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00:00I felt more terrified than I ever initially thought I could feel.
00:18We got a lot of calls.
00:19Is it safe to have our children do this?
00:21Should we take our kids out of these activities?
00:23I mean, what do you tell a parent like that?
00:26There was just a sense of unease, you know,
00:29kind of really countywide during that whole summer.
00:33Public response was overwhelming.
00:36I would say we got hundreds of leads.
00:39It was like, wow, this is unbelievable.
00:45They're evil.
00:48They're just plain evil.
00:54From the pulsating streets of big cities to Main Street, USA,
00:58no neighborhood is safe from the unthinkable.
01:01These are the stories of innocence lost,
01:03of communities changed forever.
01:07This is City Confidential.
01:11Just 12 miles south of Kansas City, Kansas, sits the city of Leawood,
01:26one of the most affluent and secure enclaves in the country.
01:29It all dates back to a dream that began in 1913.
01:37That was when lawman Oscar G. Lee,
01:40who was legendary for taming the Wild West boomtown of Oklahoma City,
01:45planted roots in Kansas City.
01:47He tried his hand at real estate,
01:50buying up a bunch of buildings that were integral in transforming the area.
01:54He soon became known as one of the most successful businessmen around.
01:59But once a cop, always a cop.
02:01And in 1922, the man known for being a quick shot,
02:08because he kept a gun inside his vest pocket
02:10and would shoot through a hole in the lining when necessary,
02:13set his sights on creating a community where pistols were no longer needed.
02:21Lee purchased a 15-square-mile parcel of land on the outskirts of Kansas City
02:26and created the perfect suburb.
02:29He called it Leawood.
02:34The city was incorporated in 1948.
02:37Upscale developments and distinctive office buildings soon followed,
02:41and modern-day Leawood began to take shape.
02:45Today, Lee's original 15-square-mile purchase makes up the town,
02:50and the 33,000 who live here couldn't be prouder of their bedroom community.
02:54And for good reason.
02:57The majority of residents own their own homes,
02:59and Leawood's got one of the best school districts in the nation.
03:04No surprise, considering more than a third of the locals have at least a master's degree.
03:10It is a family-driven community.
03:13Being in the Midwest, there are what people always call the Midwest values.
03:18A family is first.
03:19Work is done to the degree that everybody does an excellent job and gives of themselves,
03:29but people work here to live.
03:33Their family time and community-driven projects are very important.
03:39Leawood is almost a 21st century Leawood to Beaver.
03:45You move into a neighborhood, and you have cookies and welcome gift baskets from all the neighbors.
03:55And just as former lawman Oscar Lee envisioned more than a century ago,
03:59this place is about as safe as it gets.
04:02Violent crime rates are 89% lower than the national average.
04:06So in the summer of 2002, residents in this perfect little community were blindsided
04:13when their reputation as one of the safest towns in America was shattered.
04:19It's 5.30 p.m. on a chilly Tuesday, June 18th,
04:30when an emergency call comes in to Leawood PD.
04:34Prominent local business owner Roger Kemp is calling from a neighborhood community pool.
04:41Leawood 911, what is your emergency?
04:43My daughter's been murdered.
04:45Okay, why do you think that, sir?
04:47Because she's not moving, and she's laying in the pool house.
04:49She was working here.
04:51Okay, stay on the phone.
04:52And she's got blood all over her.
04:54Okay, okay, stay on the phone.
04:56Do not hang up, okay?
04:57Oh, Allie, honey.
04:59Allie, Allie, Allie, Allie, Allie, Allie, Allie, Allie, Allie, Allie, come back.
05:05Allie, come to me, Allie.
05:13Paramedics and police immediately arrive on scene.
05:15They find Roger Kemp in the pool house with his blood-covered 19-year-old daughter in his arms.
05:24Once the MTs felt like they had a pulse of some kind,
05:28so they loaded her into the ambulance and transported her to the hospital here on St. Line Road at St. Joe.
05:32It appeared that she had been involved in a significant physical altercation.
05:41She had bruises on her face and on her back.
05:45She did have a ligature strangulation mark.
05:48She didn't have any shorts, and her panties were gone,
05:51and her bra and her shirt had been pushed up kind of around her neck area.
