The Unsolved Case: The Disappearance of Jennifer Kesse

The Disappearance Of Jennifer Kesse

It’s hard to understand that your child is missing, especially when you don’t know where they are. The case of Jennifer Kesse’s disappearance is a mystery that has left everyone wondering.

Her parents, Drew and Joyce Kesse, have taken it upon themselves to lead the search. But what happened to Jennifer remains a mystery.

Let’s dive into what happened to Jennifer Kesse and how she mysteriously disappeared.

Going back 15 years to January 2006, a 24-year-old woman seemed to have it all. She was living a happy life on her own, content with herself and her family.

She was full of energy, dreams, and always bright. She had a good life, was a responsible daughter, and had just been promoted at her job as a project manager, a big step for her at such a young age.

Joyce Kesse, her mom, was very close to Jennifer. In an interview, she mentioned, “My daughter was really happy and full of life.” She also shared that Jennifer was in love; she had a boyfriend for a year who lived in Fort Lauderdale. Despite the distance, they managed to see each other every weekend and were deeply in love.

The mystery deepens when we learn that Jennifer was happy yet she still vanished. Just a week before she disappeared, she had a great weekend trip with her boyfriend at St. Croix.

Her boyfriend, Rob Allen, mentioned that a friend told him he was in love with her but hadn’t made it official yet.

So, the story of Jennifer Kesse is not just about her disappearance. It’s about a young woman full of life and love, whose sudden vanishing has left many unanswered questions.

The mystery got more complicated when she came home back happily from the trip on January 23, 2006. 

It was Monday when she came back and talked to her mother on the way to the office. Later on, she also called her father and other siblings. 

According to Rob Allen, they had a slight disagreement on the long-distance relationship on January 23 same day in the evening. 

That was the last called she made, and he was the last person who spoke to her. On the very next day, her parents got a call from her office that she didn’t show up today. 

And that’s the day when Jennifer Kesse disappeared. Her parents knew that there was something wrong because she never put her phone on the message record, And that was the first time she did that. 

Her father and brother went on the road soon after hearing the news, and the first thing they did, they visited her apartment in Orlando, Florida. 

Moreover, they saw that there was no mishap. Everything was just perfect, as she had just left for the office from her apartment.

They further describe that the shower was wet, her makeup was open on her table and her night T-shirt was on the floor as she used to throw it when she wakes up every morning. 

Many of her friends and family gathered around when they heard the news, and they gathered on the corner of the street with placards of Jennifer’s name as she was missing. 

Later on, the police declared that Jennifer Keese was missing. Two days later, police found a black Chevy Malibu that belonged to Jennifer Kesse. 

The car was 1 mile away from her apartment. At that time, there was hope for any news, but when police checked and opened the back trunk, they saw nothing. 

The car was untouched, and nobody didn’t steal anything from it. They didn’t found any evidence. 

At the point when investigators assessed observation video from the CCTV camera where Jennifer Kesse’s vehicle was found, they saw an individual leaving her vehicle.

At around early afternoon on the day Jennifer disappeared, that man crashed into the parking garage, sat in the vehicle for around 30 seconds, and afterward left. 

The observation video snapped a picture at regular intervals, and each time, his face was blocked by a fence post. 

Sadly, another lead was gone from their hands, but her parents didn’t give up hope. They move into her apartment immediately to be more close to the case. 

Soon after they moved in, they heard that there were some workers in the building who used to irritate Jennifer, and she was uncomfortable with that. 

They told that to the police, but unfortunately, some of the workers had already left work just one week before Jennifer disappeared. 

A new beginning of her case

A half-year after Jennifer Kesse vanished, Detective Joel Wright turned into the lead specialist and started a hypothesis of what exactly happened to her on January 24, 2006. 

According to Detective Joel Wright, she got ready for the office. She went out and started driving, and she went as fast as she could but on the way to the office she got kidnaped. 

Two years later her parents again protested and showed the people how much they were sad for their daughter and that she should come home now. 

Almost three years after Jennifer Kesse’s disappearance, Detective Wright chose to investigate the case and talked with individuals on audiotape. 

One individual he addressed was a previous maid at Jennifer’s complex. At the point when he showed the lady the CCTV camera recording image of the unidentified person.

She let him know it took after a man she knew from the complex known as Chino because of his hair, clothing, and the way he walked.  

This was the fresh lead in her case; Detective Joel Wright also found that Chino was working in her complex a week before she disappeared. 

He also observed that Chino was involved in other crimes, and it appears that he might be involved in her case or responsible for her kidnap. 

When Detective Joel Wright found Chino, he was already in charge of the rape case and was in prison in jail. 

Detective Joel Wright investigated him; Chino said that he went to her apartment, she let him in, and everything was good.

He further said that he didn’t know anything about what had happened to her that day. Chino took a polygraph test, and he passed.

The sad part again came in the life of the kesses family when in 2010, Detective Joel Wright resigned, and the kesses family got disappointed with the Orland investigation department. 

The major turn in Kesses Family

In 2016, Jennifer Kesse’s family had to do something really tough; they declared her dead since she had been missing for ten years and no one knew what happened to her. Her dad said it was one of the hardest things he’s ever had to do.

Two years later, in 2018, the Kesse family decided to sue the Orlando Police Department because they wanted a copy of all the records about Jennifer’s case.

After fighting in court for a while, by March 2019, they reached an agreement.

The police gave them over 16,000 pages and 67 hours of videos and recordings related to Jennifer’s case. Also, the police agreed to stop leading the investigation.

The Kesses hired a private investigator, Michael Torretta, who found out about a tip almost 10 months after Jennifer disappeared. Someone saw a person throwing a rolled-up piece of what looked like a carpet into a lake close to where Jennifer lived.

This tip was super interesting because the day Jennifer went missing, there were workers laying carpet right across from her apartment. Torretta knew he had to follow up on this.

In November 2019, the local police sent a dive team to search the lake where it was said the carpet was dumped. They searched for two days but didn’t find anything.

For over 15 years, Jennifer’s family has been trying to find out what really happened to her on the morning of January 24, 2006.

Jennifer’s mom, Joyce, said they’ll never stop looking for Jennifer on their own, as long as their hearts are beating. They’re more determined than ever to keep Jennifer’s story alive and to find answers.

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