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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Deborah,
I echo your words to Blink and her team.
You had asked about Jennifer’s phone, Deborah
From the photo of Jennifer sitting on the couch, it looks to me like an LG 8100.
I’ve read reviews on this model where users have said they misplaced their phone only to retrieve it later from water/pool and found it still working.
I had the opportunity to hold such an LG model. It is built like a tank and I can see how the design can add an element of water-resistance.
The bulkiness of it makes it unsuitable to be carried in say, the pocket of a pair of jeans, and the weight of it does not work well with garments of light material – - it can fall out of something like a front slant pocket.
The back battery cover is large and very secure. A casual falling on the ground will unlikely cause the battery to become dislodged, IMO. Slamming it with a forceful (dare I say violent) throw against something hard, however, may cause a breakage of the parts and the battery to dislodge, but this was not in my “test” options.
Blink writes in her article dated Wednesday, January 25, 2012
(linked article has the Jennifer photo with phone):
“Last evening, 6 Years ago at 10:40 PM, Jennifer Kesse’s cell phone battery was removed.
Experts from the newly formed SMART panel concur it was likely removed by the person or persons responsible for her disappearance.”
http://blinkoncrime.com/2012/01/25/the-jennifer-kesse-case-six-years-of-fears-tears-and-degrees-heat-up-the-hunt/
Just from my lay-man small bit of research on the LG 8100, I agree that the battery was removed – - – the phone did not just power down.
It’s been a while, so it escapes my memory, but there is something about removing the battery from this model when the phone has charge left in it that “does something” that is discernible.
Blink alluded to something like that, and I do recall “knowing” something like that, but arghhhh can’t remember.
Cheers, Deborah.
ps
As an aside, something I still keep in mind is that Blink discovered Jennifer went out to The Monkey Bar the night before her trip and according to Blink’s findings, Jennifer did not meet with family or close friends there.
Also discovered was that Jennifer went to the Cricketer Arms Pub October 29, 2005. From the same above linked article:
“While it is not known if she was alone or with a friend, Jennifer visited the Cricketers Arms 2 month prior to her disappearance.”
So, for me, it possible that she went out again the night she returned back home, Monday January 25 2006.
I feel that this is such a terrible thing to happen to this family the kesse’s.I feel when someone is trying to fix something and have problems seeing what is wrong they develope tunnel vision. The old saying is to take two steps back and see what i’m missing for now i see other things close by that can help. Now the person has the right tools to start moving forward again because the tools are there close always to keep moving foward.Like the comment saying i looked at several kinds of software that could not as i see put the right tools in place to use to move foward. Some times a person has to think like a inventor and not depend on high tech equipment to do everything for them to move ahead.I find for i have the tools that you need are laid out for you to move foward and not having to keep looking back to see if you done it right.I believe with Gods help the wheels are now turning and are not going to stop.
Just wanted to clarify something so there is no misunderstanding or misinterpretation here or anywhere else.
Jennifer may or may not have left her condo to “go out” that Monday night . . . IDK.
PJ’s on the bathroom floor, makeup and blowdryer out on the counter along with her eyeglasses, her contacts missing (probable she was wearing them when she exited her condo) . . . her last phone ping at 10:40pm NOT at her condo . . . does indicate the “possibility” she freshened up, changed clothes and “went out somewhere” for reasons unknown.
If Jennifer only went to retrieve items from her vehicle and was confronted there, which is also possible, why not put back on the PJ’s that were laying on the bathroom floor before exiting her condo.
The scene inside her condo of “getting ready for something” is a sticking point for me – - unless it was staged to look like a Tuesday morning getting ready for work.
According to Blink’s research, etc., Jennifer did, however, go downtown to The Monkey Bar the THURSDAY BEFORE THE FRIDAY START TO ST.CROIX with Rob. It is not known WHO she met there . . . it was not her family, close friends or Rob, and THAT indicates to me she did not tell any of them either (unless someone is holding back some info).
Blink says Jennifer arrived first, “he” later.