05:55It was very obvious that there was a struggle.
06:01There was blood on the floor where she ended up.
06:04Things were knocked over.
06:06The crime scene unit processed it for latent prints.
06:09They processed it for trace evidence, hairs, fibers.
06:12They took samples from the blood.
06:15They also recovered an antibiotic ointment tube and a cap that was laying on the floor.
06:23The evidence is bagged and rushed to the crime lab for processing.
06:27Then cops ask Roger Kemp to help them make sense of what happened here.
06:33Roger tells them Allie and her 17-year-old brother, Tyler, work as attendants at the pool.
06:39At 5 o'clock, his son showed up to relieve Allie.
06:42Her car was there.
06:47Her college books were there on a table.
06:52And he looked all over and couldn't find her, so he called his father.
06:56And Roger went over to try and find her.
07:00And while looking around the pool, he had looked into the pump room.
07:05It was full of old chairs, stuff like that.
07:08And he saw a leg sticking out from underneath a tarp for the pools.
07:17And he immediately went over, and it was his daughter.
07:21The location of the call being the swimming pool, I thought to myself, well, there had to be people coming and going from the pool all day.
07:36How could this have happened?
07:39And nobody had seen anything.
07:40We knew there weren't any cameras at the pool itself, but right across the street to the north was a shopping center.
07:49And there is a bank that sits in that shopping center.
07:52And there's a couple other business that we knew had surveillance cameras.
07:56But there wasn't anything that stood out at that point in time on the cameras that we felt like generated any interest for us.
08:04Detectives talked to everyone around the neighborhood and quickly learned few people were at the pool due to the unseasonably cold weather.
08:12But there are two landscapers who say they've been working there all afternoon.
08:18They said was they had arrived at the pool around noon.
08:22They had parked their truck in the parking lot, taken kind of their lunch break in the truck.
08:27And while they were sitting there that they saw a truck, had driven through the parking lot, kind of circled through the lot a couple of times.
08:33But they didn't really have noticed it stop at any point in time.
08:36The landscapers didn't get a good look at the driver, but they could identify the truck.
08:43A tan 1980s Ford pickup.
08:46But before police can run with the lead, they get a call from the hospital.
08:52Allie Kemp has died.
08:56And safe little Leawood is not so safe anymore.
09:06Word that 19-year-old Allie Kemp was brutally attacked at a community pool traveled swiftly through Leawood.
09:19Early evening, I received a call.
09:23The weirdest call I've ever had in my life.
09:27That said, Jennifer, you need to come up to the hospital now.
09:31Allie's had an accident.
09:33I arrived.
09:37There was just one or two other friends sitting on the curb outside the hospital.
09:42Just blank faces.
09:44I walked up.
09:47They said, we've lost Allie.
09:49She's gone.
09:50She died.
09:52And I just didn't even hear those words.
09:55I thought, no, she had an accident.
09:57You know, she's okay.
09:58I'll be right back.
09:59I'm going to go check on her.
10:01No, sit down.
10:02She's gone.
10:02And nothing else was said.
10:05We just sat there silent.
10:08And it made no sense.
10:10It wasn't real.
10:16Allie Kemp, born and raised in Leawood, was considered one of the town's most promising young women.
10:22I knew that she was a very talented and very hardworking, a very popular girl.
10:33She had so many friends.
10:36And she was an athlete as well.
10:38So she was a real rising star.
10:43When I first met Allie, we were in sixth grade.
10:47She was the welcome ambassador.
10:49So anytime a new person moved to town or came to school, she was the person that welcomed you.
10:55Everyone wanted to be her friend.
10:56Everyone loved her.
10:57She had the most beautiful, long brown hair and kind eyes.
11:02You could just tell from looking at her, she was a genuinely kind person.
11:06The memory I think of most that epitomizes Allie is her laugh.
11:11It's just iconic.
11:12Like when you say it, everyone can picture it.
11:14I can still hear it.
11:16It's just the funniest laugh, big belly laugh that makes you laugh and smile no matter what.
11:22And she was always the comedian.
11:24It was very dry wit, humor, and intelligent.
11:26And she just had us all rolling.
11:29Allie had just finished up her first year at Kansas State University
11:33and was living at home with her parents and her two younger brothers for the summer.
