Jennifer Kesse Missing: New Evidence And New Leads Connect To Old Names In Casey Anthony Saga
Orlando, FL- Jennifer Kesse, the newly promoted mortgage process engineering manager for Central Florida Investments, parent company of Westgate Resorts was an upstart.
Recent BOC article coverage can be found here, here and here.
After interviewing with upper management for other advancement roles within the company- her new position was actually created For Her.
Was this a forward and prophetic corporate strategy based on mortgage industry trending data?
Was her promotion a result of Jennifer’s own market analysis and efficiencies recommendations to the suits on the top floor?
Yes and Yes.
At 24 Jennifer Kesse was the youngest new manager among her peers in their respective management roles at CFI.
While she did not have the subordinates they did reporting to her directly, the initiative she was leading and launching was going to save the firm almost $900,000 annually. The installation and rollout of a new debit system interface allowing timeshare owners to pay fees, mortgages and incidentals by ACH automatically was a corporate priority for Westgate Resorts.
Which is why on the morning of Tuesday January 24, 2006, the day after she returned from a brief trip with her boyfriend Robert Allen- when Jenn did not show up to her office in Ocoee, there appeared to be immediate concern.
According to Jennifer’s outlook scheduling calendar she did not have an interoffice meeting until the afternoon.
By 11:15 her parents living two hours away in Bradenton were called to see if she had some sort of family emergency.
The exact escalation of events within CFI leading up to the phone call and who made it are being withheld for investigative reasons.
By noon, a trifecta of calamitous and simultaneous events takes place.
Drew, Joyce and Logan Kesse, speeding from Bradenton to Orlando in a respite from paralytic panic reach the property manager of Jenn’s new condo at Mosaic On Millenia and learn her car is not parked in her spot. She is not inside.
A self-confessed admirer and now CFI lateral management peer, Johnny Campos arrives 4 hours late to the Ocoee office.
The only suspect ever declared to date in Jennifer Kesse’s disappearance is parking her vehicle while captured on 3 separate closed circuit cameras at the Huntingdon Tavern On The Green Condominiums and apartments. It is less than a few blocks from two large CFI warehouses and within a mile of several CFI owned properties.
By late afternoon The Kesse’s, Rob Allen and Jennifer’s closest friends were using her condo as a command center to develop immediate and organized searches for her.
Detectives Julius Glenn Gause II and Joel Wright of the Orlando Police Department respond to the scene.
Detective Gause assures the Kesse’s that Jennifer had a fight with her boyfriend Rob Allen, who is now standing in her living room vehemently disagreeing with his investigative assessment. Who can blame the guy?
Gause’s opinion was reached without ever interviewing a single person who was not on-scene, and was sure she would be back by tomorrow.
In a mandatory meeting called at the request of Central Florida Investments CEO David Siegel and conducted by Chief Financial Officer Tom Dugan, it was announced that Jennifer Kesse, a respected and valued member of the management team had been reported missing.
Dugan adamantly assured all that the company would encourage employees to join any organized search efforts to find her.
Jennifer did not return as Gause predicted.
Her car did however, and on January 26th her case was declared a criminal investigation.
The First 48… Months
Upon the classification of Jennifer’s case as a criminal investigation, J. Glenn Gause told the Kesse’s that his partner Detective Joel Wright asked what he considered a dumb question during a briefing.
As a result, Gause informed- he kicked him off the case and requested new partner Det. Emmett Browning.
While such a move would obviously be outside of Det. Gause’s authority, it is more likely the pair were reeling from the Internal Affairs investigation that ensued after they knowingly interviewed John Evander Couey after his arrest for the murder of Jessica Lunsford.
Shortly after Couey’s confession to Citrus county detectives was thrown out of court because it violated Couey’s Miranda rights, Gause and Wright decided to inform their Orlando PD sergeant that they interviewed Couey following his arrest in Citrus County on the chance he might be a suspect in the Regina Armstrong murder because he grew up in Orange County. They claimed he actually confessed to the Lunsford murder.
The confession was not recorded and at no time did either detective inform the Citrus investigators or their OPD supervisor of the visit itself- let alone Couey’s statements made to them.
That is, until they learned his original confession in the Lunsford case was inadmissible.
Interviewing an incarcerated man who is represented by an attorney with charges pending in a potentially related case without permission, notes, or a recording by veteran detectives is outrageous.
John Cuoey was 5’4”, 125 lbs with a flag tattoo. The suspect composite from direct witnesses in the Armstrong case was a man around 40, 6 ft tall with medium build and a mermaid tattoo on the opposite arm.
They were lucky their actions did not derail the prosecution of both cases. The second alleged confession was also thrown out and reprimands to both detectives remain private in their respective employee records. Regina Armstrong’s murder in 1985 remains unsolved.
John Evander Couey died of natural causes on death row awaiting execution for the rape and murder of Jessica Lunsford.
Patented Police Work- Who Knew?
Detective Emmett Browning, Jr and J. Glenn Gause II will lead the investigation into Jennifer Kesse’s disappearance by keeping the single most promising clue from the very folks that could help the case instantly. The public.
Browning and Gause made the investigative decision not to release video footage of the man parking a victim’s vehicle within 24 hours of her missing persons report.
They were 48 hours into the case they now assumed was a lovers rift. The case had since turned into a criminal investigation and thought it wise not to engage the public’s efforts in locating an individual seen on video in a very distinctive uniform less than one day earlier, a mile from her home.
I am aware that is a run-on sentence. How could one possibly break that up and convey how ludicrous that was?
There were no obvious signs of foul play in Jennifer’s condo or her car. An entire complex watched as the car was removed. How could they possibly have ruled out that Jennifer was abducted and held against her will?
Might a tip on the immediate suspect have saved her life?
They had time to make the 6 o’clock news and blast the web.
