Hello, I'm Christina Corbin, and welcome to House of Broken Dreams, the Jennifer Kessie Story.

In this multi-part true crime podcast, we examined Jennifer's mysterious disappearance from Orlando, Florida.

The year was January 2006. George Bush was president.

Abroad our nation is committed to an historic long-term goal.

We seek the end of tyranny in our world.

The country was mired in the Iraq war.

More than 130 Iraqis and five US soldiers were killed in at least 10 separate attacks across the country.

And New Orleans was still rebuilding five months after Hurricane Katrina.

Four hundred thousand people were displaced and less than a hundred thousand of them have been able to return home.

The 24-hour cable news cycle had no shortage of compelling stories.

The Kentucky mine explosion is another in a string of deadly accidents.

Where the real estate crisis is changing this landscape.

Serious winds are fueling Russian house fires through Southern California.

And yet in the barrage of national headlines,

another story was gaining traction.

This morning investigators in Orlando are trying to track down a missing woman.

Jennifer Kessie was last heard from on Monday and police say something about this story is just not adding up.

Kessie's 5 foot 8 135 pounds.

She's blonde with green eyes.

If you have any information at all, the slightest tip,

call crime line right away.

Jennifer Kessie, a 24-year-old Orlando woman, disappeared on January 24, 2006.

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