When an Arkansas honor student and class valedictorian disappears just weeks shy of high school graduation,

and explanation eludes investigators.

Years later, hidden evidence is uncovered inside the walls at her after-school job,

giving the case new life in this episode of Last Seen Alive. I'm your host Leah, crime analyst by day, and true crime storyteller by night.

And as always, I'm your co. This is Scott.

This is the revisited and enhanced edition of one of our early episodes, which features the unsolved disappearance of Klyshendra Hall.

The original edition was recorded in 2020, and we've revisited and re-recorded an episode on

her case in 2025. As I'm sure those of you who've been listening since the early days of Last

Seen Alive have noticed, our production and audio quality have improved significantly over the

years. Lately, we've been working on remaking our earlier episodes.

When we originally recorded them, we were doing the best we knew how at the time.

However, our best wasn't the best, and we've learned a lot since then.

We want to honor those victims by telling their stories with the production quality they deserve.

So we've been completely remaking all of our early episodes, including this one.

Kleshendra Hall was last seen alive on May 9, 1994. She was 18 years old at the time and lived in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. At the time, around 55,000 people called Pine Bluff, which is just

south of the state capital, Little Rock, home. For Clechindra, or Clea,

as everyone called her, that day was a day like any other, a busy one, even though she was only 18 years

old. Leah was on the cusp of graduating high school, and she had big plans for the future,

plans she'd already been working hard to lay a foundation for.

Her dream was to become a pediatrician, and although she was young, she was already on track

to achieve that goal. She had the support of her family, who knew firsthand how much she loved

caring for children, whether that meant volunteering in the nursery at church, or just

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