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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drumstick and Blink,
I’m stunned, STUNNED, that no ground penetrating radar/sonar devices or boats with sonar have been used.
Thank you both for this informative revelation.
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fwiw, regarding the Parker of Jennifer’s car, I did do some “experiments” wearing baggy pants and t-shirt, in front of a full length mirror.
In the photo, the upper thigh area has “folds” or something that looks like an oval-shaped donut – - – it had been driving me nuts.
My left pant leg tucked tightly into socks, did produce similar material straining/folds as in the photo.
With the right leg/thigh, the only position to bring prominent folds was a deep lunge as in exercise/sports stretching.
Untucked my baggy t-shirt and repeated the walking movements.
My long, untucked t-shirt produced eerily similar “oval donut”-shaped folds and pulls of the material.
Absolutely not discounting the person is carrying something, but the possibility definitely exists that the area at the right top thigh is a longish untucked t-shirt of sorts that is lifting into “folds” with the right leg movement.
Also, the stretch material of a t-shirt, could cling to some extent to the pants, showing some pulling and manuovering shapes.
Just my observations.
???????? Call me irresponsible……I still don’t get how a couple walking dogs connects a found object with Jennifer Kesse. I find something on the ground, I think “junk”! If I pick it up at all, I toss it in the first garbage can I pass on my way home. Only something that screamed “Jennifer Kesse”!, jumped into my hand, or smacked me in the face would get my attention when I’m walking my dogs. I would venture a guess most folks don’t even remember who she is, simply because she’s been missing so long. Now I don’t want to know who these folks are (OK – I lied once!), I know you need to preserve the integrity of your investigation. But can you give us an itty bitty clue – what was it about this particular pepper spray/mailbox key that resulted in this couple’s persistent phoning to the police? Or that info secret?
Also are JC and TFC still together?
wpg, thank you for sharing my frustration in the searches that have taken place in Jennifer’s case. In the beginning, foot searches might have revealed disturbed ground depending on the area, but six years after the fact I would expect to find no suspect disturbance.
Of course we are talking about buried evidence not surface discarded.
In fairness to law enforcement I have to admit that without a specific tip as to where a specific spot should be searched, it would be a needle in a haystack scenario regardless if devices were used or not. Hence the plea for that one person who knows exactly what happened to Jennifer to come forward. However, the pond sonar search possibility is a viable option that can be performed with minimal manpower and cost. It should have been attempted on that last search.
To Deborah’s comment, I had a similar reaction about the couple finding Jennifer’s mail key attached to the pepper spray.
It was one month shy of the third year mark of Jennifer’s abduction. Three long years had passed when they stumbled upon a physical piece of evidence in this case. It is hard to believe that kids or some other walker in that area never spotted it in all that time.
Was it found on the side of the road after being thrown out of a car window? Was the area searched for any other possible evidence?
Thank you for the discussion in this case.
@Drumstick, Three years????????? Are you kidding me?????? How does anyone even think of Jennifer Kesse after three years?????? Had the mailkey/pepper spray been there the whole time (by this I mean do you have any idea if it was filthy from rain, dirt, leaves, etc.)? Or had it just been thrown out (meaning it was in fairly clean, outta your pocket condition)? Was it covered up, so no one could see it for that long a period?
This is what I don’t understand. You’re walking along with your dogs, minding your own business….. No matter what you find on the ground……How do you make the connection to Jennifer? Was her name on it? This is a gigantic leap of ASSumption, isn’t it?
If I found something easily identifiable with Jennifer, then I would have driven it to the police station and personally delivered it into their hands, but I still am trying to figure out where this couple’s Ah-Ha! Moment came from. Was it found in a rural or residential area of Windermere? (notice I didn’t ask exactly where? Admirable restraint, no?).
People think “Windermere” and Tiger Woods, golf clubs and mansions float before their eyes, but there are tons of rural areas as well.
