At the time of her disappearance, Kesse worked for a company owned by timeshare mogul David Siegel. The Kesses are dedicated to finding the truth about what happened to their daughter on the morning of January 24, 2006. Jennifer shares with family she feels uneasy with construction workers at her condo complex In the months leading up to her disappearance, Jennifer Kesse tells her family how uncomfortable the construction workers had been making her feel. In January 2006, 24-year old Jennifer Kesse had everything going for her. Lauren McCarthy: The reasons she bought the place that she did was because it was a gated community with a guard. I do not recognize that person. Thursday, January 26, 2006 a resident of Huntington on the Green the condominium complex notified Orlando police of a vehicle parked in the visitor parking spot. Drew Kesse: We have to find her as quickly as possible because the more time that passes the less chance we have and the worse it's going to be. Everyone loved being around Jen.. The family of a missing Florida woman who vanished nearly 15 years ago hopes new clues may finally lead to answers about what happened to her, FOX News reports. That is how we knew something horrendous had happened," Joyce Kesse said. Her face was everywhere. Because there were posters There were billboards. Peter Van Sant: You had nothing to do with her disappearance? Jennifer Kesse, who had lived and worked in the same condominium complex as Chino, had been identified as the maintenance worker. Kevin Dean and Gary Winter are the editors. Chino: Believe me, if I did know anyone that was involved in that, the Kesse family would be knowing as well. Fed up, the Kesses then made a dramatic move. Roger Brennan [2008]: It didn't appear that it was a robbery. "You have keys to all the apartments. Some brand new details and information was revealed during the episode and it wasn't just a rehash of old information. by Sarah Jae Leiber Oct. 21, 2020. Joel Wright [2008]: We've done quite a bit of measuring and work with the camera angles. But under the agreement, the Orlando Police Department would no longer lead the investigation. In 2008, Sgt. I have nothing to hide. (Drew Kesse) ORLANDO, Fla. - Drew Kesse, whose daughter Jennifer Kesse has been missing since Jan. 24, 2006,. That person could have taken the time to wipe down the steering wheel and the rearview mirror or what have you. Roger Brennan [2008]: The Orange County Sheriff's office received a call about Jennifer's vehicle being in the Huntington on the Green condominiums approximately 1.1 miles away from her condominium. When detectives reviewed surveillance video from the complex where Jennifer Kesse's car was discovered, they saw a person parking her car. Her family's pursuit to discover what happened to her has led them to the bottom of lakes and from Mexico to Russia, according to Fox News. Who knows what would've happened if this heinous crime hadn't been committed? It's about Jennifer. In 2019, local police came out with a dive team, but no carpet was found. She had a great job. Police think Jennifer Kesse was abducted from her Orlando condominium near the Mall at Millenia Jan. 24, 2006. To this day, the disappearance of Jennifer Kesse remains unsolved and there's no official suspect in the case. At the time she vanished, she was living in Orlando. Joel Wright [2008] We know there was quite a bit of a renovation going on inside her complex. Using Jennifer's apartment as their headquarters, they began their own media blitz. Almost three years after Jennifer Kesse's disappearance, Detective Wright decided to take a fresh look at the case and interviewed people on audiotape. If you have any information about Jennifer Kesse's disappearance, please visit the "Find Jennifer Kesse"Facebook page. Jennifer Kesse has been missing and assumed murdered since 2006. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The tip was anonymous and suggested Chino may have been involved in Jennifer's disappearance, but it's unclear if police had looked into it or talked to Chino at all. They kept suggesting that she must have had a fight with her boyfriend and would be back. But she's a little bit of a bathroom pig in the morning. In January 2006, 24-year old Jennifer Kesse had everything going for her. She was already so successful that she had recently purchased a condominium no small feat for someone in their early twenties. Crimeline. Joel Wright stated that Chino was once in prison for a sexual battery case involving a minor. The 24-year-old vanished without a trace and no one's been arrested. And the name Chino came up again -- that maintenance worker at Jennifer's complex. For more information, please see our "She had just bought her first condo with her own