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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Not a word and I agree. I think we all agree that Jenn was not the type to strap in the dvd player, outside of that, I know Rob gave it to her that Sunday evening.
B
If you could name a few key facts about this case in a 1,2,3 etc..version, that made you stop and give a closer look, what would they be?
Thank you
1. Cell phone off at 10:40PM and unrecovered, occurs prior to the LE theory of abduction timeline.
2. Implausible daylight abduction, no car parked there at 7am.
3. Altercation/verbal confrontation by multiple witnesses the day before her disappearance.
4. No Known crime scene.
5. Timeframe/relevance of disappearance immediately following romantic trip.
6. Banking and or cc transactions (a few case sensitive I have not disclosed).
7. Car parked location and circumstances.
8. Search activity locations.
9. Suspect Pool post disappearance behavior.
10. Law Enforcement Errors.
B
B- Thanks for your tolerance. You can delete this too- because I’m just making myself feel better by writing out my thoughts. I appreciate your list- I think I would add his “eaten by alligators by now” statement. Also, I wonder why she didn’t take her purse if she left (brown purse in duffel bag)- women usually need a purse- not just wallet with CCards, and what about her glasses on sink in BR- would she normally take them- wear them- if she went out- or did she use contacts too (maybe leaving them in BR implied she had put her contacts on in there- but if she’s gone to bed- maybe one would have expected to find them on her bedside table)? I also wonder are their legitimate reasons ppl take out cell phone batteries. I have no idea- and that CLUE- the battery taken out- and it or cell phone not recovered- is really all that is needed- that’s the ballgame. And whoever called her parents- when she didn’t show up to work- THAT person knew what happened. Then, add the eaten by alligator comment- and the bowl-hatted car parker- and thats the puzzle- she was lured out- abducted- killed and disposed of- that night.
As always, you are right on the money.
Thank you
I understand the privacy of banking and cc transactions but I’m in the dark about why the secrecy over the last cell phone ping.
And honestly, I’m still mind-blown over your discoveries in this case.
Great job!
Not wanting to address your private post publicly, but to answer your question, of course.
I had not idea, my deepest blessings for your cherub and your family.
It is my pleasure to know you, and now Miss TG-
B
“Sources told Local 6 that a tipster claiming to be a family member of the person who may have abducted Kesse said Kesse’s body is possibly buried in the field. Three K-9s alerted on an area, prompting a larger dig using heavy equipment.”
Do you know who this elusive tipster is Blink? Adam Frank or Mr. Soto’s friend?
Is there enough evidence for a Grand Jury? We have racketeering, money laundering, missing people/possible murder, illegal aliens being hired (heck this alone was enough to derail many a career in New York!), coverups, coercion, possibly extortion…….have I left anything
out?
Well, 1-10 quality is tge reason I am on and am sticking to BIC.
To LE: Do you know how odd a workplace altercation/argument
is even in loosey goosey professional environments?
Would that she’d filed
a complaint with HR before leaving work
You know Rose, the HR Dept is something that’s been bugging me.
Jennifer initially followed her Dad’s advice (based on the knowledge he had at the time) and did a talk over lunch that appeared to have worked accordingly to Jennifer . . . but obviously only temporarily, proven by the witnessed workplace behavior on that Monday.
It’s possible that during/after the altercation Jennifer decided to go with her first thought of a dinner-talk or evening-talk and did not tell her family. It sounds like her phone conversations with them focused on the excitement of her trip . . . no mention, understandably, of the negative stuff that occurred at work.
What bothers me is if she or even another employee went to HR after this altercation – - – even a co-worker saying something Tuesday morning when Jennifer did not arrive – - – how is it her boss supposedly knew nothing until “Adam Frank” came forward x-number of years later?
Thought it would be protocol that HR would inform JohnW of any conflicts within his department.
Perhaps the protocol is/was different at Jennifer’s work, but in my experience, consultation occurs with a pecking-order, including an employee’s immediate supervisor, Human Resources and whatever other necessary senior positions. A call to an employee’s family would ultimately be made by Human Resources once Human Resources was given the direction to do so. And if Human Resources was not available or absent then the administrative assistant of the person at the top or at the very least the personal assistant of the employee’s division manager.
Blink has not disclosed certain details of the lead-up to the phoning of the Kesses, but has said that it was a female counterpart.
Rose, I agree with you. Darn tootin’ LE should be feeding on the plate that is Jennifer’s work.
Interesting read here. Long, but interesting.
http://timesharescamsupdate.blogspot.com/2008/12/open-letter-to-westgate-resorts-ceo.html
Glad.