Deborah- I am not releasing the location because it is case sensitive. You should know that Jennifer’s case was absolutely prolific in this area and regenerated as a result of the disappearance of Caylee Anthony, who had been found a short time prior to this “find”. I will say the location in itself would cause someone to question why it would be located there and is remote.
I am not sure if you have read everything and the comments, but the spray WAS turned over to LE.
The Kesse’s gave several interviews indicating Jennifer’s pepper spray, and that her keys were indeed missing, there was no further inquiry until I began looking into the case.
The “finders” are highly educated professionals and responsible citizens who thought it MIGHT be relevant and were really not taken seriously, imo, so I am not sure where you are going with this?
B
Just a thought on the mind-set in December 2008 of the couple walking their dogs.
There was quite a bit of media overlap in 2008 for Caylee and Jennifer.
In late October 2008, media covered the Governor signing the “Jennifer Kesse and Tiffany Sessions Missing Persons Act” at a Florida ceremony for Missing Children’s Day.
There was quite a lot of media coverage in November 2008 involving Texas Equusearch searching for little Caylee. While they were in town, they also did a search for Jennifer, which the media also covered.
Also, the discovery of Caylee in December 2008 brought huge public interest and questions regarding searches and searchers, with media coverage of the same.
If both or one of the couple were following the media, I can see where their thinking, their vigilance, may lie upon discovery of an item.
lol, I just responded to that very post, and here you are
B
Blink, What I wanted was info about the pepper spray/mail key and why it seemed so important, ie., what led the couple to believe it was connected to the Kesse case. Thank you for your response. My reason for asking its condition speaks more to the mind set of the POI – “fresh outta the pocket” on the ground – might mean its been kept as a souvenir for a number of years. Discarded and dirty – perhaps tossed without another thought. Two very different types of people.
You mention older posts which I would love to read. I only seem to find them here back to March 2008. Where would I find the rest, from 2006 forward?
Not my intention to threaten your sources. Just excited with the hopeful feeling YOU may have opened Pandora’s box to this case’s
Thank you for your thorough response. I only began my work on Jennifer’s case last year “officially”.
I explain that in several interviews and within my articles. I felt strongly that if everyone was sold on a certain “path”, I already knew that I was not, so I felt my efforts would not support progress.
Mr. Kesse assured me they were open to our findings, and they certainly were. Here we are.
B
Resolution!!!!!
Blink, In the photo of Jenn’s found pepper spray, what is the little silver thing hanging next to the key? Thanx
It is a key fob, it detaches for house/car keys to be kept separately.
B
Is that the mailbox key and, if so, what is the other key?
That is a mailbox key, and there is only one key on the ring.
B
My questions about the pepper spray case …
Was it found on the side of the road after being thrown out of a car window?
Was the area searched for any other possible evidence?
Tuesday evening (24th) when the Detectives were scouring the area for a possible Fedex or overnight mail box, were they aware at that time about Jen’s last cell phone ping information?
Thank you
No.
I have received conflicting information on that, so I can’t be sure. I do know it was re-visited when this piece broke. It would be a fair statement on my part to say I feel strongly it requires better scrutiny- even if just to exclude.
Yes, they were aware to my knowledge, but again, the theories on her cell have changed with assigned detectives more than once.
I would like to take a second to wish the Kesse family, and especially Logan and Katie, my best wishes for a long and happy life together as they marry this weekend. I know it is a bittersweet day without their beloved Jennifer, but I also know she will be with them on their special day.
Love, Peace and Hope to you my friends-
B
May I ask…………has it been established beyond doubt the final ping from Jennifer’s cell phone was at 10:40pm on the Monday night?
The way I see it, it either finally pinged then or it didn’t.
Also has it been established beyond doubt the 9:57pm call to Rob Allen was via her landline?
Thankyou.
OK, I’ve gone back through the posts, but afraid you’ve only created a monster…..
Is a search engine box in this site’s future? Please respond to following by number so I know which one you’re answering. Thanx.