money," said Jennifer's father, Drew Kesse. Roger Brennan [at the parking lot in 2008] Apparently this video, when it films, captures every two to three seconds as it's filming, so that's why you only see the subject on one side of the gate and then the opposite side of the gate and he's blocked by the posts on either side of the gate. Orlando Police Department via the Kesse family. Previous publications in Jennifer's case can be . After years went by with no breaks in the case, Jennifer's parents sued the Orlando Police Department to get Jennifer's case file and won. I have a meeting. She has never been heard from again. Of course, she has her back to the apartment behind her. Judy Tygard is the executive producer. Drew Kesse: So, at this point in time, the only people that are truly investigating what happened to Jennifer is us and our team. It was updated on July 10, 2021.]. Peter Van Sant: What's intriguing based on your investigation is the men that were in the apartment across from Jennifer's were putting down carpet that day. A damp towel was on the floor near the shower, the unit was locked and her mobile phone, iPod, purse, and briefcase were not in the condo. Joyce Kesse [2008]: God love Jennifer. What was concerning about this was the area it was located is not an area frequented by Jennifer. Roger Brennan | Orlando Police Department [2008]: The most frustrating thing's not knowing where Jennifer's at Not knowing where to look next We can sit around and discuss different ideas and different theories, but not having a concrete, solid avenue to go down to bring resolution to the family is the most frustrating part of this case right now. Sgt. And what about that photo taken by security cameras? There were no signs of a struggle. Colleen: I don't recall formally meeting her. "The Orlando Police Department they worked it very hard," said Louis Bolden, an investigative reporter for WKMG in Orlando, who has covered the case since Jennifer Kesse went missing. We, The Kesse Family, wish to reach out this Holiday Season to wish all of you who visit Jennifer's social media a safe and joyous Holiday. Search dogs picked up a scent trail leading from her parked car back to her condo, suggesting the suspect might have returned to her condominium's parking lot after abandoning the car. They immediately moved into Jennifer's condo to be close to the investigation. Joel Wright: It told me that he passed the polygraph. So, I did. Her parents have never stopped searching. When Jennifers brother arrived at her condo complex he saw the workers parked in a white van right next to where Jennifers parking spot was. Jennifer Kesse was born on May 20, 1981, in New Jersey to parents Drew Kesse and Joyce Gilmour. Drew Kesse: We were probably on the road within 5 minutes. She carried pepper spray with her all the time. One theory is that Kesse may have been attacked by a construction worker at her condo. She's dragged into the other apartment. Jennifer attended the University of Central Florida in Orlando, was in the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. When detectives reviewed surveillance video from the complex where Jennifer's car was discovered, they saw a person parking her car. You unfortunately take things for granted. They also couldn't count on getting any reliable forensic evidence from Jennifer's condo. In 2016, after 10 years had passed since Jennifer disappeared, she was declared dead by the state of Florida. Two days after Jennifer Kesse went missing, her black Chevy Malibu was found in another condo complex parking lot approximately 1 mile away from where she lived. Did you ever meet her? Ratings: +122,588 / 8,504 / -2,599. ennifer Kesse was a successful, hard-working, bubbly, family oriented 24 year old when she vanished January 24th, 2006. Detective Wright learned Chino used to live in another building at Jennifer Kesse's condo complex and was a former maintenance worker there. It wasn't hard to find Chino. But she says no one ever followed up with her. He's hoping to find new clues as to who could have abducted Jennifer Kesse. Despite being more than 200 miles away when Jennifer disappeared, Rob was suddenly a person of interest. Ashley: He had the opportunity to tell me and he didn't. Rob Allen: My best friend said to me after the trip, he's like, "Oh you're in love and you just don't want to admit it.". Then, two days after her disappearance, police found Jennifer's car. As the hours went by, their panic became unbearable. Click here to watch. Drew Kesse: She just said, you know "there's a lot of workers here and they tend to like just stop when I'm walking by or going to my car. That day, Chino took a polygraph test and he passed. ORLANDO, Fla. For the first time since a lawsuit