Joel Wright: [2008]: When that car was found, we jumped all over it. Judy Tygard is the executive producer. Nathan Gibson. I mean, everybody knows for a fact that I had nothing to do with Jennifer Kesse. Jennifer Joyce Kesse seemed to have everything going for her. 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 had no problem with me. Chino was then asked about the pictures -- the ones that the housekeeper said may have looked like him: DETECTIVE WRIGHT [2009 audio tape]: you know the photos that you looked at earlier the guy walking by the gate? Cell tower data was analyzed, and it indicated Jennifer was out of her apartment and not at home. In 2008, on the second anniversary of Jennifer's disappearance, family and friends gathered on a street corner in Orlando. In 2016, it had been 10 years since Jennifer went missing. Security footage installed at the complex captured an individual seen driving and parking Jennifer's car on day she went missing. Kevin Dean and Gary Winter are the editors. Even though Rob lived in Fort Lauderdale, about 3 hours from Jennifer's condo in Orlando. It's about Jennifer. Now we have some of our own questions we'd like to ask. Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/TNS/Alamy Live News. We need to see what's inside that carpet. Dylan Eason and Isaiah Churchwell were convicted of murdering Cynthia William "Patrick" Alexander remains in prison for murder. The pair grew up in Tampa, Florida, and Jennifer is described as having been an adventurous dynamo with a thirst for knowledge. The dust also appears to show fingers being dragged along the hood. Jennifer's car had been seen the morning she disappeared. Kesse went missing in 2006, and despite widespread media attention and extensive searches by police and the FBI, there has been no information regarding where she is or who might have been responsible. In 2020, Kesses father, Drew, went on Floridas Fourth Estate and said he believes his daughter may have been the victim of human trafficking, which is why the family believes she is still out there. This week on Reasonable Doubt, the team takes on the Raul and Cathy Sarinana were sentenced to death for abusing Would love your thoughts, please comment. In 2008, Detective Wright and Sergeant Brennan analyzed the surveillance tape with "48 Hours.". Sgt. Louis Bolden | WKMG investigative reporter: To meet the Kesses is to love the Kesses. She was known for her bubbly personality and her very loyal and helpful nature. Dirty and wet clothes were laid out on the floor, and it was clear that Kesse had showered and left the building without anything out of the ordinary happening. DET. After all the interviews and reviewing the case file, Torretta says he now has a new theory as to what could have happened to Jennifer Kesse. Joyce Kesse: Her travel bag. That person could have taken the time to wipe down the steering wheel and the rearview mirror or what have you. In an unexpected move, detectives summoned boyfriend Rob Allen to meet them at Jennifer's car. Joel Wright: At that point I thought the investigation was kicking into gear. Unfortunately, no. (Drew Kesse) ORLANDO, Fla. - Drew Kesse, whose daughter Jennifer Kesse has been missing since Jan. 24,. The cops thought they had a further break when they learned that surveillance footage had captured an individual driving Jennifers car into the parking lot. SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The family of missing woman Jennifer Kesse marked the start of another year with no answers. Though her car was later found, the 24-year-old woman has yet to be found. Where is Jennifer Kesse? Peter Van Sant: So, these are just some of your daughter's case files? Drew Kesse: In my mind, it was "that person took my daughter. We firmly believe the departments negligence and lack of competency cost Jennifer the chance to be found.. Drew Kesse: So, to me, they don't have DNA. He thinks it was one or more of these workers who abducted her on January 24, 2006. Anyone? "It is Jennifer's best opportunity to be found . Det. The 24-year-old has been missing for 15 years after vanishing one morning while heading out to work. Det. Sgt. Jennifer Kesse disappeared from her Florida condo on January 23, 2006. Jennifer Kesse, then 24, vanished from her new condo in Orlando, Florida on January 24, 2006. When they arrived at the condo in the early afternoon, a building manager opened Jennifer's locked apartment. Found the resolution to each, I know who really killed Chanin, her husband did not, I have so many questions about this story. And that was part of the development of him as a person of interest. Rob had no idea that it would be the last time he would ever hear her voice. And then is abducted by those individuals across the way. Joyce Kesse: I think that my heart stopped Sheer panic. Lauren McCarthy: She was extremely safety conscious. I have nothing to hide. Doreen Schechter is the producer editor. Joyce Kesse [2008]: She slept for sure. Drew Kesse: Joyce used to complain to me, she's like, "call them. "It is Jennifers best opportunity to be found now, 17 years later. But that evening Jennifer spoke with Rob. Jennifer Kesse was a successful young woman with a good job and a loving boyfriend . 