Fresh eye witnesses, fresh leads – what a break!
Fresh fizzle was the way this was going with these two.
Investigators informed the Kesse’s they would not be processing Jennifer’s condo because there were too many people in it and it had not been preserved. Drew Kesse told Detective Gause that he was in contact with some family friends employed in international security and law enforcement in different jurisdictions and he was told the scene should be processed and known prints and samples could be eliminated from any unidentified.
Gause responded by telling the bereft father of a missing daughter if he got one more call or one more question about his investigation he was going to start arresting people.
Gause and Emmett, otherwise known as “Gammett” by colleagues for their years of friendship and joining the Orlando Police Department patrol together in 1981 worked the case through August 2007 without ever interviewing a single person at Jenn’s work, developing a suspect or releasing the footage of the suspect parking the car.
The duo felt they had a better offer they could not pass up. Hard to Imagine, I know.
“The right opportunity came up and you don’t know if you’re gonna get another opportunity like that,” Gause said.
Upon their departure, it was discovered by Orlando Police that neither officer kept a note, recording, binder, or interview outline on the Kesse case and if they had, they emptied it from all files of their cases within OPD.
Gause wished the Kesse’s luck and his hopes in finding Jennifer.
“If They don’t find her this hunting season, they definitely will by the next.” – Glenn Gause
With homicide cases in the collective rearview for the pair, they set forth with new employer Aqmi Strategy Corp.
Putting their combined 50 years of investigative prowess to work in white collar crime via the private sector was the plan.
They probably should have started with the new boss.
Aqmi Strategy Corp- a division of Mirabilis Ventures was about to expose one of Orlando’s more notorious billionaire frauds by way of an international security incident. A retired Orlando Police captain and a former secret service agent were detained in the Democratic Republic of the Congo while allegedly conducting security detail for presidential hopeful Dr. Oscar Kashala. Kashala is a Harvard educated Congolese national.
Frank Amodeo, a felonious, disbarred Georgia bankruptcy attorney and equal opportunity bilker of the DINK and COCOON sets formed Aqmi under the Mirabilis umbrella in 2004.
After fake-buying the Trump Tampa Tower and raising the US Treasury’s eyebrows following rumors that the real reason for being in the DRC was to raise foreign capital for US interests surfaced, the IRS and Mr. Amodeo became acquainted. Although those particular rumors were likely started by the opposing parties who detained the the team in the first place, an American security detail contracted by a major pharmaceutical executive running for office in the Congo is going to get a look.
Amodoe is currently on the hook to the IRS for $181 million in unpaid payroll taxes and serving 22 + years for conspiring to commit wire fraud, obstructing an agency proceeding, impeding the IRS and failing to remit payroll taxes.
Dr. Kashala failed in a second bid for the African nation’s presidency in 2011.
In 2009 following an informal inquiry by officials within The Orlando Police Department, new investigators received an 80 page report on the Kesse case compiled by the original investigators Glause and Browning.
How it got there and upon whose request has not been disclosed.
“Better late than never” might be one of those axioms I stop using.
Gammett currently works with several colleagues from the defunct and bankrupt Aqmi days as independent security consultant for Center For Security Solutions.
Detectives Browning and Gause’s legendary dogged determination to solve cases has made them experts in Cold Case Management. Their “patented” concept of methodical Cold Case organization and review has a proven success rate. Their irrefutable investigative skills has made them equally effective in handling Internal Affairs cases, completing thorough, fair, factual and concise investigations.
Largely devoid of any of the aforementioned but chockfull of spurious, you can read Gammetts full bios here.
Detective Sergeant Rich Ring buoyed Jennifer’s case until Joel Wright and new partner Detective Roger Brennan picked it back up.
First order of business sixteen months later- release the vehicle video and declare a suspect.
I will spare the details of how much difficulty these detectives went through reconstructing a two year old investigation without the proper background from the first team at bat.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity to Blink on Crime, a source inside the OPD confirms the files removed from the Kesse case included reports like her cell phone records and ping studies.
To their profound credit the parents of Jennifer Kesse, Drew and Joyce pushed a bill through the Florida Senate to mandate standard operating procedures and other practices that would preclude anyone walking off with the case files in adult missing person’s cases in Florida.
The Jennifer Kesse Tiffany Sessions Missing Persons Act was signed ceremoniously into law on October 28, 2008 by Governor Charlie Crist.
Bill 502 expanded the authority of The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Missing and Endangered Information Clearinghouse (MEPIC) to provide assistance in missing persons investigations for those under 26 and over the age of 26 that are believed to be endangered.
In it’s first three years in existence, the Act has helped 716 adult missing persons cases including Jennifers.
The disappearance of Jennifer Joyce Kesse brought some of the largest volunteer search efforts for a single person in both Florida and the United States to date. David Siegel, the president and CEO of Westgate Resorts and Central Florida Investments offered a $100,000 reward for Jenn’s return through March 8, 2006.
In July of 2008 the disappearance of 34 month old Caylee Anthony catapulted the Orlando landscape back onto to the screens of the nightly 14 minute intro recaps of her case.
With no similarities in the victims or any known associations to the cases outside of the fact they were last seen within a few miles of each other there was no way they were related.
Except One. Peter Benevides.
Big profile, big reward, big name- Peter “Pedro” Benevides pledged a $100,000 reward for the return of a living Caylee Marie Anthony.
Background is Foreground With A Skyview
In December 2008 Florida’s statewide prosecutor Bill Shepherd reviews Jennifer’s case. Prosecutor Shepherd’s office is only tasked with reviewing cases that may require multi-circuit jurisdictions and the possibility or probability of PONZI SCHEMES.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Shepherd served seven years in the Office of the Attorney General of Florida. He was appointed in 2007 by former Attorney General Bill McCollum as Florida’s Statewide Prosecutor and was responsible for leading eight offices throughout Florida in the investigation and prosecution of multi-circuit criminal activity. Shepherd’s focus was on RICO prosecutions in the area of white-collar crime, mortgage fraud, securities fraud, healthcare fraud, ponzi schemes, corporate and private embezzlement, money laundering, narcotics trafficking and gang-related crimes. He also worked in the Office of the State Attorney in Miami as an Assistant State attorney from 1996-2000.