1. Blink, Re: pepper spray/key ring. Thanx for your replies. Will you divulge if it was found in Town of Windermere proper or unincorporated Windermere? N, S, E, or W? (NOT asking exact location!!!!!! Well….)
2. Re: JC’s Christmas ornament gift. Were any of her co-workers asked if this ornament was still on Jenn’s desk when she went missing? BlackPearl and Ode make good points when they say this IS a long time to keep something AFTER the holidays. Most people are anticipating Valentine’s Day by January 23rd….
3. Jane’s January 24 question about photo of relection of POI’s face in rear window of car he walked past after parking Jenn’s car? Is there footage LE is withholding from public?
4. What was The disposition of JC’s totaled car? Where is it now?
5. Do you know any other details of his new Infinity? Color? Year?
Have a million more……enough for now.
1. No. Case Sensitive.
2. They were asked, I can only tell you she did not display it in her home, of that I am positive.
3. Not to my knowledge. The footage is a splice of 3 cameras however.
4. Scrapped, case sensitive.
5. I know every detail of the infinity- relevance?
B
1. Any scratches or bruises noticed on Jenn’s co-worker arriving late to work on Jan. 24?
2. Prior to Jenn’s disappearance were there any break-ins resulting in rapes at the Tradition Apts./ Mosaic condos? Read somewhere master keys had been stolen, there HAD been rapes and the perp had accessed apts./condos with key?
3. We know when Jenn got home Mon., Jan. 23rd it was already dark – so no need for her sunglasses. However, if she had left in the morning, wouldn’t she have been wearing these, instead of them being in car console?
4. Were pictures we are seeing inside of Jenn’s car taken Before or After LE processed it for prints, DNA, hair/fiber evidence?
5. “He was not included in the email exchanges about the event- I find that interesting. B”. Which email exchange was he not included in? The emails regarding the Secret Santa “event” or the “event” where he had the opportunity to meet her folks?
Thanx Blink.
Deborah- if I could ask you to keep your hat and not change it, it is a rule of mine, thanks, I changed it back for you. Thanks.
1. no
2. There were no reported break ins or rapes, no info on her condo being accessed by anyone outside of what I have written.
3. Technically, we do not know when Jenn get home if it were dark or not, but it had been raining at some point that day.
4. Post Process.
5. The Mall at Millenium Kesse event.
B
Which do you believe most likely motive regarding Jennifer’s fate?
Crime of Passion
Greed/Cover-up
Random/Stranger
Other
– Appreciate your opinions always.
I think I answered this once before? I will only say I do not believe this is random or a stranger.
B
Great questions from Deborah and great answers from Blink!
My thoughts on #3.
If LE has a timeline backed up with phone records and interviews of everyone who spoke with Jen on the 23rd, wouldn’t there be a good indication of when Jennifer arrived home after work?
I read that she supposedly arrived home around 6:30 that evening.
Is that true? It would have been pitch dark at that time.
I imagine her dragging the suitcase up the stairs with only the lights
from the corridor.
Thank you
In my mind and according to my research and investigative analysis, the only thing tying Jennifer as a confirmed timeline item to her residence is the landline call to Rob. If that was actually her cell, there is none to definitively say when she was at home. I know she went home at some point January 23rd, and I presume it was after work, but let’s say I could not corroborate that without the firm information of that landline call coming from her home.
She did not have a suitcase, she had a large shoulder strap duffel.
B
NP. Should have kept it same as on other site for continuity. Hindsight 20/20 and all that.
2. I was talking about any and all apts./condos at Traditions/Mosaic – not just Jenn’s. If you were too – Thanx.
4. Post Process means LE could have wrapped her charger cord around gear shift so they could process for prints, DNA, fibers, no? Blink, do we know the order of this process? Is this process done in a closed environment? Is there a protocol, ie., are special suits required so no DNA/prints/fibers are transferred to the car? Once this is done, is there no going back to re-do it? (I’m thinking did the FBI re-process the car?)
