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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Oh wow I’ve been mulling this over and over. Blink is the best and the master at this. I’m just a fan.
I really think JC is the one to examine. “Adam” appears to be a bright man who cared about Jennifer and was more ‘in the know’ than anyone. People aren’t usually wrong on their “hunches” of this nature when they are this close to an event. Honestly, our office mates probably know us better than our families in most cases. It says a lot to me he felt stongly enough about his hunch to encourage LE & FBI to continue sniffing in JC’s direction, volunteering to a polygraph and ultimately costing him his job.
I would be very grateful if anyone could help me better understand Blink’s report about when JC asked “Adam” how far his brother’s place was, the one with the vacant apartment to see if he’d heard anything?? Not understanding what happened here…did he just ask or did they actually stop by? See below.
Copy and pasted from Blink Article:
“It is not clear if Campos was without his 2000 blue Ford Taurus that day. On the way, Campos asked Adam how far his brother lived from there, the one with the vacant apartment next to his and if they could stop there and ask him if he heard anything.”
link = http://blinkoncrime.com/2012/01/18/jennifer-kesse-breaking-news-witness-statement-points-to-someone-at-work-kesse-family-and-opd-press-conference-scheduled/#more-5894
Also – it’s assumed JC was arriving at the office when this vehicle was being parked. That would mean if it were JC, he must have had an accomplice. ****BUT**** the times on surveillance camera’s are NOTORIOUS for being 1 hour off because of DST changes not implemented. Spring Forward could have put a stamp on that video that would have given the POI an hour to be somewhere else! Not planned I’m sure – just LUCKY! Luck was with him that day as the timing of his steps at exactly 3 seconds apart put his face directly behind the largest posts of that fence as well. Why not assume maybe his luck was with him on the time stamp of the camera not being correct???
Since the video was kept a secret or at least away from public eyes for so long, could we ever determine if the time was wrong or right on it? I certainly don’t trust that Mutt & Jeff coulda woulda shoulda verified this.
Do we know if there was enough time for JC to leave that parking lot and travel to his office within an hour? My guess is it’s well under an hour….but that’s just a guess so wondering what everyone else thinks.
I believe with all my heart, it’s JC. I believe it wasn’t planned…rather a crime of desperate passion (one sided on his part). If that is in fact the case, JC probably told the truth to Adam in their car trip about where Jennifer probably was. Who would say something like that??? Twice?? Very telling IMO.
Prayers for Jennifer’s family!
A correction to my previous post…regardng the time stamp on the video surveillance. What I meant to convey was “IF” the clock/timer was NOT set back an hour the previous fall, it’s possible the time stamp was showing an hour later than it actually was.
If that is JC parking Jennifer’s car, and the time on the camera is 1 hour ahead of actual time, he could still appear to arrive at the CFI offices in what appeared to be the same time this was going on.
All of this is just MOO MOO MOO as a possibility!
Thanks!
Which?
B
March 14, 2012 at 10:02 pm
“To my knowledge, no contact was made directly with the outcry witness.
B”
Blink, your label of Mr.Soto’s friend as an “outcry witness” absolutely pains me.
This goes way past seeing an expression on Jennifer’s face while she allegedly sat between 2 men in a truck when he, the friend, was allegedly in another vehicle.
What boulder-dash.
Whoever was/were involved with Jennifer’s disappearance have had over
6 YEARS OF FREEDOM to live their life as they choose.
Same with those who had information or THE ABILITY TO OBTAIN INFORMATION on Jennifer’s nightmare.
I don’t do facebook so don’t know who all got Mr.Soto’s
“request for the person who he believes may either be responsible or knows who is”,
but I hope it is a high number of individuals.
jmo’s.
Donnie Griffin says:
March 19, 2012 at 11:47 am
I have not been able to connect that, but it is very interesting- especially the precious metal aspect.
B
*****
Blink your comment here gave me chills. Are you referring to a place and if so are any familiar names involved?
No, a similar ponzi scheme involving investment in metals.
B
Because of the facebook?
B
I think I am not understanding exactly the origin of what “bar” you are referring to exactly if that makes sense. Meaning, what answer to what question are you looking to solve so to speak.