B
Blink, any chance of finding out if Jenn’s last cell phone ping was in the Orlando area as opposed to outside the Orlando area?
Or, if not that, whether the “tipster claiming to be a family member of the person who may have abducted Kesse” was a man or woman?????
Also have you ever heard of any tips from toll takers claiming to have seen Jenn in her car with a blond-haired man?
@wpg. I missed that she had actually had a lunch & talk with him prior to her trip.
It is likely to me that he had not presented himself to her as a lovelorn suitor for an affair but as a concerned older man vehemently advising her about her choice of and activities with men/a man. Young
women have been “ridden” verbally at work and with sexual innuendo from
time immemorial. I still remember one of my bete noires, at EEO (Fed govt no less) named appropriately “Love Johnson.” And, often there is no HR recourse even today that does not jeopardize the job for reporting. In her shoes I’d not report either; I’d just get out. Businesses, especially those owned run by one man flakes, don’t like waves.
My take on a Supv colleague with his behavior & arrest hx is that he is bipolar most likely, or has a variant on a mood disorder, or presented similarly due to coke or such.
His fixation was certainly psychotic in quality imo especially with the workplace acting out.
And THAT is what HR should have dealt with.
I doubt she is the first or last.
@wpg. maybe she expressed an intent to go to/followup with HR about Monday ‘s incident that week and it got back to Campos, and he took care of it that night before she could return to work in order to protect his job. Imo he was more likely motivated by job reputation threats that a sudden fit of jealous rage, as going out to nab her took some planning & cunning. hypothetically speaking of course. Employees should’ve been canvassed by police to ascertain whom Jennifer spoke to at work that day, and who they themselves talked about the incident or problem with. Adam cannot be the only knowledable one that day. There was a lunch or coffee break female. Perhaps the one who called her parents when both were absent.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/johnny-campos/3/a72/8a6?_mSplash=1
remains a cfi accountant.
knows so much about the business imo that he is invaluable
Just as an fyi- he does not hold a professional license for same.
B
Has anyone ever said “why” Jennifer’s coworkers waited 3 years to offer tips about this case?
If they suspected even the smallest thing about anyone there, why did’t that person immediately tell Tom Duggan or call the Kesse’s?
Or is there more to this story that was not released to the public?
Thank you
not released, correct.
B
Here is a recent statement from Jenn’s parents. Looks like they are pleased with the way the investigation is headed. Hoping this lull in activity is investigators getting all their ducks in a row, and Jenn is brought home soon. May justice then come down swift and hard, no matter who you are or what title you hold.
http://jenniferkesse.com/
Despite all the exceptional work done by blink this investigation appears to have stalled again.
Can someone explain just what the investigators actually do each day?
Do they read the case files hoping to spot something never noticed before?
I mean after six years what avenues do you have left as a detective?
You all know the saying: ‘if you keep doing the same thing you will keep getting the same result.’
In the family statement it says they are hoping for someone to step forward ‘with the littlest piece of information.’
Sadly, this case has been waiting for this to happen for years.
This mystery has two big obstacles:
As blink posted earlier on ‘you cannot unf*ck a case.’
The second obstacle is related to the above; lack of evidence.
This case needs a smart team made up of detectives who have never ever been involved in the investigation.
The case needs genuine fresh eyes, just like blink and her team.
I have a dear friend, mentor I trust, who will retire with 30 years in LE, and as a highly seasoned detective.
That is where the true and illustrious quote comes from.
Larry, yes and yes.
Cross purposes do not solve cases.
B
Does Scott Stryker still live in the Orlando area? If so, what does he do? Has he contributed in any way to the investigation or has he moved to another part of the country?
@ Deborah says:
May 2, 2012 at 8:54 pm
Does Scott Stryker still live in the Orlando area? If so, what does he do? Has he contributed in any way to the investigation or has he moved to another part of the country?
I believe he is in Washington DC area according to LinkedIN profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12857438&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=66Q1&locale=en_US&srchid=1223c3c2-1790-424f-9d10-f0b9115bb43c-0&srchindex=1&srchtotal=8&goback=%2Efps_PBCK_*1_Scott_Stryker_*1_*1_*1_*1_*2_*1_Y_*1_*1_*1_false_1_R_*1_*51_*1_*51_true_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2&pvs=ps&trk=pp_profile_name_link
I have a question. Is 1.7 miles a fairly standard radius for cell phone pings? In two of your answers to a posters questions yesterday in the Kelli Bordeaux case, you said the following…
If it was not her, then the timeline is an occurrance between 12:46 am and 1:30 am occurring in a 1.7 mi radius, and would have to have been incapacitated by some means very quickly.
and…
Right, but we do not know if her phone was simply switched off. The plus/minus radius for a ping in that area is 1.7 mi
B
This morning, I was reviewing all the news footage from the lastest search off of S. International Drive in efforts to locate Jenn. At about 1:32 of this video, the reporter states that the search was focused on a 1.7 by 1 mile area of undeveloped wilderness. I about fell out of my chair when I heard the 1.7 miles (remembering your 1.7 mile radius cell ping comment in Kelli’s case yesterday).