Will a search box ever be part of this site? Thanx so much Blink. Is anything new coming our way?
Deborah, need you to change user name back to Deborah when you post please, I did it for you again, I am insanely jammed for time and responses, I hope you understand I cannot outline forensic evidence collection and potential medico-legal protocols in a post. The FBI did not process any evidence in this case.
B
5. Relevance? Ummmmm……Curiosity????? Nosiness????? Is this the same car I saw pulling onto that dirt road last Sunday when I was trying to check out the signs from that news clip on January’s search?????
susanm says:
January 18, 2012 at 2:07 pm
the need of campos to ride in someones else’s car,is suspious,and the brothers empty apt comment…,was he trying to frame adam or brother,or did campos need to drive by a “certain scene” unseen ,to get a view of something??? what route did they take and what lay on that route.
6. There are several CFI locations in Ocoee. Which one was Jenn’s so a possible route to the Lake Elenor office can be plotted?
Edward says:
January 18, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Many people have done massive amounts of research over the years on this case. All major research forums have threads still intact. Florida has an unusual amount of criminals willing to disappear a person.
She was carjacked in my opinion and that fellow is the guy in my opinion. But various other cases in that area have similar patterns leaving me suspects known in other crimes.
No evidence of carjacking and her car locked at 11MPH. Why return the car and the dvd player and not use her credit cards, etc if you are carjacking in the first place.
B
7. Blink, what does your reply mean? Specifically, “her car locked at 11MPH?”. Do you mean “clocked” at 11MPH? Dare I ask……..where?????? OK, OK…….I already know…….CASE SENSITIVE!!!!!!!! Hint??????
“As far as Campos’s request to travel to the Lake Eleanor office and stop at “Adam’s” brothers home, whom Campos had never met, and was not part of eithers tasks at CFI/Westgate, I am making the assumption there was nefarious intent of some kind.”
8. B, I get the feeling English is “Adam’s” second language and that, perhaps he may not have picked up on a veiled threat regarding his brother?????
Donnie Griffin says:
January 20, 2012 at 9:53 am
Good morning Blink. Few thing’s I’d be interested in knowing are how long are SunPass records kept? Were Jenn’s SunPass records ever checked? Even more importantly, was her SunPass transponder even in her car when it was found? Living in Orlando and traveling to South Florida every other week, it’s very hard to imagine she didn’t have a SunPass. I believe Mr. Campos could have asked “Adam” to drive to the Lake Ellenor office so he’d be able to survey any LE activity along the way without his own transponder pinging anywhere. These records could be very important in knowing “who” traveled “where” in the time before and after Jenn’s disappearance. Thank you for all you do!
9. Do Jenn’s Sun Pass records play any part in the events of Monday, Jan. 23rd?
10. If JC knew about “Adam’s” email to Jenn, in your opinion, does that mean we might be dealing with a hacker?
I have Jennifer’s sunpass records, they are important to the investigation of course.
I believe an email could have been sent from someone other than AF who had access to his account, yes. I can tell you when it happened a second time and he demanded to see it, he was refused.
B
Deborah, I was ducking my head out here in Blinkland. I’m glad Blink answered your questions as it provides a bit of a summary and a reminder of how much work has gone into this case. Thx B.
Sometimes I find I need to ‘sit’ with Blink’s writing. It is cryptic with a strong voice. If you listen to the podcasts (also chockful of information) you can hear her speech patterns and the layers of thought organization. That helps when you read the writing–and you must read and re-read. Some Blinksters keep a notepad along side this website.
By the way, you can do an advanced search in google, listing boc as the site/domaine.
You’ve got a curious mind and an advocate’s heart, Deborah, so I hope you’ll continue to work beside us on all the cases here.
Word Girl, stellar advice. Many thanks.
B
*oops, I meant the English speling, “domain”*
@Blink: Hahahahaha!!!!!! When you changed it the first time, I thought you had gone in and actually “changed” it. Go figure! Sorry kiddo…….Call me irresponsible…….obtuse………computers for dummies……whatever!!!!!!!