Business or pleasure, IDK.
HERE’S MY CLARIFICATION: Do I think Jennifer was a “party girl” – - ABSOLUTELY NOT (nor have I read anyone here imply that).
It’s possible, though, that Jennifer (like millions of other people) didn’t tell EVERYONE EVERYTHING (another example, her tattoo).
ps
The Monkey Bar “He” knows who He is BUT HE HAS NOT COME FORWARD, unless he did after Blink’s articles.
Blink, any update to this “He”?
wpg- we do not know who Jenn was with that night at the Monkey Bar. I know she paid her own tab, which was minimal, as in, she was not drinking the night away.
B
Was this minimal tab paid by Jenn in cash or credit card? If we don’t know who she was with, couldn’t we have the Monkey Bar dump their records for that night? Or have they already done this? How do we know it was a “he”? Couldn’t she have been meeting a woman friend?
Monkey Bar and Cricketers should have records of everyone who used a credit card. Unless cash was used, if they cross check these, shouldn’t a name come up in common?
Additionally, all patrons to those bars may have seen Jenn and whomever was with her.
Did law enforcement ask the waiter/waitress for a description of the man? Is there a sketch involved? Were any photos of “known to her” shown to this person. Did the server indicate age range?
Thank you
By the time it was discovered this was not an option.
B
The business should have employee records. Names, social security numbers which are easily tracked down by LE for addresses and phone numbers.
This person who waited on her, took her order, served her, collected payment from her and then watched the next week as Jen’s face was all over the news, remembers her and who was with her.
That person probably told several people about that experience.
And not one tip about it? What kind of person doesn’t try to help?
Just like the person who parked Jen’s car, someone knows this person.
What kind of person does nothing to help?
Social Security has the name of every company I ever worked for. I imagine so does the IRS. This CAN be done. Criminals are tracked down decades after crimes. We are only six years out…. We track back the employees in that year, we cross records between the two bars, SS and IRS and we get a list of employees for that year. What is it about keeping records for IRS – is it seven or eight years they have to be held? SS is forever……
Drumstick is right. The person who waited on Jenn probably remembers – may WISH they didn’t, but I bet they remember also. First thing they’re going to say to their friends is, “I saw a gal looked just like her the other night. She ordered a ———(don’t know what Jenn drank). She was with this guy/gal/other……..”
“The business should have employee records. Names, social security numbers which are easily tracked down by LE for addresses and phone numbers.
This person who waited on her, took her order, served her, collected payment from her and then watched the next week as Jen’s face was all over the news, remembers her and who was with her.
That person probably told several people about that experience.
And not one tip about it? What kind of person doesn’t try to help?”
Anyone who has ever worked in any form of retail setting, especially a busy one such as a restaurant, will know that the names and faces just merge into one another, unless there is a particular reason for them to stand out.
I couldnt give you a description of the waiter who served me last week above him being male and having short brown hair, imagine how it is for somebody who sees 100+ people everyday.
Beyond that, if it was months or even years before LE even attempted to speak to the server, without for example an archived bill with the servers name on, you are relying on the server actually knowing the relevance of that blonde girl they served.
Blink – what is your opinion on why the person Jenn met at the Monkey Bar didn’t come forward to police right after she went missing? If they were innocent, wouldn’t they be trying to help LE and giving them any information they could remember about that night?
My opinion is that it raises my level of curiosity about who she was there with.
B
(Tried to post this several times, but it’s not happening . . . going to replace the dot in “.com” with the word DOT into the hyperlinks and see if that works.)
