Jennifer Kesse went lacking from her condominium in Orlando, Florida on January 23, 2006. Her automotive was discovered deserted round a mile from her house. No arrests have ever been made in her case and no signal of Jennifer has ever been discovered.
Jennifer was born Jennifer Joyce Kesse on Might 20, 1981. Jennifer’s dad and mom are Drew and Joyce. Jennifer has a brother, Logan.
Jennifer was raised in Tampa, Florida. She attended Gaither Excessive Faculty and would later go on to attend the College of Central Florida. She studied finance there and graduated with honors in 2003.
After Jennifer graduated, she obtained a job as a Finance Supervisor at Central Florida Investments Timeshare Firm. By all accounts, she was very profitable and was promoted in a short time. She was capable of buy her personal condominium.
The condominium is positioned within the Mosaic at Millenia advanced at 3735 Conroy Highway in Orlando, Florida.
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Her childhood finest good friend Lauren McCarthy instructed 48 Hours that Jennifer had chosen Mosaic at Millenia condos as a result of it was a gated neighborhood with a guard, making her really feel protected.
“She was extraordinarily security aware. She was very conscious of her environment. She carried pepper spray along with her on a regular basis,” Laurem defined. “She was the kind of one that would name her mother or her dad or me when she was merely strolling from Goal within the car parking zone and it was darkish.”
In line with redfin, the advanced began to be in-built 2003 and it was nonetheless beneath development in lots of areas when Jennifer bought her condominium. There have been many vacant condos and a few of the tradespeople who had been engaged on the positioning development had been dwelling on website. There was some obvious battle in regards to the high quality of labor being completed in Jennifer’s advanced. She knew some Spanish and instructed family and friends that when she walked previous some staff, she understood that they had been making sexual and aggressive statements about her.
“Every time employees entered her condo for portray and repairs, Jen was all the time on the cellphone with us,” stated Drew, her father. “She’d keep on the cellphone within the doorway of her condominium till that they had left.”
Jennifer had a boyfriend on the time she disappeared. His title was Rob Allen. He lived in Fort Lauderdale, which is round three hours from Orlando.
The couple had been courting for round a yr earlier than Jennifer disappeared. As they lived hours away from one another, they might see one another most weekends.
Jennifer and Rob took a visit to St Croix within the US Virgin Islands collectively on the weekend earlier than she vanished.
Whereas Jennifer was away, she instructed her brother Logan that he might keep in her condominium. He and two of his associates spent the weekend within the condominium. A person named Matt Sullivan, who was associates with Logan and was additionally Jennifer’s ex, additionally frolicked with Logan over the weekend. As a aspect be aware, Jennifer’s household have stated that Matt took their break up very arduous and that he didn’t need the connection to finish.
When the group left the condominium, considered one of Logan’s company by chance left his cellphone behind.
Jennifer and Rob returned from their trip on Sunday, January 22, 2006. There had been some delays of their travels so Jennifer spent that night time at Rob’s house. She drove straight to work on Monday, January 23, 2006.
“Jen shared each element in regards to the journey. She was simply actually joyful, she was on a cloud,” her mom Joyce stated.
On Monday, Jennifer’s toll go indicated that her automotive handed by means of expressways on her strategy to work at 6.16am.
Jennifer went to work on Monday as regular. She spoke along with her dad and mom, her brother, her good friend Lauren and in addition Rob in the course of the day. Logan instructed Jennifer that his good friend Travis had left his cellphone on the condominium. Jennifer instructed Logan that she would mail the cellphone again to Travis on Tuesday.
She left the workplace and referred to as her dad and mom on the cellphone at round 6pm. Her automotive additionally went by means of the tollway that night time at 6.16pm on her manner house.
Drew would later inform a real crime podcast that on the night of Monday January 23, Jennifer was speaking on the cellphone with a good friend round 6.30-7pm when there was a knock at her door. The good friend stated that Jennifer regarded out and noticed her upstairs neighbor at her door. She instructed the good friend ‘I’m not gonna reply.’
She additionally chatted with Rob. The 2 completed their name at 10pm that night time. That was the final time that Jennifer was identified to be alive.
To verify we inform the entire story with the entire potential gamers, studies point out that Matt (Jennifer’s ex) was at a bar close to her condominium that night time. The bar was referred to as the Blue Martini. Matt didn’t dwell wherever close to the world – he lived round 25 minutes away close to the College of Central Florida.