settlement, Orlando's chief of police is opening up about the handling of the Jennifer Kesse case. She moved into the complex just weeks after Jennifer disappeared. Jennifer Kesse was 24 at the time of her disappearance and by all accounts was a successful young woman. At the time of her disappearance, she was employed as a finance manager in Ocoee, Florida, She lived by herself in the Mosaic . "The hole in our heart is forever there until we have an answer," Joyce Kesse said. After years of working for the Kesses, private detective Michael Torretta says he has a new theory as to what he thinks could have happened to Jennifer. It looks like a man. Rob Allen: She was a little emotional saying, oh, you know, that "you don't love me. And you could sense that, and you can feel that . As he continued his investigation, Torretta learned that 10 months after Jennifer disappeared, a person was seen dumping a rolled-up piece of carpet into a lake not far from her condo. As time went by, the Kesses felt abandoned by the Orlando Police Department. Three days after Kesse's disappearance, her car was found in the parking lot of the Huntington on the Green apartment complex at Americana and Texas, less than a mile from her residence. "I want to do my best and bring Jennifer Kesse home to them one day," he said. Jennifer went missing in Orlando, Fla. on Jan. 23, 2006. They are looking to solve the case themselves. I mean, everybody knows for a fact that I had nothing to do with Jennifer Kesse. As many of you following blinkoncrime.com are aware, S. Christina Stoy spent several weeks investigating Jennifer Kesse's disappearance in January of 2006. It has not been proven that any of them were involved in her disappearance, however. Photograph of Chino https://i.imgur.com/aUzfETn.png, Close up of Chino https://i.imgur.com/7cRZaSb.png. Lauren McCarthy: [emotional] seeing that tape of Jennifer's car that was probably the worst moment. . I'm a writer, author, wife, and animal lover. She deserved that. A new witness, speaking exclusively to Fox News, claims she saw Kesse's black Chevy. Jennifer Kesse, of Orlando, who went missing Jan. 24, 2006, at 24 years old. Again, the case stalled. In 2009, Detective Wright interviewed him and asked him about working in Jennifer's condo: DETECTIVE WRIGHT [2009 audio tape]: when you did the work in her unit, uh was she present while you were doing it. They would just stop and leer when they saw her, Joyce Kesse told FOX News. Her co-workers notified her family after she did not show up for work, and her parents let themselves into her apartment. One of the first things he did was go back to the scene of the crime and speak to people who lived at Jennifer's complex. But when police checked security cameras, it looked like they finally caught a big break. The surveillance footage does tell us that there was about 30 seconds of time when the person was inside the car. Jennifer Kesse a 24 year old finance manager was abducted while leaving for work on the morning of January 24, 2006. And that was part of the development of him as a person of interest. Roger Brennan [2008]: We're going through canvases of areas that she would travel or that she might be at. He was familiar with the case. Shed stay on the phone in the doorway of her condo until they had left.. And it just ate away at me. In all, the Orlando Police Department handed over more than 16,000 pages of documents and 67 hours of video and audio to the Kesses. Kesse, circa 2006; Kesse's car; Unidentified suspect. Peter Van Sant: Do you know of anyone who might have been involved in Jennifer Kesse's disappearance? It is extremely uncharacteristic of Kesse to miss work, be out of touch with her family, or leave her cellular phone turned off; it has been turned off since her disappearance. Jennifer Kesse's parents refused to give up. Investigators found the car on the morning of January 26th and were also able to retrieve security footage from the complex. "You have that initial hope like we found the car, it's only going to be a matter of time before we find Jennifer," said Jennifer's boyfriend, Rob Allen. I'm Peter Van Sant with CBS News. Joel Wright: [2008]: When that car was found, we jumped all over it. She graduated from University of Central Florida in 2003 and earned a degree in finance. Peter Van Sant: Now you were the maintenance man there. Kesse was a graduate of Gaither High School in Tampa. She had been living on her own for only a few months prior to her disappearance and there were few other residents in the complex, which was under construction. ", Peter Van Sant: Do you believe anyone realistically has been working this case in recent years?". Photographs of the car are posted with this case summary. July 10, 2021 / 11:06 PM Lauren