| In Loving Memory Of Ali Kemp 1983 - June 18 , 2002 |
| Ali Kemp, 19, was a happy teenager, looking forward to her sophomore year at Kansas State. Police in Leawood, Kansas. Ali Kemp was murdered June 18, 2002, while she worked a shift at a neighborhood pool. All of Ali's personal belongings were still on the table, but she was gone. . Ali worked at this pool in Leawood, Kansas. Nineteen-year-old Ali Kemp had just finished her freshman year at Kansas State University. She returned home for the summer and took a job as a pool attendant at a community pool in Leawood, Kan. The pool was only a mile from her home; there was no reason to question her safety. June 18, 2002, dawned rainy and overcast. At 2:00 pm Ali relieved her boyfriend of his shift at the pool. Ali sometimes called her friends to come keep her company. Police say at 2:56 p.m. she phoned one of her girlfriends and asked her to stop by the pool. According to police, that is the last time anyone heard from Ali. Police believe a man who may have been stalking her approached her sometime between 2:56 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. that day. Major Craig Hill from the Leawood Police Department believes the killer somehow managed to get Ali in the pump room where a fight ensued. He says Ali fought for her life, but the 19 year-old was no match for her attacker. He overpowered her and beat the life out of the healthy teenager in a matter of minutes. Around 5:15 p.m., Ali's younger brother arrived at the pool to take over her shift. Ali was supposed to meet her boyfriend for a date. When her brother arrived, he called for Ali, but she wasn't there. All of Ali's personal belongings were still on the table, but she was gone. Her brother became concerned and called their father. Roger Kemp came down to the pool and searched the grounds, but couldn't find her either. When he checked the pool pump room for a second time, he noticed a foot sticking out from under a pool tarp. Sprawled under the tarp was Ali's lifeless body, face down on the ground. |
| Song In The Background is There Is No Night ( by Mairead Nesbitt Of Celtic Woman |