11:39She was working part-time at the pool to earn some extra spending money.
11:43And her attendant job seemed as safe as it gets.
11:48But now Allie is gone.
11:52And Leawood cops want to know why.
11:55When I talked with Allie's parents, I asked them if they could give us a list of names
11:59that they know she associates with.
12:02Did they know of any people that had a grudge against her?
12:06Did she talk about anybody in college that she was worried about
12:10or she thought she was being followed?
12:13But the Kemps can't think of anyone who would want to harm their daughter.
12:17Police try to build a timeline.
12:19They learned that the last person to see Allie alive was her longtime boyfriend, Phil.
12:25They had went together in high school, and then they separated during college.
12:30He went to Kansas University, she went to Kansas State University.
12:35And then after the year in college, when they returned,
12:41they got back together and started dating again.
12:45Phil was also an attendant at the community pool.
12:48And earlier that day, he worked the shift right before Allie's.
12:54He had told us that he was at the pool at 2 o'clock in the afternoon when he was relieved by Allie.
13:00And that he stayed at the pool until about 2.15, but he had to go to another job.
13:06He said that he missed a call from her at about 2.51, I believe.
13:11She just left a voicemail because they were going to go out on a date that night.
13:16Cops confirm Phil couldn't have killed Allie because he was seen working across town from 2.30 p.m. on.
13:24And with Allie's call coming in at 2.51 p.m.,
13:28police realized the window of attack was sometime between that call
13:32and when her brother Tyler showed up at 5 p.m. to start his shift.
13:36And then one of Allie's best friends comes forward and helps whittle down the timeline further.
13:44She tells detectives she stopped by the pool around 3.15.
13:48She said she drove in and she honked her horn.
13:51She said she was, in her words, acting obnoxious just to get Allie to come out.
13:56And she said Allie didn't come out, but a guy peeked around the corner of the pump house
14:01and she said he was dressed in like blue coveralls.
14:06And she thought he was a boss of Allie's.
14:10And she thought, oh, I got Allie in trouble because of honking and all this stuff.
14:17Allie's friend described the person she saw as a white male,
14:22a husky dressed in blue and carrying a bucket,
14:29which made her think that he worked for the pool.
14:32And she said he walked by and went to a vehicle and drove off.
14:39And I asked her what type of vehicle it was.
14:42She said, I really didn't see it.
14:45It was obvious to us the individual that Allie's friend saw when she pulled in that day to see Allie
14:51was somebody that couldn't be accounted for, fit into our time frame of when the crime had to have occurred.
14:58So we felt like that was quite likely our suspect.
15:03Detectives asked Allie's friend to sit with a police sketch artist
15:06to come up with a composite of the mysterious man she saw.
15:09Three hours later, a 30-something, slightly balding, round-faced, white male is staring back at them from the page.
15:19We definitely needed to identify who that individual was.
15:23And we felt like the truck that the lawn care worker saw was probably our suspect vehicle.
15:29So that information was put together and released to the media.
15:32Flyers are posted all over town.
15:37No one recognizes the man.
15:39But for residents, the composite sketch becomes the elusive face of evil
15:43who boldly struck and killed in this exclusive enclave in the middle of the day.
15:50I felt more terrified than I ever initially thought I could feel.
15:56You know, the day before, my entire life, you'd wave to everyone.
16:00You'd welcome them in for water if they're out jogging.
16:02I mean, it's just absurd how safe it was.
16:06And now, I was terrified to step foot outside.
16:10The parents were in a panic mode.
16:11They were scared to death.
16:13We got a lot of calls.
16:14Is it safe to have our children do this?
16:16Should we take our kids out of these activities?
16:18I mean, what do you tell a parent like that?
16:21And when the autopsy report comes in,
16:23cops realize the people of Leawood have every reason to worry.
16:32This is a picture of 19-year-old Allie Kemp,
16:41a much-loved Kansas State student and Blue Valley North graduate,
16:44an unlikely victim of murder.
16:47There was evidence of a struggle, I can tell you that.
16:50Police say Allie fought back against her attacker in this pump room.
16:54It's a place where she would check the pool's chemical levels while on the job.