B
Sorry to be jumping around all over the place with comments, but this 2012 google map of the Faldo golf course has very good clarity on the Pacers Mill Road and the road/pathways of the “Shingle Creek” area from the January 6 search.
Good accessibility to land parcels, imo.
http://www.efloridagolf.com/faldo-golf-institute-by-marriott.htm
(first thought it was a still image, but it’s a functioning, moving and zooming, google map)
I do know where she was the night before she left for vacation and we have been unable to confirm who she was with.
The Monkey Bar in Orlando
B
Based on what I have been able to infer about the Monkey Bar in Orlando, it doesn’t appear to be the type place one would go alone. Also wonder if Jennifer had an affinity towards martinis as this seems to be thier specialty. If this is based on a receipt or credit/debt charge, I wonder if there were multiple items charged indicating she was there for a while or if it was a one drink charge. The Monkey Bar certainly appears the type place one would go to have some privacy and talk but also would giver her an excellent view of the streets below if she wanted to be on the lookout for a certain someone’s arrival. Whether she was meeting someone downstairs or at the Monkey Bar. It also seems like the downstairs bar is more of a party place and it’s possible she went upstairs just to get a martini if that was her preferred drink. These two bars are so connected, it could be she spent time in both. I wonder why we don’t know who she was with. Did LE ever ask for public assistance on this? Seems like that person would have come forward to help if there was nothing to hide. MOO
She met someone there, she arrived first.
B
Yes, and that would be the extent of my comment.
B
My only hope is LE (and I’m sadly not confident) obtained the records of receipts and other charges by other patrons to both MB & Watiki to ask those in attendance that night if they saw anything or give a description. My guess is NO and probably LE waited too long to obtain any surveillance. If they had that we would have another person of interest — This person may know something more about what was happening in her life or at work or anything that would be a clue.
I watched the 48 hours episode and if I understood it correctly LE implied they did not process her apartment because it was so contaminated. That made me mad!! I realize that would have been the case, but how hard would it have been to eliminate the known dna? Maybe in 2006 this was a larger undertaking than if it were today…IDK but I believe they should have tried!
One thing for certain, this case has taught me a lot about what to do if ever faced with a Mutt & Jeff!!
Hindsight is always 20/20.
That is correct, although they did not “imply”, they told Drew and family they would not be processing the condo for that reason.
B
I don’t know why but I feel Hataway and his thugs have something to do with this,same area,same bars and what about that shamrock tattoo on Jen? I see the loop,a lot of those people missing in that area knew one
another or Hataway.
Blink-I’m still kind of hung up on the mysterious sweatshirt found in her hamper. Do you believe it is the perps or are you just as stumped as everyone else about it?
I can only say we do not know who it belongs to at this point.
B
Will not be able to add that to my caseload- but I am watching the situation in Sanford carefully
B
Jennifer’s work was concerned about her being late, attempted to contact her and then contacted her family.
This was all BEFORE JC arrived around noon.
jmo, if JC, Adam Frank and the vendor Stryker all were admirers of Jennifer, there must have been other work-related males with similar feelings for her.
Total speculation . . . perhaps Jennifer didn’t show up the previous NIGHT (her first night back from vacation, the 23rd) to meet someone FROM HER WORK, so the concern for her was already there, prompting the office phone calls to find Jennifer, ultimately made by a female employee.
Perhaps this someone is the same person she was meeting at The Monkey Bar, the night before she left on vacation.
More speculation . . . there may be little or no cell phone/email exchanges between Jennifer and this person regarding an evening meet-up or any after-work hours because the communicating was done in person, at work.
Just some thoughts.
@Scout -
My thoughts on the sweatshirt are that if it belongs to the perp, this person was someone in Jennifer’s life no one knew about and it would have been left prior to her trip, not the night/morning she went missing.
I’m sure it was ruled out from belonging to any of her brother’s friends that were there the previous weekend.
I have wondered if any of them entertained guests at the condo. Maybe someone that came to the condo after a night out left it behind? Thinking of a scenario where Logan and his friends were cleaning up before leaving and one of them found this sweatshirt on the floor and not knowing who it belonged to assumed it was Jennifer’s and put it in the hamper???
Rose says:
March 17, 2012 at 12:55 am
(snipped)
“BTW, T on Green and Falcon I read at first as Central Park or NYC allusions.”
Rose, you are right-on about NYC.