The results of the Statewide Attorney recommendations are unknown.
After a review of Jennifer’s case by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the request of Drew Kesse in 2010, her case was again in the hands of OPD. Detective Patrick Schneider and Sgt Det Richard Lane were the lead investigators at the time of this publication, Following Schneider’s retirement, the case is now led by Sgt. Theresa Sprague.
According to a statement given to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office by the now infamous Roy Kronk, he was under the impression that the reward posted by Benevides for locating Caylee was set to expire. Not his original statement to Detectives John Allen and Yuri Melich of course, but he gets there.
On December 11, 2008 the remains of Caylee Marie Anthony were recovered off of Suburban Drive in Orlando. Kronk never realized that it was only payable if Caylee were found alive.
Two weeks later a discovery of a different kind befalls a local couple walking their dogs in a Windermere neighborhood.
What is believed to be the pepper spray pouch and attached mail key of Jennifer Kesse was recovered.
The names of the advertent couple and precise location are being withheld by www.blinkoncrime.com for investigative reasons.
The couple tried for weeks to contact the established crimeline tip line as well as Orlando Police before turning the item over to Windermere Police with a note. The note said the finders thought it may be part of the Kesse investigation but they had been unsuccessful reaching detectives. After a last try in late January, detectives returned her call.
It was not until BOC analysts came across a work order request from Jennifer’s condo maintenance staff requesting a replacement key and new mailbox assignment prior to her disappearance the connection was made to Jennifer’s case.
The key in her vehicle, the key attached to the fob of the spray holder pouch and the existing key to the mailbox number assigned to Jenn are identical. The pouch is an exact duplicate of several purchased by Jennifer’s parents for her as well as extras for her girlfriends, when she moved on her own.
Drew Kesse has an exact duplicate purchased in tandem on his keychain today.
In January 2009 Pete Benevides registered a Limited Liability Company under the name Skyview Funeral Home , LLC with a PO Box in Clermont, FL. He does not own a funeral home, is not licensed to conduct funeral services and the entity was dissolved a year later for not receiving an annual report.
Considering the fact that Benevides was outed as the benefactor for Caylee Anthony’s memorial service by Dominic Casey, Anthony family private investigator and head of security for the event, one has to wonder if Skyview Funeral Home’s business model is focused more on laundry services.
Not for long though. At precisely the moment the Memorial Service is taking place at First Baptist Orlando, the United States Treasury descends on the Orlando business interests and assets of Mr. Benevides and his co-horts in “Project Rumpelstiltskin”.
On February 10, 2009, orchestrated presumably upon received intelligence, “There’s gold in them thar hills” is not just the dream bubble of Parker Schnable of Porcupine Creek.
Through an ongoing criminal investigation sparked by “unspecified illegal acts “ as sworn by Noel Martinez, Jr, Special Agent IRS- USSS Financial Crimes Task Force , it seems the cast of Gold Rush missed the glory hole by a few thousand miles. Federal agents however, hit the Orlando bedrock without the need for excavation.
Javier Fernandez, Angel Sanchez, Luizia Trindade, Luiz Trindade, Skyview Aviation, Pedro Benevides, Luis Hernandez, German Cardona, Daniel Rojo Filho, Evolution Market Group, Superior International Investments Corp, Brittany Sprague Benevides, Michael Clark, Heather Perkins, DWB Developers, their officers and registrants therein watched their 9 vehicles ranging from a $270K motor coach, Audi A8 and custom Lamborghini drive away without them under an REM forfeiture complaint.
Unbeknownst to them at the time, the nearly 400 gold bars stashed in 3 different states were also seized between February 9th and 11th in addition to bank accounts totaling over a few hundred million dollars, wired from multiple international locations.
Additional seizures of an undisclosed amount of gold and silver were seized from 3 safes in a warehouse owned by Ralph Munyan of Clearwater.
Several notices of civil actions referencing sealed criminal cases and John Doe participants as co-conspirators are pending against all. It is likely they will be put on hold until the completion of all criminal investigations and subsequent complaints. The sealed cases to date are in Oregon, Texas, Arizona, Florida, Colorado and Nevada.
Further coincidences between the Benevides et al clan and involvement with the Casey Anthony case include the fact that pass through accounts referenced in the seizure filing and the first Caylee Marie Anthony Trust were closed at the same bank within one business day of each other.
The first four days of transactions including opening deposits of the first Anthony Trust have never been revealed publicly. One thing is for certain. If Mr. Benevides or anyone attached to the criminal matter used those derived funds for any purpose related to Ms. Anthony or Mr. Baez, we are all going to know about it at some point, the individual payments and transactions of these accounts have only been partially released in support of the warrant.
The seizure action brought by the United States Attorney has been ordered “stayed” with 90 day updates in order to allow the pending criminal investigations to proceed against all the above defendants, both named and as yet to be named.
On September 16, 2009 Pedro Paul Benevides was arrested on Federal charges of cocaine smuggling after two of his pilots were arrested in Pensacola and fingered him as the mastermind.
Benevides was remanded to the Orange County Jail through February 2010 where he was released after charges were dismissed against him when a witness against him changed their story. It is not known if Casey Anthony, who was also housed at the Orange County Jail and Benevides were leaving notes at the library for one another ending in ~FLUSH~.