From what I read some months ago about The Monkey Bar in 2005/06, it was an upscale, 2nd floor, chic lounge touted as “the” place for young professionals to meet . . . age group was something like 20-35 back then, I think? (can’t find that info now, drats)
Recall reading there were 2 accesses: elevator located in the Waitiki bar below on the building’s main floor, or outside back stairs.
snip of a review:
11/07/2006
“If you’re looking for a cool bar to go to for any occasion with any person, Monkey Bar is the place to be. It combines artsy accesories and a funky set-up with a hint of class. Perfect for dates, after-work drinks, and hanging with friends before club-hopping.”
http://www.yellowpagesDOTcom/orlando-fl/mip/monkey-bar-7391899
It’s located above the Waitiki bar – - -
photos and comments of the Waitiki bar and The Monkey Bar at this link
(this is the page 2 link, more comments on page 1 at the site):
http://www.tikiroomDOTcom/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=11161&forum=2&start=15
Blink, is this the tiki bar that Jennifer and Rob met at?
Ah, good it posted.
Now replace the DOTcom with a “.com” to get the original working links.
Call me irresponsible……..but I actually still have my credit card statements from six years ago………..actually 10 and perhaps even 12 years ago. Credit card companies file this stuff off site, but they keep it in case they are audited by the IRS. Please tell me LE checked the two bars and the credit card companies – at least several times. I shudder to think this hasn’t been done. The statute of limitations for tax is ten years? Receipts should be kept for IRS as well as insurance purposes, no?
“By the time it was discovered this was not an option.
B”
Guess this goes in the same pile as no one requesting Jennifer’s security alarm record from the security company, no processing of Jennifer’s condo, and no interviewing until 3+ years later of Jennifer’s work colleagues.
Utterly unbelievable.
Blink, don’t know if you are able to answer these 2 questions but I will ask anyway:
1. Did it appear Jennifer went to the Mbar after work or later on from her condo?
2. Were her cell phone records retrieved and ping studies done for that week previous to her disappearance?
Thank you.
Unknown, but she was not at work that day. I have a detailed accounting of where she was at approximate times I am not publishing for investigative reasons, but those actions do not point to any individual, or I would. The MB only serves dinner, so it is not open until 5.
Can’t answer any cell ping questions outside of what I already have.
B
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Thanks, Blink, for what you were able to say.
That’s a new piece of information you’ve given here, that Jennifer was not at work on the Thursday before the Friday trip.
Some of the day was maybe doing some last minute trip shopping, maybe a manicure and pedi . . . but I understand your discretion on Jennifer’s various whereabouts and activity, Blink.
Rob had said Jennifer was very busy with work, so I guess the extra day off – - the Thursday – - added to that.
xoxo’s
JGC,
“Anyone who has ever worked in any form of retail setting, especially a busy one such as a restaurant, will know that the names and faces just merge into one another, unless there is a particular reason for them to stand out.”
In my experience, servers remember faces. They have an uncanny ability to remember details of all kinds. If you’ve ever watched as a table of eight has ordered and nothing is written down, only memorized, you would understand the point I’m trying to make.
We’re only talking about one week from the time this all happened and Jen’s face was all over the news.
My question is if Jen went there to meet someone but they didn’t show up because they were suddenly arrested and put in jail, that’s a detail that I think is important.
The server could have phoned in a tip and said, “I think I served Jennifer last week and she mentioned that someone would be joining her but they didn’t show up and she left.”
Was that tip phoned in and disregarded? Any tip at all regarding this establishment?
The amount of the check involved would tell a tale from the payment.
Time and amount. You could fill up a book with all the possibilities.
~beating the drum of awareness for people to step up and help~
You are correct of course. In a strong investigation, all of that should have been known and tracked immediately. It was not. The amount of the check and the location and the general time are all we had to work with unfortunately. The restaraunt batch processes like any other merchant.
B
Thank you
In one podcast with Dana Pretzer you say:
“Her phone charger that went through the A/C unit of her home was not found.”
I’ve never fully understood what that meant. Whose home charger goes THROUGH their A/C unit? Can you further explain what that means?
Also, you emphasize how low on battery Jenn’s phone was by stating, “that phone needed a charge”.
If this is true, why didn’t she just plug it into the car charger on her way home?
Plugs into the wall.
