview, Missouri, 18 to 20 miles from where she had been abducted.

Upon report of Smith's death, a website dedicated to the search for her went offline and was quickly remade into a dedication site.

Through subsequent investigation, the cause of death was determined to be strangulation; she had been choked with her own belt.

The autopsy also showed that she was sexually assaulted.

A woman who had seen the footage recognized the subject as her neighbor.

The next day when she saw the information about the truck, she called in a tip.

Approximately four hours later, her car, a 1987 Buick Regal, was found abandoned outside of Macy's in the parking lot of Oak Park Mall across the street.

Her purse, wallet and the items that she had bought were left in the car.

Target stores use a large array of video cameras, and these can often be enhanced internally through the company's Target Forensic Services division.

The surveillance footage showed Smith parking her car, entering the store, calling her mother and selecting the items that were later found in the car.

It also revealed that a male, who was white and in his early twenties, wearing a white shirt and dark shorts, had entered the store approximately thirty seconds after Smith had entered.

The man seemed to be in every aisle that Smith had visited and appeared in almost every part of the footage showing her, but at a discreet distance.

Despite frequently looking at Smith or in her direction, the man made no effort to talk to her or to approach her in the store but left just as she went to the cashier, who did not see or notice anything unusual in the store nor in Smith's behavior.

The footage captured a clear picture of the man leaving the store.

In the parking lot, surveillance video appeared to show someone forcing Smith into her car.

The video at first did not show anything unusual, but when slowed down, it revealed a flash in the direction of Smith and her car, consistent with someone running when the camera is placed at a distance.

Kelsey Ann Smith (May 3, 1989 – June 2, 2007) was an Overland Park, Kansas, teenager who disappeared on June 2, 2007, and was murdered that evening.

The story was featured in the international media, including on America's Most Wanted, before her body was found near a lake in Missouri on June 6, 2007.

Smith was last seen at 7:07 p.m. CDT on June 2, 2007, in the parking lot of a Target store at 97th and Quivira, behind Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, Kansas.

Police, other authorities and the national media launched an extensive publicity campaign and search for Smith.

Surveillance video from Target showed Smith purchasing a present for her boyfriend to celebrate six months together.

Her last call had been to her mother from the store.

She then left the store before she disappeared.

On the evening of June 6, 2007, police arrested 26-year-old Edwin Roy "Jack" Hall of Olathe, Kansas.

Hall was in the process of leaving town with his wife and son, supposedly on vacation, when the police arrived.

Hall was charged on June 7 with premeditated first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping.

He had no adult criminal record, but had a juvenile record of assault.

Hall, who had been adopted at age seven, had been returned to state custody at age 15 after threatening the family's daughter with a knife.

He also assaulted another boy by striking him in the head with a baseball bat.

Police do not believe that Hall knew Smith.