Rob and Jennifer had a routine the place they might name or textual content one another within the morning after they awakened. Rob didn’t hear from Jennifer on the morning of January 24, a Tuesday. He determined to name her whereas he was on his strategy to work and the decision went straight to voicemail.
“I knew she had so much on her plate and I knew she had a busy schedule. So I left a message along with her after which went forward with my day,” he defined in 2006. “I referred to as her once more, and as soon as once more I obtained her voicemail, which I believed was odd.”
Jennifer was a really dependable worker who would all the time normally name if she was going to be late. When she had not arrived at work by 11am, her employer contacted her dad and mom and stated that she had been a ‘no name, no present.’
Drew and Joyce tried to name Jennifer and when additionally they couldn’t get in contact along with her, they left Tampa with Logan and his good friend Travis to drive to her condominium. That drive is round 80 minutes in keeping with Google maps.
“I referred to as and I referred to as and for the primary time since Jenn was a teen, it went straight to voicemail,” Drew stated. “In that second, I knew one thing was mistaken.”
Jennifer had been having some hassle with a person at work, named Johnny Campos. Experiences point out that Johnny arrived at work on January 24 at round midday – late. Some coworkers stated that Johnny appeared agitated. Johnny was married however repeatedly made advances in the direction of Jennifer which she all the time rejected.
Whereas they had been driving, Drew and Joyce referred to as the condominium supervisor and requested him to verify Jennifer’s house with a spare key. He entered the property and stated that every little thing appeared regular and that her automotive was not parked on the lot. The supervisor stated the door to the condominium had been locked.
Joyce has spoken about what they discovered after they arrived on the condominium at round 3pm that day.
“Once we arrived, there was nothing amiss. You understand, typical Jen … hurriedly leaving for work, make-up out on the counter, hair dryer, what she wore to mattress the night time earlier than on the lavatory flooring, mattress not made, a few outfits strewn on her mattress,” Joyce stated.
There was a moist towel overlooked and garments laid out which advised that Jennifer had showered and was making ready to go to work. The bathe corners and partitions had been moist which indicated that she had showered lately earlier than vanishing. Her underwear and a t-shirt that she wore to mattress had been on the lavatory flooring.
Jennifer wore each glasses and contacts. Her contacts had been gone and her glasses had been left behind, indicating that she had in all probability put the contacts in to go to work.
The one issues lacking from her house had been issues that Jennifer would doubtless have taken along with her when she left for work – her purse, keys, cellular phone and iPod. As we talked about, her automotive was additionally gone which led her household to assume that one thing had occurred to Jennifer both whereas she was on the brink of depart for work or after she had left.
“She slept [in her condo] for certain and I believe she obtained up for work as she usually would. ‘Okay, I’m going to work. I’ve a gathering, it’s busy.’ Locks the door of her condominium, that’s the place the thriller begins,” Joyce stated.
Jennifer’s baggage from her trip was within the corridor of the condominium, untouched.
Drew and Joyce referred to as the police who initially advised that Jennifer was an grownup and that she might have left of her personal accord.
When Logan and Travis arrived on the condominium, they stated there was a white van parked close to Jennifer’s parking spot. There have been two upkeep males within the van. Logan tried to talk to them however they mainly ignored him. Logan tried to talk to a couple different staff of the advanced however none had been keen to provide a lot info.
By 5pm, family and friends had arrived within the space. They began to make fliers with Jennifer’s particulars to distribute. Police despatched a detective to the condominium to start out the investigation that night time.
A witness would later come ahead and say that they thought they noticed Jennifer’s 2004 Chevy Malibu swerve out of the car parking zone at round 7.40am on January 24. They stated they didn’t know the course wherein the automotive traveled.
Over the following few days, media appeals for info in Jennifer’s case had been made. Authorities requested the general public to be looking out for her Chevy Malibu. On January 26, 2006, at round 8am, a person named Larry Maynor, who lived at an condo advanced referred to as Huntington on the Inexperienced referred to as police to say that the Chevy had been parked within the lot there for a number of days.
Police went to the positioning and examined the automobile. It was taken away for forensic examination. They backtracked and checked out CCTV and located that the automotive had been left there at 11.59am on January 24. An individual could possibly be seen exiting the automotive and strolling away.