On February 11, 2010 Pete Benevides was released from custody, still under investigation by the Feds for his and his associate’s involvement in an alleged ponzi scheme that has bilked over $450 million dollars from investors around the world. However, with a heavy concentration of folks seeking damages for same around every corner of the neighborhood, it can’t be the same hitting the in and out burger in Orlando these days.
On February 19, 2010 based on an informant tip, OPD conducted a search behind the Knights Inn on South Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando. Both that site and the location on 72000 International Drive are known former business addresses of Filho, Hernandez and Benevides.
Until last month Pete and Brittany Benevides, Luis Hernandez, Daniel Filho, unspecified John Doe’s and Angel Hernandes managed to dodge subpoenas in the pending civil actions. Luis Hernandez and the Benevideses maintain homes and offices in Leesburg, Astatula, Clermont, Orlando and Windermere. The pending class action civil suit process servers were headed off by security at every gate.
The State of Florida was happy to be served on their behalf at the request of the plaintiffs attorney.
* It is this author’s intention to present the parties associations, conduct and occurrences to the relevant time periods and commonalities to the case of the disappearance of Jennifer Kesse and by no means should be considered a complete background or biography. Y’all are itching to know how any of this is connected as it is or you’re asking yourself- did Blink drink her Google juice today? I get it. Stick with me, read on.
Encumberance And Conveyance, In Deed
The first investigative interviews conducted at Central Florida Investments, Jennifer’s employer were in May 2009, or so the management team thought. She had been missing three years and 4 months.
What they did not know is a work colleague of Jennifer’s called them on his own to tell OPD what he knew in the months before that. “Adam Frank” referred to previously on BOC, not his real name as he is a material witness in the case, called police in an effort to stop the harassment he was enduring at work since Jennifer disappeared. Adam overheard a confrontation between Johnny Alberto Campos and Jennifer Kesse the morning of January 23rd, 2006.
For the first time exclusively on www.blinkoncrime.com, we have uncovered additional witnesses to corroborate the interactions between Jennifer Kesse and Johnny Campos leading up to and including the days following her disappearance.
On or about the day after Jennifer’s disappearance, Johnny Campos asks Frank to drive him to an impromptu meeting at the new Lake Eleanor Office. When the pair arrived, Campos told Frank he would meet up with him in about 30 minutes in the cafeteria.
Adam Frank watched as the manager of the branch, Linday Hernandez met Campos at security and the pair headed to her office.
Linday Hernandez, A Venezuelan national, is a business partner of Peter Benevides in more than one venture, and her husband Luis Hernandez is and was a former principal in several business interests including currently held properties.
Mr. Hernandez as previously noted is under Federal criminal investigation in multiple states and a defendant in several civil actions resulting from those alleged activities. Linday Hernandez is not named individually in the ongoing federal or class action civil matters to date, however, companies which she has or had a principal interest in, are.
A recent financial filing of the couple requesting significant debt relief and a stay from a foreclosure sale on their Windermere residence was filed in Ms. Hernandez’s name only. Luis Hernandez’s whereabouts are unknown.
Witnesses inside the investigations of both Jennifer’s case and the Federal inquiry describe the relationship between Linday and Campos as “confident” and friendly with Linday visiting the Ocoee branch frequently ending in an offsite lunch for the two.
An additional witness interviewed by BOC and wishing to remain anonymous provided an account describing how Campos approached him with a scheme for making quick cash. Several timeshare owners were asking to renounce their weeks without compensation as long as they did not pay annual fees. It was alleged Campos saw it as an opportunity to rent the week out, covering the fees, without ever telling the owners. Westgate/CFI had folks with access keeping track of unoccupied timeshare properties. Who accessed them and by what means remains to be seen.
A simple keycard report would be able to tell that information for the timeframe of Jennifer’s disappearance easily. It has not been requested to date.
The Ponzi Peninsula
In May 2011 a tip was received from a Columbian national and former resident of the United States claiming to have had to leave the country due to immigration issues.
Dimitri Duran Soto is also a former realtor and mortgage broker for Sky Land Realty Group and DPG Realty after a failed cleaning business venture in 2003. His real estate license in Florida has been revoked. Mr. Duran Soto is a trained architect and is currently working as such in Columbia.
It was the intent of BOC to withhold Mr. Soto’s name but he has since posted a request for the person who he believes may either be responsible or knows who is, for what happened to Jennifer Kesse as he claims was told to him.
Soto told police while he was discussing seeing the Kesse’s on TV, a friend of his claimed to have seen Jennifer in a white pickup truck sitting between two men with a look he described as “like, help me” when the vehicles were next to each other at a traffic light turning left onto International Drive South.
That evening Soto printed out a flyer from the Kesse website and showed it to him the next day to confirm.
At the time he says he felt his friend did not come forward and neither did he because they both had what he termed immigration issues. He was afraid of deportation.
Upon return to his native country, Soto learned his friend had taken care of his status but had not yet informed police of what he knew. Soto reached out, and was put in touch with OPD.
The January 6th search conducted and organized by Orlando Police and FDLE in the area of the 13000 block of International Drive was based on the account of Soto’s friend, however, a posting of Mr. Soto’s indicates there may be more to it.
Soto’s friend describes the pickup he was now watching in his rearview mirror makes a right turn just before the Partners Credit Union onto a dirt road leading into the woods and property searched recently- unsuccessfully.
However, the dirt road access which is commonly known to many ATV riders in the area is also a way to access the undeveloped plat #723 owned by Luis Hernandez and Pedro Benevides.
The BenHen parcel has not been searched nor seized because of it’s purchase prior to any allegations of ponzi.
Considering the fact that the last known person to have had a public disagreement with a missing woman arranges an impromptu meeting with a woman whose husband, and by way of a marital asset so does she, owns a parcel in the direct vicinity of a recent search area OPD felt credible is worth a conversation- no?
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What model phone did Jenn have?
In your opinion is it one man who is responsible for Jenn’s disappearance? One man who knowingly implicated the POI in the parking of Jenn’s car?