The Tavern on the Green in NYC (which billionaire DONald T. was looking at acquiring) is the finish line for the NYC Marathon . . . the NYC Marathon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavern_on_the_Green#cite_note-29
Golf, tavern/pub, AND running races . . . Oh, Crickets.
@wpg & a falcon statute
http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/historical-signs/listings?id=12178
sounds about right arrangements were made at work for an evening checkin & shirt could’ve been left before vacation
I am surprized at bar location. Makes sense though to be in a multiple bar party area & easier for a potential perp to blend & be forgotten.
I expected her to want to maintain the Brit-aura post vacation
these days she wouldve been texting not talking
I have to agree with #13. J.H. was involved in the Chris George murder and his body was found in a small pond. Tracy O. gave J.H. a ride home and her shoe was found in a empty field in a busy area, the car was found parked half way between his house and hers. there is no doubt in my mind that Jennifer K. got to be friends wtth him and she gave him a ride to Ocoee,her car was parked 1.5 mi. from her house when the police used a dog with her scent, it went right back to her apt. complex because the killer had her scent all over him.. all small ponds should be searched in the S.Apopka area and N.Ocoee area..
I.M.O.
#13 and #19 I would like to agree ..
But there has to be reason, Tracy had an altercation with associated girls and I thought that was the motivator and I could be wrong. But if I am right, He was just a delivery boy asking Tracy for a ride home and gave him opportunity to bring Tracy to others.. He did not care if others witnessed him in the bar or him being on camera and no evidence of violence in her vehicle. LE was never able to charge him in the disapperance of Tracy.
But he did attack a different girl outside of a vehicle in another assault case and she did testify that he tried to kill her. He appears to get off on violent acts on females that trust him enough to give him rides. Maybe that is just what it is..A person who gets off on hurting women.
The reason for Jennifer appears complicated and limited info to judge what exactly happened. There is something missing from the story at every turn. I do believe Blink and crew are on the right track. If Blink and Crew are correct then who took Jennifer was hired ? Did they call Hutto and Hathaway inc. to do their dirty work ?? I have no idea. Hathaway could have acted alone and cleaned and returned the car to a vacant spot at that condo project “very dangerous to drive a victims car around” but Tracy did not leave her vehicle where it was found mo.. He drove it there and walked away without anyone witness to it.
So yes I agree.. He has a pattern of behavior and.. it fits.
Maybe he acted alone. He bragged that he makes people disappear.
Tracy and Jennifer have not been found.
jmho
I know in this great country we live in, everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. With that being said, if my name was even slightly associated with possible connections to something as serious as murder, I wouldn’t be waiting to be proven innocent. I’d be banging on the FBI polygraph examiners office door yelling, “me next, I want to clear my name”. I’d be handing over my DNA, whatever they wanted. That is unless I had something, or someone to hide. Not sure if JC, PB or anyone else in this group have voluntarily submitted anything, but highly doubt it. Silence speaks volumes in Jenn’s case, JMO.
Donnie,
I think that is noble, but naive.
Consider the Grammett team. Would you trust them with your life? I wouldn’t.
@ Word Girl
I’m not referring to back then. I’m only speaking of from the time Blink blew this case wide open.
Yes, Donnie, thanks.
As much as I support Law Enforcement, I’ve seen it go terribly wrong and I would want a subpoena before offering my DNA. And I have nothing at all to hide.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t someone missing have the same
shamrock tattoo as Jen? Maybe Tracy.
I do feel Blink is on the right track,just saying that I think there may
be a few other connections involved as in the parker of the car.I feel the parker knew exactly what he was doing.Why look back,if not paranoid
Hope fully someone with more technical ability than me is able to look more closely at this…I have just watched about ten times in a row the surveillance videos of the POI that are on Orlando Sentinel – I decided to watch the peripheral of the tapes rather than staring intently at the POI as I have done in the past, when I did that I noticed that in the last couple of seconds of the 42 seconds that in the far right it looks like perhaps the boot of a car and there is something moving that looks like it is either down by the front of the car or perhaps up higher – it only appear to move when the POI gets near and passes – I was trying to figure out is it a car light? A plant? Any thoughts anyone? TIA
You probably know this already, but you hit submit too soon Mon frier- I did not get your entire private message.