B
I can think of several reasons she couldn’t use it:
1. The car charger itself was mechanically broken.
2. The charger was mechanically intact, but didn’t “seat” properly in the cigarette socket.
3. It was the wrong car charger, ie., did NOT work with Jenn’s phone.
4. It was the charger for Travis’s phone, not Jenn’s.
How were cell phone records obtained? Did LE get a warrant?
Yes as well as given to them by Mr. Kesse.
B
Could cell phone records back in 2006 track a person’s location as they do today, or was it just a generalized area from triangulation? Isn’t it illegal to obtain someone’s cell phone records and then walk off with them???? When the cell phone provider gives out these records, do they make back up copies for their own files?
As an investigative analyst, I am on the distribution list for all the major carriers current and updated policies for warrant access. Jenn’s was verizon. The policies are not made public.
However, I can say that records can be frozen for preservation via court order and unless they are, most carriers delete them at the 3 year mark.
B
“Jenn’s was verizon”
B
Blink, that’s interesting in regards to St.Croix at the time of Jennifer’s trip.
Verizon had no towers on the island at the time. Any indication that she used her phone there and was billed “roaming charges”?
Thank you, as always.
________
Deborah,
You probably already know this – - in this case, AC is “Alternate Current” – - like a wall plug in Jennifer’s condo as Blink responded, like our home wall plugs . . . not Air Conditioner (unit).
________
ps
St.Croix uses the same electric AC as the U.S.
Blink,
I have a question that has proved difficult to phrase. I’m not requesting an actual answer to the question but rather a score you would give yourself on your ability to answer, if asked.
Anyway, here goes with the preamble & query:
On a scale of 0 to 100 what score (based on your knowledge & understanding of the dynamics of this case) would you give in answer to this question:
Jennifer Kesse, an intelligent and security conscious young woman, left the safety of her condo after 10pm that night. Why do you think she did this?
larry, that is two questions. Either way, based on your phrasing, is not one I can answer with integrity for investigative reasons.
What I will say is this. Out of a score of 1-100, I rate the possibility of Jennifer being abducted from her condo as she was leaving for work on January 24th a zero.
That said, I also know it is the prevailing theory among some members of the SMART team.
Their is a very interesting trend among cold cases. The FOIA’s are winning appeals, and narrowing scope.
Transparency is making it’s intended comeback.
B
Thank you blink.
Going off on another tangent there appears to be three people that haven’t come forward and they are:
1 The POI caught on camera at HOTG.
2 The owner of the man’s sweater found in Jennifer’s hamper.
3 The person she was to meet at the Monkey Bar.
Could they have all been the same person?
Could the person she was to meet at the Monkey Bar actually worked there?
There has to be key to unlocking this mystery. Where is it?
Respectfully speaking the key to unlocking the mystery is to declare this case cold and hand it over to a fresh set of eyes who has had no interest in it so far who is not afraid of the wrath of any colleagues he or she may end up disagreeing with.
I am in the difficult position of having to work with LE on cases, so I am very limited in what I can say or not say here and I know everyone understands those limitations when I am personally involved in a case.
B
Blink, From looking at the POI video, do you believe the person has neck and arm tattoos?
Possible, but no way to be sure. Surveillance CCTV video that poor is rough.
I worked on another case where the det was POSITIVE the person on the video was our missing victim.
In fact, told the family for 2 years he was. I advised the family to ask to see the video after they told me they had never seen it ( does that make a lick of sense to anyone? The ONLY people that could positively ID the dude were never asked to see it.) The detective had to retrieve the image from “evidence” reviewed it himself and called the family to say he was wrong and that it was someone else.
So for 2 straight years, a person was thought to be identified because of what appeared to be tats on his forearms he did not have, which were actually a shadow.
The POI is of great interest because he is the link to the suspect, imo, LE needed to go door to door with that video, do a flyer with the pic and shove it on every car, in every mailbox. Take the lic plates of every car in the lot that day and interview every registrant.
Seems elementary I know, but the only way to flush out someone is to flood the joint.