@Word Girl: What’s left of my one-track mind is only interested in the Jennifer Kesse case. She is close in age to my own daughters. I have no interest in splitting my focus. Thanx for your encouragement.
You need to know the car I saw going into that area off International Drive was a smaller car, like Camry size, possibly smaller. The color was what struck me. A pale-ish blue/gray. The driver had difficulty getting over the curb and I wondered why he chose that particular dirt road as opposed to the the easier road closer to Partners Credit Union. Sorry I couldn’t stop and take a closer look. Traffic there is rather horrendous even on the weekends and I was afraid if ai stopped, I would get rear-ended. As I drove past I thought of taking a quick right near Partners, catching up to the car at the pass, but thought the better of it. Discretion being the better part of valor……and all that. Plus……………I really enjoy breathing!!!!!!!
Blink, You were right about looking at ALL the news reports. I have studied the following two thus far:
1. http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/230524/19/New-tip-sparks-search-for-Jennifer-Kesse-6-years-after-disappearance
2. http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Police-Nothing-found-in-search-for-Jennifer-Kesse/-/1637132/7654148/-/yx5w2sz/-/index.html
It was after seeing the Local 6 Report (#2) that a bulb went on. “I was blind and now I see…..”
Now I know why that first dirt road was chosen! I was thinking one thing and the facts were pointing in another. Thanx Blink and Word Girl!
Now I am worried someone close to the crime may attempt to remove remains or alter the crime scene. I’ve felt this way since last Sunday.
Have the financial records of the first investigators come under scrutiny with any results that can be shared?
On here.
B
Im sorry if this is in the wrong section, this case was featured on tv yesterday and peaked my interest. Ive been reading updates on here but apologise if my theory has already been advanced.
There are so many strange parts to this case but what seems certain is that she did leave the condo (voluntarily or by force) the night before, rather than the day of being reported missing.
I have tried to put myself in her shoes, and the first thing I would do is bring up the duffel bag and briefcase, picking up the mail on the way up, have a shower, change into comfy clothes (sweater in hamper). The next step for me would be to open the mail and unpack the duffel bag, however it seems this did not happen. I cant help thinking that she arranged to go out that evening either with a known acquaintance or an unknown one and being tired from a long day took a nap, which would account for the bed seemingly being slept in, and no unpacking & mail unopened. I can well believe that if the acquaintance she was meeting was male, and with the high of agreeing to move in with her boyfriend, she was keeping this secret from her boyfriend and telling him she was going to bed in the 10pm phone call. Her favourite shoes being missing in my opinion supports her leaving willingly to meet with somebody.
I believe that the scene inside the condo was staged – possibly because the person she was meeting was worried that she had told somebody she was meeting them that evening and hoped to convince detectives that she had returned home afterwards and set off to work the next morning (clothes laid out, car gone). The DVD player being left in the car as well lends to a staging and also my belief that if she was at home that evening the DVD player being left in clear view in the car along with no unpacking and the mail unopened she had a nap knowing she was heading back out.
I know most of this is fairly obvious stuff and being new to this case i apologise if this is in the wrong section or stuff already rubbished.
Also on the same note, I remember on another update reading she had been to a bar a few nights before the holiday with an unidentified person.
Good looking young women never tend to be without secret admirers. Perhaps this acquaintance she was meeting with was a male friend who also happened to be a secret admirer. Maybe she confided to him her relationship concerns and that the holiday was make or break. Maybe she arranged to meet him to tell him her good news that she was moving in with her boyfriend. Maybe he took her arranging to meet him immediately after returning from her make or break holiday to be good news from his perspective. Maybe he got ahead of himself and confessed his secret attraction when she arrived only to be rejected…..
Apologies for just venting the random thoughts in my mind. One thing that I definitely agree on is that those what if questions will be answered one day.
@jgc, Your comments recall to mind an unpleasant scene from Once Upon A Time in America.