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Private – if needed.
Blink- have you been able to
a. exclude
b. doubt
that any of the Hattaway Clan could be remotely involved in Jennifer’s disappearance?
I believe it is safe for me to assume you have definitely pondered the thought.
- Do we know if there were any connection- direct/indirect between Compass (my new nickname for him) and the Hattaway clan?
-reason I ask- if they knew eachother, the guy leaving the car resembles hatta….
farfetched I know. But this entire case is farfetched.
Ultimately, have you been able to scratch the whole Hat clan theory from possible involvement?
Tracy O still has not been found. Breaks my heart.
Blink- I want to help you in any way that I can. Please please give me a hint of something I could possibly do to help you.
Much love, respect for you- so much.
No need for private, good and fair question-
Hataway is an acquaintance and disorganized offender. The Hutto’s also fall into that category.
I maintain that Waters, Huttos and Hataway ARE connected to the death of Chris George, and the disappearance and presumed death of Tracey Ocasio.
Outside of the possibility that they may have encountered one another by happenstance at a gym or bar, I have zero reason to connect them to the disappearance of Jennifer Kesse. There is not one mutual acquaintance.
This offender knew Jennifer, of that I am positive.
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Blink have you seen the Sierra LaMar case in Morgan Hill, CA?
I have. I am not sure my caseload is going to allow me to cover it, I hope to.
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I have a suspicion that the police officers first assigned knew more than they were saying….has there been any investigation into them? It’s just so strange that with all the publicity of this case they would treat it and the family the way they did.
This one is in my area..
Klasskids foundation will be doing a volunteer search tomarrow at 8 a.m. for Sierra Lamar 15. Meeting at Burnett Elementary School at 85 Tilton Road in Morgan Hill California.
Professionals including the F.B.I. have been on this. It has been 10 days and nothing so far. Hope for the best.
Godspeed.
B
The following questions are driving me nuts!!!
If the POI isn’t the perpetrator how come he got to park Jennifer’s car?
In most places around the world Monday night is quiet so why did Jennifer go out so late that fateful night?
Is this what a security conscious young lady would do?
With regard to those favoured pumps. Who says they were favoured, who says she wore them that night and who discovered they were missing?
Did someone do a clothing closet audit?
Who owns the (male) sweater found in her hamper and how come it was in her laundry?
The case is over six years old and as of today there is the POI and a few suspicious characters.
There is also a money trail of sorts.
It is a couple of months since the latest smart team reviewed the investigation.
So what is happening?
Are the wheels turning, albeit rather slowly, behind the scenes?
Blink,
I hope so too. I am from the Bay Area – close to SF but my best friend lives less than a mile from Sierra’s home in Morgan Hill. That area is sparsely populated and rural, unlike the vast majority of the Bay Area.
If you have time, look at her twitter account: https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/cccairuh
Though I am 25 and Internet savvy, I also realize teens have more access online than I did even 10 years ago. It’s concerning…. Jmo
I have every tweet, every addy and acquaintance, we did do a fair amount of work on the case, so thank you.
I will say this, it is very odd to have a manufacturing/warehouse on a rural culdesac.
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Blink,
Agreed, not the ideal place for a home…… Jmo
Morning, Blink.
Regarding your reply to Dr.Pepper, do you believe the offender of Jennifer to not be disorganized, a contrast to those involved with the disappearance of Tracey Ocasio?
I believe that on the surface her disappearance appears to be organized, however, that could be because a crime scene has not been located to date- which as you know, in and of itself is an “organized” insignia.
Yes, a definite contrast.
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kiwibird, good morning to you.
Don’t know about technical expertise, but I can offer just an opinion from memory after countless viewings.
A portion of the parker’s face is obscured by the trunk of a tree and it’s the tree’s foliage that is moving about from the 8-12mph winds on that day and sort of blending with the camera-view of the car.
The chrome strip on the rear bumper of the white car – - maybe a Cadillac? – - is seen . . . also, imo, the left rear tire and hubcap.
The car IS white because it was captured parked in the same spot in various media videos/clips of the scene at Huntington, unlike the outdated cameras used by the complex for security. Mind you, at least this complex had some cameras . . . Jennifer’s did not, apparently, until 2 weeks after her disappearance.