16:57It's also the place her dad and brother would find her body.
17:01Two days after Allie Kemp's murder,
17:04residents are trying to take in the enormity of the tragedy
17:07that's touched down in Leawood, Kansas.
17:09And when the autopsy results come in,
17:14police get a sobering look at just how violent the attack was.
17:19She had some wounds in the front of her face.
17:22We felt that maybe the suspect had hit her head on the concrete floor
17:29in the pump room,
17:32and that she had some broken fingers,
17:36and she had broken fingernails.
17:38The injuries to her hands showed that she fought back.
17:44She had migratory marks on her neck,
17:47and it appeared that she was strangled from behind.
17:50They didn't know what it was that the suspect used,
17:56but it did leave a very clear and distinct line on her throat.
18:03The coroner wouldn't say whether or not she had been sexually assaulted.
18:09We still felt like, based on the way she was found,
18:12with her underwear and her shorts missing,
18:15and her shirt and bra being pushed up over her,
18:19or up around her neck,
18:21we still felt like the motive of this was sexual assault.
18:24And the crime lab analysis backs up the theory.
18:29There was foreign DNA found on Allie and throughout the pool room.
18:32They had found four spots,
18:37one spot on her bra,
18:39one on her shirt,
18:41and the DNA found on her shirt and bra
18:47was an unknown male sample
18:49mixed with Allie's blood,
18:52and then a sample from the cap of the ointment tube
18:57and the ointment tube had the same profile on each item,
19:00and it was an unknown male.
19:03When the unidentified profile was put into CODIS,
19:07the national database where all offenders
19:11have their DNA profiles put in,
19:14there was no match.
19:17But the crime lab felt that was a good enough profile
19:21that when we got the suspect,
19:25we would be able to identify him.
19:29Fortunately, the police composite sketch
19:32of the killer and his Ford pickup
19:33has been seen by nearly everyone in town.
19:37Public response was overwhelming.
19:39I mean, we got leads.
19:42I mean, I would say we got hundreds of leads.
19:45We just got flooded with calls
19:47from people either saying they knew somebody
19:50who had a truck like that.
19:51They knew somebody who looked like that.
19:53You had to kind of triage the leads
19:55as they would come in.
19:56You know, you had a pile that needed to be worked right now,
19:59a pile that needs to be worked when we can.
20:02What we really need are license numbers,
20:04addresses where trucks are parked,
20:07names of potential suspects,
20:09but things that actually can be followed up.
20:11We developed a database of names
20:14of everybody that we contacted,
20:16that we talked to,
20:18that we interviewed.
20:20Every piece of information
20:21that we had in the case,
20:22we entered in the database
20:23to help us at least try to keep a handle
20:25on all the information that we had
20:27we're getting coming in.
20:30With all of the leads we received on this case,
20:33we had police agencies
20:34from both sides of the state line working.
20:37And just four days after Allie's murder,
20:40Leawood PD gets a call from 40 miles away.
20:43The Leavenworth County Sheriff's Department
20:45thinks they might have a break in the case.
20:47There was a situation where an individual
20:51had an apparent warrant for his arrest.
20:55He resembled the composite.
20:58He was approached by Leavenworth County officials.
21:02And as he was confronted,
21:05the first thing he said was,
21:08you're here about the girl murdered at the pool in Leawood,
21:11aren't you?
21:12And the officers looked at him
21:16and noticed he had a lot of scratches,
21:18bloody scratches on his arm.
21:20Right then and there,
21:22the Leavenworth authorities thought,
21:23oh my goodness,
21:25we have fallen into identifying this suspect.
21:30He was taken to Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office
21:33where our detectives sent a team up to interview him.
21:37The guy has a rock-solid alibi.
21:40He was at work and seen by several people
21:42the day Allie was murdered.
21:45And he can explain the cuts on his arms.
21:48The scratches ended up being from a domestic dispute
21:52with his wife the day or two prior.
21:55So the lead kind of fell apart.
21:58We were very excited.
22:00Everybody wanted to run up to Leavenworth.
22:03And, you know, then that happens.
22:08A little over a week into the investigation,
22:11and the case database is loaded
22:12with nothing more than bitter disappointment.
22:16Then cops get a call.