Or do you feel there was a conspiracy of people involved?
I think more than a few people know what ultimately happened to Jennifer.
B
When ‘more than a few people’ know about a crime, particularly such a serious one as homicide eventually an individual will talk. Alcohol is a very good lubricant for encouraging loose lips.
It is staggering to think there has not been the slightest whisper about this crime. Not even for reward money.
We all know how difficult it is to keep a secret.
All that aside, the one thing I can’t get my head around is the simple fact that Jennifer left her condo that night.
It appeals to me that a security conscious young lady bent if not broke some of her own guidelines that night. Sadly, with fateful consequences.
IMHO the answer to the ‘why’ Jennifer went out that night is the answer to this mystery.
Blink, do you still hold a high level of confidence this crime will be resolved?
Thanks.
Question of the day larry, indeed. I could not have more going on, and you gripped me.
This young woman- what can I say, when you work on a case and you learn everything there is to learn, you get to know them in a way nobody but you and they understand.
I think Mr. Kesse said it best in his last interview. He said ” I think Jenn’s case has the best chance of being solved it ever has, right now.”
Truer words and all that. Mr. Kesse has known this case better than anyone, always has.
I have never been able to teach a cat to bark, but I keep trying.
The cats in this scenario are OPD. I say that with respect, and I say that as someone who has done their diligence with knowledge that they could not make a case of someone stepping on an earthworm at the Mosaic Condos on January 24th 2006 ( or 23rd as you know I feel is likely).
Sadly, that does not help Jennifer Joyce, and I am angry.
B
Anyone else see a SMART update?
Blink,
fwiw, I get you on that.
larry,
Nothing and zilch on a SMART update. Been wondering for a while since it’s been almost 6 months since the January presser.
I thought bloodhounds follow an actual scent, close to the ground. It’s not like they stick their noses in the air and say, “Woof! Jenn’s condo is this way! Let’s go!” while Jenn’s scent was in the car, it was also on the POI after being in her car. The newspapers said Bo pulled his handler back to the Mosaic and Not through the main entrance, but past the entrance to a spot in the fence. Then since he couldn’t go over the fence, he was brought around it, picked up the scent on the other side ofmthe fence and followed it to Jenn’s condo stairs. Are you saying this didn’t happen and isn’t true?
Oops. Never mind answering this. I believe it was asked before.
Could Jen have had a pay-as-you go/TracFone which could have been given to her by JC or another person who she may have been involved with?
My ex-boyfriend cheated on me and it turns out he communicated with the woman by a TracFone which he hid from me in his car. JC could have given her a TracFone and told her it was her ‘business phone’ that they would use to communicate with for their other business dealings. Besides cheaters, con men and drug dealers are very familiar with these. Back in 2006 (and it may still be this way) you could use an alias to activate them and if you pay cash to purchase them there is really no way to track them.
I just feel one of the keys in this case is who she was in contact with the day she disappeared. If JC was not in her call records/texts on her regular phone, then it may have been through a TracFone or if that is not they case, they set it up at work to meet later that night. Or it is someone else who no one knew about (the person who owns the mysterious sweater that was in her hamper).
Blink- Has the pay-as-you go phone/TracFone scenario ever been brought up?
Also, I know it may have been brought up before but did Jen have any very close female friends that she spoke with regularly?
No evidence of a trac phone by the parties, and yes, she did.
B
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned”.
So it looks like P-L-ucy in the Sky put up the 100k for Jenn’s return…. Back in the hood….. Just great…..
I have no idea what that means.
B
Welcome to OUR world…….
Deborah, this is a very serious and important criminal matter, one which I have spent countless hours and will continue to spend as many hours as necessary on- can you respect that and refrain from the obtuse?
I just don’t have the time or sense of humor in this case, I apologize in advance.
I am interested in Jennifer’s recovery and justice for her family.
B
I have the utmost respect for your efforts and this investigation. Adhering to your “no names please” policy, my post refers to your Background/Foreground with SKYview comment and the anonymous $100K JK donor(s), using first initials, a “play on first names”, and an old standard song. It refers to Judge Spaulding’s decision. Not always easy to say things without saying. And making lighter of a dark situation should never be misconstrued as taken lightly.
Thanks Deborah, I should have warned you I rarely get any snark that is not mine, lol.
B
Thanks Deborah, now I can’t get that song out of my head..lol
It reminds me of a RV trip I once went on.
Kesse’s parents live in the MCSO district. (like kyron)
From what I read,
Jenne’s parents are from the MCSO district..Manatee County, which includes half of LB Key.
Jenne’s parents are friends with the CFO at Jenne’s employer.
I’ve found a person with the same name as that CFO who lived in
the MCSO district, but can’t identify if they are one in the same.
Were Jenne’s Parents friends with the CFO prior to Jenne working at CFI?
Is it CAMPOS who was the Pilot for Charlie Crist?
Deborah,
The guy who wrote that play has the same DOB as Jens dissapearance.
A play of a play to explain a play on words..lol
Geeeeeez…….. You guys are trying to kill me ………..Let me catch up just a bit, huh?
1:Here is a question, Has anybody even tried to pull images from that video of the man who parked jennifer kesse car?
2:Has anybody tried to tape the video in a compressed format?
3: Has anybody tried to re-tape the compressed video from the first one?
4:Has anybody play and stop the video with in half a second and look at the image?
5:Has anybody tried taking pictures of that image save them to their computer open the picture and do a print screen then save the picture, this holds the pixels from stretching when making the picture bigger.
6:You would be surprised the images you would get if you tried this and a few other things that i did and brought out images.
Ed, if you are reading this site, and the comments, you know you are looking at one of those very images, and to answer from my perspective- yes to the above.
B
Ed, do you have a link to your revised photos? Would love to see them.
