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Just another update...
Leawood slaying to be featured on `America's Most Wanted'
By RICHARD ESPINOZA
The Kansas City Star
Leawood police hope that a network television show and two national crime databases will bring in the tip they need to solve the murder of 19-year-old Ali Kemp.
Kemp was killed June 18 on her shift as an attendant at a neighborhood pool in Leawood. Detectives from across the area have followed hundreds of leads, but they have not tracked down the man who was seen leaving the pool at 123rd Street and State Line Road the afternoon Kemp died.
A television producer from the Fox TV show "America's Most Wanted" flew into town Tuesday and spent the day working on a segment about Kemp. It is scheduled for broadcast at 8 p.m. Aug. 3.
The show's producers decided to play host to that week's episode from Kansas City after Leawood Police Major Craig Hill asked them to put out a description of the man.
"Somewhere there will be someone who has a neighbor who looks like that and was gone for a couple of weeks," Hill said.
Ten million to 12 million people watch "America's Most Wanted" each week, a show spokesman said.
In 1993 the show broadcast a 40-second segment about the slaying of another young Leawood woman. Donald Ray Gideon watched that episode and 10 hours later turned himself in for the murder of Pittsburg State University student Stephanie Schmidt.
In addition to calling the show, police sent an alert about the case to the National Crime Information Center. They plan to send information to the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program this week.
"The bottom line is this: We're turning over every single rock there is, and under one of those rocks the suspect is hiding," Hill said. "We're hopeful it doesn't take much more time."
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