22:18A tipster says the sketch of the killer
22:20is the spitting image of a 27-year-old auto mechanic
22:24who lives just 15 miles away from Leawood.
22:35A little over a week after Allie Kemp's murder,
22:38a man living about 20 minutes from Leawood, Kansas,
22:41shows up on police radar.
22:43His name? James Strader.
22:45His face? Chillingly familiar.
22:49Strader was like a dead ringer to the composite.
22:52So we sent a team out, and they interviewed Strader.
22:56He said, you know, I know I look like the composite,
22:59but it isn't me.
23:00He said, I was working at the time
23:03at an auto repair shop in Olathe, Kansas,
23:06and I didn't do it.
23:10The detectives talked to his boss.
23:12His boss was able to look through his work file records
23:16and saw the job that Mr. Strader had done that day
23:20and basically vouched for Mr. Strader.
23:23It's a small shop.
23:25He kind of knows when people are there and when they're not.
23:27But James Strader had not left the shop
23:30that afternoon on the day of our homicide.
23:33So based on the alibi from the boss
23:37and the work records that the team eliminated,
23:39at that point, had eliminated Mr. Strader as a suspect.
23:42While cops hunt for new leads,
23:48Leawood braces for one of the saddest gatherings
23:51in the town's history.
23:53We've gathered here this day
23:55to thank God for the life of Alexandra Elizabeth Kemp.
24:01We feel our hearts aching and breaking.
24:02We have shed many tears over the last few days.
24:06Tears are still shed over the murder
24:08of this young and vibrant spirit.
24:10Allie's funeral was held at Church of the Resurrection,
24:15one of the largest Methodist church in the world.
24:19And no way you could feel that.
24:22Well, Allie's funeral did.
24:24Today, loved ones turned to God for hope,
24:27and they turned to God for the difficult questions.
24:30Where was God on Tuesday afternoon?
24:34I believe that God was by Allie's side,
24:37angry and grieving at the hurt
24:40that was inflicted upon one of his children.
24:43It was absolutely heartbreaking.
24:48Yeah.
24:49It was really difficult.
24:50I had never been to a funeral in my life.
25:09We didn't even know what to expect.
25:11I remember us girls holding hands,
25:14quietly saying prayers to Allie,
25:16looking down at her flower-covered casket.
25:19But there wasn't a dry eye.
25:26As tears rained down on Leawood,
25:30police assigned a detective
25:32to do nothing but wade through hundreds of DMV records,
25:36hoping to get a bead on the killer through his tan truck.
25:39He pulled all the DMV records from both Missouri and Kansas
25:44of all 1984 pickups
25:46and was running all those down
25:48to look at those and talk to those people.
25:51But, you know, as you got into those leads,
25:53there was always something about them
25:55that would fall apart fairly quickly.
25:58As the summer heats up and the case cools down,
26:05it seems the newest and most unwelcome neighbors in Leawood
26:08are frustration and fear.
26:12There were a lot of pools, subdivision pools,
26:16that never reopened that summer just simply because of that.
26:20There was just a sense of unease,
26:23you know, kind of really countywide
26:24during that whole summer.
26:27People were really concerned for all the young girls out there
26:31because, again, if somebody that would be brazen enough
26:33to have committed this crime
26:35in a public area in the middle of the day,
26:38that individual could lash out or strike again
26:41at any point in time.
26:42Summer turns to fall
26:49and detectives are no closer to identifying the killer.
26:54The Kemp family is devastated.
26:57But Allie's dad, Roger,
26:59decides to channel his grief into action.
27:02He focuses on how his daughter's attack
27:05can help save other lives.
27:08Allie was a strong girl
27:10and I know that she fought hard
27:12at the end of her life.
27:15But he felt if she had had a few more ideas
27:18of how to defend herself,
27:21it might not have ended the way it did.
27:24I remember him saying,
27:26we're going to have a self-defense class.
27:28We're going to teach every woman, girl, mother, daughter
27:30in America what to do
27:32so this doesn't happen to anyone else's kid.
27:37The result?
27:38Take defense.
27:40The Allie Kemp Educational Foundation.
27:44When I took the class myself the first time,
27:47it is mind-blowing the stuff you learn.