Sounds like a very good possibility that is where Jenn’s phone last pinged. Is there any other logical explanation that the reporter said 1.7 miles? If you can’t answer, I totally understand, as you have stated you are not releasing the ping location for investigative reasons.
Here is the link to that video.
http://www.wtsp.com/video/1371514533001/1/New-search-for-Jennifer-Kesse-in-Orlando-
Donnie- excellent question. It always depends on the area, but the 1.7mi factors consideration for triangulation. For the most part, cell phone towers are going to be placed in the recommended distance to secure uninterrupted service except in some areas where that might not be possible for various reasons.
B
@SouthernMom: THAT Scott Stryker (in Wash, DC) sounds like a political activist. Blink?
a couple of random things:
I am a single female living alone in an apartment complex. I talk to my parents and siblings all of the time, but there is no way for me to tell them everything I do, everywhere I go and who I hang out with. If I am casually dating someone, I sometimes don’t mention it because I wouldn’t want to get quizzed about it. I would especially not divulge to my parents if I was possibly exploring other romantic options if I was in a relationship.
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I had a verbally abusive boss a while back who would yell and curse at me often. it was horrible. I went to lunch with my dad one day in the midst of all of the drama- and I briefly discussed how stressful my job was- but I did not tell him how mean my boss was or that I had spent the morning sobbing in my car. Why? Because, I needed the job, I could take care of myself and my dad would would get very upset, angry and worry about me. I DID NOT want that to happen. Heck, he may have gone into my office and punched the guy out. Point is- I dont tell my parents everything. When you don’t have a human being waiting on you at home at night- no one knows what you’re doing.
My point is-
-Jen could have likely downplayed the problem at work when discussing it with her father.
In regards HUMAN RESOURCES
I strongly advice against anyone going to HR to report problems you are experiencing with a superior- if you do not want to get fired or your life to be made more miserable.
Human Resources has one role—to save the company from a lawsuit. 9 times out of 10- they will side with the superior. Then your superior will hate you for taking them to HR.
I can totally see Jen not wanting to go this route.
ajmo
Thanks for sharing Dr. Pepper, I think it’s entirely believable that Jenn’s handling of her personal life and communication with her parents/family could have been similar to yours.
Prayers for the Kesse’s, I sincerely hope this case is finally solved in the coming weeks.
I want this family to have closure and the perps for lack of appropriate term to get the needle.
Just had to chime in here. As someone who did some employment law early in my career, you absolutely must go to human resources if you have a valid problem at work. You essentially lose all rights you have to later sue, or otherwise protect your job if you do not take your problem to them or to other management. You obviously don’t want to go to them at the drop of a hat but not going with a real problem is a terrible idea.
agreed
B
Great point Redly.
Important to document your reporting as in via email. Request a meeting with HR specifying the reason by spelling out the complaint with the biggest details and print it out. It would also be good to keep records of all evalutations, letters and emails commending the job you’ve done.
In case going to HR costs you your job, having documentation will help you prove your case vs. just hearsay or what you say happened later. MOO.
Blink – are investigators still working this case today?
Isn’t this a smallish company?- maybe there is no HR department. A young person just starting out would have no clue about possible protections of HR- and I emphasize “possible”- my experience is HR is a farce- they cover for upper managment- and just help them plott to get rid of complainers. Regardless, things would have had to have gotten really bad- at work- before that would have ever been considered— way down the line- ……aonther words, I think its irrelevant……sorry, just had to say it.
@deb,
No, it is one of the largest employers in Fla.
So let me understand this…. You have a company, “one of the largest employers in Fla.”, a female employee missing in one of the highest profile cases in Florida history, a male employee yelling, “Something’s (someone’s?) rotten in Denmark!”, a supervisor supposedly harassing that male employee, and a manager who supposedly feels none of this is important enough for the company to address, or doesn’t want it to reflect on the company, so he “kills” the messenger, ie., “fires” him? This is the very same company that posted a huge reward for said female’s “safe and unharmed” return????(while the media cameras were rolling, no doubt!)