B
I’m not sure of who to get in contact here oo blinkoncrime/ but the person here who said I’m very limited on what I can say and not say on this blink on crim web sight to contact me for I think I have something very interesting you would like to see. Oh do not worry the Orlando police department know what I’m going to share with you for they already have it too.
Emailed you.
B
I agree with you when you said, “Why bring the car back?”
We guessed in the beginning that the car was actually moved from the Mosiac parking lot to the Huntington parking lot to hide the car from the family and law enforcement. Now we know that Jen’s cell phone was not there at 10:40 PM the night before.
So let’s say Jen was abducted away from the condo the night of the 23rd. Why have someone bring the car back to her neighborhood in broad daylight and leave it in plain view versus leaving it in the hundreds of wooded areas around town or driving into one of the hundreds of lakes?
As a matter of fact, I’ve also wondered the same thing about Tracy and Michelle’s vehicles.
What kind of mind set grabs a beautiful woman and then leaves her car in plain view?
I’m curious about your thoughts on this car subject.
Thank you
Anything new???????
rahrah Blink
on cold case declaration; unbiased set of fresh eyes.
Blink, Do Ed’s pictures reveal something new?
No idea yet.
B
Any updates on this case???
praying it gets declared a cold case for reasons your cited dear friend Blink.
Blink, I know you’ve missed me………so here goes…….
Staff photo by PAUL LAMISON
The million-dollar reward posted in the Jennifer Kesse case is about to expire, but the $15,000 one advertised on Joyce Kesse’s vehicle will remain.
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Web site seeking information
Mystery remains
By JEFF PATTERSON | News Channel 8
Published: February 24, 2010
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A million dollar reward posted in the Jennifer Kesse case is about to expire, but the mystery of what happened to the Gaither High School graduate still has not been solved.
It’s been over four years since the then 24 year-old disappeared from her apartment in Orlando. Kesse graduated from Gaither High School in Tampa and her family still lives in the Bay area. The Kesses put up the huge reward last month, but it expires tonight.
“Unfortunately, the phones haven’t rang,” said Kesse’s mother, Joyce Kesse.
Last week, police follower up a tip and dug up a vacant field in Orlando. Officers spent hours searching along South Orange Blossom Trail, near where Kesse disappeared. The search came up empty.
NOTE: Second to last sentence states: “Officers spent hours searching along South Orange Blossom Trail, near where Kesse disappeared.”. WHERE KESSE DISAPPEARED????????? Who says she disappeared there?????? Was this the tipster “relative” providing misinformation?????
Was she checking out a “pick up cricket game”?????? After dark??????? In a questionable part of town?????? Who would she follow there???????
Blink says: (Post #27 July 5, 2012, 8:01am)
“So for 2 straight years, a person was thought to be identified because of what appeared to be tats on his forearms he did not have, which were actually a shadow.”
I have given this a little think… Shadows vary with light source, movement, etc. The markings we see on POI’s neck in photo of him LEFT of gate, if a shadow, should disappear/move three seconds later, when the photo of him RIGHT of the gate was taken. These were taken at 12:00/1:00pm in the afternoon. The sun was directly overhead. Yet they remain……leading me to believe they ARE tattoos, not shadows.
Yes out side of tattoos it also looks like there is something on the shirt on the right shoulder near the collar.
Blink, your article said:
“Cricket is a major fave among the younger Euro-set in Orlando as well as the pub named in their honor- The Cricketers Arms. In 2006 “Cricketers” was located on Industrial Drive and recently re-opened on W. Sand Lake Rd, adjacent to the Sand Lake Resorts owned by Westgate.”
Forgive me for correcting you, but Cricketers was located in the Mercado at 8445 S. International Drive when Jenn went there in 2006. They later moved to Festival Bay 5250 International Drive in 2007 and now their latest location at 7563 Sand Lake Road. I mention this only to aid others in their research.
Deborah, please re-read my words.
In 2006 “Cricketers” was located on Industrial Drive and recently re-opened on W. Sand Lake Rd, adjacent to the Sand Lake Resorts owned by Westgate.”