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. As the hours went by, their panic became unbearable. Theories abound as to what happened, with many suggesting she was killed by a male coworker whose advances she had spurned. Fifteen years have passed since Jennifer Kesse vanished -- years of anguish for her family and friends, but they are determined to keep Jennifer's story alive. She was just really happy. "I have had five this week - its the time of year with it being the date of her disappearance but it never stops. Unconditional love is forever and unconditional. Follow the links to read about more shocking crimes investigated on 48 Hours on ID. Copyright 2023 ClickOrlando.com is managed by Graham Digital and published by Graham Media Group, a division of Graham Holdings. So, I did. ", Peter Van Sant: Do you believe anyone realistically has been working this case in recent years?". In many of these instances, the person involved may well have seemed to just vanish from the surface of the Earth, leaving behind almost no evidence of what happened to them. Learn about careers at Cox Media Group. Michael Torretta: I think it's important because it paints a picture that I don't believe I would have gotten from the 16,000 documents. The hole in our heart is forever there until we have an answer. Many of these workers were non-English speakers, so due to the language barrier, the investigators had quite a bit of trouble interrogating them. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Her 2004 Chevy Malibu was found two days later about a mile away from her condo. >>> STREAM CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS LIVE <<<, Read: 9 things to know about the disappearance of Jennifer Kesse. Peter Van Sant: Why is what the woman at the Mosaic told you important? They are looking to solve the case themselves. Kevin Harris was an aspiring hip-hop artist when he was gunned down. She was declared dead by the State of Florida. During the week she was gone, her brother and several friends had batched it in her condo. she locks the door. Two days later, there was a breakthrough in the case when her black Chevy Malibu was located in the parking lot of a condo approximately one mile from her home. The same ones whom Jennifer had complained about to her friends and family, saying how on several occasions, they catcalled and harassed her. Logan Kesse [2008]: It didn't feel right. There's a lot of information that could have been developed that I believe wasn't in the most critical hours of this investigation. Advertisement. Tami: There was creepy things like my underwear drawer was tossed one time the shower was wet. It was as if someone had abducted her while she was leaving for work. Joel Wright: It told me that he passed the polygraph. She graduated with honors from the University of Central Florida and landed a. Michael Torretta: This is something that is haunting me. Because of the number of valuables left in Jennifers car, it was deduced that her disappearance was not a robbery gone wrong. She's locking the door and never sees it comin She probably was attacked immediately upon exiting. Drew Kesse accused the Orlando Police Dept. There are thousands of people who disappear under mysterious circumstances all around the world. Complicating the investigation many of the workers disappeared before police could talk to them. JOYCE KESSE: Where is she? It -- it wasn't a great feeling. Read: Jennifer Kesse: Family and FDLE continue efforts to find answers. But it did. Try our coffee!! Two days later, her car was found at Huntington on the Green condominiums at Texas Avenue and Americana Boulevard, about a mile away from her complex, Mosaic at Millenia. Sgt. Peter Van Sant [2008]: Do you think the car was cleaned by someone? . We know that it is the public that in most cases solves or helps Missing people be found. I mean, we probably have at least three times more in boxes of this. Drew Kesse: We were probably on the road within 5 minutes. The canvassing started then and then it got more intense as the days went on and we eventually had horses and helicopters and everything else up in the air looking around. All calls were simply being sent straight to her voicemail, suggesting that the phone had been turned off. So, of course, every one of its episodes goes above and beyond to provide us with every bit of factual information surrounding a case to help us form our own opinions, and its episode entitled Where Is Jennifer Kesse? is no different. The Kesses are offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to Jennifer's whereabouts. Background: Jennifer Joyce Kesse was a finance graduate. It was only on January 26 that a tenant of a nearby complex saw Jennifers story on the news and informed authorities that her car was abandoned in front of their apartment the day she went missing. ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. This week will mark 17 years since Jennifer Kesse disappeared from her Orlando area apartment complex on Jan 24. Lauren McCarthy: Jennifer is super funny, super witty person. I had never heard of that happening. (Florida Department of Law Enforcement). That's where the mystery starts. After Chino's name came up multiple times, the Kesse team was anxious to talk to him. Peter Van Sant: You opened the door and saw that? This is precisely the case with the Jennifer Kesse disappearance. To this day, Jennifer Kesse has not been found, dead or alive, and the people who love her have fought tirelessly for answers, a fight that included receiving over 16 thousand pages of police records on the investigation, and these pages held more clues which has only fed the fire of this mystery. Jennifer spoke on the phone to her parents and boyfriend in her apartment before disappearing without a trace, never to be seen again. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Christie joined the ClickOrlando team in November 2021. Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS investigate the disappearance of the 24-year-old. 2023 Cox Media Group. Did he know more than he had admitted? She always texted or called Rob before leaving for work, but she did neither that day, which was extremely strange. Joyce Kesse: A lot of your day laborers are, um, not here, uh, legally. Residents at the complex stated the car had been parked in the lot for several days. From surveillance cameras, the authorities were able to see that someone, who was not Jennifer, had calmly driven her car and left it exactly where it was found at around noon on January 24. He is pictured with her above, Jennifer vanished when she was 24 back in 2006, Kesse's father Drew is hopeful of new leads on the 17th anniversary of her mysterious disappearance, Surveillance video of an unidentified person getting out of Jennifer Kesse's car after she vanished is seen above. Lauren McCarthy: She was the type of person who would call her mom or her dad or me when she was simply walking from Target in the parking lot and it was dark out. When Jennifer didn't come home after 48 hours, the police began investigating her whereabouts in earnest. One of the people he interviewed on audiotape was a former housekeeper at Jennifer's complex. Just letting us know what she wanted to be done in her unit. But to the Kesses' frustration, the person caught on that camera could not be identified. Was Jennifer Kesse Found? On Jan. 24,. From all appearances, Jennifer Kesse of Orlando, Florida was a happy, successful, well-adjusted 24-year-old woman with a bright future. 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. Drew added: We just werent willing to let Orlando deal with Jennifer anymore so we were able to have a meeting with the powers that be in the state, as well as law enforcement and the police department, and everyone thought it would be best if the Florida Department of Law Enforcement became involved. 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. ! Kesse wrote at the time. The parents of Jennifer Kesse say they are "closer than ever" to uncovering answers in the disappearance of their. We asked the lawyers, 'Where's all the detectives work? And it came back that not a single thing had been written. Drew Kesse: It was never secured by Orlando Police. On that day, the Kesses learned their daughter did not report for work at Central . Jennifer Kesse Was Just 24 When She Went Missing. "I just need to know my daughter has been found, for good or bad. Joyce Kesse: It's very, very hard to move forward. And Chino is 5'9" -- taller than the figure's height estimated by police. Det. Did you ever meet her? Ashley: I sat on it for a little bit. He was serving time in a Florida prison for statutory rape of a teenage girl a crime he committed two years after Jennifer disappeared. Unfortunately, no. . Monday marks 16 years since Jennifer Kesse disappeared. And in fact, weeks later he did. what