That’s soooooo rich! So typical! So “Disclosure”-esque!
Blink, Do you have any idea what time Soto’s friend supposedly saw “Jenn” in the white truck with two men turn onto the dirt road off International Drive? On January 23, 2006 the sun set at 5:58pm, so my concern is his visibility after that time when it would be dark. And that’s a fairly dark road at night. We know it wasn’t before 5:58 because she was at her condo when she and Rob spoke on her landline at 9:57pm. And then, of course, there’s the “10:40 last ping” from her cell phone to work into this scenario.
I can only say it was daylight. And, that it does not match the abduction at her home theory.
B
Blink, Does your theory of Jenn’s abduction jibe with this theory? It seems odd because we know Jenn and Rob spoke on her landline at 9:57pm Monday night which puts her squarely in her condo at that time. Then we have her last ping off her cell phone at 10:40 pm, which points to her being somewhere close to one of the three towers near the 13000 block of International Drive (the area searched January 2012) – again this is Monday NIGHT. Then you tell us she was seen by Soto’s friend in the white truck with two men -DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS – turning onto that dirt road near Partners Credit Union. That can only mean Tuesday morning??????
I told you that a “friend” of Soto’s told him something according to Soto, We do not know the level of credibility it holds.
B
Thanks B!- I’m honored to get a reply from you! After living & working in florida for a decade I can vouch it is the wild wild west and a right-to-work state and I worked for a large hospital and was active in my community and on a state board, and knew lots of ppl- including LE and polititions- and its’s the new Texas- the wild-wild south-east- employers etc can do and do do- whatever the “H” (not “Hoax”) they want…its truely nuts there……and could be scary if someone wanted you gone- because- if they any connections at all- they could very likely get away with it- as they have so far…until Blink got on board!
Blink, So that means you have only spoken to Soto and not his friend? But you do know whether it was morning vs. afternoon “daylight”?
You’re right about it not matching “the abduction at her home theory”. We have her cell phone possibly pinging off one of the three towers on International Drive South BUT someone claims to see her in that exact area – not at night – as we would expect, but in the daytime.
Still, while we do not know his “level of credibility”, that he claims to have seen her in the exact area of the cell phone ping lends credence to what he says. How do we reconcile these puzzle pieces: cell phone ping at night/witness sighting during day? Witness statements are notoriously flawed. Second hand witness statements ….. perhaps even more faulty.
I do not discuss sources.
B
No problem. Just bouncing ideas. I didn’t say they were good ideas.
Thanks for all you do Blink. You render these missing people a tremendous service. We are all in your corner. Edgy…..but in your corner!
I’m a little confused about that last search by the credit union.
In the news footage I didn’t see any of the searchers with ground penetrating radar/sonar devices. Do you know if they searched with them? If not, I can’t imagine why they thought they would find any buried evidence or remains. What about the ponds? Any boats with sonar?
Thank you
no and no
B
Ok, thank you. That’s what I thought.
Maybe one of these days they will actually get serious about finding Jennifer and stop playing to the press.
I would certainly be a proponent of that.
B
Blink, Is there a source somewhere that shows exactly what area the FDLE and OP covered in the 13000 block of Int’l Dr. S.? It’s such a huge area. I know some of that land belongs to the South Florida Water Mngmt. Some of it is Individually owned. Did they have to ask for permission to search private property for something like this or do they have carte blanche? Are they ever going to do a grid search of that entire area? Will they be looking at the BenHern property?
What’s to stop private citizens from going in? Other than the snakes, gators, quicksand and bugs? I only ask this because on Google Earth it looks like ATVs have been in there for years. Quite a few tracks.
Has Johnny Campos been given a lie detector test. Have rhe allegations that he was defrauding his company be renting unused times shares been investigated by the company and LE? I understand the company is now bankrupt. Did you know tht the CFO Dugan is personal friends with the Kesses? Why wasn’t the original detective charged with removing the files of the case?
I am of course aware that Mr. Dugan is a family friend of the Kesse’s. I would offer that at Mr. Dugan’s level, I do not believe he knew anything that was going on prior to Jenn’s disappearance and I also know that as far as the Kesse’s are concerned, Mr. Dugan has done right by them and Jennifer at every turn.
I have no idea why the original detectives were not sanctioned in this case- but again, I am assuming they have not been. I do know that under some directive, they produced an 80 page report after they retired so my guess would be that they were.
I am not releasing the status of Mr. Campos LDT.