The CCTV is irritating as a result of it’s the kind that doesn’t run constantly. One picture was taken by the system roughly each three seconds. As a result of this delay, this meant that the suspect’s face was by no means capable of be clearly seen.
One journalist referred to as the suspect “The luckiest individual of curiosity ever”. The FBI was referred to as in to assist decide the individual’s measurement and gender, however might solely say that the individual stood between 5’3″ and 5’5″. NASA additionally enhanced the video to assist establish the suspect.
“We’ve completed fairly a little bit of measuring and work with the digicam angles and in addition had folks of various heights stroll by,” Detective Joel Wright instructed 48 Hours.
He continued, “We’ve provide you with a top of between 5’3 and 5’5 and this has been backed up by the FBI who additionally got here down and checked out the figures. Now, the clothes seems to be perhaps somebody who’s a painter or some kind of employee.”
Police used a search canine that tracked the scent from her parked automotive again to her condominium advanced, which signifies that the suspect might have returned to the Mosaic at Milennia after dumping the automotive.
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Orange County Sheriff’s bloodhound named Bo took a sniff from the entrance passenger aspect of the automotive. The scent led straight to the entrance door of Jennifer’s house. The path bypassed the advanced’s solely entrance and led to a stretch of fence separating the general public sidewalk from its personal floor. As soon as canine entered the grounds, it picked up the scent contained in the fence and went on to a stairwell resulting in Jennifers 2nd flooring condominium.
Joyce Kesse stated that again stairwell was to parking spot and entrance stairwell overlooking the water. The canine tracked again on the entrance stairwell. These stairs would have been closest to her door.
The second bloodhound tracked across the nook to Park Central Mid City Terrace Flats after which misplaced the monitor. The space between Jennifer’s automotive to there may be about 0,9 miles(1,5km)
No actual proof was discovered within the automotive moreover a latent print and a small DNA fiber.
Proof has additionally advised that markings on the automotive might point out that there was a violent wrestle earlier than she was taken someplace, per Fox Information. In images taken of the automobile shortly after it was discovered, handprints throughout the hood present there might have been an altercation.
“It regarded like somebody was thrown down on the highest of the hood — arms unfold out after which dragged again virtually like off the hood to the purpose the place you’ll be able to virtually see fingers scribbling down the hood,” Drew instructed the outlet.
There have been obvious gadgets of worth discovered within the automotive (a DVD participant that belonged to Rob, in addition to Travis’ cellular phone that Jennifer had been planning to mail again to him) so police stated that they didn’t consider theft was the motive.
As a result of Jennifer’s condominium advanced being new, no CCTV had been put in there. A safety guard had been employed to maintain a log of holiday makers on the property however he solely saved incomplete information.
The Kesse’s made a GFM to help the seek for Jennifer and the household have posted updates on that through the years. In a single replace, they stated that “a whole set of keys for the advanced” had been stolen a month earlier than she went lacking.
When police did resolve that one thing had occurred to Jennifer and that she had not left of her personal accord, they went to her condominium and located that it had been compromised as family and friends had been utilizing it as a gathering place in the course of the search.
Police did try and ping Jennifer’s cellphone however had been unable to take action, indicating that the cellphone had been switched off/died.
Police interviewed Matt, Jennifer’s ex. In line with Fox, he was cleared. Police additionally investigated Rob and he was additionally consequently cleared and his alibi was checked.
One in all Jennifer’s co-workers, a person named Francisco Javier Aragon got here ahead and stated that he overheard a confrontation between her married co-worker Johnny Campos and Jennifer on the morning of January 23. Francisco stated that om or in regards to the day after Jennifer’s disappearance, Johnny requested him to drive him to an impromptu assembly on the new Lake Eleanor Workplace. When the pair arrived, Johnny stated he would meet up with him in about half-hour within the cafeteria.
Allegedly, in the course of the drive Johnny instructed Francisco wherever she (Jenn) was, “she was doubtless eaten up by alligators already.”
Some articles do point out that Johnny has been cleared in Jennifer’s case however I can not discover any public assertion by LE confirming this.
Police apparently tried to interview the individuals who had been working at Jennifer’s advanced. Solely a handful of them spoke English and the police didn’t apparently have a Spanish talking officer to interview the others?