Respectfully, you are not correcting me, I am aware of their locations ad nauseum. Location(s) on Industrial and now on Sand Lake. That information is also in the commentary of Jennifer’s articles here.
B
B
ccBlink- Forgive me if this has been answered but do you know if Rob was made aware of JC from Jen? I know she told her father but am curious to know if Jen told Rob. I have always felt close to this story as I was in an eerily similar situation as Jen was-had a serious but kind of non-committal boyfriend who lived far away…we were both aware of the dangers of living alone as a single young woman and took precautions. Though I hate to admit, sometimes I think I’m tougher than I am and have had a lapse in
judgement or two. Jen and I are the around same age and could pass as sisters even. I am very close to my parents but don’t tell them everything as I don’t want them to be alarmed or worried. I minimize situations to them in my life. I got my dream job in journalism but the dream was more or less ‘cut short’ by a co-worker (married, anger problems, sexual harassment, would come on to me, higher in seniority). I was also harassed and confronted by him when I went on vacation with my boyfriend. I told my boyfriend about him and how I felt uncomfortable with him after he made comments about my ‘sexy legs’, how he said he was attracted to me, and how when we were on assignment he got into a road rage incident and I thought he was going to beat up a man. My bf told me to go to HR but I knew that he had higher seniority and unless I had actual proof, it was ‘the new girls’ word against his and I would most likely be canned. When I got back from my trip I took some of my bf’s advice and stood up to him-telling him it was a strictly professional relationship and he needed to back off. He then stopped with the sexual comments but within a few months started to indirectly threaten my job. I fulfilled all of my job duties but he tried to find something to make me look bad and sent an email to our director. That was it for me as I had to defend myself and my career. I told them I was going to have to resign my position because if I told them what this man has said and did I would be in fear of him (plus, I was aware he did cocaine w/ a co-worker which can cause crazy mood swings/withdrawals). I had dates and cell phone records of all the times he called repeatedly at inappropriate times-i.e. when I was on vacation! We were owned by a huge corporation. In our meeting the HR woman backed me into a corner and made me feel so small and that my fear of this man was just me being dramatic. And as another poster said–HR’s job is only to minimize the problem (which I was the problem) and cover-up. I finally pieced it together that the head of our station jetted off to the corporations headquarters for a different reason other than he told me–it was for damage control and strategizing what to do. This was a few days after my complaint.
They ended up letting him go because of “budgetary reasons” and they were eliminating his position. I discovered most of the females I worked with also complained about his advances to our director. Months later, I was laid off as they were “consolidating my position with another”. Very convenient. In this business, if you are laid off there is often a cloud over your head about why…word gets out and many times, no one will want to re-hire you because you pose a risk. You could be labeled as “the girl who cried sexual harassment”, even when it is entirely true.
I’m sorry to get off track but I wanted to share my story and perhaps to provide some insight. Jen, like myself, seemed to try to ‘keep the peace’ and do things very diplomatically in the workplace as to not offend or jeopardize our positions. I vented a little to this co-worker (before I knew they were psycho) a couple times, to and from our assignments, about my relationship as I believe Jen did to JC-which maybe gave them delusions and signaled that we were interested. We perhaps were their conquests and ‘property’ as they had higher seniority and more control. Luckily, I was not harmed though once he was fired I was always looking over my shoulder and seeing if any cars were following me home.