27:50I thought it would be, you know,
27:52you hit this way
27:53or do you spray them with pepper spray?
27:55No, it was the psychology behind it.
27:58Like how unaware every single one of us were.
28:02But we lived in this bubble.
28:03You didn't have to be aware
28:04because everyone looked out for you.
28:06But the game had changed.
28:11With the self-defense classes taking off,
28:16Roger turns back to the unsolved murder of his daughter.
28:19He knows all it will take to crack this case
28:21is getting the attention of the right person.
28:24Roger came to us and asked what we thought of him putting an ad in the USA Today.
28:34A half-page ad with the composite, the truck, the crime.
28:38Do you think that would help?
28:41And we said, anything can help.
28:44So the ad that we put together,
28:46I wanted to make it jump out to the readers.
28:49So in bold type, we had, do you know who killed me?
28:54And then we had a photograph of Allie, this beautiful young lady.
28:58And we had a description of the suspect,
29:01a composite of the suspect,
29:03and all the details we could.
29:06Well, we think it's very important to get the national exposure
29:09because we don't know if this predator is three blocks away
29:12or he's in New York City or in California.
29:15And we just need to get it out there
29:17because we are going to catch him.
29:20Roger says, what else can we do?
29:23And he says, what about a billboard?
29:27And Roger met with a billboard company
29:30who was like everybody else in Kansas City.
29:34We'd like to help.
29:36They ended up giving him like two or three billboards
29:39throughout the metro area.
29:41And they put them at very busy locations
29:44so it would get a lot of exposure.
29:46He got with Yellow Freight,
29:49which is a trucking company here in the Kansas City area.
29:52They were able to put pictures of the composite in the truck
29:55on the back of their truck
29:56so that as they drove around the country,
29:59the information to face and the truck information
30:01would be spread throughout the country.
30:02A flood of new tips come in from all over the country
30:11and Leawood police spend months chasing them all down.
30:15Nothing pans out.
30:18Then, in February of 2003,
30:21investigators hear about a menacing predator
30:23wanted for committing several violent crimes
30:25against women in the greater Kansas City area.
30:28And when police get a look at him,
30:31they realize this isn't the first time
30:33they've seen his face.
30:40Eight months after Ali Kemp's murder,
30:43Leawood police are staring back at a familiar face.
30:47James Trader,
30:49the suspect they cleared months ago,
30:52seems he's been getting into some serious trouble
30:54since they last talked to him.
30:57He was wanted for kidnapping and raping
31:00a girl from Hutchinson, Kansas,
31:03and he went and kidnapped another girl
31:05that I believe was his ex-girlfriend
31:08and raped her.
31:10And then he left and went down to southern Missouri
31:14where he also sexually molested or raped a 14-year-old.
31:20He was a multi-five-foot-five individual,
31:25a rounded face, short hair.
31:28I mean, every aspect of this individual
31:30matched the same description as our suspect.
31:33So now he's back on our radar.
31:36But the earlier investigation showed Strader,
31:40a small-town mechanic,
31:41had a solid alibi during the time of Ali's murder.
31:45I went back out to the auto repair place
31:48and talked to the boss myself.
31:50I mean, he had the stuff there
31:52that showed that he was there.
31:55To rule him out once and for all,
31:57cops need his DNA.
31:59They luck out when Strader gets stopped
32:02on a traffic violation in Utah.
32:04The sheriff's office invited me
32:08to go out with their detective,
32:10and we did get his DNA,
32:12and it was confirmed a second time
32:14he was not the killer.
32:16I'm not saying he's not a criminal,
32:18but he wasn't the criminal that killed Ali.
32:22For the next few months,
32:24investigators struggled to get traction in the case.
32:27Ali Kemp's killer remains a mystery.
32:32Then, on the one-year anniversary of her murder,
32:35the phone at the station rings.
32:37An anonymous tipster says he recognizes
32:40the man in the composite sketch.
32:41And it's like founding lawman Oscar Lee
32:45has just shined down on the police department.
32:49He said, hey, you guys should take a look
32:51at a guy named Teddy L. Hoover.
32:53Goes by Ben.
32:55Gave us his home address in Kansas City, Kansas.
32:59Said he was living there with his girlfriend.