The police first interviewed Penisimani Mataele, aka “Ben”. He stated that he had been to Jennifer’s condominium as soon as for a piece order. He denied realizing something about her disappearance. He stated he went to the condo with a upkeep man named Virgilio Ramos. Virgilio was one of many staff who was working and dwelling in an empty condominium on website.
In the course of the first week of Jennifer’s case, a tip was referred to as in saying that Virgilio was concerned within the case. One other lady who lived within the advanced stated that Virgilio would strategy her late at night time when she obtained house from work and would make her really feel uncomfortable.
One other lady stated the other and stated that he was all the time ‘enjoyable and pleasant.’ This lady stated she was not suspicious of Virgilio till at some point, 9 months after Jennifer vanished, that he instantly moved out of the advanced in the midst of the night time.
Regardless of this, he was not questioned by police till 2008. In 2009, he apparently handed a polygraph within the case.
Leaping again a bit, in Might 2007, a $1m reward was provided for info resulting in Jennifer’s whereabouts, with a stipulation that she needed to be alive. It was by no means claimed.
The Kesse’s employed a PI named Michael Torretta. Michael is adamant {that a} employee was concerned. After years of being on the case, he claims that as much as 10 development employees had been dwelling within the condominium throughout the corridor from Jennifer — and it was a type of males who kidnapped her.
“What I’m pondering is, Jennifer comes out, she locks the door. In fact, she has her again to the condo behind her after which is kidnapped by these people throughout the hallway,” he stated on 48 Hours.
“She’s locking the door and by no means sees it coming. She in all probability was attacked instantly upon exiting. She’s dragged into that different condo and that’s the tip.”
Regardless of this idea, Drew did say on the GFM that that unit was searched with scent canine who produced “unfavourable outcomes.
In June 2010, the FBI took over the case from the Orlando PD.
In 2016, Jennifer was formally declared lifeless by the state of Florida. Within the years that adopted, her dad and mom determined to sue the Orlando Police Division in an effort to get entry to her case information. Police chief Orlando Rolón gave his division six months to work on the case and after they had been unable to provide you with new leads, he agreed at hand the information over to the Kesse household.
The Orlando Police Division finally handed over 16,000 pages of paperwork and 67 hours of video and audio, which price the household over $18,000, per their GoFundMe. The information got here with the stipulation that the police division would not lead the investigation. Upon receiving the information, the Kesse household discovered that there had been no recorded documentation of investigation efforts between late 2012 and 2019.
As of 2019, the household had spent over $500,000 of their private cash to seek out their daughter.
In 2020, her father instructed Fox Information: “We don’t care when. We don’t care how and admittedly, we don’t care who. We simply need our daughter again, for the nice or the dangerous. We miss her day by day.”
In 2022, the household additionally enlisted the assistance of the Florida Division of Regulation Enforcement. In collaboration with their personal investigative crew, the FDLE deliberate to retest bodily proof in addition to converse with new and outdated potential witnesses.
As of June 2025, Jennifer continues to be thought of lacking and endangered by the Orlando Police Division, FBI, Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace, FDLE, NCIC, NCMA, and Interpol. She additionally stays on the FBI’s Most Wished/Lacking Record.
On Might 20, 2025 (coinciding along with her forty fourth birthday), the FDLE introduced that that they had gone by means of 1000’s of pages of paperwork and had additionally spoken to about 45 folks for the reason that case was turned over to their unit in December 2022. In addition they introduced that they’ve recognized “a number of” individuals of pursuits in Jennifer’s disappearance and have acknowledged that the case is not thought of chilly. The FDLE additionally stated that synthetic intelligence might doubtlessly be capable to establish the individual of curiosity seen on the CCTV after dumping the automotive.
The household wrote an replace on the anniversary of Jennifer’s disappearance in January 2025.
“How can a lacking individual’s case with such consciousness not produce even a course 19 years later is inconceivable, but very true and we, Jennifer’s household and associates, dwell with that very actual reality day in and time out,” the household wrote on the nineteenth anniversary of her disappearance in January 2025.
They continued, “NO, time doesn’t heal all wounds. However we nonetheless keep sturdy and battle the battle that must be fought for Jennifer’s sake. … We’re constantly humbled by the individuals who nonetheless attain out on a really common foundation with leads. Possibly sometime one will produce outcomes.”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Jennifer_Kesse
https://folks.com/jennifer-kesse-disappearance-missing-case-8774071