With my experience I think that JC’s reaction/confrontation to Jen about the trip and also the comment JC made to the other co-worker (something like “that British A-hole’ she’s with” – sorry would take forever to sift through and find the actual quote) shows that Jen had confided in JC about her relationship, or else I don’t think he would say something as abrasive as calling him a name. And as I said before, he took this as ‘she’s interested’ bc she’s talking about what a jerk he is all the time and how he won’t commit etc. Many of us girls are guilty of only telling guys about the bad things and vent about our relationships…and many then try to comfort us and take advantage in what they think is a vulnerable time for us (though it’s just us venting, mostly
). Maybe JC had never heard a good thing about Rob and when he got word about their vacation he was livid because he lost control in his little delusional, hot-headed mind. I believe Jen would have tried to remedy the situation in the most diplomatic way as to not cause drama, to keep the peace (as she realized this guy is a nut case), and maybe that meant meeting up with him later that night to hang out and have a drink to talk about things and work dealings. If that were the case though, there would HAVE to be phone records of their communications, right!? Unless he had given her a “tracphone” for work purposes though Blink says there is no evidence of one. Or if they just decided to meet at a certain time–but honestly, I can’t think of one time where I made plans during the day to meet somewhere and never shot a text or call to that person saying ‘see you soon’, ‘leaving now’, ‘be there in 5′, or ‘just got here, where you at?’ etc.
Anyway, sorry for rambling… I just know how uncomfortable Jen must have been in JC’s presence and I wonder if she told Rob about him or ever thought of going to HR. I also wanted to say something in response to the comments made about reporting to HR. In my experience and a few others I know about, they truly are looking out for themselves (sweeping under the rug and covering up), not your well-being or rights. And that is a very frightening thing as a young, ambitious, professional woman working for a major company or corporation as you are torn between dealing with it or speaking up about the sexual harassment, potentially risking a dark cloud over your head and/or being let go under some strategically planned lay-off to eliminate the ‘threat’.
I really hope that Jen’s case will be solved as I have followed it since day 1 and as I said I can really relate to her. There’s even more that I can say in relation but I will leave it at that for now.
Blink-if you’ve made it this far, can you answer my original question here – do you know if Rob was aware of JC and his antics towards Jen?
To my knowledge, the only person I am aware of that Jenn discussed JC with PRIOR to the trip with Rob is her Father, as I wrote early on. I know that Rob was aware of her pressing project responsibility and overall “amped” responsibilities that came with her new position, but he was unaware of anything regarding anyone’s romantic intentions or issues wrt to her. Additionally, Drew thought the issue was handled as Jennifer never mentioned it again. I have come to know Mr. Kesse well.
Whether Jenn would have appreciated it or not, if he felt the JC behavior continued to be an issue it is my personal belief, and his, that he would have had a conversation with JC .
I have no doubt about that. Mr. Kesse is a gentleman, but he is also a very protective Dad.
B
Totally confused……. Not aware of any INDUSTRIAL DRIVE in Orlando. ?????????????? Shouldn’t your article say INTERNATIONAL DRIVE?????
Only roads in/near Orlando with “Industrial/Industry” names:
Industrial Blvd., off Silver Star Rd., Orlando
Industrial Way, off N. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando
Industry Drive, off Old US Hwy 441, Tavares/Mt. Dora, Fl
Industry Road, Longwood, Fl
Cricketers Arms
8445 International Drive, Mercado Mediterranean Village, Orlando, FL
Restaurant Type: Bars and lounges
The Mercado is just a shadow of its former self
Cover Story
November 20, 2006|By Beth Kassab, Sentinel Staff Writer
Tenants struggle in I-Drive retail complex
Hotels along I-Drive no longer refer guests to Mercado, even though restaurants Guadalajara and Cafe Grande and British pub Cricketers Arms, along with a handful of other places, remain open, he said.
Located in the Mercado on International Drive for nearly 20 years, Cricketers is one of the three English pubs designed and opened in Orlando by Bay Hill resident Phil Coppen.
Cricketers Arms Pub: Traveler Reviews
5250 North International Drive, At Festival Bay Mall, Orlando, FL 32819
407 354 0686
“Cricketers Arms has been around for a long time, but it’s been in more locations than some food trucks. It started out at the Mercado Mediterranean shopping complex, then moved up the road to Festival Bay mall when the Mercado was slated for demolition (probably a good decision). It closed at Festival Bay just over a year ago and found a new home on Sand Lake Road.”