Blink, Still reviewing old news videos and articles. You were the first one to say the person in the POI video shown parking Jenn’s car may NOT be the one responsible for her disappearance. Does this mean you have someone (or several someones) in your sights who may have parked her car? I ask this because of comments made by you to Dana in one of the podcasts coupled with other news reports of a “possible member of the family” of the person who abducted Jenn giving LE the tip for the February 2010 search.
Personally i’m still fond of the day labourer route for the POI. Anyone in the property industry would know about laborers with ‘issues’ regarding immigration and their propensity to be accomodated within building sites.
$100 dangled infront of a laborer with ‘questionable’ immigration status and only casual employment prospects for a few minutes work to move a car would im sure lure a taker.
Anyone who knew about these laborers would also know they would be highly unlikely to keep abreast of local crime reports and even more unlikely to ever engage with law enforcement.
As far as the cricket clothing theory above, regulation cricket uniform is all white from hats to shoes – black shoes and hat as in the picture above due to the nature of the game would be very rarely tolerated. Rather than a sunhat, a reversed cap?
To the above end, common sense would dictate that a large apartment complex would have CCTV. For somebody to step from the car and walk away seemingly without a care in the world would suggest either somebody who is pathologically calm/confident or somebody who does not realise the implications of what they are doing.
Also the dodgy timeshares that wouldve ended with this new project being implemented (and which wouldve surely been implemented despite JK’s disappearance) and JCs very shady acquaintances’ to me are very interesting and illuminating of the man but in my opinion red herrings.
I appreciate that the ‘crime of passion’ theory is not necessarily the one being followed on here, but in my opinion, a JC unplanned crime of passion, along with his knowledge of his shady acquaintances and their undeveloped land demands suspicion.
Heh?
I am the author to bring that theory forward in the first place.
B
jgc, since the car was within walking distance back to the apartment complex you $100 theory (or the perp left his car at her apartment and had to walk back to get it) makes sense- otherwise what are the odds it would be parked within walking distance….thats got to be a relevant clue. Just like the favorite shoes being gone, and the brother’s friends phone being gone. The wet shower is still a show stopper tho……
As for the wet shower, my shower drips a lot. In fact, I woke up last night to it dripping quite a bit for a few seconds. She could have had a shower like that, which would explain the wetness in the morning. In light of all that we know, I think she left her condo that night and never returned. Unless the perp was in her condo at some point that night, I can’t believe they would go to the trouble of going back to “stage” her condo to make it look like she’d been there that morning, at the risk of being seen by someone.
I cannot tell you the amount of shower experiments I have done as a result of this case.
The wet shower issue has never had the same weight for me in light of everything else.
B
As I recall you said no to Weatherly Condos. That leaves Royal Palms or Bella Lakes…..
@jgc says:
May 30, 2012 at 10:18 am
Personally i’m still fond of the day labourer route for the POI. Anyone in the property industry would know about laborers with ‘issues’ regarding immigration and their propensity to be accomodated within building sites.
$100 dangled infront of a laborer with ‘questionable’ immigration status and only casual employment prospects for a few minutes work to move a car would im sure lure a taker.
Anyone who knew about these laborers would also know they would be highly unlikely to keep abreast of local crime reports and even more unlikely to ever engage with law enforcement.
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I’ve often thought of this scenario myself and believe this could have happened. I will add that January 2006 was before the bubble burst in Florida properties, so that $100 could have easily been $500+ as money was not an issue amongst property investors or anyone in the real estate business then.
Also strongly agree that anyone with immigration issues, legal and questionable, would never engage in LE or government authorities for any reason intentionally, even if it was the right thing to do and that person knew it could help solve a crime.
I am in real estate and had a legal immigrant client about 6 months ago who was asked by the lender to provide additional information (1 piece of paper) that could only be gotten at the immigration office. I went there myself to try to retrieve and discovered it was there, all 100% legal but my client would have to come pick it up in person (even his attorney tried to no avail), and it could not be done by mail. My client refused to go there under any circumstances and backed out the deal, giving up his right to homeownership which he had worked hard and qualified for, except for underwriting requesting this one document.