McCarthy: She was always on the radar with everybody. When he showed the woman the security camera photo of the unidentified person, she told him it resembled a man she knew from the complex known as Chino because of his hair, clothing and the way he walked. Kesse worked at Central Florida Investments Timeshare Company as a finance manager and had graduated from the University of Central Florida with honors. By the time they took it seriously, we had 14 people in the condo. On the two-year anniversary of Jennifer Kesse's disappearance, her family and friends gathered on a street corner and held up signs, just as they had done the day Jennifer went missing. When Logan knocked on the window, they ignored him completely and did not respond to him at all. We dont care how and, frankly, we dont care who. TRANSLATOR [2009 audio tape]: Yes, she remembers the case. At around noon on the day Jennifer went missing, the person drove into the parking lot, sat in the car for about 30 seconds and then walked away. Peter Van Sant: Based on your experience is there a possibility what this person threw in that pond was her body? Jennifer graduated from Vivian Gaither High School in Tampa before attending the University of Central Florida, where she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Investigators then went to check the security cameras at Jennifer's condo complex, but there weren't any -- just a security guard who was supposed to log names and license numbers of visitors. " she was in love. And now with the case files in their possession, they are more determined than ever to keep their daughter's story alive. Security footage installed at the complex captured an individual seen driving and parking Jennifer's car on day she went missing. Privacy Policy. "We had a disagreement," Allen said. Help S33 E52 42min TV-14 A young woman vanishes from her Florida condo - security footage captures a phantom figure calmly parking her car. Torretta told FOX News that he suspects Kesse was attacked from behind while she was locking her front door and potentially forced into a vacant unit on the same floor. He says he learned some 10 months after Jennifer disappeared, a person was seen dumping a rolled-up piece of carpet into a lake nor far from where Jennifer lived. Joel Wright [2008]: Now the clothing looks to be maybe someone who is a painter or some type of worker. And despite telling Detective Wright years ago he knew nothing about Jennifer's disappearance, the Kesses wondered if Chino was being truthful. Orlando Police. Michael Torretta: I want to do my best and bring Jennifer Kesse home to them one day. Michael Torretta: I'm looking through these 16,000 documents for something that might have been missed by the Orlando PD, the FDLE, maybe even the FBI who have had parts in this investigation. His height was estimated between 5-foot-3 inches and 5-foot-5 inches tall. That witness, who spoke anonymously to the news outlet, said she believes she saw the black Chevy Malibu swerving near the exit to Kesses condominium on the morning of January 24, 2006. Based on interviews with people who lived at the complex, he believes that up to 10 construction workers were living in an empty apartment just across from Jennifer's. Chief Rolon gave his investigators six months to work the case. We were hopeful that someone would recognize just the gait or just the general appearance or the stature or maybe the hairstyle or some aspect of this individual but that didn't happen. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. But I would never rule someone out just because they passed a polygraph. First published on October 24, 2020 / 10:14 PM. And no tip is too late. Sgt. Michael Torretta: That's why it's very interesting to me. When the Kesses who lived two hours away arrived at Jennifer's condo, nothing seemed to be out of place. But to the Kesses' frustration, the person caught on that camera could not be identified. Investigators have been unable to tell whether they are male or female. And that's the end. My name is Julie Fidler. She had a good relationship with her boyfriend and vacationed with him in the Virgin Islands the month she went missing. Pic credit: Orlando Police Dept. We miss her every day.. "There was makeup all over her counter The T-shirt that she had worn to bed was on the floor. Jennifer's mother Joyce Kesse said, "She was just really happy.". Kesse's family said FDLE's cold case unit will take over and essentially restart the investigation into the Orlando woman's 2006 . I love her. In January 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse disappeared from her condo in Orlando, Florida. Two Were Arrested in Connection to Billions in Hacked Bitcoin.
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