I believe your article should say INTERNATIONAL DRIVE, not INDUSTRIAL DRIVE. Unless you are speaking of another Cricketers? Only Cricketers I know of started out on Mercado (8445 S. INTERNATIONAL DRIVE), moved up the street to Festival Bay (5250 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE) and then to its current location, 7563 Sand Lake Road, all of which are in Orlando, Fl.
Yes, it should, I confuse the two all the time, we discussed that in comments early, and I thought it had been edited so I appreciate you pointing it out.
B
Blink, I point that out for newbie armchair researchers such as myself for whom details are the only thing that aids us in following the convoluted breadcrumb trail.
Agreed,absolutely.
B
just spent an hour catching up
Blink, you said…
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
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That is a WISE child. Adorable. That made my night.
Hi Blink. Could you please contact me via email? Thanks!
I generally do not do that without knowing who you are and what I can help you with in advance, You can post that here, just mark the top line private.
B
Hello Blink. I just happen to run across your sight. And to know that people are still curious about Jennifer’s case, after all this time is great. I do agree with what Dr. Pepper said “The breadcrumbs to find Jenn are someone’s mouth”.
I have followed this case since her disappearance. It has haunted me for a very long time, and with good reason. A week or so before her disappearance she came into my work place and I helped her. I cannot elaborate any further, but did I reported it to the Crimeline for any tips or clues that could help in the search. I think of her often and how they still have not found anything. It is very sad and could not imagine what it’s been like for the Kesse’s.
Blink, are you actively involved in helping investigate with this case, yourself or are you just a research/journalist?
@Liz: work place? Westgate?
Deborah says:
July 4, 2012 at 9:49 am
Could cell phone records back in 2006 track a person’s location as they do today, or was it just a generalized area from triangulation? Isn’t it illegal to obtain someone’s cell phone records and then walk off with them???? When the cell phone provider gives out these records, do they make back up copies for their own files?
As an investigative analyst, I am on the distribution list for all the major carriers current and updated policies for warrant access. Jenn’s was verizon. The policies are not made public.
However, I can say that records can be frozen for preservation via court order and unless they are, most carriers delete them at the 3 year mark.
B
Blink, Please tell us Jenn’s cell phone records HAVE BEEN frozen/preserved. Thank you.
I caught Beth Holloway’s program today, which focused on Jennifer’s case. I am utterly impressed with Miss Holloway’s humility along with her obvious ability to relate to the people who are either searching for missing loved ones or their killers.
For once, a series based on facts of the case as presented by the families and LE. 48 Hours could take a few notes.
As we know, Jennifer is still missing. I want to extend my prayers to the Kesses and encourage them to lean on hope, if that is what helps them put one foot in front of the other. They are lovable and loving, especially when it comes to Jennifer.
My heart and prayers go out to them!
PS….there were painters or carpenters working on a condo next to or very near to Jennifer’s. Her parents mentioned Jennifer’s unease with these men. The men would watch Jennifer come and go.
As for Westgate/RCI, nothing was brought up. I was hoping they’d introduce possible work connections.
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LE needed to go door to door with that video, do a flyer with the pic and shove it on every car, in every mailbox. Take the lic plates of every car in the lot that day and interview every registrant. #27
unquote.
How unfortunate! The Kesses, their family and friends did so, and wasted no time (within 15 hours upon Jennifer’s disappearance, according to BH’s Vanished). I would even go so far as to say they flooded the areas around Jennifer’s condo and where her car was found. If LE didn’t advice them on particular areas to deliver Jennifer’s Missing posters, that could have made their efforts much more effective.
Blink, you can decide if you want to post this comment.
I don’t know if you’ve seen this.
It is the declaration for the condominium association at Mosaic, created in 2005. I didn’t know if the names (people referenced in the document) would mean anything to your investigation, but thought I’d pass it along. I was actually looking for something else…
https://extranet.lindquist.com/MileHighCapitalGroup/PropertyDocs/Mosaic%20at%20Millennia/J-Exhibit%205%20to%20the%20Declaration-Articles%20of%20Incorporation-Co.pdf
Have Sandy, thanks
B