are the chances of that happening? Jennifer Kesse has not been seen since 2006. by Sarah Jae Leiber Oct. 21, 2020. I just think of Jennifer all the time. The Kesses are offering $15,000 as a reward for valuable information on where Jennifer could be at this time. In December, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement began a cold-case review of Jennifers disappearance to generate new leads. Her parents have never stopped distributing thousands of flyers and begging anyone with information to come forward. "You have keys to all the apartments. Colleen, who asked to only use her first name, moved into the complex two years before Jennifer disappeared believing it was a safe place to live. And you could sense that, and you can feel that . However, the family has said as recently as 2022 that they are still working to get the complete unredacted file from the city. But there was still no sign of Jennifer, and at the time, the police concluded that there was no evidence of a struggle. To this date, Jennifer is considered to be missing and endangered by the Orlando Police Department, the FBI, the Orange County Police, and several other agencies. Jennifers boyfriend, Rob Allen, had a solid alibi. I'm not with you " and a little insecurity. The former University of Central Florida student had . My guys cant go in and make arrests, do the true legal law enforcement work we have generated. Drew Kesse: He pulls into a parking spot next to the pool area backs out to even straighten himself in there, sits in there for 32 seconds gets out, walks away, never looks back. Detective Joel Wright was still trying to solve this confounding mystery. ORLANDO, Fla. - On a January evening in 2006, Jennifer Kesse chatted on the phone with her parents and boyfriend from inside her Orlando home before disappearing without a trace, stumping. Roger Brennan [2008]: As we were driving around the area around her complex, we were trying to identify different areas that her vehicle may have been seen. 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. A search of her condo revealed nothing unusual, but her phone, keys, and purse were missing. David Tronnes murder his wife Shanti Cooper? This meant there werenoclues pertainingto what had happened to the victim. Chief Rolon gave his investigators six months to work the case. Ashley says, at first, she didn't reach out to police. Jennifer Kesse had recently purchased her own condo at the Mosaic at Millenia Condominium in Orlando, Florida and just received a promotion at work. In 2008, Sgt. Kesse was 24 years old at the time of her disappearance in Orlando, Florida. Jennifer disappeared in the morning from her condominium at the Mosaic at Millenia in Orlando and has never been heard from again. No one has heard from her since. As time went by, the Kesses felt abandoned by the Orlando Police Department. Logan Kesse [2008]: [emotional] It's your sister, it's your family, it's your blood. Drew Kesse: That was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life. She then failed to turn up for work. Jennifer Kesse was in love. 1. OK, call the police again.". Jennifer Kesse, age 24, was a young woman who had a full life to look forward to with everything going for her. That night she talked to family, friends and her boyfriend as well. Her parents also continue to pursue leads, hoping to one day either find her or her remains. Joel Wright [2008]: We've done quite a bit of measuring and work with the camera angles. She had a stable job working as a finance manager for Central Florida Investments Timeshare Company in Ocoee, Florida and was the proud new owner of a condo in nearby Orlando. Joel Wright: I knew that Chino had been arrested for a sex crime. Peter Van Sant: Now you were the maintenance man there. Immediately, those who knew her knew something was terribly wrong. Peter Van Sant [2008] What do we know was going on around Jennifer's condominium at that time? But Torretta struck out when he tried to find those workers who he believes lived in the vacant apartment across from Jennifer. Now imagine, over that time, fighting for unredacted copies with the citys lawyers and trying to have our private investigators find Jennifer from all those files. They, in turn, told Rob. The weekend before Jennifer vanished, she had gone on a vacation with her boyfriend, Rob Allen, to Saint Croix, Virgin Islands. You unfortunately take things for granted. And they just look.". Drew Kesse [2008]: A wrong has been done and a person has been taken against her will and that's my daughter and she needs to come home to her family. Peter Van Sant: Based on your experience is there a possibility what this person threw in that pond was her body?