B
I don’t have time to research the location of this in relation to this case. Must get the kids ready for school. Besides the fact that they guy that found this said he knew for sure it was human what specifically stuck out to me was the comment about blonde hair. I know there are at least 2 different women that are missing that fit the description he describes. Small framed blonde.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1634253676001/human-skull-found-in-miami-beach/?playlist_id=86862
They are human.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/05/14/bones-found-near-miami-beach-water-treatment-plant-are-human/
I have no reason to believe it might be Jennifer at this time.
B
Do you know the height, weight and other vital stats of Campos? Does he match the picture that was taken of the suspect who dropped off her car? Were any painters working for Westgate that were associated with Campos? Is he the person of interest in the case and is he still working for Westgate? Does he have an alibi regarding his whereabouts when Jennifer went missing?
Are they planning further searches, especially around bodies of water where alligators habitat considering Campos alleged remark that the alligators probably ate her? In the area where the Hernandez’s own property.
Intimadator- I am not sure if you have read through my complete coverage and comments on Jenn’s case, all of the answers to your query are here.
As far as Mr. Campos’s physical description I will say this, the FBI and the OPD cannot agree on the suspects height so I can’t say.
B
Blink, what do OPD and FBI say POI’s height is?
5’3″ to 5’7″ There is an unreleased expert opinion that thinks that individual is closer to 5’9″.
I personally do not believe that is Campos, but I have to admit, there are some witnesses in this matter that think it could be.
B
The informant who was being harassed by Campos reported it to Jennifer’s supervisor Tillman. Seems fishy to me that a complainant reports it and is then fired. This company has gone bankrupt and appears to have been involved in shady deals. What reason was given for his firing. Is Tillman or Campos still employed by Westgate?
Is an arrest imminent or is there not enough evidence. Suspects hasve been charged when a body wasn’t found due to circumstantial evidence.
That is not his last name, but it is completely suspect. Willman and Campos are both current CFI employees to my knowledge.
B
@Intimadator, what company went bankrupt?
Having lived in SoFla several years ago, I can safely say it’s a close 2nd to SoCal in the HELL HOLE category. Scammers, cheaters, schemers run amok in Florida, where the mortgage industry is eclipsed only by the timeshare industry when it comes to dirty dealing.
God forbid you tell the truth that isn’t flattering to minorities, but there are too many Latinos involved here. Campos, Hernandez, Bienvenides (sp?). I remember when Jen first went missing that someone made a statement about Jen being uncomfortable about all of the hispanics around her residence.
I know of too many people who moved from the Orlando area because the Latino element made it too scummy for safety. It is what it is, and they are what they are. Campos should have been person of interest #1, and subject to borderline water-boarding until he spilled the beans on what happened to Ms. Kesse. Ditto Hernandez and Bienvenides.
This whole matter reeks to high heavens with rancid black beans. Comprende?
Who writes such a vile and racist comment? I would delete it except I think it is a good example for others to avoid ignorance. Jennifer was VERY fluent in Spanish, and I can assure you that she was no racist. Any woman would be uncomfortable at any person of any race “leering”.
B
Blink, When I look up CFI, I find them on Windhover and S. Texas in Orlando, N. Thacker in Kissimmee and then there’s 2801 Old Winter Garden Rd. and 2801 Professional Pkwy – both on Ocoee. Which address was Jenn’s office? Thanx.
This is for Kelsey’s comment…
As a Florida native I was taken aback by your comments.
My experience with the Latino community has shown that the majority are God loving, family oriented people who only want a better life for the people they love.
Criminals come with all faces and languages.
I respectfully ask that you spend some time looking at mug shots from different cities.
Since we are discussing Jennifer’s case in the Orlando area, I would suggest that you start with that area’s recent mug shots which you can find at this link …. note that with 269 you will be enlightened.
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/-/1637132/8495610/-/c8o6f0/-/index.html
Thank you
Thanks, Drumstick, for your compassionate and persuasive comment.
I looked in my giant Word Bag for enough material to respond, but I have to say, I threw most of it overboard as it would never publish in the New York Times.
Rancid? (Seriously?) Save that word for the worst of the criminals and their selfish, soul-stealing, heinous deeds.
Blink, How does a couple minding their own business walking their dog(s) in Windermere, make the connection between an ordinary pepper spray with mailbox key they find, to the Jennifer Kesse case? Isn’t that a bit of a stretch? I thought she had left her pepper spray in her condo on the table she had refinished? Was her name on the one they found?
@Deborah
They had no idea her pepper spray on the table had been found at the time.