33:01Gave us the girlfriend's name.
33:02And says that, you know,
33:03his dad has an older Ford truck
33:06that he drives sometimes.
33:08He either ran his own pool company
33:11or worked with a pool cleaning company.
33:14I go out to try to interview him at his house.
33:17He's close to the composite.
33:19You know, in talking to him that day,
33:21when you sit down across from somebody
33:23and you're investigating a homicide
33:25and they've been called in as a possible suspect,
33:28most people become somewhat nervous
33:30in that particular situation.
33:32But he seemed fairly casual about it.
33:36Didn't seem like it was a big concern for him.
33:39I asked if he could recall
33:40what he would have been doing
33:41on the day of the homicide.
33:44He said, no, he really wouldn't have any way
33:48to remember what he was doing that day.
33:50I said, okay, well, the only way,
33:53because you don't know where you were that day,
33:55to eliminate you is going to be through DNA.
33:57He says, what I probably would want to do first
33:59is talk to an attorney.
34:01And he gave me his attorney's name and phone number.
34:05And I said, either you or your attorney
34:06need to get back in touch with me
34:08within the next day or two
34:09and let me know what you want to do.
34:12Days pass.
34:14Finally, Hoover's lawyer calls.
34:17The attorney says to me, well, he never paid me.
34:22He's taken off.
34:24He went to Florida.
34:25So do whatever you want to do.
34:27Detectives confirm Hoover's rental home is empty
34:32and ask his landlord for any forwarding information.
34:37And he said, he told me he was going to Vegas.
34:40So we had the attorney telling us Florida.
34:42We had the landlord telling us Vegas.
34:45But bottom line, Mr. Hoover had disappeared on us.
34:48So now we got a guy that looks like the composite
34:55who refuses to cooperate,
34:58won't provide his DNA and skip town.
35:01Whoa, this is a good suspect.
35:04Priority list number one.
35:07We tried everything we could to locate this guy.
35:11Las Vegas PD tried to find him anywhere in Nevada
35:14or in Las Vegas, nothing the same in Florida.
35:18We couldn't find him anywhere.
35:21Over the course of the next several months,
35:22we would randomly run him through the computer system,
35:25thinking, okay, well,
35:26he's going to reestablish himself somewhere.
35:29And we're never able to find him
35:32in any of the 50 states.
35:3617 months pass.
35:38There's still no sign of Teddy Hoover.
35:41That's when police get creative.
35:44We came up with the idea of contacting postal inspectors.
35:48We gave them the name of Ted Hoover
35:50and also his girlfriend's name
35:53to see if they had any records of someone
35:56with those names getting mailed.
35:59They do.
36:00More than two years after Allie Kemp's murder,
36:08Lee Wood detectives learned that the girlfriend
36:10of their number one suspect, Teddy Hoover,
36:13is now living in Connecticut.
36:15They asked the state police to do some groundwork.
36:19They had checked with the mail carrier
36:21and she was getting mailed there.
36:24And there was another guy getting mailed there,
36:27but his name was not Ted Hoover.
36:29It was Ben Appleby.
36:31Detectives look into Benjamin Appleby.
36:34Turns out, he has outstanding arrest warrants
36:37dating back to the 1990s.
36:40He's wanted on three misdemeanor counts
36:42for lewd and lascivious conduct.
36:45According to the record,
36:46Appleby liked to flash high school girls.
36:49And when police went after him,
36:51just like Teddy Hoover, he up and disappeared.
36:54Looks like Benjamin Appleby
36:56and Teddy Hoover have a lot in common.
37:00We met with the detectives
37:01from the Connecticut State Police
37:03and we kind of came up with the decision
37:06or the plan that they would arrest him
37:08on their misdemeanor warrants.
37:09Connecticut police went to the door
37:12and knocked on it.
37:14Benjamin Appleby answered the door.
37:17They asked him if he was Benjamin Appleby.
37:19He said he was.
37:21He was placed in handcuffs
37:23and taken to the Connecticut State Police barracks.
37:27Lee Wood cops are there waiting.
37:30And sure enough,
37:32Benjamin Appleby,
37:33a.k.a. Teddy Hoover,
37:35walks in the door.