While I waited, I witnessed first hand how the immigrants were treated, even when legal, in our local office. (FWIW, I’ve been told the southern states are much harsher than other areas of the country.) Anyway, here, they were treated like criminals, 3rd and 4th class citizens, with rude and bully-like behavior for no apparent reason and it was the same for everyone there, regardless of nationality. After that, I didn’t blame him for not wanting to go, but it surprised me and also helped me understand why they fear that place so much.
Prayers for Jennifer and her family. I had so hoped and prayed this would have been solved by now.
Why hold on to a mailbox key/pepper spray for almost three years before you discard it? Any significance to it being found at that precise moment (around Caylee being found), and in that precise location? Done as a diversionary tactic. Hard to understand. Was it there the whole time or left to some purpose?
Any connection between JC and anyone at the Mosaic?
Mr. Soto’s posts here?
Blink replies to drumstick:
“In my mind and according to my research and investigative analysis, the only thing tying Jennifer as a confirmed timeline item to her residence is the landline call to Rob. If that was actually her cell, there is none to definitively say when she was at home. I know she went home at some point January 23rd, and I presume it was after work, but let’s say I could not corroborate that without the firm information of that landline call coming from her home.”
____
This just blows my mind . . . yet again.
Gosh, this seems to be going back to the trustworthiness of those that took the investigative files with them when they left.
Although . . .
Blink, don’t know if you are able to answer, but will ask:
Did CFI Cellular have any service connection to Jennifer and maybe other CFI/Westgate employees pertinent to Jennifer?
No rush, Blink (and thank you).
No.
If I understand your very astute query, Jenn’s cell was her personal responsibility and not provided by CFI.
B
Blink, thanks for your reply.
Yeah, I was wondering if CFI Cellular records may have been “accessed” by perhaps someone(s) from within who had no authority, no job duties or requirements to do so. Suppose there’s no way of knowing if perhaps CFI “rented” cell space from a bigger provider.
Darn it, why did those 2 det’s take the cell phone records – - why, why, why? (rhetorical)
Blink, another question if you are able.
Has it been corroborated that Jennifer was walking with JohnW out from work at the 6pm time?
Yes.
B
“Police want to hear from anyone who may have seen the Chevy Malibu anytime after 10pm Monday night, when Jennifer last spoke to her boyfriend, and Thursday morning at 8am, when the car was found.
Detectives think Jennifer herself, or someone else, was traveling on South John Young Parkway, between Texas and Americana and Conroy Road by the Mall of Millenia, during that time frame.”
OK, so we know part of this newspaper article is wrong because the time stamp on the grainy video shows the POI parking Jenn’s car at 1 pm on Tuesday, Not Thursday! So that whittles the time line down between 10pm Monday night and 1pm Tuesday.
Can anyone tell me what “Detectives think Jennifer herself, or someone else, was traveling on South John Young Parkway, between Texas and Americana and Conroy Road by the Mall of Millenia, during that time frame” means?
How do you travel ON South John Young Parkway – a North/South road – BETWEEN Texas (are they referring to S. Texas Ave.?) also a North/South road (which runs Parallel To, and doesn’t intersect SJYP) – AND Americana/Conroy Road BY the Mall of Millenia ( which neither SJYP nor Texas (S. Texas Ave?) come anywhere near?
I could understand if S. Texas Ave. intersected SJYP – but it doesn’t. It dead ends into Chancellor Dr., which brings us into the Lake Ellenor office of Westgate Resorts area.
“Police are now releasing a timeline as to when they think Jennifer’s car came through the South John Young Parkway corridor”. Is the operative word THROUGH in this sentence? Was Jenn’ car traveling East/West on Americana/Conroy Rd. which DOES, in fact, pass THROUGH SJYP, and go BY the Millenia Mall?