Hi Deborah, No i do not have a link to my revised photos.
I will tell you this though over 27 of them are going to the right place and being used.
I do not want to say too much on this sight what i have done.
Do not worry these images are going to the right place In orlando florida.
I have a question for you what is your job on this sight just to answere questions or are you a part of law inforcement?
What would you do with the images that you got?
Ed- if you need help facilitating the transfer of anything you think would be helpful in this case, I am in direct contact with investigators and/or SMART team members. In my mind, that is the proper place for anything of evidentiary value. That said, I have seen several software programs at work on these images, it would greatly surprise me if you were able to produce something other LEA could not.
B
Hi Deborah, Just a heads up to you these Images have been uploaded after i Uploaded them to the Orlando tipssubmit.com.
I believe over 27 images have been excepted now.
I just uploaded another Image the person behind the gate.
Do you have direct access to the e-mails on this sight?
If so you have permision to contact me.
I will not give info on this sight.
Just some examples, you said you be surprised If i could produce something other LEA could not, example is between the bars what is on the lower part of the sleeve, what is on the upper part of the shirt on the shoulder, What is on the right cheek, I have forwarded these images and they have been excepted.
Who is LEA?
Hi deborah, If you like to see one of my Images contact me.
Ed-
This is blink, Editor In Chief, and author of the piece/Series you are commenting on.
I suspect you may be new to blogging, and welcome to BOC. I do not allow the sharing of personal information on my site, because I am vehemently opposed to such a breach of security.
That said, I think you may have interpreted my comments for Deborah’s.
If you would like me to review your images, and you are requesting I email you to do so, I shall, that said, if they have the potential to be case sensitive, or I make the decision they need to be reviewed by the Orlando Police personnel assigned to Jenn’s case, I will do so- just fyi as a professional courtesy.
B
Not part of LE, Ed. When I asked to see photos it was a general request – I have no proprietary interest – only as another member of this site. I have seen other photos of the POI on the Justice for Chandra site. I was the person who took pictures of the cameras at HOG and measurements of the gate in the hopes someone on one of these forums could use those to extrapolate shoe size and further narrow the range of POI’s height. Happy to hear you have forwarded them to the authorities where they belong.
We have gone round and round on the POI pictures. Like Blink, I am uncertain anything else will be gleaned from them. However, I have always wondered about that 3 second delay between shots that Ralph (Justice For Chandra) tried to explain to me before my eyes glazed over.
Ed, I put 100,000 USD at the Hands Of Daniel Fernandez Filho Rojo, he sold me on an Investment Platform in New Zealand Called Platinum bancorp, Needless to say my money is gone and so is He. am after him now and will not stop till I get him to justice. If anyone knows of his where about please call the Police. or let me know.
Thank you
Yves- I am sincerely sorry for your situation of course. Information gleaned during my investigative analysis has gone to the Federal agent in charge.
B
Thanx Blink for clarifying that.
The following (my quotation marks) was posted on the Guestbook:
6:38pm 06-05-2012
“Web Drifter
When information is written in riddles you must read likewise.
The cell phone tells the story. Two of them.
It is the ‘why’ factor that is the mystery. Jealousy is very high on the list of reasons.”
“The cell phone tells the story.”. What story? I get it that Jenn was attached to her phone as most young people comfortable with technology are. Sooooooooooooo?????
“Two of them.”. Two what? Cell phones? Stories? Young people? ????????
Anyone? Anyone?
Honestly Deborah, I have seen people get yanked around on that guestbook for years, including the Kesse’s so I hold no stock in it.
B
The following is from a Web Sleuths post:
#175
02-16-2006, 05:04 PM
13th Juror
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Central Fla – Orlando area
Posts: 816
Travis Bourguignon – forgot his cell phone …
Nothing really new regarding the investigation has been on the tube today.
Some of the same film footage from yesterday of Drew Kesse inspecting Jen’s car and saying how much he hopes that whatever the forensics people were able to lift from the car – will help in finding Jen. He said that LE has not told him what items they took for forensics to inspect. Drew commented that Jean always had stuff like clothing, mail, magazines n’ other things left in her car.
The 4 pm newscast on WKMG – Local6 ran an interview with Travis Bourguignon (Hope I spelled that name correctly as I just got a few seconds glance at it!).
He was the family friend staying in Jen’s condo with her brother, Logan, while Jen was on vacation with her boyfriend, Rob Allen.
Travis was the one who left his cell phone behind. He said he spoke to Jen on the phone on Monday evening. She told him he had missed several calls on his cell.
As we all now know – Jen said that she would “overnight” the phone back to him. Travis commented that Jen said he’d have it in a day or 2. He never received it. The cell phone co. is checking his cell phone call records.
If I told someone I would “overnight” an item to them that I knew they needed & were anxious to receive – I would go find an outlet asap – even if it meant doing it that same night when I was dead tired from a long day. But, hey – that’s just me.
The police – as reported on this newscast – seem to think that may have been what happened as well — that Jen went out on Monday night to locate a place where she could “overnight” Travis’s phone.
Does anyone know WHEN Travis spoke to Jenn Monday night???????? This might narrow the timeline…..
She never did. She spoke to Logan and told him she would overnight it.
B
So there never was a WKMG interview with Travis?
Egads, so much misinformation to wade through. Blink, I don’t envy you your job.
Titch, respectfully, that is not how I roll. You know I am and have the direct line to LE in this case.
B
Did Jenn work 9 – 5pm or 9 – 6pm? Thank you.
She was exempt but normally 9-6 with an hour lunch. Again, task dependent as she was salaried.
B
feel free to delete–
I feel the same way about the two phones- her phone being disabled- thats when it happened- and his phone (Travis) being the reason she went out- to mail it possibly. Altho i do think she could have gone “out”- but maybe coz she had to go mail it anyhow- she agreeded to meeting someone.
