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Benjamin Appleby Wikipedia, Wiki, Now, Age, Killer, Partner

Benjamin Appleby Wikipedia, Wiki, Now, Age, Killer, Partner -: Oct. 28, 2005 — — Ali Kemp appeared to be living a life of charm. Leawood, Kansas, a tranquil, tree-lined suburb just outside of Kansas City, is where the 19-year-old was raised in a loving family alongside her parents and two brothers. She was a remarkable young lady who, by all accounts, had an ambition of working with underprivileged children in Russia one day. She did not, however, have the chance.

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Ali died in a horrific act of senseless violence that even seasoned local police officers had never witnessed before on a cloudy June day in 2002.

Maj. Craig Hill of the Leaway Police Department remarked, “I’d have to say that in my 35 years of experience, it was probably the most horrific thing that could happen to a community like this.”

Kemp, a recent Kansas State University graduate and honors student, was working as a lifeguard at a community pool four blocks from her family’s house.

“Building a community pool was a fantastic job. Her father, Roger Kemp, told “20/20” correspondent Don Dahler, “And you would think the safest place in the world.”

Ali was unexpectedly accosted by a man in the pool’s pump room on that muggy June day when there weren’t many people at the pool due to the cloudy weather. He would violently beat and strangle her later.

She called her friend Laurel Vine at around 3 p.m. to come to hang out with her while she worked at the pool. She then made a phone call to her lover Phil Howes on his mobile device. But Howes didn’t answer her call. I wish I had been able to respond because perhaps she was in difficulties at the time and attempting to contact me.

When Vine turned into the pool parking lot, nothing seemed unusual. “I observed a man leaving. He seemed like a maintenance guy to me. I simply took a general glance around and noticed Ali’s belongings. I simply believed that she had left to do a really urgent task. “I left after that and went home,” she added.

When Ali’s brother Tyler arrived to take over the pool responsibilities two hours later, he saw Ali’s pocketbook and mobile phone on a table but no sign of his sister. He then called his father, who arrived to assist in locating her.

“I scanned the pool area and the poolhouse, but I didn’t find anything.” I just needed to take a few more steps before I came across Ali. Her leg was exposed while being covered. Her father recalls with tears in his eyes, “I flung back the cover and there she was.

Det. Joe Langer received the call, and when he arrived at the site, he saw that the girl had been severely battered and that there was evidence of a violent battle.

Unfortunately, she lost the battle for her life, according to Langer.

Vine’s first thought upon hearing the sad news was of the man she had earlier seen. She recalled thinking, “Oh, my God, I just saw her killer and I didn’t know it.”

The neighborhood was afraid because a murderer was on the loose. In search of leads, forty investigators from the Kansas City region dispersed.

Vine was requested to meet with a forensic artist and give a description of the individual she saw by the police.

The little staff of Leawood’s police department was overworked. “They never stopped looking for anything. They were looking for this person,” Hill added.

But after eight months, Ali’s murderer was still at large. Everyone was growing more and more dejected.

Kemp, though, would not stop until his daughter’s murderer was apprehended. He made the decision that he had to take action to assist in finding the murderer. His inspiration came from something that was practically right in front of him every day as he commuted to work: billboards.

“I saw them while I was driving down the highway and I thought, why not? Why don’t you phone them and find out how much billboard costs? That’s what I did, he added.

Kemp’s unexpected request astonished Bob Fessler of Lamar Advertising, which controlled the local billboards, but he was eager to assist.

I never imagined we’d be involved in criminal investigations, he added. When it came to putting up a few billboards to assist generate leads and find the person who killed Kemp’s daughter, Fessler said Kemp was “fully prepared.”

But Lamar Advertising forbade Kemp from purchasing a billboard. They gave one as an alternative.

Billboards had previously been used to locate missing people, but never to solve a homicide.

Maj. Hill was taken with the concept. “What do you think when Roger asks you that question?” I considered that to be ideal. It’ll be fantastic because once you read the newspaper, it gets thrown out with the trash. Once the television is broadcast, it is over. Every day of the week, Billboard is stationary, he said.

Additionally, 50,000 people saw the billboard that had been donated to aid Kemp every day. There was a prompt reaction. We probably received 100 to 150 tips from the first billboard throughout the first week. They simply rolled in, he claimed.

Two people called in after recognizing the man from the billboard. Finally, those clues helped police locate a home in Bantam, Connecticut, 1,300 miles distant, more than 2 years after Ali’s death. In November 2004, police entered the area and detained Benjamin Appleby, 30.

The idea for Roger Kemp’s billboard helped police find the man they believe killed his daughter. He still had to hear the chilling confession audio from Benjamin Appleby that was presented in court, which detailed Ali’s final moments.

Ali was seen by Appleby in the pool’s pump room. She was attractive to him, he claimed, and he went up to her with the idea of “hitting on her.” Appleby confessed to police on camera that she resisted his advances and shoved him away when he tried to touch her. “I touched her softly, not at all on the shoulder, hip, or anywhere else, and she pushed me away and struck me. I completely lost it. I struck her back. “I know I f—ing killed her, and I don’t know why I did,” he confessed to the police in a recorded statement.

Appleby has entered a not guilty plea and the trial is ongoing despite the confession.

For Kemp, assisting in the arrest of his daughter’s accused killer was insufficient. He started an initiative to use billboards as contemporary “wanted” signs to apprehend other murderers. These billboards have been directly responsible for the arrests of alleged murders of Cornelius May, Phillip Hughes, and five other fugitives in the Kansas City region alone during the previous three years. And other states including Michigan, New Jersey, and Louisiana have also adopted the program. Now, even America’s Most Wanted uses billboards to combat crime.

“I don’t understand why it hasn’t been done before. I felt that may be a nice avenue after seeing the advertisements, and it turned out to be a terrific avenue,” Kemp added.

Kemp is equally committed to helping families avert the suffering his family has had to endure as he was in finding his daughter’s killer. Kemp launched a self-defense course since he is aware that his daughter struggled mightily to save her life but was unsuccessful. Approximately 2,000 people have attended so far.

“We don’t want another young girl to experience that. We don’t want their family to experience it, he said.

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