S3 Ep114: Jennifer Kesse: "Chino" (Part 3)

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Orlando, Florida - Home of Mickey Mouse and sunny beach vacations, a city that 60 million people flock to every year whether it’s for the theme parks or just the sun and heat that South Florida is known for. But for the friends and family of 24 year old Jennifer Kesse, this city would become a symbol of all that was wrong and evil in the world. Jennifer was last seen on January 23rd, 2006, she spoke to her family and her boyfriend on the phone that evening and said she was going to bed, she was tired from a trip she had just home from. But the next day, when she didn’t show up for work, her parents traveled to her Orlando condo and found everything normal, as if she had woken up and planned to go to work that day. There was still water in the shower, clothes tossed on an unmade bed, and a wet towel in the laundry room. Days later, Jennifer’s 2004 black Chevy Malibu would be found abandoned a mile down the road, in a not so great part of town, but the car held no clues as to where Jennifer Kesse was either. The one clue that law enforcement was able to retrieve should have cracked the case wide open. It was surveillance video of a person parking Jennifer’s car and walking away from it without even a glance back, and the surveillance clicked a photo of this person every three seconds, and every three seconds this person's face was obscured by a tall wrought iron fence. To this day, Jennifer Kesse has not been found, dead or alive, and the people who love her have fought tirelessly for answers, a fight that included receiving over 16 thousand pages of police records on the investigation, and these pages held more clues which has only fed the fire of this mystery.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow.
0:15.9	And I'm Derek Lavasser.
0:17.4	So today we're finishing up with the Jennifer Kessie case.
0:21.5	This is the third and final episode. And tonight we're basically going to go over theories,
0:28.2	basically, because there's actually a pretty strong theory that a lot of people believe
0:35.4	is the theory to go with in this case. And we're going to talk about where the case is now,
0:41.2	because actually as of 2023, I think January of 2023, there's been some new developments,
0:46.3	and there's been some movement on the case, which is great because Drew and Joyce Kessie have
0:51.2	not stopped. And I don't think they will stop. They will either die or find out what happened
0:55.6	to Jennifer, but they'll never stop trying to figure out what happened to their daughters.
0:59.6	So we should die right in. Do you have anything that you want to say?
1:03.2	Nope, let's get to it. We have we have had a lot of people DM us about their theories as well.
1:07.4	And people are commenting on the video. So yeah, I think this is what people want to talk about.
1:12.3	All right. So in 2016, Jennifer Kessie was declared legally dead by the state of Florida.
1:18.5	And her father, Drew Kessie said, quote, that was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life.
1:23.6	I stood in a courtroom alone while a judge declared her deceased and quote,
1:29.1	but this kind of kickstarted everything. This was really when Jennifer's family began pushing
1:34.1	their own investigation into high gear. They hired a private investigator and they also retained
1:39.2	a lawyer in an effort to obtain Jennifer's case file from the Orlando Police Department.
1:44.8	And in January of 2018, on the 10 year anniversary of Jennifer's disappearance,
1:49.6	the police and Drew and Joyce Kessie spoke at a press conference during which a links bus with
1:55.2	Jennifer's face on it as well as information about how to obtain the $15,000 crime line reward
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