Posted on Fri, Jun. 08,
Suspect was convicted of knife threat as juvenile
By DIANE CARROLL and LAURA BAUER
The Kansas City Star
The Olathe man accused of murdering Kelsey Smith of
Overland Park was convicted in juvenile court of
threatening his sister at knifepoint when he was 15,
according to court records.
Edwin R. Hall, 26, pleaded no contest to aggravated
assault in the incident that occurred on May 14, 1996, in
Emporia, according to Lyon County District Court records.
He was removed from his adoptive home after
entering his plea about two weeks later.
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Oh, my. Thanks for the link. He was released July 1999 and got married Feb 2000. I wonder how much Aletha knew about all that.
I notice it said his adoptive family - no wonder I’m having such a hard time finding info on him, besides his teen years all spent in juvie.
His poor little boy!
Oh, I also read last night that the strangulation of Kelsey was by ligature, not just manual. No other clues as to what type of ligature.
I know some people had been speculating he might have had some of those plastic ties with him - seeing as how he was fairly skimpily dressed when seen on the video leaving Target and going to Kelsey’s car.
The thinking was that that could have been how he subdued her quickly, using them as handcuffs. He very well could have been concealing a knife, too, now that we know that was once his M.O.