ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The family of Jennifer Kesse marked the 18th year of her disappearance by taking to social media Wednesday to push for additional answers and clues into where she might have gone.
Kesse has been missing since the morning of Jan. 24, 2006. Not long after she vanished, Orlando police found her car within a few days.
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Since then, the best clue investigators have found is grainy surveillance video showing a man parking a car, then walking away from the Huntington on the Green apartment complex at Texas Avenue and Americana Boulevard, about a mile away from her complex, Mosaic at Millenia.
“Pretty difficult to comprehend even after 18 years. To this family it still feels very much like yesterday and to this day we continue to fight for Jennifer’s return every day in every way,” Drew and Joyce Kesse said in a post online. “It is almost inconceivable that with today’s technology we are challenged just as much as we were 18 yrs ago, mind baffling really. That will not stop us from fighting for Jennifer until we find her or pass away ourselves. No person should go ‘Unfound’ in our country, no one!”
In 2022, Drew Kesse, the father of Jennifer, accused the Orlando Police Department of negligence, saying it was incapable of fulfilling an agreement to provide the family with a digital file of Jennifer’s case.
“Now imagine, over that time, fighting for unredacted copies with the city’s lawyers and trying to have our private investigators find Jennifer from all those files. Then finding out that the lead detective on Jennifer’s case did not write a single report or any document since 2010, 12 years!!!” Kesse wrote at the time. “We firmly believe the department’s negligence and lack of competency cost Jennifer the chance to be found.”
The Orlando Police Department said it was committed to finding answers in the disappearance of Jennifer Kesse.
“We have had to put great trust in FDLE, our state law enforcement agency, however after 14 months of them having the case we really know very little of their actions or gains in the case?? Pretty crappy place to be honestly,” the Kesses said. “To the general public and media who have never given up on Jennifer and whom have supported her and this family for 18 years, we are incredibly humbled by your caring, sharing and continued belief that we will find Jennifer and bring her home.”
Anyone with information into Kesse’s disappearance can call the Kesse Family Tip Line at 941-201-4009, or Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS (8477).
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