Tagged: cell phone tracking

Cops & Crime
4:29 pm
Fri July 6, 2012

Cell Track Law Aims To Thwart Deadlier Crimes

Credit Dan Verbeck / KCUR
Kelsey Smith's parents after guilty plea of her kidnapper-killer. New Missouri law would help faster tracking of victims by cell phone signal.

Missouri has a fresh law designed to help track crime victims from their cell phones.

A bi-state abduction and murder helped drive the legislation.

It took time to get permission to ping cell transmissions when Kelsey Smith went missing from the parking lot of an Overland Park, Kansas store five years ago.

 The 18 year old woman was dead in a Missouri field when her body was found days after her kidnapping.

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