I am trying to understand whether a North/South route (on SJYP) was taken towards S. International Dr. OR an East/West route. Both of these routes are 12 miles from the “last ping/cell phone powered off” location of S. International Dr./World Center Dr., which takes 20 minutes (from Jenn’s condo) to drive. If we use the 9:57pm last call between Jenn and Rob on her landline as our starting time, this leaves roughly 23 minutes. Did she travel down SJYP to the Lake Ellenor office of Westgate Resorts to pick something up/meet someone in those 23 minutes or was she heading in a different direction completely?
Or did she meet someone at the Bella Lakes apartments…..
‘Why hold on to a mailbox key/pepper spray for almost three years before you discard it?’
well publicised Police searches getting a little too close to the mark?
@jgc. What police searches? Back in January?
If you want to get rid of something incriminating, wouldn’t you throw it in the lake, ocean, garbage truck, bury it ?????? I can think of a few more places other than along the side of a road where someone will likely pick it up. Unless……… you have a reason to want it found?
I asked before about the silver thingy on the pepper spray/key ring and Blink said it was a key fob. I had wondered if that was what it was, but have also seen those small, round silver keys sometimes used in special locks. Thanx Blink for clarifying that point. I guess this means the matching fob will be on Jenn’s keys. No one ever said if the POI left Jenn’s set of keys in the car when he left it at HOG. Not certain that info is available.
What happened to the posts for February after the 13?
I was told to go back and read everything to understand this case. There appears to be gaps. Is there another site I should know about with older posts?
I am not sure what you are referring to Deb. All my coverage is searchable like this:
http://blinkoncrime.com/category/jennifer-kesse/
It can also be located on the left column on the home page by clicking Jennifer Kesse as the category.
There are 6 tagged pieces with all comments intact with no gaps. The publication dates are all at the top.
I want to say you may not be hitting older comments and going back far enough, as there are over one thousand, iirc.
B
You’re right Blink. I did not go back far enough. This is a nightmare. So many posts, so little time. This may take the rest of my life. Thanx so much!
Am taking your advice, taking notes, wading through…. Looking for the light at the end of the…..nah………still in the darkest of tunnels…..
My question is about Jenn’s cell phone. If this has been answered already, I apologize.
How was the deduction made that the battery was removed from the phone at 10:40 PM the night of the 23rd? How can anyone tell if the battery was removed or the phone was simply thrown into a body of water?
Thank you
The ping location and depending on the phone, other ways that would not apply to this case.
B
Blink,
Was the 10:40pm ping NOT NEAR a body of water, then?
Its Florida wpg. 70%.
B
Yes, Blink, thank you.
drumstick asked about the possibility of the phone being thrown into a body of water and your reply included “ping location” as to why that was not the reasoning behind the conclusion of battery removal, so I thought this was an a-ha moment. (drats)
Nope you are right to call me out, I was less specific than I should have been. There are certain equip features in phones that provide some assumptions, but I am hesitant to outline those specifically for investigative reasons.
There are many variables, and none of them without recovering the phone are absolute.
B
Certain equipment features? Are we talking about the GPS pinpointing a specific location and then suddenly going silent?
Thank you
Not necessarily, more like how it might be disposed of, whether or not it was in a case, if the pings are static but the signal weakens. Her model phone however, I feel unless it was located, it would be very difficult to be definitive.
B
Blink – I was reading the Scared Monkeys forum on Jennifer, and early on someone said that police had stated a person other than Jennifer drove her car last, and that the scent of the unknown driver was tracked back to Jennifer’s building and stopped near her residence. If true, this would mean that she either was abducted from in or near her condo, or the driver returned to her condo at some point. It’s Reply #6 on JENNIFER KESSE, 24, 1/24/06, ORLANDO, FL, posted on December 27, 2006 at 09:31:46 p.m. Do you know if this is accurate information?
Inaccurrate and unverifiable. Personally, I believe that was said to get certain warrants quicker, but this is only opinion.
B