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Alicia DeBolt case time line
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• DeBolt leaves her house at 910 Stone St. in Great Bend at about 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010, to go to a party with a 19-year-old male friend.

• Mother Tammy Conrad maintained she did not run away and they had a plan for the 14-year-old to call or text if she was going to be late. DeBolt never comes home.

• Family reports her missing late in the morning on Sunday, Aug. 22, to the Great Bend Police Department. Although the case didn’t qualify for an Amber Alert, the GBPD did contact the Kansas Bureau of Investigation which, on Monday, issued a statewide media advisory.

• DeBolt would have been a freshman and a cheerleader at Great Bend High School. She misses a GBHS Booster Club dinner Sunday night, something family members said was very important to her.

• Throughout the day Monday, the search continues as GBPD, Barton County Sheriff’s Office and KBI officers launch an extensive investigation and conduct numerous interviews. Efforts are plagued by numerous postings on social networking sites which create false leads and slow the investigation.

• The probe continued into Tuesday, Aug. 24. Then, at about 4 p.m., an employee of Venture Corporation finds a severely burned body at the company’s asphalt production plant five miles west of Great Bend on U.S. 56 near Dundee. The remains were those of a female, but the body was so badly damaged, positive identification could not be made. The body was taken to the Sedgwick County Regional Forensics Center in Wichita for an autopsy. Family and friends came together and hold an impromptu prayer service in downtown Great Bend. Another service took place that evening in Jack Kilby Square.

• Thursday, Aug. 26, 2011, Attorney General Steve Six held a news conference at the KBI office in Great Bend. Six positively identified the body as that of DeBolt and said the case was not a random act of violence. He also said his office would prosecute the case. However, he said no one was in custody, there were no persons of interest, and would not comment of the cause of death or other case details.

• Late Thursday night, Great Bend Police, Barton County Sheriff’s Office and Kansas Bureau of Investigation officers executed a search warrant at the residence of Adam Joseph Longoria, 1801 Eighth St. He was questioned at the time, but was not held.

• Friday morning, Young said Longoria was a person of interest in DeBolt’s death, but was on the run after allegedly stealing a Venture Corporation vehicle.

• At about 11:50 a.m. Friday, the Kansas Highway Patrol nabbed Longoria on Interstate 70 northeast of Ellsworth. He was later charged with capital murder in Barton County District Court, and he remains in custody at the Sedgwick County Jail. His next court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 5 in Barton County.