Olathe ? The man accused of abducting a Kansas teenager from a store parking lot, strangling her and dumping her body in a park, was charged Tuesday with capital murder, making him eligible for the death penalty.

Edwin R. Hall, 26, of Olathe, was also charged with rape and aggravated sodomy – counts that were necessary under Kansas law for 18-year-old Kelsey Smith’s slaying to be considered a capital crime. Hall already had been charged with kidnapping and killing Smith, but Johnson County prosecutor Phill Kline changed the premeditated first-degree murder count to capital murder.

Smith was kidnapped June 2 from the parking lot of an Overland Park Target store, where grainy surveillance video showed her being confronted by someone and pushed into her car. Her body was found four days later in a park about 20 miles away in Missouri.

Kline said he has not yet decided whether he will seek the death penalty for Hall, but the capital murder charge makes that possible. Kansas, which reinstated the death penalty in 1994, has not executed a prisoner since 1965.

Hall’s $5 million bond has been revoked.

Citing Judge Peter Ruddick’s gag order in the case, Kline said he could not comment on why it took more than a month to file the new charges or what evidence prompted the charges.