Manhunt In Teen's Slaying

A massive manhunt is under way for a possible child molester suspected of murdering a 13-year-old girl in her home more than week ago.

Katelind Caudill was shot and killed in her bedroom, near Cincinnati.

It's been eight days since her grandmother called 911, reports Jim Axelrod.

On the tape of the call, the emotional grandmother is heard saying, "I heard two bangs and came in. My granddaughter's laying on the floor with blood. Oh God. Oh God."

"Do you think you might know who it might've been?" the operator asks. "Has she been fighting with anybody? An angry boyfriend?"

"We've been into it with Melvin," Caudill's grandmother answers.

"Melvin?" the operator repeats.

"He's molested his children," the grandmother responds.Melvin, Axelrod explains, is Melvin Keeler, the stepfather of Caudill's best friend. Law enforcement officials say he was being investigated for sexual abuse. The friend had told Caudill she'd been molested by Keeler, and Caudill had apparently confronted him.

Keeler, says Stanley Borgia of the FBI, "is the coward who murdered a 13-year-old girl. Justice demands that we capture him immediately."

Keeler is suspected of fleeing the Cincinnati area, and killing two convenience store clerks in Indiana.

"I'm sorry," says Caudill's sister, Laura Spencer, "but I hope he runs, so the cops have to do to him what he did to my sister."

Keeler's vehicle was found abandoned in Gary, Ind.

One observer says, "We don't know what this man is capable of. Well, we know what he's capable of, but we don't know what his next move is, what he's going to be doing. He has nothing to lose and he's not going to be taken alive."

A $25,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to his capture, money law enforcement would be only too happy to pay, Axelrod observes.