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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Florida's Missing Jennifer Kesse showered and dressed for work, then vanished

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Kesse disappeared a decade ago and her family is still searching for answers about what happened to the 24-year-old Florida woman. Jennifer's family knew something was wrong when she did not show up for her job on the morning of Tuesday, January 24, 2006. Nancy Grace digs into the mystery with Jennifer's father Drew Kesse, her mom Joyce Kesse, Shaun Gurd -- whose podcast "Unconcluded" focuses on the case, and forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan. The Kesse family tells Grace why they are frustrated with the police investigation and investigator's refusal to cooperate with a private investigator they've hired to help.

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Hardly three or four days past that I do not think about a beautiful young girl, long blonde hair, big blue eyes, the world in front of her, just starting out in her professional life.

0:58.0

And I also think about her parents because her parents drew and joy spent their whole life working to make a living to support Jennifer and her brother, the entire family, pouring all their love, their hopes, their dreams, their money, their attention.

1:17.0

Oh, think about it. You know, the little e-games, the girl scouts, the cookies, the this, the that, the tooth fairy, the braces, it goes on and on and on and it's, they're not chores.

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They're not chores at all.

1:32.0

They're the things you do for love.

1:36.0

And to this day, they are still doing it for love, searching for their beautiful girl, Jennifer, Kessie.

1:47.0

I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.

1:53.0

I've been thinking about that a lot. The things you do for love.

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I want to go out first. I guess joining us, Joseph Scott Morgan, now renowned forensics expert author of Blood Beneath My Feet Journey of a Seven Death Investigator, professor of forensics at Jacksonville State University, Sean Gurd joining us.

2:20.0

The co-producer up and wildly popular podcast, unconcluded, and special guest joining me, my long time friends, Drew and Joyce, Kessie, Jennifer's parents.

2:39.0

I want to go first to Miss Kessie. Joyce, thank you for spending your time with me, with all of us.

2:49.0

Just so you know, we care. We all care. There's no way we could walk a mile in your shoes, but I hope sometimes knowing that we all of us listening, care about you.

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I hope that Jennifer helps you in some way. I don't know if it can or not.

3:15.0

But please tell us when this Odyssey started, it was just a normal day. That's how it was with my fiance was killed.

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