Another thing- I’m just saying this because I have felt it from the minute I first read here- a few months back- and I felt it strongly and I can’t shake it- and I think if I can just say it- then I can let it go: I have always had this really strong feeling- NOT based in rationality or reality as far as I can tell- just a hunch- that this happened (when it did) coz of the boys staying at her apartment while she was gone- that there was some connection. I had this almost visual of the phone owner having a key to her apartment. Whew, I said it. Thanks!
Blink, I’m not asking for specifics, but was anyone able to provide you with any info on what JC was wearing when he arrived at work around noon?
Only confidence it was not what the person parking the vehicle was wearing. But specifically, no, nobody I interviewed remembered that specifically. Keep in mind, nobody knew yet.
B
I listened to this interview with Drew Kesse a while ago, but forgot to bring something up. He said Jennifer was with the company for 4 1/2 almost 5 years . . . that included internships while she was still at university.
I’m interested how or by whom Jennifer was chosen for the initial internship (as part of her work history/connections).
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-cop-doc/2011/03/11/thecopdoc-jennifer-kesse-update
Blink, I asked about her hours because in one of your posts you said Jenn and Willman walked out or talked after work around 6pm. Sunset was at 5:57pm. That means it was dark when she drove home. She would have had no use for her sunglasses that fateful Monday night. Sunrise on Tuesday was 7:17am – plenty of time to leave early, in the daylight, and still make it to work well before 9am, even if she did plan to drop off the cell phone prior to work – without doing it in the pre-dawn darkness.
2center says:
February 28, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Hi Blink -
I’ve been in Orlando for 5 years now and have known of the Jenn Kesse case since I moved here, but the posters at the stoplights caught my attention recently after taking a new job in that part of town and I became enthralled with the details of the case, especially some that you’ve uncovered recently.
That said, I’m having a tough time with some of the information you posted. Allow me to be specific and forgive me for my verbosity:
1 – the Johnny Campos / “Adam Frank” developments seem to be the most promising of the recent breaks; I understand that some of this information may be sensitive, but please don’t dilute the importance of this new lead with really far-fetched speculation
Not diluting anything, I developed the lead- why would I?
2 – the speculation regarding the picture of the unnamed suspect and its comparison to a Cricketer and the Cricketer bar is downright ridiculous; there may be cricket fans in Central Florida, but that bar is just an English-style pub and you’d be hard-pressed to find any semblance of a cricket game anywhere in the area at any time; suggesting that Jenn’s trip to a bar nearly three months prior to her disappearance is somehow relevant to the grainy, low-resolution surveillance picture of the unnamed suspect with attire that is difficult to identify; this type of specious reasoning has the potential to undermine all the great and meaningful work you’ve done
How do you know? I can tell by this comment that you are not reading other reader comments- there is a full blown league and stadium in Orange county. As I have commented previously, there is plenty of “pick up” cricket among certain concentrations locally as well. It is my personal belief after weeks of research and investigation that individual is sporting what is likely a cricket uniform or components of same. I would not waste your or any other advocates time in a 6 year cold case. People in that development know this guy- I promise.
By “that development” you are referring to HOG????????
Re: My Post #30 above:
Jenn left work at 6pm, Monday, January 23, 2006 at or around 6pm. She and her supervisor, Willman, spoke briefly. Since the sun set at 5:57pm, this means Jenn drove away from CFI in the dark. She had no need for her sunglasses. The sun rose Tuesday morning at 7:17am. Jenn’s work hours were 9 – 6, though, in a management position, she wasn’t required to “clock in”. Assuming she kept to this schedule whether she was required to or not due to her own personal work ethic, we can probably say she adhered to this schedule regardless. I am suggesting that, even if she decided to mail Travis Bourguignon’s cell phone BEFORE going to work, she would have had plenty of time (almost 2 hours!) to do it in the daylight, After Sunrise (7:17 am), and if she did that, she most certainly would have worn her sunglasses. The same sunglasses we see in the photos of the interior of her car.
Agreed and logical, but Jenn was not the last person in her vehicle. We don’t know conclusively she put them there.
B
The only point I am trying to make is she wasn’t wearing them – which to me supports your theory that events unfolded in the evening, rather than an early morning scenario. Whether a carjacking, or not, I don’t believe a person trying to cover their tracks and quickly dispose of a victim and her car is necessarily interested in her sunglasses. I believe if Jenn had been abducted during the day, she would have been wearing them and they would be missing also.
To my mind there is absolutely no reason for Jenn to pull herself out of a warm bed prior to 7:17am to try to find a place to mail a cell phone while it is still dark out. It is also my opinion that no one drives in Florida without sunglasses on. And I can’t imagine a perp taking a person’s sunglasses off and returning them to the victim’s car after a crime. He only has one thing on his mind at that time – ESCAPE!!!!!
I agree with you, but I am a detail freak. Occupational Hazard.
B
In your opinion is the POI who parked Jenn’s car still in this country? After so many years you still think, “People in that development know this guy – I promise” ?
If this is true, what’s holding up the works? Why isn’t pressure being put on them to identify this person, whose only guilt may be in parking a car for a friend or a fee?
I would put it at 50/50.
B
Did Jenn and Robb move in “cricket” circles, ie., go to games, have personal friends who played the game, attend stadium matches, conventions, awards ceremonies, etc.???? Did Robb himself play cricket and introduce Jenn to the men on the teams????
What is the story with Jennifer Lane?
It appears the “Dear Boss” gauntlet has been thrown down on Jennifer Lane. What remains to be seen, is whether LE is up to the challenge…..
Ain’t that a kick in the head?
I feel in this case the right tools were not given to the people who are working on this case. I feel now that the wheels that were stopped are going to now start turning again because the right tools are now in place and this case is going to start moving forward soon.I feel the person who parked the car is the key to bringing not only him down but other people to.
