Bail set at $1 million

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Bail for the Bartley, Nebraska, man allegedly involved in the death of a 14-year-old McCook girl has been set at $1 million.

Stathis Sebastian Mobley Kirkpatrick of Bartley, 18 years old, has been jailed since Friday in connection with the disappearance late Thursday or early Friday and death of Kailee Nicole Clapp, a freshman at McCook Senior High.

Clapp's body was found late Friday by McCook City Police officers on property of the Bartley Cemetery, northwest of Bartley. Clapp's body was taken Saturday for an autopsy in Omaha.

Kirkpatrick will be arraigned in Red Willow County court in McCook on Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Charges against Kirkpatrick will be determined following receipt of autopsy results, Red Willow County Attorney Paul Wood said Monday morning.

Kirkpatrick remains in the McCook jail.

Kailee's mother, Nora Clapp, last saw her youngest daughter about 9:30 p.m., Thursday, and Kailee's sister, Karen, saw her about 10:30 p.m., Thursday. Kailee wasn't in her bedroom the next morning before school. Nora called police at 7:11 a.m., and police investigated throughout the day.

Late Friday, police investigators identified Kirkpatrick as a "person of interest," and questioned and arrested him. Wood said that Kirkpatrick did not turn himself in.

Police officers found Kailee's body at the Bartley Cemetery late Friday evening.

McCook Police Chief Ike Brown said early Monday afternoon that the McCook Police Department and the Red Willow County Sheriff's Department are conducting the investigation jointly because of multiple locations of evidence and activity involved in the incident.

Brown said that the Nebraska State patrol and federal law enforcement personnel continue to participate in the ongoing investigation.

A vigil for Kailee's family and friends will be 7 p.m. Tuesday, in McCook's Norris Park.

A memorial service is scheduled Thursday, at 10:30 a.m., at McCook Memorial Auditorium. Inurnment will be at a later date. Herrmann Funeral Home of McCook is in charge of arrangements.

Kailee is survived by her parents, Nora and Kelly Clapp of McCook; one brother, Nicholas Clapp of Kearney and two sisters, Karen Clapp of McCook and Rochelle Sowards of McPherson, Kansas; her grandparents, Janette Clapp of McCook and John Dale of Phillipsburg, Kansas; her great-grandmothers, Edith Bishop of Arvada, Colorado, Jean Griffin of Colby, Kansas, and Leona Wolfram of Atwood, Kansas; and aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

A benefit fund to help Kailee's family pay funeral expenses has been established at First Central Bank, 904 North Highway 83, in McCook.