At first I thought there was a face of an animal in that rear left/side area of the car, but it was just an illusion . . . no to mention that animal would be even larger (too large) given the distance from the camera.
Again, jmo, the tree has since been cut down at some point, as per this 2011 image:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Huntington-On-the+Green+Condominiums,+Downing+Street,+Orlando,+FL,+United+States&hl=en&ll=28.487543,-81.407297&spn=0.006903,0.01031&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.02446,63.369141&oq=Huntington+on+the+Green+Cond&t=h&hq=Huntington-On-the+Green+Condominiums,&hnear=Downing+St,+Orlando,+Orange,+Florida+32839&layer=c&cbll=28.488045,-81.409226&panoid=nVh_PbR51pafrLgfYrL-aA&cbp=12,288.14,,2,4.25&z=17
Again, kiwibird, all jmo’s.
fyi Blink- Our M.C. Sheriff Tommy Whitt will address the public on an update on the case of Heidi Childs and David Metzler tomorrow at 2:00- I will keep you posted.
I believe Thursday unless that has changed Connie?
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Blink! Good for keeping on top of it-you are so correct-my mistake. Today is Tabby Tuesday and I am obviously clueless. I was distacted after my son’s teacher called and said he talks too much.
Off topic re: Sierra Lamar – LE finally stating this was likely abduction:
http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-san-francisco/investigators-sierra-lamar-was-likely-abducted
I wish LE would have put this out as a possibility to the public sooner — even though they hadn’t ruled out other scenarios. I really like the questions they are asking to the public, but it would have been more effective 10 days ago IMO. I pray someone connected to the possible abductor is brave enough to call the tip line.
With the distance of her personal items, could she have been chased on foot and lost her personal items during the chase? Seems impossible for this to have occured unnoticed I know, so it’s not likely what happened here, especially with her “scent” ending at the end of the driveway.
However, I think the abductor would not have worried about tossing her personal belongings other than her phone while kidnapping her, but even more impossible to believe this person would risk being discovered by coming back to this area to leave these items intentionally…unless they felt in doing so would lead LE to focus the search in this area and away from them.
Over 600 volunteers showed up yesterday for the search effort on Sierra. Mark Klass and Brad did an amazing job of organizing the groups.
I signed paper to not discuss online.. what I have said “is” public already.
On another note I had already been searching for Martha “a murder victim from Gilroy” and I incuded Sierra in that thought from the moment she went missing. Martha was found.. I have already covered a lot of ground south.
Yesterday I just worked around the search center. It was a amazing turnout and I am very proud of the people that live here.
Edward, you are to be commended. I would not allow searchers who have participated in other cases to relay information here, and received some serious backlash as a result. And it galls me when I have seen it elsewhere, in detail, I might add. Inappropriate.
Thank you once again for your committed advocacy.
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I will say this, it is very odd to have a manufacturing/warehouse on a rural culdesac.
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This area was rural county when I was young and many owners owned large plots of land and most was agricultural. BUT you could start a business from your land “where your home was also located in many cases” and over the years some of those business grew into large companies. Usually started by the kids of the original land owner and Many of them are relative to AG or construction. As years past more homes were built as land owners sold off part or all of their land to contractors or individuals. Some of the homes were built by family members of the original land owners “kids” What it created in the end was a cluster of homes and business and many of these AG businesses have over the years hired Illegal workers. They live all over the place anywhere they can find. At the same moment this suburb of the bay area has a lot of elite high tech who have moved there for Equestrian life styles and or just building a big home on private land. The commute to Lockheed or Microsoft is close and hundred if not thousands of companies just like it.
It is a big Mix of people.
I am reitterating my discomfort with the adjacent warehouse facility. Thanks for explanation Edward.
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Off topic…. They are searching bodies of water for Sierra LaMar
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/crime_fire_courts/dive-teams-join-search-for-sierra/article_79491994-6359-5577-828d-9d2e43c0a2da.html
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Sierra-LaMar-Search-Moves-to-Waterways-144670055.html
I do not discount your concern.
Shift is 7am to 3PM, jus sayin’.
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Blink,
It is? Have employees been questioned?
lol, I have not written on this yet, my bad for bringing that up, I am in the middle of a piece in a different case.
