Jennifer Kesse disappearance: Family says it’s ‘close’ to answers in 15-year-old cold case
Jennifer Kesse, 24, disappeared from Orlando, Fla., on Jan. 24, 2006.
The dad and mom of Jennifer Kesse say they’re “closer than ever” to uncovering answers in the disappearance of their daughter, who vanished 15 years in the past from Central Florida, in a case that has lengthy baffled investigators.
“We may have answers this year,” stated the lady’s father, Drew Kesse, noting that new info acquired in current weeks has prompted him to increase his crew of personal detectives main the investigation.
“We’re making a lot of headway and we’re closer than ever to bringing Jennifer home,” he stated.
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On the morning of Jan. 24, 2006, Jennifer Kesse, of Orlando, Fla., failed to report to her job as a finance supervisor at a well known timeshare firm. The 24-year-old girl was final heard from at round 10 p.m. the night time earlier than when she spoke by cellphone together with her household and boyfriend from inside her condominium.
Investigators say they consider Kesse was focused after leaving her house for work on the morning of the twenty fourth. Her automobile, a black Chevy Malibu, was discovered deserted two days later at an condo complicated in a high-crime space about one mile away from her apartment. Authorities uncovered surveillance video exhibiting an unknown particular person parking Kesse’s automobile close to the pool space of that complicated at 12 midday on January 24. The particular person of curiosity – believed to be male and dressed in workman’s garments – has by no means been recognized and no arrests have ever been made in the case.
“This person holds the key to solving the case,” stated Michael Torretta, a former federal agent and personal investigator employed by the Kesse household.
The Kesse household sued the Orlando Police Department in 2018 for all of the information to date in their daughter’s case. Frustrated by the police dealing with of the investigation, the Kesses demanded the information be launched to them in a authorized battle that was unprecedented in a lacking particular person case. An settlement was reached, and the Kesses in flip acquired some 16,000 pages of information, which Fox News examines in its true crime podcast, “House of Broken Dreams: the Jennifer Kesse story.”
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The podcast, which debuted Nov. 12, acquired multiple million downloads in its first month. After the podcast’s launch, Drew Kesse stated he and his crew acquired credible new info in the case. Kesse declined to elaborate on particulars given the delicate nature of the investigation.
“Everyday there are active interviews and actions being taken to find the people responsible for taking Jennifer or the people with the information to piece it all together,” stated Kesse. “It’s painstaking work.”
Evidence photos beforehand obtained by the Fox News Investigative Unit counsel a violent wrestle befell on the hood of the younger girl’s automobile. Excerpts of police information additionally reveal that authorities instantly suspected a bodily assault on the hood. Detective Julius Gause of the Orlando Police Department wrote of the police on the scene, “While observing the front of the victim’s vehicle, these detectives observed what appeared to have been someone being pushed across the head of the vehicle.”
“It looked like someone was thrown down on the top of the hood – arms spread out and then dragged back almost like off the hood to the point where you can almost see fingers scribbling down the hood,” Drew Kesse advised Fox News.
Kesse labored as a finance supervisor at Central Florida Investments Timeshare Company in Ocoee on the time of her disappearance.
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In an open letter to their daughter on the fifteenth anniversary of her disappearance, the Kesses, who preserve a GoFundMe page for the investigation, stated they continue to be “relentless” in their pursuit of answers.
“We will not cease until we have found her, for the good or the bad. Jennifer is loved by us, her family, so many friends as well as strangers around our country and the world,” the household wrote.
“Jennifer, we love you in a place where there’s no space or time.”
Anyone with info on Jennifer Kesse’s whereabouts is urged to go to the Find Jennifer Kesse Facebook page.