Oh Meh Gawd. For real. That man is going to Fed lock up for a VERY long time.
B
If he lives long enough……
If I were him, I’d be more worried about my partners in crime, rather than anything LE could do. Let’s see: 3 squares a day in an 8 x 10 cell. vs. cement shoes. Hmmmmmmm…….I’m going for the 3 square meals a day. JMHO.
Please tell me Jennifer’s keyring/pepper spray was NOT found on Jennifer Lane.
In Windermere.
I’m trying to follow Deborah’s train of thought here–can you elaborate Deborah. My brain is a little tired after the pedophile trial.
Word Girl, the following is from a post by MPEA on the Jennifer Kesse Abduction Discussion:
MPEA
Full Member
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access to water
« on: April 01, 2010, 09:12:27 PM »
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if jennifer is deceased and is in the water,there are a lot of boat ramps on conroy-windermere road in windermere,one is very close to jennifer lane.all you have to do is pull off the road and there it is.not used as much in jan.a lot of other areas with access to water also.i would be more likely to believe a wooded area next to the water,just off the roadway,or an area that was under construction at the time.before we find her ,we need to know when and where she was abducted.her movements from 10:30p.m. on. there has to be something that is being overlooked,finding that is the key to this case.i can only think of two reasons that poi dumped her car at hog.maybe he was going to park it back at her place,and he saw people there.or maybe he had her address because she was abducted somewhere else,couldnt find it ,got frustrated,dropped it and walked back toward mosaic,caught a bus or walked to the mall.remember her drivers license probably had her street adress on it but not her apt number,that makes me think she was taken somewhere else.just something to kick around,what do you think?
End of MPEA’s post.
Why did MPEA mention Jennifer Lane in Windermere? There are literally hundreds of lakes all over Orlando. Why mention a body of water in Windermere at all???????? The only real connection to Windermere thus far is the keyring/pepper spray.
Friends tell me this particular lake – Lake Down – near Jennifer Lane – is where the public ramp entrance is located for boats onto the chain of lakes. It is also, I am told, where the Windermere Police like to park their cars and wait for unsuspecting motorists to catch on their speed traps. So, while there is access to water, it is the main thoroughfare into Windermere, right across from the entrance to Isleworth, a police magnet, and fairly residential in general. Not a very private place to unload or dump anything IMO.
So back to my question – WHY mention Jennifer Lane? Both Rosser Road and Down Point Lane are closer to that pubic ramp. Was this a written faux pas to our benefit?
By the way Blink…… You need to know you and your team are A-list in my book. Without you and them, all of us would still be knocking on the “Mosaic in the morning” theory. Having only covered a miniscule amount of this case by going over the meaty morsels you and your team have given us, I realize it does not even touch the surface of what this case is all about. What a difficult job you and your team are attempting to bring Jennifer home and her family closure. Truly, there are no words……
Thank You. Jennifer and her family have and will always hold a special place in my heart.
I remain uber pissed that this young woman has not been recovered.
To add a personal story which instantly made me think of Jenn’s case over Father’s Day weekend-
My very willfull and vocal niece who is 6, wanted to help me while working in the densest part of my parents gardens. I told her she needed to stay where I could see her because I was both using some tools I was concerned about her getting injured, and overall, every kid in our family knows automatically they have 3 mothers and a Mom Mom- comes with the territory, lol.
She responded.. You know, if I ever get lost anywhere, my “breadcrumbs” will be my mouth, so I don’t know what you are worried about.
How wise is that? The breadcrumbs to find Jenn are someone’s mouth.
I believe that without question.
B
Blink,
Does LE know the name of Mr.Soto’s friend and where this friend (and former colleague) is?
Thank you, as always.
Yes.
B
All rightie, then.
I recall, Blink, you believe LE should expand the search area of January 2012 and included some particular areas of interest to boot – - a co-owned plat just south of the Faldo/Marriot golf course and a culvert also south of the course – - the upper portion of Shingle Creek that was not searched(?).
Uberly agree.
In your opinion is his fear in coming forward for what LE will do to him, or what others may do to him?
The video of Jenn and her little girlfriend reminds me so much of the ones my own gals made growing up. Movies of them acting out Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, and Aladdin with their cousins. The magic years….. So much has been stolen from this family. I’m sorry for coming on board so late. I thought this was being handled by LE. I thought someone else would take care of it. Blink, if they say “it takes a village to raise a child”, what is it going to take to bring this one home? Certainly more intel than we have. You know more than you’re telling and I can’t help but believe you know that it’s going to take more than even you know. So then, how are we to help? How are we to move this forward? Are we all just knocking our heads against a wall? If so, at some point we’re going to realize we don’t like the way it feels.
What is hard to believe is that this POI may have children of his own, perhaps even a little girl. When he looks into his children’s eyes, how does he reconcile what he sees there with what he has done? He has taken from another all that he himself must treasure and hold dear. You can rationalize away some things, but others……no!
The measure of a man and the essence of his soul, are captured in his children’s eyes. This is his legacy – that which he passes on through them. Does he think he can hide his character, the true nature of this evil he has done? His hands run red with the blood of the lamb. When we do wrong there are only two choices: we can beg forgiveness, or we begin to revile the very person we have harmed. In choosing the latter, we turn our back on God and begin the long process of dying inside, each step taking us further and further from our truth and what God has planned for us. OUR will is done. Not THY will be done. I pity this person for he is much worse off than Jenn could possibly ever be, no matter what he may have done to her. Whatever happened to Jenn, I truly believe she is innocent of any responsibility for it. The sickness twisting this man’s soul shall torment him and through him, undoubtedly will even reach out to taint those he holds most dear. “All the oceans of the world cannot wash out that stain”. For Jenn did not belong to him – she was never his to take. She was, is and always will be God’s.