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Can you bring us up to date on the phone records? Have the detectives on the case secured all phone records for Jennifer?
thank you
I am not able to say that issue has been resolved to my satisfaction, but it would be a fair representation to say that is a subject of a difference of opinion. Sorry I seem to be giving you the same answer but it is what it is.
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Thank you, Blink.
Jealousy – Revenge – Financial
according to the FBI are the top 3 adult motives for murder.
Would you say this case falls into one of those three or the other possibility of a random crime of opportunity?
If the theory that Jennifer was nabbed as a crime of opportunity in broad daylight around 7:30am in an open air stairway, never put up a fight, no sign of a struggle, no noise no witnesses and not a shred of physical evidence left behind anywhere it would be the absolute first of it’s kind I am aware of.
Her car was not there at 7am when the landscapers showed, and as you know there was someone living in the condo next to her and above her, not to mention her phone shuts off at 10:40PM the evening before and pings elsewhere.
To your point, yes, I think one and two are in play here.
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drumstick and Blink,
Now I can’t help question why the FBI seemingly did not take what Adam Frank told them very seriously.
snippets from Blink’s January 18, 2012 article, regarding Adam Frank:
“The FBI advised him if he was having problems at work over the issue, he should go to his superiors.
On January 19 2011, he did. In three subsequent internal meetings with varying levels of seniority Adam repeated his story about his treatment by his immediate supervisor and concerns for his physical safety if Campos was involved in what happened to Jennifer Kesse.”
…”Three days later, Adam received a call from Willman where he told him his issues with Campos and the Kesse case were not good for the company and he would be terminated effective immediately.”
Three days later was January 22 . . . a SATURDAY.
(Given the often-used management practice of delivering “bad news” to employees on Fridays right near the end of the day by either a manager or and HR person, I’m not sure what to make of a Saturday over-the-phone notification in this case.)
February 4 2011 news article
(snipped)
FBI DONE WITH JENNIFER KESSE CASE
“Agents reviewed the evidence already gathered by local police, according to FBI Special Agent Dave Couvertier. At a meeting in Orlando Friday, they sat down with Orlando detectives and passed on their recommendations about what to do next.”
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-02-04/news/os-jennifer-kesse-fbi-done-20110204_1_jennifer-kesse-orlando-police-orlando-condo
This was just over a year ago. Don’t get it.
Nor do I, although it is not the only discrepency I am aware of between the FBI and OPD in this case, and continues to be.
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Blink, that’s the best descriptive answer that I’ve ever read anywhere on this case. Thank you.
I’m not sure what to think of Adam Frank. It could be that the detectives could never verify any of his statements by any other worker. But they could have used phone records of these people to verify their whereabouts on January 23,24,…2006
In 2009 when the question came up about a coworker, phone records of all of these potential suspects could have been/should have been reviewed to rule them out or in.
Thank you for bringing awareness to Jennifer Kesse’s case.
Well thank you drumstick, since I know you are one of a limited few who know this case just about better than anyone. If you just walk through those specifics, it belies reason that LE would still be off the opinion that they are.
One thing I do want to say on the Kesse’s behalf is that they DO feel that OPD is working this case actively. That does not mean that they agree with the direction or current theory, but Mr. Kesse was adamant that I convey he is satisfied her case is not cold.
WRT to Adam Frank, I can’t say why his information was not taken more seriously, that would be one of those discrepancy issues I referred to between the FBI and OPD,. I can say that the FBI did.
That said, I have seen verified proof of his claims from both his and the employers side or it would NEVER have appeared here or been as strong of a focus in our investigation.
Here is the bottom line- and the position of OPD as it was told to me recently by a source:
..”If the right tip comes in, or a lead surfaces, we can make a case..”
Here is what I KNOW. If 19 LE professionals, who are the 8th SMART team to review the case cannot move past such a statement there is absolutely, unequivocally something wrong with the case file they are working with and filling those holes should be the priority.
I had a professor last year that had a “way” with words who ingrained a less than lovely phrase in my head-
He said Digestion= excrement. Everyone eats, everyone sh*ts.
A skilled investigator wants to watch the stomach and the bowel like the window at the drive through car wash. Who wants to work with sh*t all day? Worse than that, who wants to work with someone else’s sh*t all day?
Be the bowels of your investigation at all times if you would like to avoid such a scenario.
Crass, but true.
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