JENNIFER KESSE, 24, 1/24/06, ORLANDO, FL

[pink angel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pStFP7HrIBU

Thanks for the updates. Here is video from the search Aug. 1 and 2nd.

I hope this new tip brings them one step closer to finding out what happened to Jennifer.

[Lovinlife]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-jennifer-kesse-090909,0,7050527.story

Statewide panel to review Jennifer Kesse case
Experts from across the state will meet today in Orlando to help police with the Jennifer Kesse investigation.

Amy L. Edwards
 
Sentinel Staff Writer
 
11:00 a.m. EDT, September 9, 2009

More than a dozen law enforcement officers and criminal justice experts from across the state are meeting in Orlando today, where they are being briefed on the Jennifer Kesse case.

The 17-member panel -- known as a Specialized Multi-Agency Review Team -- was brought together by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to, hopefully, help Orlando police with their investigation into Kesse's disappearance.

The panel members are not associated with the Kesse case, and the hope is that they can provide a fresh set of eyes and thoughts onto the Orlando investigation.

SMART teams, which have existed in Orlando since 2003, have been successful in helping other law-enforcement agencies solve cases, said FDLE Assistant Special Agent in Charge Danny Banks.

Several months ago, Orlando Police Chief Val Demings asked FDLE if they could assemble a panel to look at the Kesse case.

Banks said peer reviews of cases are "extremely helpful."

Today's meeting is part of the active criminal investigation, and so it is not open to the public, Banks said.

While the Orlando investigators are briefing the panel on the case, panel members will be asking questions and offering suggestions.

Banks said Demings wants to ensure her agency has made use of every resource available to them to help solve Kesse's case.

"I'd like to hope that it generates a lead," Banks said.

Kesse disappeared Jan 24, 2006. Orlando police think she was abducted in the area of the Mosaic at Millenia condominium, where she lived.

[can]

thanks Lovinlife - I hope this panel will help bring Jennifer home.   

[Nut44x4]

Father fears Jennifer Kesse sold into sex
september 25, 2009 6:33 PM

The father of a Orlando woman who has been missing for nearly four years is helping raise awareness about the underground business that he believes took his daughter.
24-year-old Jennifer Kesse vanished with out a trace on January 24th, 2006.

Detectives have searched tirelessly, but found virtually nothing.

"Honestly, at this point, I think my daughter was trafficked," says father Drew Kesse.

Living with that dark belief, Kesse has educated himself on the black market that sends young American girls to the far corners of the earth.

"It's a $32 billion a year business," he says.

Eastern Europe, Japan and Korea are the most likely destinations for young Americans kidnapped into the slave trade, according to Kesse.

"A large majority are people who want an American woman for themselves," Kesse says.

102,000 people are missing on any given day in the United States. Kesse believes it's naive to think that some not over seas being used as sex slaves.

But instead of wallowing in the pain of not knowing what happened to his daughter, Drew and his wife Joyce have been advocates for missing persons.

Drew Kesse is president of the Florida Missing Children's Day Foundation. He will speak Saturday at a fundraiser that's been organized by Stop Child Trafficking Now.

Kesse says he and his wife have also reached out to others whose loved ones are missing, including the family of Tracy Ocasio, an Ocoee woman who went missing in May.

"I've had many conversations with Joe(Tracy's father)," Kesse said. "We helped set some searches with some people that we had used in the past."

Needless to say, it's an unfortunate way to make new friends.

http://wdbo.com/localnews/2009/09/father-fears-jennifer-kesse-so.html

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I know he/they want to believe she is alive, but I don't think this is what happened to Jennifer 

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/10/4/kesse_featured_on_national_missing_persons_web_site.html


 Kesse Featured On National Missing Persons Web Site
Sunday, October 04, 2009 9:51:58 AM
ORLANDO -- The case of missing Central Florida woman Jennifer Kesse is now featured on a new national Web site dedicated to finding those who have disappeared.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, was set up by the National Forensic Science Technology Center in Largo for the U.S. Department of Justice.

The database was designed to compile and share detailed information among law enforcement agencies and the public about missing people.

Kesse has not been seen since vanishing from her Orlando home in January 2006.

“There needed to be a place where everyone could access it, so that people know they’re actively looking for their loved ones, and medical examiners and coroners know people are trying to help them identify the unidentified,” said Kevin Lothridge, CEO of the technology center.

The site also features a section where you can leave tips, which are then verified.

[FindingAnswers]

I think they have the guy who did this in custody but they need to connect him to the crime itself. It's just too much coincidence for one case.

[Nut44x4]

If you are talking about James Hataway, I disagree. I do not believe he has anything to do with it.

[FindingAnswers]

That is who I was talking about. I thought the very grainy video shots of the person outside the gate and his profile may very well fit his. I could be wrong of course but I think it is really worth checking to see if he owned a hat like that or was seen wearing one like it around the time of the disappearance.

The person responsible needs to be caught regardless if it is him or not. I just don't think he should be ruled out. There are coincidences of him being near and socializing at places where at least 2 missing women lived or visited. I would not rule him out completely at all.

JMO Nobody should be ruled out as far as i am concerned.

Nice to meet you on here BTW.

[Nut44x4]

Family of missing woman getting threats

Published : Tuesday, 10 Nov 2009, 5:51 PM EST

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - In January of 2006 Drew Kesse’s daughter Jennifer Kesse vanished from her apartment near the Mall at Millenia. Now more worries for her father as police investigate death threats against him.

After Jennifer Kesse disappeared, www.jenniferkesse.com was set up to help find the missing girl. For years people have posted well wishes, encouragement, even tips on where the girl might be. And every morning Drew Kesse reads the guestbook portion of the site.

In the last few months some of the emails have taken a different tone. Some of the emails FOX 35 obtained say “I have a beef with you” and some, what he calls a full on threat on his life. “I know what you drive. I see where you live. I go where you like to go. I hope you all are not involved in any accidents.”

Kesse has blocked the IP address for the person or persons sending the threats. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now gathering all of the emails and FOX 35 has learned investigators have a good handle on who the person may be. Information will soon be sent to the state attorney to see if charges can be filed for cyber stalking.

But in the meantime the already distraught father has to worry that this person may take the emails one step further but he says he’s ready for what could happen next. “The thing that is not going to happen to the Kesses again is we are not going to be victimized and we will not become victims again.”

Last year threatening voicemails showed up on Drew Kesse's answering machine. Police investigated but the state attorney decided not to prosecute.
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/orange_news/111009-kesse-threats

[FindingAnswers]

NUT Thankyou for that latest info about the case.

That is sad about the threats. I cant believe people arent being prosecuted for this stuff.

[trimmonthelake]

Thanks Nut.