37:37We sit down and he says,
37:39you know, I made a mistake.
37:43I told you I was never at that pool,
37:45but he said I was.
37:46Like I told you before,
37:48I went in there
37:49to the pool
37:51with the intentions of looking at the pool
37:55to get to business.
38:00I'd never seen him before.
38:03Went in the pump room.
38:04Allie was in the pump room.
38:05And I, uh,
38:10I hit on her.
38:13Small talk.
38:14I don't remember exactly what I said.
38:17And, uh,
38:19didn't, you know,
38:23wasn't interested in anything I had to say.
38:27And, uh,
38:28I was blocking the doorway.
38:31I think she felt.
38:35Uncomfortable, obviously,
38:37with me standing there.
38:38And I, uh,
38:39I don't know what to say.
38:45I tried to hit on her.
38:46I reached,
38:47I touched her not hard,
38:48nothing.
38:50Either on the shoulder
38:51or the hip or something.
38:52She pushed me back.
38:55Um,
38:55and she punched me.
38:57Okay.
38:57Where'd she?
38:58I'm right around in here.
38:59Then I hit her a few times.
39:01And, uh,
39:02we fell down to the floor.
39:05I've f***ing lost it.
39:07I, uh,
39:09uh,
39:11I took her, uh,
39:13clothes off
39:14with the intention
39:14of trying to have sex with her.
39:17And I tried to have sex with her
39:19and I couldn't f***ing do it.
39:22But I panicked.
39:24You said she was strangled.
39:25I know I strangled her.
39:27I don't know what I strangled her with.
39:30And I don't know why
39:31I f***ing did it.
39:32He cried.
39:35Uh,
39:36he said he was so sorry
39:37he did this.
39:39But,
39:40those were crocodile tears.
39:41He was,
39:42he was crying
39:43because he got caught.
39:44In my opinion.
39:47Benjamin Appleby
39:48is arrested on the spot
39:49for the murder
39:50of Ali Kemp.
39:53I get this phone call.
39:54It's Scott Hanson.
39:56What's going on?
39:57We got him.
39:58I contacted the chief,
40:02Sid Mitchell.
40:03Both got in the car
40:04and we headed to Roger's house.
40:07The men on,
40:08we pulled up to the house
40:09to ring the doorbell.
40:11The door opened.
40:13Roger comes out
40:14and he says,
40:14you've got him.
40:17Ali's murder
40:18turned her friend's world
40:19upside down.
40:20Today,
40:20they sat quietly
40:21listening to word
40:22of the suspect's arrest.
40:23I'm just so thankful
40:24that they, um,
40:26have found him
40:27for the family,
40:28um,
40:29for the Kemp's.
40:29I know this has been
40:30a long journey for them.
40:32It was the first time
40:33in two years
40:35that it was okay
40:36to smile
40:37and cheer
40:37and celebrate.
40:39It was this,
40:40like,
40:40the handcuffs
40:40were released
40:41and everyone
40:42was just excited.
40:44We got him.
40:44Yay!
40:45I just felt like
40:46the community
40:48could take a deep breath,
40:50that there was an exhale
40:52that happened
40:53because finally,
40:56after all that length
40:57of time,
40:58this murder
40:59had been brought
41:00to justice.
41:03On December 5, 2006,
41:06Benjamin Appleby
41:07is convicted
41:07of capital murder
41:08and attempted rape.
41:11He is sentenced
41:11to life in prison
41:12with a chance
41:13of parole
41:14after 50 years.
41:18Benjamin Appleby
41:19was a monster.
41:21He was
41:22the worst
41:23of the worst
41:23of humanity,
41:24but, um,
41:25you know,
41:26he's gone.
41:27He'll never do this again
41:29and, um,
41:32we don't need
41:33to think about him
41:34ever again.
41:35But for the little town
41:37built on law and order,
41:38Allie's story
41:39is remembered
41:40as a cautionary tale
41:41that bad things
41:43can happen
41:43even in Leawood, Kansas.
41:46I think it made us
41:48a little more realistic.
41:50We need to
41:51protect
41:52everyone we can
41:55as well as we can
41:57and
41:58never, um,
42:02never wait till tomorrow
42:03to tell someone
42:04you love them.
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