All too common in america?

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(CNN) -- A Kansas man appeared before a judge Thursday on charges he abducted a teenager from an Overland Park, Kansas, store parking lot and killed her.

Edwin Roy Hall, 26, of Olathe, Kansas, appeared via closed-circuit television from the New Century Adult Detention Facility in Gardner, Kansas.

He told the judge he was not sure if he would be hiring his own attorney or needed a public defender, CNN affiliate KMBC reported. He is due back in court in a week.

Hall is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping in the death of Kelsey Smith, 18.

Smith, a recent high school graduate, had been missing since Saturday evening, when she went shopping at a Target store for a gift for her boyfriend.

During the search for the teen, police released a pair of videos. The first showed Smith leaving a store at about the same time as a man with a goatee. The second, which is of poor quality, shows a woman police believe to be Smith being forced into a car by a man.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/07/mis...een/index.html